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ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… passed into the hands of those who create these images." [17] The control of imagery becomes the control of history, … Weinberg while driving from Durban to…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… Farm, and Evaton areas South of Johannesburg. From 14 to 17 November 2009, 3000 Zimbabwean citizens living in the … in Ekuphumleni, displacing 68 Zimbabwean…
PlaceSenekal
… was Rowe Marshall and Hill. The church was initiated on 17 December 1896. The church is situated in Van Riebeeck … 250 million years old. The longest trunk…
PlaceDe Doorns, Cape Winelands
… from December through until April. The Area exports nearly 17 Million Cartons, of grapes Annually! …
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
The concepts of a nation state and a plural society are often seen to be at odds with one another. Jon Soske states, in his essay ‘The Impossible Concept:…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… their right of the African voters in the Eastern Cape. In 1950 the Nationalist Party headed by DF Malan changed the …
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… ‘Berlin Blockade’ begins 1949 : July, NATO is ratified 1950 : February, McCarthy begins communist witchunt 1954 : …
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
A turning point in the struggle against apartheid came about in the 1960s. This change was the result of combined elements, including the formation of the PAC,…
EventRhodes statue removed at UCT
… statue was removed a month later on the 9 April 2015 at 17:37. The removal was voted upon by the UCT Council on the 8 …
PlaceOur Lady of Montserrat Catholic Church, Betty's Bay
… as Roman Catholic, Masses: Saturday 18.00 & Thursday 17.00. The Church has been burnt to the Ground because of …
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, January 1946
… Land reserved for 2,000,000 Europeans only less than 17'/2 per cent for 8,000,000 Africans. Only 40 per cent …
EventThe United Arab Republic is proclaimed by Egypt, Iraq, and Syria
… Arab Republic (UAR) and the flag until 1 January 1972. On 17 April 1963, ambitions to constitute a new Union were …
EventJacob Zuma, Former President of South Africa and of the ANC, is born.
… April 1942, at Inkandla, in KwaZulu Natal. At the age of 17, he joined the African National Congress (ANC), becoming …
EventUniversity of Pretoria's 100th anniversary
… on 10 October 1930, having been a university college since 17 May 1910. Afrikaans became the official language of …
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
Dorkay House, a building at the south end of Eloff Street in downtown Johannesburg, functioned as the headquarters for the Union of South African Artists,…
PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
The Victorian Rotunda, a landmark in Camps Bay, is a beautiful, geometrical domed building, was the epitome of high society in Cape Town at the turn of the…
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
Oral interview with Peter Donald Hjul who was a leading figure in the Liberal Party, which existed from 1953 until 1968. Born in Northern Rhodesia in 1929,…
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
Ndazana Nathaniel Nat Nakasa was awarded the The Niemann Fellowship to study journalism at Harvard University in the US but the government rejected his…
Document 66 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 21 February 1937
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 66 - Letter from the Workers' …
Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… house arrest under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950. Sobukwe was therefore prohibited from taking part in …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
African National Congress (ANC) stalwart, Albertina Sisulu, a wife to former ANC Secretary, Walter Sisulu died at her Linden home, Johannesburg at the age of…
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
The government proceeded with the introduction of apartheid laws in the 1950s. An example of this was the hated pass law. This forced Black people to carry…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
Joshua Richman Joshua Richman is a final year English and Politics student at the University of York. From October 2015, he will read Law at Hughes Hall,…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… “By the time of the advent of the new South Africa, about 17 000 statutory measures had been issued to segregate and …
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… physical superiority in a human hierarchy of development." 17 As with the missionary photographers, anthropologists were … acts with censorship implications…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
Britain, Diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansion Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the late nineteenth…
PlaceKronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay.
The estate of Kronendal was part of land granted to Willem Basson in 1713, although it was only developed as a farm towards the end of the century. Its…
PlaceSt Stephen’s Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town
… to build a theatre upon the site. This was opened on 17 November 1800 and by all accounts was considered by …
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… the end of June 1935 it received £3,794 in deposits and £17,880 in fixed deposits, and granted loans of £23,583. At … of which 174 (83%) were on the…