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PlaceTownship Tours of Cape Town
… favoured by specific cultural groups. And a township tour in Cape Town can offer you deeper insight into a person from … ' ; Gugulethu and Langa '. Langa is…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… to a short life and died at the age of 48. Relatively late in life, after supplementing his poor school education by … an interest in their languages and…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Resources by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Documents Section. Walker, C., Women and Resistance in South Africa, London, Onyx Press, 1982. Lodge, T., Black Politics in South Africa since 1945,…
EventNic Cruse, who worked for PC Plus, which was started by people within the Mass Democratic Movement is assassinated.
… an employee at PC Plus, opened a parcel containing a bomb in a computer. The subsequent explosion killed Cruse, aged … opened the package which he believed…
ArchivePOTWA
… A2 black on yellow silkscreen; cartoons of workers and bosses; … Now pay... more for my service. No money, no service in rural area (marching workers with…
ArchiveSecret Histories | South African Photographer David Goldblatt Reveals the Effects of Apartheid on His Native Land by Miss Rosen, 29 September 2016
… as “a self-appointed observer and critic into the society in which I was born,” in a conversation with Nadine Gordimer … enacted the systemic oppression of…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Bantu and the Gospel
… an obsession with the great masses of unthinking people in this land with reference to the Natives: The first is, … The latter accidentally asked, him…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… birthday. One of the godfathers of the fight for equality in South Africa, he has fought long and hard against racism … about issues of political rights and…
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 … should read as “positive” images – white against black. And yet one wonders if they are rather…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… the past. Each of South Africa’s nine provinces is rich in diverse heritage that belongs to all South Africans. … in the Defiance Campaign in 1952, a…
PlaceWaaihoek Farm
… Waaihoek is a remote Farm situated near Ladysmith in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal ). The first rent paying Tenants … and agrarian reform in Natal. Its main aim…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The Bram Fischer era In the aftermath of … operate from Waverly and Bramley, using the names …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… with today has its origin after the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902. Prior to the war each colony or Boer republic had … law enforcement organisation. With the…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein
… East India Company had largely broken Khoi resistance in the district while mobile armed commandos kept the “troublesome” San hunter groups in check. Van der…
Khoisan Identity
… In his State of the Nation address on 9th February 2012, … socio-political and economic privileges denied to the black population, such as not being required…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… The Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC) was formed in Transvaal (now Gauteng) as the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… and book writer which assisted with her important role in the abolishment of apartheid. She wrote major articles and … to be relocated into government…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… The date, December 16, holds a special significance in South African history. On this day in 1838, the … in reaction to British imperialism, on the one hand,…
African History Books
… the creation of the Organisation of African Unity (OUA) in 1963.. As a way to value the continent’s history, to …
Document 90 - “Hertzog’s Native Bill Passed: Only 11 Oppose Reactionary Measure”, Umsebenzi, 1 1 April 1936
… their names that posterity may know what SOCIALISM meant in South Africa in 1936:-Walter B. Madeley, Brurnside and van … how to carry forward the fight for…
PlaceSouth Africa
… The central design of the flag, beginning at the flag post in a 'V' form and flowing into a single horizontal band to … green is meant to symbolize the…
Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
… question) (1934) [....] The position of the Trade Unions in South Africa reflects the backwardness of the South … class of South Africa, which includes both…
ArchiveRelations with Other Groups Committee report
… African Students, Durban, 29 Nov-3 Dec 1983. Included in report is the information that the National Union is part of the United Democratic Front. Relations…
EventDraft laws are gazetted
… The draft laws were gazetted, providing some benefits for Black people. These include greatly increased mobility and security of tenure for Blacks qualified…
EventCalvin Thusago is stabbed to death
… from Sharpeville where they had filmed the desecration of Black graves by right-wing extremists. His colleague, Dudley … back. Members of the ANC Youth…
EventThe Rand Revolt Ends
… by White mineworkers to a perceived injustice that Black miners were taking jobs that ought to have been … put thousands out of work and caused a devastating…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… The study of armed forces in Africa tend focus on the contemporary peculiarities with … racism in the apparent value between white "flesh" and black "flesh"…
Stuart Commission Report
… 1984 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA March 14, 1984 Lusaka … strongly believes that the low level of…
83. South African Indian Council elections, November 1981: To vote or not to vote
… out of a total of 350 000 eligible voters registered in order to vote in the elections of 4 November 1981. Forty … foisted upon us. The Natal Indian Congress…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… 1924 5 December, Robert Mangaliso Sobukhwe is born in Graaff-Reinet a town in the Cape Province. 1940 Sobukwe enrols at Healdtown … declared that South…