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Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… with trade union experience. They formed local branches of British Trade Unions. The Amalgamated Engineering Union is … Organisation, later known as the S.A…
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… called: 'KTI', during the Sixties was undoubtedly one of the premier Black schools of its time. Reflecting on the … Association, Past President of the…
The New Generation
… as regards the visual arts was undertaken at The State of Art in South Africa Conference held in 1979 at the … for a boycott of all state sponsored…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson are the editors of a new scholarly work on Plaatje’s book, Sol Plaatje’s … the protest campaign of the South African…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
… To explore the patterns of collective memory in South Africa after nearly three decades of democracy, we set out to establish how much of the country’s…
ArchiveHighlights on successes and experienced challenges during the 25 years of freedom and democracy.
… successes and experienced challenges within the 25 years of Freedom and Democracy. As I write this letter my heart is filled with joy, because of the…
ArchiveMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
… The Tribal Model of DemocracyIn his speech from the dock, at his 1962 trial … and first elected president of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League…
From Resistance to Creative Mediation: Writing and Literary Intellectuals’ Influence on the Liberation Struggles and Political Impact on Literary Discourse and Developments
… The write associates, in partnership with the University of the Free State, invite the submission of abstracts for individual papers and panels for the 2012 …
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
… 40 color plates. ISBN no.: 3-7913-3247-3; Library of Congress control no.: 2005900732. Prestel Publishing, 900 … more than three decades chronicling the soul…
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… a united front against the slave morality and mentality of these Bills, determined to voice their disapproval and to … All-African Convention met with the…
Slavery in South Africa
… known in India that there was a considerable importation of slaves from Asia to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company and its employees. Some of the…
PlaceGoodman Gallery
… instrumental to the development and professionalisation of how commercial galleries are structured within South … Africa and the continent, as well as the…
PlaceThe Durban Centre for Photography
… , at the same time it was also the first public auction of photographic prints ever held in South Africa. This was to … , Rafs Mayet , Moses Khubisa, Jeeva…
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… Khayelitsha Township lies some 19km east of Wynberg and 25 km of south-east of Cape Town in the Western Cape . The name is … than voluntarily. In 1984, the…
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
… to be honoured to have my name used for the name of the street. SD: Gogo this has taken two years to be done? … because this is such a big street here at…
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… On 25 June 1993, hundreds of armed white separatists together with the Afrikaner … pistols. The attack was an act to express their rejection of the…
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… in its own way, you know. I grew up in an environment of poverty. I was staying with my mother's people. They were … TK• And was the Party keen for people to…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… to carve out a living in the big city. She was the cousin of African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Walter Sisulu and met Mandela in Sisulu's home in…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… revolution in Cuba, culminating in Fidel Castro’s seizure of power on 1 January 1959, was from the beginning based on a … forums. In 1977, Cubans began…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… Richard Turner inspired students who used the integration of Christian ethics and Marxist theory to demonstrate how the … from the nadir of the repression…
ArchiveFrom eNcome over Bloedrivier to eNcome and Beyond by Ben Khumalo-Seegelken
… 16 December 1838 circulated among the earlier inhabitants of that region on the one hand and the trekker– and settler-communities on the other. Generations…
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… Mozambican fighter for FRELIMO who like thousands of women fought for independence for her country until she … 1968 she was nominated a delegate to the…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… in South Africa sixteen years before the official start of apartheid. In 1960 she was exiled from South Africa. She … South Africa on 4 March 1932. She was…
PlaceKroonstad
… It's name being symbolic of royalty (“Kroon” is Dutch for crown), Kroonstad has very … the Boers to a huge victory over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood…
Input by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Farewell service for former President Nelson Mandela, Waterkloof Airforce Base, 14 December 2013
… The directors of the programme, fortunately for me you did not say how much … in honour of this great leader. Today the African National Congress and the…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… Johannesburg, which was run by the Community of the Resurrection, a monastic order then headed in South … university, Phahle volunteered to teach Mathematics…
82. The President’s Council
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Council was appointed in September 1980 with the task of…
ArchiveSouth Africa wants to make history compulsory at school. But can it? by Linda Chisholm (the Conversation.com), 1 June 2018
… South Africa’s minister of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has released a … a ministerial task team that recommends a major overhaul of the history…
When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… A short, well-dressed 44-year-old man of the southern African Barolong tribe stood at the American … It stated the bearer was a British national and a…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… was shaped by many forces, both in the general context of the political struggle to end ‘big and petty apartheid’ … of a once-powerful and militant giant…