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ArchiveAll That Glitters - What is industrialisation? by Emilia Potenza
… has affected the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa shaping the society we live in today. This feature examines the process of industrialisation in…
PlaceRustenburg
… as the Northwest Province. Rustenburg, the largest City in this Province, has significance for many groups in South Africa, and its History is complex and…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… and later Durban. He was a student at Sastri College in Durban. [A.I. Kazi, leader of the Natal Indian Congress … years (from 1920s to 1940s), was his uncle…
Some of Gandhi’s Early Views on Africans Were Racist. But That Was Before He Became Mahatma by E.S Reddy (The Wire), 18 October 2016
… The recent agitation at the University of Legon in Ghana for the removal of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi was … statements made by the young Gandhi soon after…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… of the social linkages between struggles particularly in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Born in 1922, George Peake was a bricklayer by trade, becoming active in…
Who was Khwezi? Here’s what we learnt during the Zuma rape trial by TMG Digital (Sowetan) ,10 October 2016
… according to a memoir she was writing and testimony in the High Court in Johannesburg‚ which is summarised in the judgment. Her identity was protected during…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 1980s were the culmination of the … popular uprising, which had received its initial spark…
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… Acclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons died in Cape Town. Cussons was known for her poetry works in Afrikaans, produced in ten volumes. Cussons was born…
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… The potato boycott began in protest against slave-like labour conditions for Black workers on potato farms. In areas like Bethal in Eastern Transvaal (now…
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… Interview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi who was an activist in the black consciousness movement and later in the Azanian People's Organization and the trade…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… South African labour market,’ Charles van Onselen writes in New Nineveh, ‘has always been dominated by … mining, … Van Onselen’s two-volume history of …
PlaceDonkin Mount, Port Elizabeth
… origin and development to the arrival of British settlers in 1820. Sir Rufane Donkin was the Acting Governor of the … and he changed the name of Algoa Bay to…
PlaceEgypt
… Egypt lies North East in the Africa n continent, its history goes back to Biblical times; with Pharaohs fighting for land in the fertile Nile River! There…
The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
… time to settle down under Union, South Africa was fighting in the Great War. After the conquest of both German South … on African problems was delivered at a…
PlaceBenin
… until the coup that brought Mathieu Kérékou to power in 1972. After gaining independence from the French in 1960, Benin’s first coup came in October 1963. A…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… Nontsikelelo (Blessings) Sisulu, on her 70th birthday in October. Albertina continues to be an inspiration to the younger generation of today in South Africa…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… to an end by the struggles of millions of ordinary people in townships, factories and rural areas. The insurrection of … from previous struggles against…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… to an end by the struggles of millions of ordinary people in townships, factories and rural areas. The insurrection of … from previous struggles against…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… Declaration of Human Rightsbears a very poignant meaning. In our country the Declaration of Human Rights is a … of the Declaration by the United Nations…
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… who has died aged 83, was an active opponent of Ian Smith in the 1960s and 70s, and later used her political skills in an equally determined critique of…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… and State President, Balthazar John Vorster was born in in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape on 13 December 1915. Vorster began his …
EventSouth African poet Vincent Oliphant is born
… African poet, mathematician and educationist was born in 1954 in Alicedale, a small town near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. His first book of poems,…
PlaceUitenhage, officially renamed Kariega
… officially renamed Kariega, is an industrial town in South Africa 's, Eastern Cape Province . Which is situated … 35 kilometres north of Gqeberha (formerly…
Pretoria Socialist Society
… House of Assembly CAPE TOWN Honourable Sir, At a time when in many respects our country is passing through some of the most difficult times in its history, I…
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… Charles Robberts Swart was born on a farm in the Winburg district of the Orange Free State (OFS) on 5 December 1894. Part of his childhood was spent in a…
Notes from Books
… THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of … indicates that there were many Indians - slave and…
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… Ross the discoverer of the malaria mosquito was born in Almora, India in 1857. After graduating in medicine, he entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical … …
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… Baker, replaced the original school which was established in 1858. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC … This building, broadly described as…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the man and his work. … ignorant of his more than 60…
PlaceOld Pretoria Iron Mines Ltd Buildings, Iscor, Pretoria
… better known as the Pretoria Iron Mines Ltd. It was there, in 1918, that cast-iron from indigenous ore was produced on a large scale for the first time in…