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ArchiveAthlone Advice Office Annual Report to National Conference 1973
… permits, Pass Laws, Apartheid, race relations, Urban Areas Act, Couples forced to live apart, education, resettlement, …
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… and musical items were provided, to celebrate the building of their new factory in Plein Street; 2 the social evenings … Ibs, while the return of leaf per…
EventCosatu calls for three days national protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (LRA)
… At its Special Congress in May, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) called for three days of national protest against the Labour Relations…
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… The Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Sam Dlamini was hacked to death by a group of youths, and doused in petrol and burned. The riots were in … addition, the…
PlaceGariep River Mouth, Namibia
… longest waterway, rises high in the Drakensberg Mountains of Lesotho, only 195 km from the Indian Ocean. Flowing 2 300 … carrying precious fresh water into…
ArchiveUnited Democratic Front International Youth Year co-ordinating Committee: brief report to regions
… the tri-racial parliament and the black local Authorities act …
Adapted from De Rietfonteyn: Founding of Grahamstown By Elron Kleinhans
… around what is today Grahamstown was home to all types of indigenous people for thousand’s of years. Rock art in … From 1770, the Dutch East India Company…
PlaceSt Thomas’ Church, Ridge Road, Berea, Durban
… to build a Church and a School on the wooded Hill West of the Bay. He named his Mission, Berea, in honour of St. Paul. The land upon which the Mission…
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… 23 were given long term imprisonment under the Terrorism Act. Seathlolo was given 15 years and his companion, Mary was … day, more than 20 000 learners…
ArticleAfrica South Art Initiative (ASAI)
… in Africa. ASAI began in 2005, concerned with the lack of engagement by South African artists, art historians and … expressly intended to contribute towards…
EventWalter Sisulu and others are arrested for attending a party
… used as a cover up for a political meeting at the house of Lillian Ngoyi. They were charged with contravening section 9(1) of Act 44 of 1950. The case was…
ArchiveJohannesburg Advice Office Annual Report to Black Sash National Conference 1978
… political control, pass laws, Urban Areas Consolidation Act, Bophuthatswana and Transkei independence, Homelands …
EventSir Benjamin D'Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… army, and slowly arrived in Xhosa territory over a period of time. By the 1830's, a centre of Mfengu settlement had … strained, and the Mfengu were feeling…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister JG Strijdom dies
… (now Stellenbosch University). Strijdom served as Minister of Agriculture under Dr. DF Malan’s leadership. He succeeded … Freedom Charter, which embraced the…
”Report on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee” by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted the following resolution regarding the Pan … the interests of the African…
ArchiveReport on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted the following resolution regarding the Pan … the interests of the African…
Article“The Dark and Heavy Shadow”: Gender Based Violence and Anti-Gender-Based-Violence Campaigns in South Africa
… does it affect? Gender-Based-Violence (GBV) is any violent act or action directed at a person on the basis of their gender. [1] GBV is considered a global…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… Kotane, a seasonal dressmaker. He is the second eldest son of eleven children. 1918 Kotane goes to work at Driefontein … 1920 Kotane attends school for the…
PlaceVredenhof Organic Farm, Somerset West
… in order to cut out the Arab middlemen who controlled the land routes. Vasco da Gama, sent by Manuel I of Portugal, was the first to reached India in 1498…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… The formation of the Pan Africanist Congress’ (PAC) Africanist Task Force … Authorities structures and the accompanying measures on land allocation and…
83. South African Indian Council elections, November 1981: To vote or not to vote
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … constituents alone have been uprooted by the Group Areas Act…
PlaceMalay Quarter, Cape Town
… The area, known as the Malay Quarter of Cape Town, nestles against the steep slopes of Signal Hill. It formerly covered a much larger piece of land but this…
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… In 1954 the Minister of Justice C.R. Swart issued African National Congress (ANC) … and another confined him to the magisterial district of Lower Tugela,…
EventMoses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart dies in Moscow
… suffered since 1968. In 1931 Kotane became active member of the South African Communist Party before it was banned in … membership and became National…
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… political activist was arrested in 1964 for being a member of the illegal organisation Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). He was later released on bail…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… Against Humanity, edited by Max Coleman THE MANY FACES OF APARTHEID REPRESSION Repressive regimes abound in the … parliament. Repressive legislation • The…
EventWorld War I begins
… 19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
PlaceCuylerville
… A party of 256 from London led by Lieutenant John BAILIE, R.N. sailed … after Colonel Jacob CUYLER, 59 Regiment. Divisions of the party were directed by…
PlaceIsandlwana Battlefield Site, Nqutu
… 'Nquthu' is an isiZulu name meaning: "the back of the head", also spelt 'Nqutu' . The Battle of Isandlwana … is the only B Municipality that does not have…
Giyani, Polokwane
… More or less 550 kilometres north east of Johannesburg you will find the little happening town of Giyani, a popular town in the heart of Bushveld country in …