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Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… People Between 1886 and 1914 people continued to arrive in a steady stream. From 1914, the population of newcomers to … many of the settlers on the Rand had…
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
… My first contact with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove…
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
… My first contact with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove…
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Gideon Nieuwoudt a former … apartheid-era security police colonel, who was involved in the murder of…
EventLord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, and architect of the Union of South Africa dies
… Lord Alfred Milner, a career diplomat in the British Foreign Office in the late 19th century and early 20th century died in Canterbury, England. Milner came…
Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981
… BLACKS OF STELLENBOSCH - 1679-1720 3. Louis of Bengal In 1684 Louis of Bengal (another colourful character amongst the free blacks) also went in search…
Address by Mandela to the CBI conference London, 10 July 1996
… Lords; Ladies and Gentlemen. I have had the rare pleasure in the short time that I have been in the United Kingdom to savour the hospitality of the … British…
When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… bearer was a British national and a resident of Toronto. In fact, he was Solomon Plaatje, the first secretary-general … to issue him a phony passport is lost…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… Sindile Moya was head prefect in Zimasa Higher Primary School in Langa during 1976. He was involved in protests on the ground, as well as helping to organise…
Introduction
… to accept a status of permanent inferiority for Indians in this country.’ The 'appeasers' had been prepared moreover … for the old approaches to politics,…
PlaceCrossroads Township
… Crossroads Township is situated in Cape Town in the Wynberg district, some 12 km east of Athlone in the Western Cape Province. Crossroads emerged as a shanty…
Under the influence of Dumile Feni’s 'African Guernica' by Sharlene Khan (The Conversation), 07 September 2016
… In our regular series, “Under the influence”, we ask experts … what they believe are the most influential works of art in their field. Here, artist/academic…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… tuition charging, English medium boys high school located in Brooklyn, Pretoria- South Africa . Founded in 1901 by The Hon. Lord Milner . Its academic…
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… July 1936. To the I.S. L.C.I. (B.L.) Dear Comrade Adolphe, In answer to your enquiries in your letter of 10th May 1936 I am giving you some … self contained…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… Bill of 1930 threatened to impose segregation upon Indians in the Transvaal. Albert Christopher was alarmed by its implications. There is a trace of despair…
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… The African National Congress of South Africa, founded in January 1912, got a lot of support from Mahatma Gandhi, … a century ago, on January 8, 1912, was a…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… the country was quiescent.’ 1 Another historian commented in similar vein that ‘for at least a decade after 1964 the ANC virtually ceased to exist in South…
Political report by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the African National Congress, 17 June 1985, Kabwe, Zambia
… Conference of the ANC, is a great and moving moment in the history of our struggle for national liberation. The days we will spend here will live forever in…
Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
… Conference of the ANC, is a great and moving moment in the history of our struggle for national liberation. The days we will spend here will live forever in…
EventAlan Paton is born
… Steward Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province. Paton graduated from Maritzburg College in 1918; he went…
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… The basic concept of cellular phones began in 1947, when researchers began to examine crude mobile (car) … S. Engel, head of research at AT&T's Bell…
EventCPSA is founded
… of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) took place in Cape Town from 30 July to 1 August 1921, however, the party was founded on 29 July 1921 in Cape…
New Generation Sculpture
… During the 1980s the work of a number of sculptors working in the northern part of the country, Gazankulu and Venda, … to be a completely autonomous…
Opening Address to the ANC National Consultative Conference by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 14 December 1990
… Comrades and friends, Compatriots, I salute you all in the name of all patriotic South Africans, especially those … others were maimed for life whilst on…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… of human rights activists, after June 1976, arrived in Lesotho in droves. By 1977 it was around 10-15 persons arriving … of the homelands where jobs were few…
PlaceOnze Molen, Durbanville
… The mill was erected in 1840 and continued to function as such until after the … to a horse mill. It is one of only two tower mills erected in the Malmesburg…
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… The Village of Clarkebury was established in 1830 as a station of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. James Backhouse visited it in March 1839 and…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 10
… as a temporary measure, to operate for three years, in order to provide time for a new commission, The Natal … to investigate all aspects of Indian life and…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… Bantu migration. Archaeologists have found human remains in eastern Swaziland that have been dated to be 110 000 years … fled from their original home to the…
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
… Party (SACP) underground operative Ahmed Timol while in the custody of the Security Police in John Vorster Square police station, Johannesburg. In testimony…