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ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
On 2 February 1990, the National Party government unbanned political parties, released many political prisoners and detainees, and unbanned many people,…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Anti-dangerous work. This organisation happened in the…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
Anti-dangerous work. This organisation happened in the context of people living in their racial or cultural ghettos, with their own experiences, histories and…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 3: The Sounds of Kora
… ?’ãib ‘he’ When he was working in the 1920s, Beach [18] found that in careful enunciations of the … may be spelled with ‘ai’. As Beach heard…
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
In Todd Matshikiza’s autobiography, Chocolates for My Wife (1961), which describes the exiled South African writer and musician’s first two years in London, he…
PlaceMamelodi
"Mamelodi" was the name given to President Paul Kruger by the Africans because of his ability to whistle and imitate birds, also meaning Mother of Melodies…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
Introduction Tomorrow awaits you, long way to walk. It’s no use talking, to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948 election, white…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
Main catalogue Books 1. ASVAT, Farouk, 1952- EXILES within : an anthology of poetry / 7 South African poets. - Johannesburg : Writers Forum, 1986. -- 68p. :…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
Miriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts Abstract: Miriam Makeba is a Grammy award-winning singer. She is from Johannesburg and dedicated her life to…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a jazz concert at the then University of…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… across color and ethnic lines. In the late 1910s and early 1920s they were instrumental in organizing and educating the …
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… and political upheavals and challenges of the early 1920s. Gumede’s rise to prominence in the conservative NNC … lost its attractiveness in South Africa…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
The 1967 Terrorism Act was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s stated purpose was to…
ArticlePixley ka Isaka Seme Timeline 1881-1951
Pixley ka Isaka Seme Life Timeline 1881 1 October, Pixley ka Isaka Seme is born in Natal. 1906 Seme presents his speech at Columbia University on …
Establishment of the Food Committee
In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, South Africa was undergoing a downturn in economic fortunes. Unemployment and food shortages were rife,…
Establishment of Food Committee
In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, the South African economy was very weak.Unemployment and food shortages were rife, exacerbating this…
Establishment of the Food Committee
In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, South Africa was undergoing a downturn in economic fortunes. Unemployment and food shortages were rife,…
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
David Goldblatt was the first South African to be granted one of the art world’s major benchmarks for international success: a solo exhibition at New York’s…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
For the last few weeks millions of fevered eyes have been fixed on South Africa, host to the World Cup, which ends next weekend. For half a century the probing…
Community Arts Project (CAP)
The Community Arts Project (CAP) was established in Cape Town in 1977. Originally located at 17 Main Road, Mowbray, the facility moved to the old St. Philips…
ArticleMatabele Wars 1836-1896
The reign of Mzilikazi Under the leadership of Mzilikazi, the people who came to be called the Ndebele in Zimbabwe (originally of the Khumalo clan) broke away…
Work and education
Primary and Secondary Education Rhulani crèche and classroom. Northern Province. © Omar Badsha The biggest challenge the first post-apartheid government was…
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
As the struggle for freedom reached a new intensity in the early fifties, the ANC saw the need for a clear statement on the future of South Africa. The idea of…
Durban Mayors and other city officials
This list is listed in chronological order, listing mayors of Durban, starting from 1854 to date. George Cato (1854 - 56) Edward Snell and Savery Pinsent…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
The HIV/AIDS Crisis Emerges: Reponses of the Apartheid GovernmentIn 1982, the first case of AIDS in South Africa was reported in a homosexual man who…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… that the organisation had even been in existence in the 1920s and 1930s, through to the present day. For many of …
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein, describes Florence Matomela as ‘a woman who gave out warmth and life like the African sun, full…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
For this complex period to be studied, the Sharpeville massacre, Soweto uprising and the release of Nelson Mandela and unbanning of liberation movements have…
PlaceJutten Island, Saldanha Bay
This Dutch East 'Indiaman', was outbound when she tried to put; 'Merenstein' into Saldanha Bay to alleviate rampant scurvy on board the ship. On April 3, 1702…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
At seven p.m. sharp, seven nights a week, during the darkest days of apartheid, an incendiary radio broadcast beamed out from Lusaka, Zambia. It began with the…