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PlaceWitbank, Mpumalanga
… formerly Witbank, in the Mpumalanga Province , East of Pretoria. Established in 1890 as Witbank, it is at the centre of a coal-mining area in which more than…
ArchiveApartheid's Sporting Afterlife by Clark Easley
… - “No normal sport in an abnormal society” - guided one of the most principled movements in South African history. … political and could never be separated…
ArchiveInterview with Shaeera Kalla, former SRC president at Wits University, interviewed by Kyla Mc Nulty
… we were taught was, this led me to do reading outside of what was prescribed. During my first year at Wits I joined … decision to once more entrench the…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 3
… Indian Community by C. H. Calpin Mr. A.B. Moosa, partner of "A.I." in Avalon Associated Cinemas and one of the honorary secretaries of the SAIC in 1940,…
Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… ago on 12 June 1986 I was re-detained for 27 months. 18 of these were in solitary confinement due to my being the … white detainee. I had been released after…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men” that included the otherwise … colonial security agents…
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…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… slavery flourished in the 18th century, the foundations of modern democracy were also being established. It is important to consider the ideas of liberty,…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… in 1979 that it had to take one step back in the conduct of armed operations if it was eventually to be able to mount … working class organisation. Footnote…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… two women who focused on a common ideal, namely, the use of hand labour for social reconstruction after the Second South African War of 1899 to 1902. The…
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… Ndebele began studying at the Roma Campus in Lesotho of the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS). He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1994 until the end of her 15 year term in 2009 She was…
ArchiveThe Importance and Power of Gender Safe Spaces by Shanél Johannes
… for our positionalities and realities differ. The creation of a safe space is important to prevent the isolation of our various day-to-day individual and…
PlaceFramesby, Port Elizabeth
… Framesby is one of Port Elizabeth’s well-known residential suburbs. It is flanked by Cape Road (which is part of the N2 motorway, extending from Durban in…
PlaceWellington, Western Cape
… The picturesque town of Wellington is a scenic 45-minute drive from Cape Town . … on land donated to the Town Council in 1863 , as part of the British…
PlaceCape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal
… base for aviation training in the Cape Town Region. Of the four original runways only two remain operational, … numerous aircraft hangars for the storage and…
PlaceBothaville
… A Town in the north-west of the Free State. Also known as the maize capital of South Africa, that is because of it being in the centre of the maize growing…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… from Mozambique . It was founded in 1962 and formed a part of the Mozambican liberation movement, eventually winning … which Mozambique takes her rightful…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for his political and … met Makhanda, described him: “We found…
BiographyPeter Becker
… Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's early years…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
… Thomas Patrick Murray was the eldest of the three sons of Patrick Murray, a boiler-maker and trade unionist, and his … Murray was apprenticed to the…
Statement by Olive Tambo at the freedom rally organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 26 January 1979, Dublin
… Dear Friends and Comrades, We bring you greetings on behalf of the African National Congress, the cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), inside…
South Africa After Soweto - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to World Marxist Review, February 1978
… TAMBO: The events in Soweto and other parts of South Africa have become a significant milestone in the development of the liberation struggle. To assess…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… private tutoring at home. She matriculated at the age of 14 in 1929. Two years later Gutsche enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to study for a…
ADDRESS AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, 13 June 2001
… our peoples, in an earlier epoch. For example, many of the roads through our world-famous mountain passes were … Baines, more than a century and a half ago…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
… , South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South Africa from … was educated at Barnato Park and at the…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
… October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique , the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist minister who had … 1975, she married Samora Machel , the…
PlaceUitenhage, officially renamed Kariega
… the Kariega River , approximately 35 kilometres north of Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth). In Uitenhage you can … form. The Old Drostdy Museum built in…
Some Observations on HIV and Mortality in South Africa: 2007, 2008 and 2013 by Thabo Mbeki, 14 March 2016
… a very comprehensive Report on Mortality and Causes of Death in South Africa. In this context it is necessary to … keep in mind that Statssa prepares its…
BiographyTito Mboweni
… high school, Tito Mboweni attended the University of the North in Transvaal between 1979 and 1980, where he was registered for a Bachelor of Commerce degree…