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PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
… The discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields provided in 1886, the funds … 1980 while still under construction. It is at this session of the Volksraad…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Babanango is located about 58 km North-West of Melmoth in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. Initially the Town was part of land granted to White farmers, in 1885,…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… for the farm labourer who today ploughs the bitter furrow of misery. One pound a day for the builder of mansions who lives in a shack. . . . A minimum wage…
PlaceOatlands, Simonstown
… on which this property is situated, originally formed part of the Dutch East India Company’s ,'Groot Tuin'. The 'Groot … established in March 1743 and formed…
PlaceRobertson, Route 62
… establish a new congregation to serve the spiritual needs of residents in its Southern region. To this end it purchased … The 1865 census indicated that…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… last. It was organised by the National Liberation League of South Africa and supported by the S.A. Indian Congress, … Coloured, Native, Indian, Malay and…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… wa Thiong Today, just over a century after the discovery of gold on the Rand, the nature of South Africa’s future is in the balance. But the future … the…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… (prior to 1910) The settlement of Hooge Kraal was established in 1813 as a station of the London Missionary Society (LMS) . In 1818, its name was changed to…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… African National Action Council was established in terms of a resolution adopted at a conference held at … your Government, after receiving a mandate from a…
Farewell To His Comrades: Message, September 19, 1983
… [Message to a meeting of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, written and signed … deep sorrow and great personal regret that I inform…
New Generation Sculpture
… During the 1980s the work of a number of sculptors working in the northern part of the country, Gazankulu and Venda, came to the attention of …
Address on Freedom Day, 27 April 2003
… Traditional Leaders, Distinguished Guests, People of the North West, Fellow South Africans: Today, we celebrate the 9th anniversary of our freedom, a year…
Chapter 8. Capitalists without Money
… In 1928 the clothing industry presented a picture of primitive capitalism. There were about fifty factories on … roughly forty in Johannesburg and the rest…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… In Exile 1963 - 1990 The Bram Fischer era In the aftermath of the Rivonia offensive, coupled with the 90-day detention … during the period between 1962 and…
A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-19451 by Heather Hughes
… Missionaries, Inanda Seminary was the first establishment of its kind in southern Africa, embodying a new concept of educational work among young African…
Introduction - The anti-Apartheid Movements: a 40-year perspective
… Africa. Speakers included Julius Nyerere, future President of Tanzania and long-time fighter against apartheid, K.Chiume, press secretary of the Nyasaland…
PlaceKenilworth
… Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens , between the suburbs of Claremont and Wynberg . A leafy suburb, upper Kenilworth is a well established part of Cape Town and…
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…
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… Museum is committed to collect, conserve and exhibit works of art which represent the heritage of South African art on behalf of and to the advantage and…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Anti-dangerous work. This organisation happened in the context of people living in their…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… after it there was an outcry against the expansion of Indians, and to meet this outcry the Prime Minister, General Smuts, appointed the Lange Commission of…
Chapter 12
… Bogus Unities The method of open frontal attack on the part of the Congress die-hards did not work and they found it necessary to change their tune again…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… in his own community. He was faced with a rising storm of opposition from he anti-segregationalists led by Dr. … group around Kajee, which included men like…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to National Worker`s Day Rally, 1 May 2011, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
… President of COSATU, comrade Sdumo Dlamini, ANC chairperson, Comrade Marius Fransman, General Secretary of the SACP, Comrade Blade Nzimande, Leadership of…
Document 104 - Boycott the Elections! The Spark, 3,4, April 1937
… has been working very busily. This so-called press" is, of course, simply the press agency of the ruling classes to spread their propaganda among the … and…
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… populated. All eyes are focused on the speaker, who is out of your line of sight. In this 1989 photograph of a trade union meeting at the University of Cape…
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… sportspersons and administrators were in the vanguard of this front of the anti-apartheid struggle. I would like to extend my … to Sam (Samba) Ramsamy - the…
African History Books
… During the month of May we celebrate Africa Month as a way to commemorate the creation of the Organisation of African Unity (OUA) in 1963.. As a way to value…
Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer
… near Windhoek, and the book presents a sociological study of the black migrant labour force on the mine: in the words of the author, his motivation was " t o…
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… in 1888 by EF Bourke, who later became the first mayor of Pretoria. It is one of the last remaining examples of the kind of elegant mansions which…