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Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… Factories start manufacturing We learned that World War I stimulated industry because Britain was unable to … factories, while others started industrial…
ArchiveAfrica puts the West on trial
… Nations Security Council's debate on South Africa and the Anglo-American accord influence on this debate …
PlaceSenekal
… of the fallen Boers of Senekal during the South African War , as other fallen soldiers. …
EventPretoria receives city status
… in 1910 with the merger of the Transvaal Colony (former Boer Republic of the ZAR), the Orange Free State Colony (former Boer Republic of the Orange Free…
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… Forces training. Source: http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/index/menu.htm …
PlaceIrene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
… that it would be one of the camps that would house Boer woman and children, driven from their land by the … policy dictated the destruction of the farms and…
Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
… an epidemic of plague swept the Cape Colony during the Anglo-Boer war, the experience with smallpox in the 1890’s was put to …
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… Africa rose up against the German colonisers in a war of rebellion. This war, and the extermination order issued by General Lothar von … recently invented…
ArchiveLetter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention to Dr Boraine
… of the Black Peoples Convention, to Dr Alex Boraine of Anglo American Corporation appealling for financial …
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… The outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 had profound consequences for the … of socialist labour politics in South Africa. Before the war, the…
PlaceThe Space
… and Performance, 25 January 2017, http://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php?title=South_African_Theatre/Bibliography . ↵ [x] … and Performance. 25 January 2017, https:…
ArticleThe Western Front
… At the outbreak of the First World War, Germany put into operation the Schlieffen Plan . This plan was based on the assumption that in case of a war breaking…
BiographyTim Bruwer
… and I decided that I would never participate in any war if I could possibly help it. I returned home at the end … a month later to play my part as a reserve…
ArticleNewspaper article: "The Coolies Here from the Natal Mercury", Thursday, November 22, 1860
… "The past week will long be memorable amongst Anglo Natalians. At last, after the discussion of years and …
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… the mid-twentieth century. At the end of the South African War in the nineteenth century Dutch and English were still … to uplift the low morale amongst…
ArchiveFrom eNcome over Bloedrivier to eNcome and Beyond by Ben Khumalo-Seegelken
… in their relationship to the Völkerschlacht-Denkmal (War-Memorial Monument) in Leipzig, Germany, in its … yaseNcome. None of the direct protagonists in that…
ANC Youth League Manifesto 1944
… of the Pass Office Trustees wanted. In this very war 5 South Africa is fighting against oppression and for … Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 ) In 1910,…
PlaceVereeniging, a City in Gauteng
… location where the Treaty of Vereeniging ending the Second Boer War (1899-1902) was negotiated. During this conflict, a …
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… Xhosa society looked like prior to the influence of the Boer or the British. Nevertheless, below should suffice to … over all Xhosa Chiefs. For example, he…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 17 February 1977, Volume 108
… Willem Hendrik du Toit, Personnel Consultant for Anglo American Corporation and others, to the Commission of …
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… whites. The membership increased tremendously during the war years. Ponnen chaired the Durban District Committee from … Rubber Workers Union 1945 - Tobacco…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 4. War Issue In February 1933, the two main white political … brought no unity, either ideological or…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the launch of the UNDP 2006 Human Development Report, Kirstenbosch, National Botanical Gardens: Cape Town, 09 November 2006
… the Human Development Report, namely the Human Development Index, the Gender-related Development Index, the Gender Empowerment Measure, and the Human Poverty…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… of the Dutch colony at the Cape during the Napoleonic War. 1834 Britain prohibited the possession of slaves. In the … the ANC in later years. 1899-1902 The…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
… the oppression and murder of Palestinians and against the war in Afghanistan. Fatima Meer is also patron and founder …
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
… ideological battles that were being fought during World War II. He grew up in the then mixed-race area of …
BiographyKing Mzilikazi
… in 1870, but strife between contesting groups led to civil war that weakened the Ndebele Empire. British imperial …
BiographyMadi Gray
… from Germany, who came to South Africa during the inter-war period. Being a refugee from Germany, her mother …
PlaceKruger National Park
… is a reminder that, SAR President Paul Kruger declared war on the British Empire after it had rejected his ultimatum … 31 May 1902 when the South African and…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… of captain in the South African Air Force during World War Two. He served in North Africa and Italy and on being … also drew the enmity of the other farmers,…