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Address at a Banquet at the Guildhall London, 13 June 2001
… is - and I believe will remain - at the centre of world finance. It is therefore an unforgettable honour to be … from our people - the diverse but uniting…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… the crisis over the distribution of food during the Second World War . The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA, now SACP) was quick to become involved in ……
PlaceAngola
… was followed by the 27 year long Angolan Civil War . Early Inhabitants of Angola Because of a reliance on … The Kwanyamo people, for example, was split…
BiographySonja Schlesin
… (nee Schloss). The Schlesin family later immigrated to South Africa, and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in June 1892. … at the age of 55. It appears that…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - ’The rock on which the future will be built’ by Emilia Potenza
… Glitters by Emilia Potenza Up to the 1860s the economy of South Africa was based on agriculture and trade. Then the … contained Kimberley and the richest…
ADDRESS AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 24TH REGULAR MEETING OF THE CARICOM CONFERENCE, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 2 July 2003
… greetings and best wishes of the government and people of South Africa. Nine years ago, our country, South Africa, was … the very first invitation we issue…
Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba
… Christian Association (YWCA). The YWCA sent her to its world congress in Ghana in 1971. Matshoba went on to … and in 1973 was appointed literacy director of…
EventRugby player Breyton Paulse is included in the national team after the ANCYL challenged the decision to omit him
… Rugby developed as a sport in South Africa in the late nineteenth century. It is said to … temporary cease-fire was called for during the Anglo-Boer War so…
EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
… In 1916, the South African government agreed to recruit Black people to assist the British in World War 1 by providing labour. There were to be 10 000 people…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… to apartheid Umzabalazo - The Freedom Struggle in South Africa Conditions in Rustenburg point to deprivation … organisations in Bophuthatswana, Mangope…
BiographyDiana Ferrus
… Internationally renowned South African poet, writer, and activist for marginalised … Khoi woman who was taken from her country of birth (South Africa) under…
PlaceLamont-Hussey Observatory
… and a 24 inch refractor began as early as 1910. World War I intervened, and not till after the war was a 27 inch lens finally obtained. The first expedition…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… "We are now witnessing the first glow of a new dawn in South Africa and a decisive turning point in her history. Our … had a significant impact on India, the…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South Africans of different racial groups on their own paths … that impossible (Marquard, 1969: 256)…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… new political and cultural associations. In Cape Town, the war rhetoric politicised some sections of the coloured … for poor communities largely as a result…
Rocky Malebane-Metsing
… Bop on 10 February 1988, but the coup was put down by the South African government. Malebane-Metsing escaped arrest and …
BiographyKing Dinuzulu
… a process of national disintegration. After the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, Sir Garnet Wolseley, British administrator of … not have a fair trial. When he became…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… Qwa), a tiny African reserve squeezed into a valley on the south-eastern border of the Orange Free State with Lesotho. 7 … Moshoeshoe's kingdom during the…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… is that these changes arose from a structural shift in the South African economy and society during the late 1930s and … toward the end of 1937 as part of a…
EventCôte d’Ivoire gains independence from France
… political rights were withheld. However, by the end of World War Two, Ivorians were recognised as French citizens and were … as CÁ´te d’Ivoire inspired the…
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… the Congress Of Democrats in Natal,a legal advisor to the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and ANC. He … In 1950, following the Suppression of…
ArchiveChapter 2 Respect for all, Childhood in Cape Town, 1933 – 1949 by Denis Goldberg
… she was a young woman, just after the end of the First World War, she and her friends would walk hand in hand reciting … the anti-Jewish pogroms. Many…
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… as well as from the struggling masses of the people of South Africa, to this historic tenth General Conference of … of the Zambian nation, illustrious son of…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
… [in British reformatories between 1889 and 1939, as in South African], they were much more fiercely resistant … was housed in military barracks dating from…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… and existence of the African National Congress of South Africa. And, let there be no mistake, it has not been … being fought at various levels in different…
Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis)
… served as the Vice-President of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and President of its the … Aid Society . Curtis also worked as an…
BiographyAlfred Temba Qabula
… Qabula, A.T., 1989. A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief. South Africa: National Union of Mineworkers| 3rdearmusic.com, 2002. … 2002. “SACP Mourns Alfred…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… began to enter factories as workers only during and after World War II.) These Afrikaner women had not only to support … been described. Then there were the…
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… while still in France. At this point, the Algerian War of Independence had been well under way for four years. … win a Neustadt Prize herself for her…
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… the books included in the government programme to ‘Reprint South Africa’s Classics’. As usufructuary of the book, I … Microsystems • U.C.G.I.S. • U.S.G.S…