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PlaceNgqushwa Local Municipality
… is: " We will strive to become a benchmark institution in the country in respect of good quality and affordable services, through … " An Extract from: "The…
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… Union, whose president was J.B.Marks, he was also a leader in the South African Communist Party. Black workers were introduced to trade unionism by the early…
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
… During the war agricultural production in South Africa received a major stimulus as a result of … War of 1899-1902 . In this process it was poor White and…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… is reformed and stationed at Estcourt. January 21, Corps in action at Spionkop. Bearer's carry wounded through heavy … May 3, Asks Natal Indian Congress for…
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… and votes for white women Until 1930 there were no women in South Africa who had the right to vote. It was felt that a … its early days the WEAU, while not…
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… Harry Gwala: Well, my history is maybe interesting in its own way, you know. I grew up in an environment of … workers were bought over by capital at the…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way the … unclear, but – in the early 1960s,…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Glossary
… bywoner - a tenant farmer who laboured for the land owner in return for the right to cultivate a piece of land Christian nationalism - an ideology grounded…
Address at the University of The State of Bahia Brazil, 14 December 2000
… his views as ordained truths and deemed himself to be in sole and exclusive possession of the ultimate truth, … part of your own humanity. It is because in…
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… member of the Federation of South African Women, died in October 1979. She had been one of the stalwarts of the … the organisations of the liberation…
PlaceSt Paul’s Anglican Church, Main Road, Rondebosch
… 1834 and was extended a number of times thereafter. In October 1854 the original church was incorporated into a new building. Further additions were made in…
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki's most stirring speeches
… has ever seen, they who were the first to lose their lives in the struggle to defend our freedom and independence and they who, as a people, perished in the…
The Sweet Workers’ Union
… Women Workers’ Union, founded by Fanny Klenerman in the mid-1920s, when that organisation fragmented as a … divisions, Burford had first intended to organise…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… the employers and what the strength of the workers consist in: it teaches them not to think of their own employers alone … supported the use of the strike…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… This topic investigates the ways in which the politics and culture of the Boer Republics … the foundation for white co-operation at the expense of black…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… to return to India at the end of the five year period in which case a free passage would be provided. The system … marriage of whites with persons of colour…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… South African Native National Congress (later ANC) formed in 1912, and the other made up of more radical Boers who … Party (NP) in 1914. The new Union had no…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… South African Native National Congress (later ANC) formed in 1912, and the other made up of more radical Boers who … Party (NP) in 1914. The new Union had no…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… Awards In 1960, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee made history by … (NAACP) was formed. The most important and most effective black pressure group, it…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… The South African Congress of Trade Unions, founded in March 1955, thus held enormous promise for the working … and Labour Council (from which TUCSA was…
Thupelo (1985)
… The Thupelo workshops were initiated in 1985 in Johannesburg by the South African artist, David … emergency and facilities and resources were not offered to…
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement of the President of the ANC, Thabo Mbeki, Kempton Park, 27 September 2002
… the possibility to engage the matters on our agenda in an informed manner. We should also engage these issues … process of globalisation. Today all South…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Peace and Stability, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… Noting: 1. That defeating crime is in the best interests of the National Democratic Revolution. … debated. 32. Need to recruit law students (especially black…
ArticleCouncil policies and practice
… was divided, with verligtes and verkramptes pulling in different directions. It was subsequently also … approach to reforms, abolishing laws that made life…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… structures of support for all creative practitioners in South Africa. ‘Tsetlo’, Mongane Serote’s second book of … second book of poetry, Where White is the…
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… unify the hundreds of Anti-Apartheid movements occurring in the 1980s. Female leaders such as Albertina Sisulu and … parliament for Indians, Coloureds, and…
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… The Springbok Legion (SL) was a leading organisation formed in 1941 to fight for the rights of soldiers during World War … militant leftist rhetoric. While…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… and collective actions of SASO which are examined in the next three chapters. The focus here is on the social … Soweto uprising of 1976-77. Three issues in…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… beginning of the end of apartheid society and governance in South Africa. Following an upsurge of violent and … moment of draconian law enforcement against…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… Due to the apartheid racial classification systems, many black artists were not allowed to further their education and … mainly for white scholars at the…