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PlaceGlen Grey Division
… The frontier war of 1850-53 was precipitated when the amaNgqika, faced with the increased pressure of European settlement upon their ancestral lands, rose in…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… from NUSAS in 1952. For some students at the University of Natal Medical School (UNMS) their involvement and … in NUSAS increasingly suggested that the…
PlacePella
… a huge Cathedral was built in the Bushmanland desert oasis of Pella by French Missionaries who at first had absolutely … idea what they were doing. They did,…
PlaceOrange River
… the Atlantic Ocean at Alexander Bay . At the source of the Orange River, in Lesotho , which has an average rainfall of about 2000 mm per Year. It decreases…
EventBritain refuses Uganda’s request for independence
… Uganda is an east African country that had a number of kingdoms as well as political institutions by the 1800's. … 1879. East Africa soon developed into the…
PlaceKommetjie, Cape Town
… Kommetjie was established in 1902 when a consortium of Cape Town businessmen purchased the farm Kommetjie from … J Albertyn, and developed it as a…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics … Segregated City, 1910 - 1948, The…
Document 31 - Letter from E.R. Roux to Victor Danchin, 6 March 1929
… single package. I hope you will not create the impression of being"ultra left" as a result. Perhaps you could make some … left here safely. I hope you have…
Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
… In the general election of May 1948, the Nationalist Party polled 400,453 votes and its ally, the Afrikaner Party, 41,885, a total of 442,338 votes. On the…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… May Day celebrated on 1 May annually, is a celebration of workers and their work. It has a long history , being a day of commemoration and celebration of the…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Apartheid was brought to an end by the struggles of millions of ordinary people in townships…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… Apartheid was brought to an end by the struggles of millions of ordinary people in townships, factories and rural areas. … government. Workers had to…
Umrabulo - Issue No.11, 2nd Quarter 2001
… Introduction Analysis of the Freedom Charter as adopted at Morogoro, 1969 The … of the ANC. The more than 3000 new ward-based branches are being build to…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki's AIDS denialism
… Mbeki asserted the view that HIV was not the sole cause of AIDS and this viewpoint affected the South African … Mbeki espoused the view that AIDS was linked…
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… by the Editor to commemorate one hundred years of Indian settlement in South Africa. The large number of … into the A.N.C. office that African municipal…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… operational strategic heritage, 1960-1975 The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the … (SACP), reconstituted in secret in 1953…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's part. For many months the … let the police take me. For a minute, I…
PlaceKoffiefontein, Free State Province
… War II, with up to 2,000 Italian and German prisoners of war being held there, along with around 800 South Africans who … own coffee beans (often with a…
PlaceCape Peninsula University of Technology
… The Cape Peninsula University of Technology was established on 1 January 2005, when the … and Peninsula Technikon merged. This merger was part of a National…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New Times, 05 January 1980, Moscow
… : The liberation war in Zimbabwe is part and continuation of the liberation wars which the peoples of southern Africa have waged against colonialism, racism…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New Times, Moscow, January 1980
… : The liberation war in Zimbabwe is part and continuation of the liberation wars which the peoples of southern Africa have waged against colonialism, racism…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… I welcome you all to this thirty-sixth annual session of the Provincial conference of the African National Congress (Cape). I know what personal … realise…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… on from Part 1 , this article seeks to analyse some of the historical and present dynamics bedevilling ESKOM. … functioning to their capacity. The overall…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Source-based Questions
… Exam Memo Level 1 & 2 Difficulty Source A: Description of Robespierre’s 1790 speech. For the source’s online origin, see footnote [1] 1. Explain the ideas of…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 29 July 1990
… POM When we were talking to one of the people yesterday in one of the townships, we talked to one 15 year old boy and I … then a South African. POM …
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson … however. But as soon as there is a vacancy on any public…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… for the farm labourer who today ploughs the bitter furrow of misery. One pound a day for the builder of mansions who … 'not to go too fast', 'not to undo all…
Opening address by President Jacob Zuma to the 2nd Biennial Summit on substance abuse, 15 March 2011, Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, Durban
… The Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Dr Zweli Mkhize, The Minister of Social Development, Ms Bathabile Dlamini, Honourable … indicated that an increasing number of…
The Sweet Workers’ Union
… The Sweet Workers’ Union (SWU) originated as an offshoot of the short-lived Women Workers’ Union, founded by Fanny … mid-1920s, when that organisation…