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… THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of … indicates that there were many Indians - slave and…
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…
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…
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 … …
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…
Preface
… This study of "protest art" in South Africa for the period 1968 to 1976 presented me with several difficulties of research in relation to decisions regarding…
31. Cape traders protest against the Hawkers’ Licences Act
… 35 of 1906, which dealt with hawkers' licences, operated in the Cape in much the same way as the Dealers' Licenses Act in Natal. The following document…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… exÂistence the massive black working class concentrated in the urban centres, and in so doing entirely changed the conditions in which the struggle - fought…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… and throughout South Africa were becoming active in distinctive, often uniformed, Christian female organisations. In the 1950s an important sociological…
EventJohn Traicos makes his International Cricket Test debut for South Africa
… his Test debut - for South Africa vs Australia at Durban in their final series before their banishment from Test cricket. Born on 17 May 1947 in Zagazig,…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… lecture takes place during the same month way back in September 1952, when the Minister of Native Affairs, Dr … him being stripped of his chieftaincy. When…
63. Colonisation scheme: the colonial-born Indians respond - From the book "A Documentary History of Indian South Africans" edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… Congress did not sufficiently represent their interests. In their view, trader interests predominated in the Congress. They were disenchanted with the limits…
PlaceBotshabelo
… Alexander Merensky and Heinrich Grützner started work in the north eastern part of the South African Republic in 1860. There were unsuccessful early attempts…
EventPetronella Nellie du Toit South African soprano singer is born
… Nellie duToit was born on 17 December 1929 in Pietersburg (now Polokwane) into a musical family. Thus, … began to sing opera. After completing her school…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… Now let us talk of Freedom,. Everywhere in the world today, the oppressed and exploited masses of people are up in arms. They are fighting against the forces…
PlaceMasjiengebou (Machine Building), Defense Headquarters, Pretoria
… Headquarters, Pretoria. Stables and they were Erected in the 1890 by the Government of the Zuid-Afrikaansche … formed an important Historical and…
PlaceEthiopia
… Ethiopia, formerly Abyssinia, is a landlocked country in the East of Africa. It shares one of its borders with … , to the North East. The Ethiopian Kingdom…
What are the challenges that face the South African film industry?
… foreign filmakers.) We need to grasp the fact that we're in the entertainment business, not sociology, and that film …
ArticleHarriet and the Bolton Hall Four
… committee members condemned Harriet for her involvement in the protest meeting, and her public criticism of TUCSA. As …
“Don’t Support Apartheid Sport”: Appeal By Chief A. J. Luthuli and Dr G. M. Naicker, June 1962
… from international football for the second year in succession Reason: SOUTH AFRICA’S COLOUR POLICY. The … continued participation of White South African…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… has died, aged seventy-nine. Lewin passed away at his home in Killarney, Johannesburg yesterday. Born in Lydenburg in 1939, to English missionary parents,…
GANDHI THE PRISONER
… and conditions of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in South Africa 1 by Nelson Mandela Gandhi threatened the … established the first anti-colonial political…
PlaceUtrecht
… In 1900 British troops occupied Utrecht during South African … headquarters. The British were wary of having to camp in high altitude area where their health…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson In the more liberal climate of Cape Town Johnny Gomas seemed … of the ICU, an organisation which he…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… Sol T Plaatje’s ground-breaking work Native Life in South Africa was published 100 years ago in 1916. Janet Remmington, Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe … work on…
PlaceLesotho
… Drakensberg, running North and South, join the main range in the North, forming a plateau from 2,700 to 3,200 metres, in elevation. This plateau is the…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… indentured Indians, the Indian Immigration records (I.I.) in the Natal Archives are essential. There are also valuable printed sources: in the annual reports…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cheryl Walker Question: … 'BUT' Women's suffrage was a minor but persistent issue in…
PlaceOude Molen, Alexandra Care and Rehabilitation Centre, Maitland
… ventures from equestrian activities to art workshops. In a large courtyard in the grounds of the Oude Molen Eco Village, Maitland, Cape … Town, stands South…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… furnaces, the later one - now vandalised - possibly still in use in the early 1800s. But by mid century there was a rudimentary Boer republic in place, the…