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Richard Maxwell (Dick) Haldane, trade union leader, dies in Cape Town. He was honoured with the Award of Merit from TUCSA in 19
… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , Pretoria: HSRC Publishers, … leader, dies in Cape Town. He was honoured with the…
The four corner stones of the castle (Kasteel de Goede Hoop) at the Cape are laid by Zacharias Wagenaer, Johan van Arckel, Gabb
… The four corner stones of the castle (Kasteel de Goede Hoop) at the Cape are laid by …
Percy Fisher, born in 1891 in Durham, England, miner and unionist who was regarded as the main leader of the 1922 miners’ strik
… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … miner and unionist who was regarded as the main leader of the 1922…
Bartolomeu Dias enters the wide bay now known as Lüderitz Bay after sailing for three weeks along the arid Namib coast of Sout
… | Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 6. … after sailing for three weeks along…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… election which was to be decided by the white population of the country. A manifesto outlined how Apartheid would be … meaning (if translated into Afrikaans)…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… in the mines. The migrant labour system is the evidence of how legislation was used to the benefit of mining magnates … and to make them contribute to the…
Post-Election Political Violence
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As South Africa went to the polls … have wondered what…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
… Symbols since 1994 In South Africa, we have a perse number of people and cultures, but we are all South African. … African Coat of Arms The most important…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.3 1992
… Laat Losbars, Stephen Samuels. Essays: The Politics of Feminism in South Africa, Desiree Lewis; Robben Island … Now': Filling the Void, Danny Schechter; The…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… and “Rivonia” trials, to mention the most prominent of these, were among the most destructive assaults on the movement. Together with a state of emergency,…
EventRoger Joyce Bushell, Auxiliary Air Force pilot famous for his escape from the German prisoner of war camp, is born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng)
… interest in academia. He loved to ski and was made captain of the Cambridge ski team. His other interest was flying and … and sent to the Dulag Luft transit…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… The EFF sees economic freedom as total ownership of economic and natural resources by the previously oppressed … sectors of the economy, without compensation…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… minds as to why the government had allowed the Congress of the People in 1955, to take place. In 1956, their question … involve the overthrow and destruction…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… Art in the state of siege The Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of South … to reject this crude racial…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… 29 May [1943] Document 4 - B.M. Kies "The Background of Segregation", Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD … Committee, Bulletin Number One [1943]…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… Land restitution is one of the key issues since South Africa achieved democracy in … Furthermore, 2.8 million hectares had been acquired by the state for…
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
… and he credited him for instilling in him an informed love of books. At the age of 16, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… South East Asia are introduced to the Cape. 1820 A number of Indians arrive in Cape Town from Bencoolen. A certain Mr … between the Natal Government and the…
ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
… laws or land distribution has become integral part of the society, particularly from 2004 as generally … levels of youth unemployment and the dependency on…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… The period after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African … 1970s, and by 1972 it had achieved a…
ArticleThe Constitution
… South African Constitution of 1996 Republic of South Africa The Republic of South Africa is one, sovereign, democratic state founded on the following values:…
ArticlePeople involved in Rivonia Trial 1963-1964
… RIVONIA: THE STORY OF ACCUSED NO.11, by Bob Hepple On 11 July 1963, I was one … Shortly before it was quashed by the Judge-President, the State Prosecutor,…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.1 1989
… We May Talk, Moritso Makhunga; On the Wire Glen Fisher; Emergency, Glen Fisher; Morning, Ian Tromp; I, Child, Ian … REVIEWS: Reading for Liberation, A.W…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… its homeland policy and the introduction of the Tricameral Parliament gave Coloured and Indian … country and the apartheid government imposed a series of…
Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline
… Political Organisation is formed in Cape Town . 1910 Union of South Africa, which would be later called the Republic of … and Mpumalanga ), Orange River…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… women get the vote. This means in effect that the weight of the black vote is decreased from 3.1% to 1.4%. The first … segregation of Indians in the…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… This article was written by Jarvis Pruitt and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … her kind hearted and determined ways…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… successive governments since shortly after the founding of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal and the Boer Republics. The … by the Pan African Congress (PAC)…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… uMkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation or MK), the armed wing of the African National … by sending two warships to Maputo. 6 April, The Heads of State of…
ArchiveI want you to share your bread with the hungry, open your homes to the homeless poor, remove the yoke of injustice, let the oppressed go free
… Bible quote from Isaiah: 58. Artwork of person with a brown loaf and a basket of bread. Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD) … open your homes to…