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BiographyMathews ‘’Loop-en-val’’ Motshwarateu
… Mathews Motshwarateu was born on 2 November 1958 in Soweto. His talent for athletics already became apparent in his primary school years, which he spent at…
BiographyEugene Marais
… Afrikaans writers and a pioneer of the usage of free verse in Afrikaans. He was an editor of the newspaper, Land en Volk and became controversial in…
PlaceSophiatown
… Hermann Tobiansky. When World War I started and many Black people moved to Cities in search for jobs. As the number of Black people increased in the Cities,…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… danger that white militancy might show solidarity with the black workers led the state to intervene instrumentally "to ensure the assignment of white rather…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Epilogue by Carol Hermer
… Maria said those words. Things stayed tense but quiet in Cape Town during 1977. The students concentrated on their … and this included trade unionists,…
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… When I got arrested it was through Winnie. I got arrested in Winnie’s car, and when I got to the island I talked to him … person. The operator worked in…
BiographyNelson Mukhuba
… Mukhuba\'s stay in Sophiatown lasted until 1958. He returned to Tshakuma … achieved critical acclaim after the Tributaries Exhibition in 1985. …
BiographyJustice Zac Yacoob
… Durban (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal), majoring in English and private law. He was involved with many clubs … to organise activities and negotiations…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive … the primary concern for the ANCWL and the FSAW but for black women across the board. This anti-pass…
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… musicians of all time from South Africa due to his role in spreading awareness about his country during the times of … after the group was noticed, he…
EventAnti-Pass petition sent to President Steyn
… measures were aimed at controlling the mobility of the Black population in White urban areas. Bloemfontein was becoming a … fast-growing economy and held…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… 1900s 1917 27 October, Oliver Reginald Tambo (OR) is born in the village of Kantolo, Mbizana, in the Mpondoland … his Junior Certificate (JC) examination,…
PlaceBobbejaan Mountain, Elands Bay
… into the sea at Baboon Point and a large rock shelter in the cliff is adorned with primitive San paintings. Excavations at a rock shelter in the cliffs…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… the most terrible and destructive modern armed conflict in South Africa’s history. It was an event that in many ways … of British conquest of South African…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Cross-roads of Native Policy
… been a problem since the first contact between white and black in the East of the Gape Province in the last quarter of … country has been practically…
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal to James and Elizabeth Dube. His father, James Dube … the Natal African Teachers Union …
Race and Caste: Hierarchy and Universality - CAS in partnership with Dept. of Sociology and Dept. of Anthropology Panel Discussion
… the work of the Other Universals Collective, essays in the special issue examine how race and caste have shaped … Prof. Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi is a…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thembinkosi Khumalo
… is a student division of PAC. Khumalo is also involved in community upliftment in his hometown, Madadeni in … off with the authorities who wanted to harm…
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… homelands, were held on the same day. This meant that Black and White would be voting on the same day, although in different elections. By this the state…
BiographyThomas Kgope
… Thomas Kgope was born on 10 April 1954 in Rustenburg, Transvaal. Kgope met Norman Catherine while he … periodically until 1987. As Kgope showed an interest…
BiographyCharlene Smith
… those with HIV and for legal and medical practitioners in those fields. Her work has influenced access to anti-retrovirals for rape survivors in South Africa…
Raymond Tucker: Attorney interview with Rupert Taylor 26 January 2000, 32 St John Road, Houghton, Johannesburg
… it’s also an international project, that’s been working in Israel, Palestine and Northern Ireland. But for my … includes the LRC, Legal Resources Centre, it…
ArchiveFree Mandela! : Mass rally
… Black and white drawing of people in centre. Free Mandela in yellow letters. Mass Rally in Black letters in white block. Venue - Regina Mundi on Sunday …
ArchiveItll be a great day
… Yellow border with title in black letters.Issued by the Black Sash. Black and white photo of children. …
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 1: The world around 1600
… world’s major super powers which played a significant role in Southern Africa’s development. For topic one, which is The … the major empires, which includes…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… In 1948 the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election, and … increased introduction of racist and repressive laws, and in 1949 adopted the Programme of Action…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… that some comrades' names could not be mentioned. I learnt in the 1940s that there had been a one-time nun in the … had moved from Cape Town, and had built…
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
… at Pretoria Central prison on Tuesday at nine o'clock in the morning. A number of white warders at the prison … on death row, the white warders instructed…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - List of Passive Resistors
… Reddy & Fatima Meer List of Passive Resisters [The names in this list are taken from Flash, bulletin published by the Passive Resistance Council in Durban;…
ArchiveJazz Tour Contro Lapartheid
… Black poster, title in green letters. Black and white photograph of three men in a jazz band. All other wording in orange lettering. Notice …