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BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… protesters joined. By the end of November 1913, produce markets in Durban and Pietermaritzburg had come to a …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Summit, Yokoyaha, Japan, 28th May, 2008.
… in the ability for the developing countries to penetrate markets. Access to new technologies at affordable prices and …
BiographyMaggie Bopalamo
The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the Rustenburg area in a remarkable fashion. From humble beginnings, she climbed the educational ladder to…
BiographyJo Ractliffe
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI Jo Ractliffe is a documentary photographer who captures the traces of…
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
… 2009) or simply "town" by the many who have frequented its markets, mosques, bus ranks, cinemas, schools, shops, … site, educational institutions and…
PlaceBo-Kaap, Cape Town
… Islamic “ kramats ” (shrines), mosques and food and craft markets, and discover the delicious Cape Malay cooking style! …
"A Vision for Southern Africa"- address by President Nelson Mandela at the World Economic Forum Southern Africa economic summit Harare, 21 May 1997
… as a region and as individual countries, to compete in the markets of the world. Hence our emphasis on large-scale … must do so if we are to claim our share…
ArticleThe Ottoman Empire
… lives of great luxury. Girls were chosen from the slave markets for their beauty and intelligence and educated at …
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (Peter Abrahams) was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg’s largest Coloured and Asian slum, on 19 March 1919. Abrahams is a 'Coloured'…
EventSouth Africa abolishes financial Rand
… unified currency traded well on international currency markets. …
BiographyPeter Becker
Peter Loubser Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
Richard Granville Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became a…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African Reserve Bank’s 75th anniversary banquet Pretoria, 28 June 1996
… evening. The volatility and mood swings of the financial markets are a burden that all countries have to carry. We … of floating exchange rates and…
EventSAFCA distances itself from boycott of South African goods
… which helps the consumer to buy the best goods on the best markets and we have nothing to do with politics or boycotts. …
ArticleKey sites
… other purposes. The restaurant had operated for 80 years. Markets From 1876, Indian market gardeners sold their fruit …
EventNigerian political campaigner, women’s rights activist and traditional aristocrat, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti is born
… which were hurting the female merchants of the Abeokuta markets. This was just the first of many campaigns for the …
BiographyPaul Alberts
Paul Alb erts, one of South Africa’s leading social documentary photographers, was born in 1946 in Pretoria. He spent his youth in Botswana and the Limpopo…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… been plagued with extremely high transport costs and small markets, low productivity of agriculture, extremely high … extremely poor dispersion of technology…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.2 1988
… Address its Present by Wole Soyinka; Popular Music and the Markets of Apartheid by Chris Chapman; The Return of the …
EventAnglo American announces switching of main listing to London
… for international expansion from which to access capital markets. The process of transferring the primary listing to …
EventChina promises to increase imports from Africa
… on the opportunities offered by China in terms of export markets. This has led to a situation where African countries …
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Glossary
… integration, especially in terms of world trade, financial markets and communication technology. This is often …
BiographyRonnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)
Sathieseelan Gurulingam Govender (more popularly known as Ronnie Govender) was born on 16 May 1934 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His…
BiographyConstance Stuart Larrabee
Constance Stuart Larrabee was born in Cornwall, England and came to South Africa with her parents when she was three months old. Constance’s interest in…
BiographyGraeme Williams
Williams completed his Bachelor of Science majoring in Geology and Statistics at the University of Cape Town. For him photography was a pass time activity…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… east from Dakar, hoping to tap potentially huge Sahelian markets. That year France also joined Great Britain in taking …
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… across the Sahara desert. Food would be provided by local markets that relied on local farms for supplies. This … allowed merchants to plan long trips…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
Timeline 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane, is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of the Year Award. Albert Newall re…
ArticleIndigenous medicine and traditional healing
… for healing, sometimes called ‘muti’, can be bought at markets as well as directly from an inyanga. Inyangas train …