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EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan’s Day
… in 1994, December 16 continued to form part of the history of post apartheid South Africa. On 16 December 1995 … as a public holiday known as Day of…
PlaceCity Hall and Francis Farewell Gardens, Durban
… Street - lies Durban's second National Monument from the colonial times. The Victorian building used to be the Town … because it represented a milestone in…
PlaceBurundi
… a colony of first Germany and then Belgium [ii] . The post-colonial period was then marked by ethnic violence, political … Africa, Sylvie Kinig [vii] …
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
… to increased profits. "Indeed South African economic history indicates that all significant wage increases … together with others, especially Ray Alexander…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and formal racial segregation. This history has an uneasy relationship…
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
Job Shimankana Tabane (largely known as Cassius Make, his alias name) was born in Maile village (Diepkuil) just outside Rustenburg on 6 December 1942. Tabane…
BiographyWilliam Henry Beaumont
… of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History, University of Natal, Durban, January 1976, p.42-58. …
BiographyBenson Tsele
Benson Tsele died on 21 March 1968 in combat against the then white supremacist Rhodesian army. The Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla was part of the Luthuli…
From Resistance to Creative Mediation: Writing and Literary Intellectuals’ Influence on the Liberation Struggles and Political Impact on Literary Discourse and Developments
… Diaspora. The commemoration of major milestones in African history – such as the 100th anniversary of Africa’s oldest … over the perspectives of those who…
Indian education in Natal
… of education called the Indian Immigrant School Board. The establishment of the Board created a dual system of education … labour in which they were asked…
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 31 … trade unions; all these as minimum…
Local Government
… of the Landdrost , and only made provision for the establishment of town management boards. As these had no … petition in June 1889, probably because the ZAR…
Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom by Frantz Fanon, 1959
… Colonial domination, because it is total and tends to … or to influence reality. The first necessity is the re-establishment of the nation in order to give…
ArticleArts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN)
… on policy to Parliament and lobbied aggressively for the establishment of a representative arts and culture task force …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… needed labour; machines and supplies; transport; banks and postal services — and all these things supplied the … that had been developing in South Africa…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… the “mineral revolution”. A more aggressive stage in the history of white supremacy was the result. What were the … many Africans profited from opportunities…
EventSlavery abolished in the Cape
… settlers to leave the Cape Colony. Further reading list: A history of prison labour in South Africa Indenture: A new … Africa. Cape Town: NASOU. v. 9, p. 659…
PlacePorterville
Before the arrival of Europeans, the area was inhabited by San and Khoikhoi peoples. In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck established a small colony on the Cape of Good…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… Thomas Mapfumo in Berlin. Mbuli also wrote and narrated a history of apartheid in South Africa for BBC Radio which was … written by Nicholas Frid and forms…
PlaceCiskei
… of Bisho in King Williams Town was declared. Ciskei history dates to the early 1920's, when the South African … that was applied to administer the area under…
PlaceUitenhage, officially renamed Kariega
… . It is the ideal setting through which to experience the history of Uitenhage. The Old Railway Station built in 1875 … he put forward a number of proposals…
EventJan van Riebeeck is born
… Van Riebeeck remains a prominent figure in the early history of colonial South Africa, and he was commander of the colony at …
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
… likely to keep Coolies on estates and satisfied than the establishment of schools?. In that year the Government aid … set up with representatives of the…
PlaceOld House Museum, 31 Diakonia Street, Durban
… Museum is housed in an authentic old house typical of the Colonial era. Set on park-like grounds this veranda home's … newspaper and was Natal's first Prime…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the official launch of the Dube Trade Port and King Shaka International Airport, 8 May 2010, Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal
… experience its largest waves of aviation traffic in its history, when the 2010 FIFA World Cup begins. This airport is … the historical image of King Shaka to…
BiographyPitika Ntuli
… Ntuli believes that monuments play an integral part in the history and cultural identity of a country, as well as …
BiographyDaniël Francois Malherbe
… He drew from his own youth, Biblical and national history and tended to represent reality only vaguely in order …
BiographySolomon Kerzner
… the Bahamas and Dubai. Now, as we prepare to write the history of the South African century, how will Solomon "Sol" …
BiographyGeorge Hallett
… Publishers. 2008: Christine Eyene, "The Human Face of History", Art South Africa, vol. 6, no 3. James …
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… approach is recorded in Organise or Starve , the history of SACTU. He was arrested and charged with illegally …