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ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 3: The Sounds of Kora
… with a few notable exceptions. Many of the examples given in this chapter are linked in the electronic version to illustrative sound files, which … readers…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… Development of Langa location In the course of the Inter War Years the regulations of the … a more formal structure for African Urban administration. In 1923…
PlaceRepublic of Congo
… of the Congo and the Gulf of Guinea. Upon independence in 1960, the former French region of Middle Congo became the … century of experimentation with Marxism…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… [NOTE: In this statement at a meeting of the United Nations Special … work of the Americans for South African Resistance (AFAR) in support of the Defiance…
EventWorld War II: The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk ends as German forces capture the beach port
… port. The nine-day evacuation, the largest of its kind in history and an unexpected success, saved 338,000 Allied … defenders were a poor match for the…
PlaceRoodepoort, Johannesburg
… now entered the Valley. Roodepoort (meaning “red valley” in Afrikaans after the red soil found in this Area) is now a mix of: Residential Suburbs;…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris The struggle of tobacco workers in South Africa is a topic…
ArchiveThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
… calmer and less frightening and stressful for her husband in his almost 30 years on Robben Island and in other prisons than it was for her, during those…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Acts ushered in a glorious decade of liberation struggle in South Africa culminating in the adoption of the…
Concluding Remarks
… early Seventies has revealed is that "protest" took root in events prior to 1976. In several recent books, by contrast, the impression is given … 1976…
The values of David Goldblatt by Zachary Rosen,13 June 2017
… Goldblatt, are values. Values, like waves of light, are in some ways absorbed as the social information of a photograph, and in others reflected back at the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… NEW FACTORIES, NEW WORKERS described how rapid growth in the manufacturing industry led to a change in the labour process in the factories — new machines…
Balfour Declaration 1926
… 6 V. ¾ RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES ¾ (a.) Procedure in Relation to Treaties 6 (b.) Representation at … Policy 9 ( d.) Issue of Exequaturs to Foreign…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… by The Department of Education The1950s and 1960s in South Africa were marked by the apartheid state's tight … political, economic and social structures of…
Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
… We meet in the wake of great international gatherings concerned with … liberation struggle against colonialism and apartheid in Africa, (2) the tenth Summit…
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… any supporter of apartheid “otherwise.” While the rulers in South Africa may have tried to spread and enforce stigmas … and stereotypes about Coloured, Black…
EventMoïse-Kapenda Tshombé becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo
… of the Congo (now known as Democratic Republic of Congo). In 1951 Tshombé was elected to the advisory provisional … Belgian-supported Conakat, the strongest…
EventGeneral Barry Hertzog, former South African Prime Minister, dies
… Munnick Hertzog was born into a German immigrant family in 1866. He attended school in Kimberly and Stellenbosch, and completed a Bachelor's degree in…
We Shall Win. Joint Statement by Leaders of Liberation Movements at the fifth Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Algiers, 13 – 16 September 1968
… us to address this august Assembly at this critical moment in the history of our dear continent. The links between the … as a rapidly growing, active and…
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… Donald James Woods was born in Elliotdale, Transkei on 15 December 1933. He was educated at Christian Brothers College in Kimberley. After completing his…
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… name from Compensation Farm acquired by Edmund Morewood in 1849, where in 1851 he produced the first sugar cane grown in Natal that was brought from Reunion…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way the … would be narrated for decades to come…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Pretoria
… The Dutch Reformed Kerk, Pretoria was established in 1854, when it separated from the Rustenburg congregation. … Bosman Street where a new church building…
PlaceGallery 101
… In 1961, the Swiss Fernand Francis Haenggi (b. 1934, Dijon, … next to the Head Office of the Progressive Federal Party in the Rand Centre in the Johannesburg…
EventDaniel Toroitich arap Moi arap Moi wins the first multi
… arap Moi was first appointed to one of the African seats in Kenya's Legislative Council in 1955. Moi then won an elected seat on the council in 1957; he and…
PlaceGuinea
… Spanish Guinea and Portuguese Guinea gained independence in that order and subsequently named themselves after the region. French Guinea, became Guinea in 2…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… Congress. This Campaign was a very important development in the struggle against apartheid and white domination in South Africa. But it had a great…
David Goldblatt: Intersections; Asbestos; Particulars by Sue Williamson, 1 - 25 October 2003
… exact intersection of every latitude and longitude line in South Africa, and standing on that point, let his eye roam … result of that ongoing exercise. But…
PlacePosthuys
… buildings along the False Bay Coastline and was built in the late 1600's as a lookout post for enemy ships entering … on the Battle of Muizenberg. First…
Nadine Gordimer`s key note speech - Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award
… Let us now praise famous men Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 44.1 In the canon of human conscience Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is surely the most famously revered in…