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Joseph Zenzele Mavi
… labor action against a single employer in South Africa history.Despite accusations of recklessness from other labor …
ArticleCensus in South Africa
… (SSA), the interval period was extended to 10 years. The post-Apartheid Government held its first population census in … of its kind in South Africa; census…
’Under Investigation’ video material going live on facebook
… of five young people eager to understand and build on the history of their home town during the struggle. Thus far the … set up in the Steytlerville High…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… Banda was one of the more enigmatic “Big Men” of the post-independence era in Africa. He was Malawi’s first … and a fiery orator for independence. He railed…
PlaceChad
… area which is now known as Chad has a long and complicated history. It was a central part of some of Africa's greatest … later gained its independence in…
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… 1950 Group Areas Act of the Apartheid government. [iii] History The first occurrence of forced removals in District … Zonnebloem, a name that makes reference…
UCT Summer School 2020
… Please note the following history related courses will be offered at the 2020 UCT Summer School. Local and South African History MASSACRE ON THE FRONTIERS…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… in cities and mines became one of the only ways to pay colonial taxes and survive. With the hardening of White … Land dispossession lies at the heart of…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… in cities and mines became one of the only ways to pay colonial taxes and survive. With the hardening of White … Land dispossession lies at the heart of…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… reviewed by Comrade DG Wolton, who stressed the growth of colonial liberation movements and the colonial workers' growing unity with the workers of the home …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.1 1988
… Glaser; Siyayinyova by Zakhele Charles Ndaba; Tsafendas’s Diary by Ivan Vladislavic. From the Oral Tradition: Rise … by Paul Weinberg and Gisela Wulfsohn;…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… is established. Herero revolt in Namibia against German colonial rule is brutally suppressed by German colonial … period Ben Enwonwu becomes the first…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… is established. Herero revolt in Namibia against German colonial rule is brutally suppressed by German colonial … period. Ben Enwonwu becomes the first…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… Awards In 1960, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee made history by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Albert Luthuli … Luthuli's Nobel Prize came at a critical…
BiographyKhaya Biko
… Town. Khaya was charged. According to South African History Online's biography of Steve Biko, he was sentenced to … South African History Online, "Stephen…
BiographyOliver Mtukudzi
… Mtukudzi was widely known for his contribution to the history of Zimbabwean music. One of Mtukudzi’s hit songs, …
BiographyAnn Tobias
… Randolph Vigne in his book, Liberals against Apartheid: A History of the Liberal Party of South Africa, 1953-68, wrote … Randolph Vigne, Liberals against…
EventThe siege of Mafeking starts
… in Mafeking, was caught up in the siege. He kept a diary, the Mafeking Diary: A Black Man's View of a White Man's War, which was …
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… on the eastern frontier however, although annexed by the colonial authorities, were retained largely as 'tribal … Labour Question- 1893, cited in Calinicos,…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… One book, which you may find interesting, is The Diary of Anne Frank . Anne Frank was a Jewish girl born in … website http://www.annefrank.com/ The Freedom…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… Professor Mahmood Mamdani will speak on “Decolonising the Post-Colonial University”. The lecture is to be held at 17:30 for … the question: What does it mean…
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
… that the Polokwane conference can be seen as a moment in history whereupon conflict within the ANC political party … factor for the first breakaway from the…
BiographyHarry Garuba
… 1998, Garuba migrated to South Africa where he took up a post as an English lecturer at the University of Zululand in …
BiographyColine Williams
… bag Coline held them in being completely destroyed. One post mortem report was unable to conclusively determine that …
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
… at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital . This was a post he held since 2009, where he had joined the department …
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… High. He was a passionate reader. This was spotted by his History and English teacher, Abram Onkgopotse Tiro , who … Through Tiro, Mashinini started…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… [ix] Next, Emery wrote for Drum Magazine and Golden City Post in 1956 for three months as a freelance reporter. [x] … Head’s political involvement, which…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… weaponry. Questions we will pose include; how has the colonial state employed photographic imagery to construct and … [14] Photographs have an intimate…
The oldest forms of human communication
… the printed word can be misleading. For example, certain history books taught, inaccurately, that Africans arrived in … them as 'primitive', and paid very…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… movements in countries that were still under the grip of colonial occupation, white minority rule and apartheid took … accompanied by a renewed effort to…