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ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… Town: Between East and West: Social Identities in a Dutch Colonial Town, viii. ↵ [5] J. Fourie, “Slaves as capital … P. Svensson, eds., Agricultural…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… struggle for power, their revolutionary process and their establishment of a socialist Mozambique. [8] This form of … M. Mabhida, “African Communists Speak:…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… a single and common visible outcome - the shaping of the history of South Africa with all its twists and turns. … historical context - was an important…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… recovering a sense of cultural continuity with the pre-colonial past. One aspect of this process was to appropriate … with new forms of cultural…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… African achievement. The Africanist revival of African history that centred around themes such as African … years after most of Africa had become independent…
PlaceAuwal Masjid, Cape Town
The Auwal Masjid, is the first and oldest Mosque built in South Africa. This is evident according to very strong oral tradition which also confirms that Imam…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew 2 000 … sufferings of the non-European people under…
PlaceNamaqua National Park
… Cultural History The cultural history of Namaqualand stretches back … deal of their original culture and traditions. During Colonial Times in the 1700’s the…
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
… to be made by Germany in particular. It also saw the establishment of the League of Nations, the forerunner of the … As one of the longest and deadliest…
EventThe possessions of Piet Retief are auctioned
… descended into Natal in November 1837 to prepare for establishment of their settlement. Dingane appeared ready to … November 2013] Giliomee, H and Mbenga, B …
EventWorld War I begins
… to be made by Germany in particular. It also saw the establishment of the League of Nations, the forerunner of the … As one of the longest and deadliest…
Olof Palme and the liberation of Southern Africa by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1988
… in the struggle for the liberation of southern Africa, the establishment of a just and lasting peace in this region, and … class origin, sex, or age - in…
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… to establish the course of this or any of the Massacre, as history would also record it no one was found to be … and compatriots the year 2012 marks 100…
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
Black business pioneer, community leader, altruistic medical practitioner, involved in several education initiatives, former secretary-general of the ANC Youth…
ArticleSouthern African Development Community (SADC)
… tariffs and currencies gradually in the Community, and the establishment of free trade zone by 2000. The initial member … Workers' Rights, Southern African…
20 Years of Democracy - Profiles of the Presidents
… and health polices; formation of new political parties; establishment of institutions such as the Independent …
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union
… in April, metalworkers from two factories called for the establishment of a union. Two months later, the Metal and …
BiographyMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
… Swaziland, where his strong attachment to Zulu culture and history is said to have earned him the affection of the aged …
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
… South African war, will start here again. The Town has a History, steeped in bloody relations between the Afrikaners … and the African inhabitants of the…
Special Screening of Wat Was Hie? Followed by an engaging discussion with filmmaker Luke De Kock
… and Khoi peoples and confronts the harsh legacy of Dutch colonial slavery through poetic reenactments, asking: WHAT …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the book launch of the series on Southern African leaders 1 August 1994
… categories. It is at one a reclamation of South Africa's history in its true and complete form and a tribute to some … of the broader initiative to ensure…
A Future Free of Exploitation - Address to the First Congress of MPLA by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, December 1977
… that we are active participants in the making of African history here in Angola at this time. The heroic anti-colonial struggles of the peoples of Africa for…
EventZulu King Cetshwayo address his warriors at the great military kraal of Nodwengu
… During the Zulu War, on 20 January 1879, British and Natal colonial troops under Lord Chelmsford, commander of the … than Paul Kruger of the Transvaal, and…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… under-recognised, book in South African politics, history and literature. At home and abroad, it is not nearly … Part polemic, part political commentary,…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… powerhouse of Africa. It led to a scramble by the British colonial administration to expand their political control …
Liberation
… Conference in 1994.) The challenge to undo centuries of colonial and apartheid dispossession, repression, segregation … the fact that White commercial…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… will influence how the society develops. In South African history there has always been the fight for ownership of land … people started settling in white…
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
… South Africa’s Radical Tradition: A documentary history, Volume two 1943 – 1964. Edited by Alison Drew. Part … in the war. “ The Conference unreservedly…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… magazine. Biko’s brutal death made him a martyr in the history of Black resistance to White hegemony. It inflamed … leaders were either in jail, in exile, or…
PlaceCabo Verde
… and African fishermen has only been related through oral history, and remains a part of the mythological stories of … could be considered as the starting…