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ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… One of the Boer concentration camps. Photographical Collection … between 1899 and 1902 – or the Anglo-Boer War – the events of that period are back in the…
ArticleCapitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940
… did the Great Depression in the USA bring about a crisis of capitalism? Background and focus It is important to understand that the focus of THIS section is…
Burundi: A year later, still in crisis by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 05 May 2016, South Africa
… today is not safe tomorrow. Civilian life today is a life of fear, a life of uncertainty, and not knowing exactly what is happening … it becoming the fiefdom…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… National Congress Youth League (ANCYL), the youth wing of the African National Congress is formed. 1946 African … consequences, showing the increasing…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… as wagon drivers, etc. They suffered severely as result of the British "scorched earth policy" during which those who … to concentration camps, as were 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Archive2022 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2022
… STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA CAPE TOWN CITY HALL 10 FEBRUARY 2022 Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, ……
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…
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…
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…
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…
'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…
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…
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… called: 'KTI', during the Sixties was undoubtedly one of the premier Black schools of its time. Reflecting on the impact which its Alumni had on … John…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
… camera along to a jazz concert at the then University of Natal Pietermaritzburg’s Great Hall and captured a series of black and white images of the band, the…