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Durban Mayors and other city officials
This list is listed in chronological order, listing mayors of Durban, starting from 1854 to date. George Cato (1854 - 56) Edward Snell and Savery Pinsent…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
The Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) was established in April 1973 in with the assistance of the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF). It was…
Online directory - archives and media sources
National Archives The government archives service in South Africa houses and preserves the state records and other documents that have been collected since…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
National Symbols since 1994 In South Africa, we have a perse number of people and cultures, but we are all South African. National symbols such as a national…
ArticlePoetry and Resistance in the 1970’s
A multitude of African poetics has populated the constantly shifting maps of Africa throughout the twentieth-century and has inhabited the history of South…
ArticleTransport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
The Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was founded in 1973. It organised in the passenger transport, goods transport, stevedores, motor ferry,…
ArticleHarriet and the Bolton Hall Four
The “Bolton Hall Four” David Davis, David Hemson, Jeannette Cunningham-Brown and Halton Cheadle were banned for five years under the Suppression of Communism…
ArticleSouth African National Symbols and Heritage
This feature highlights aspects of South African Heritage and symbols of South Africa. A person's heritage is made up of the practices, and traditions…
Further reading and Links pertaining to History of Slavery and early colonisation in SA
ArticleAfricanist News and Views (1968-1973)
Africanist News and Views, published by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) of Azania (South Africa), expressed the Pan-Africanist viewpoint in the struggle for…
References and links: Learning from Leaders
Books Berens, P., J. Gurney & Rob Siebörger. (1996). Making History Standard 2. Johannesburg: Heinemann. Machado, A. M. (1994). Exploration into Latin…
ArticleKey sites in and around Soweto
Amphitheatre Stadium Area of Masakeng* Area of Mochanaeng* Arthur Ashe Bara Hospital* Beerhalls Blue Fountain Diepkloof Convent* Diepkloof…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… camp in Peddie, the story of market gardeners on shrinking land plots around Durban, the story of pensioners who wait …
Impact of pseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism on the 19th and 20th Centuries
Note: Some grade 11 sections are under construction and still link to old content. Also note, there may be minor changes to the curriculum from year to year,…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
1919 The Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) is formed in Cape Town after World War I, with a membership of 24. The Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU)…
Books, Articles, Documents and papers pertaining to Towards a people’s culture, Art and Resistance under apartheid
ArticleLink between US eugenic movements and Hitler’s ideas of racial state and the master race
This section is under construction, if you have anything to contribute please click here. For a great link on the Social Darwinism's International impact…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… in matters of housing, sexual relations, schooling and land ownership’. [19] The 1976 Soweto protests against …
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… chiefs found to be implementing apartheid government’s land measures. And in dealing with the proliferation of …
Documents, and articles relating to Durban
Colonial History and Development of Johannesburg
Tension Builds: Exploitation, resistance and beer
Competing nationalisms and identities in Africa
Slavery and the quest for Liberty
Pedi and the British (under construction)
Zulu and the British (under construction)
Johannesburg Mayors and other city officials
Afrapix members, associated members and contributors
Anna Zieminski (member) Biddy Partridge (founding member) Billy Paddock (member) Brett Eloff (contributor) Cecil Sols (member/associate) Cedric Nunn …