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Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… numerous and better organised on the Rand than here else in Africa. More and more workers are employed in factories, and their lives are shaped by this fact…
Burkina Faso: Key Facts and History by Angela Thompsell updated 13 February 2016
… from the 2015 elections and coup attempt to independence in 1960. Overview : Burkina Faso's poor economic outlook and … kept it out of the eye of Western…
PlaceHawston
… that long ago the Quena (Khoi-Khoi) grazed their cattle in the area. Before 1830, people lived at Herrie’s Bay and at … and England. The major part of the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Opening Session of the South Centre’s Council of Representatives New York, 21 September 1998
… gathering. Fresh from the Twelfth Non-Aligned Summit in Durban, I bring warm greetings from the Movement's … Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, first of all as a friend…
Document 16 - Letter from Clements Kadalie to E. R. Roux, 10 October 1928
… well as deceitful when you speak very high of your Party in this country. With your Party, you are not making any … its Adviser.31 We are establishing…
PlaceThe Old Presidency Museum, Bloemfontein
… (Afrikaans) is a Museum, art Gallery and Theatre in the City of Bloemfontein, South Africa, located on President Brand Street in the heart of the City. The…
PlaceWaaihoek Farm
… Waaihoek is a remote Farm situated near Ladysmith in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal ). The first rent paying Tenants were 47 families who arrived in November 1984…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… Mahatma Gandhi It is my firm conviction that Indians in South Africa must Bt submits to the latest racial … Satyagraha which was successfully tried for the…
Address by the Chairperson of the Non-Aligned Movement, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, to the NAM Ministerial Meeting United Nations, New York, 23 September 1999
… Ministers, Excellencies and Distinguished Guests, In my capacity as the Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement, it … on how far we have come and to chart they way…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the 19th meeting of heads of government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) St Lucia, 4 July 1998
… of the peoples of the Caribbean. It has been delayed in recent years by the tumult of South Africa's entry into … completed the liberation of our continent,…
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… yet been finally disposed of though the Negro Commission (in which the matter was discussed at some length though not … final position. However, as a result…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
… 1976 as your starting point: to understand what happened in 1976 you’ve got to understand the analysis of the … were not PAC, they were largely students who…
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
… Contingent were recruited and employed to assist Britain in the First World War with labour duties. Black South African men were shipped to France in…
EventSmiso Zwane, South African hip hop artist is born
… Smiso Zwane, stage name Okmalumkoolkat was born in the Umlazi township of Durban on 27 July 1985. [i] Along … [iii]He has released three mixtapes, namely …
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
… a reading and a republishing of my Traditions of Poetry in Natal2 which attempted to situate Mafika Pascal Gwala’s work in the late 1980s would be…
EventUDF leaders are charged with treason
… high treason. These anti-apartheid activists sought refuge in the British consulate in Durban after the South African Government was hot on their heels for…
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… Madagascar came under the colonial French Protectorate in 1890. By the late 1940's, the Malagasy had started to demand independence. A national uprising took…
EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
… South West Africa), established its capitol at Otjimbingwe in 1885, then at Windhuk in 1891. It covered the core of what is today Namibia. Over the next…
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… Comrades and friends, Comrade Chairman, Permit me in the first instance to place on record the sincere … broad leadership of the people of Zambia this rare…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… on Emily Hobhouse and the Boer War published by UCT Press in 2015 (The Compassionate Englishwoman - click here to … the families of the fighting men to basic…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… Leader. Two days later, Gandhi was taken from the prison in Johannesburg to meet General Smuts in Pretoria, where a compromise solution was agreed. The ……
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Diplomatic Correspondent of Morning Star, 23 November 1967, London
… regime was trying to give the impression that the clashes in Rhodesia were with ANC guerrillas only, not with the … African People`s Union joint communique…
PlaceGriqualand East
… Era it was also commonly referred to as "no man's land". In March 1861, Faku, paramount chief of the amaPondo , ceded the territory to the British . They, in…
Address at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 4 March 2002
… are to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in the beautiful town of Coolum as the guests of the … great honour for us to congratulate Her…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence regarding the families move to Brandfort
… Nelson's responses to the Brandfort sojourn are recorded in extracts from the letters that follow: I have thought of you since I heard of the heavy snowfall…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Some Aspects of the Native Bills
… and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu Today we find ourselves in a crucial stage of African economic and political … Our rulers have declared their intention, to…
PlaceKuboes, Northern Cape
… clans that constantly moved about these dry lands in search of grazing for their flocks of mainly goats. On … Fred Cornell, who could never find a single…
Chapter 5 -The Character, Role and Significance of SASO
… In this chapter I now interpret the character, role and … two chapters, the chapter that analysed conditions in the political and higher education spheres…
Chapter 4
… or organisation. We are going into these matters in order to see clearly what the mistake was, its nature and … it would be an act of irresponsibility to…
ArchiveBiography of Tseko Simon Nkoli
… Biography of Tseko Simon Nkoli. Simon was born in Soweto on Boxing day in 1959 but grew up on a farm in Heilbron in Orange Free State. He began high school…