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Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… by Luli Callinicos Topic This part describes the nature of housing and shows how it was related to the labour needs of the employers on the Rand. Housing in…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Informal Ministerial Consultations on COP 17, O.R. Tambo Building, Tshwane, 09 September 2011
… honour and pleasure for me to welcome you on the occasion of this informal Ministerial consultation on climate change … The fact that we are gathered here is…
PlaceRondebosch Common, Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch.
… by Batavian forces during the first British invasion of the Cape. However, following an outbreak of dysentery among the troop, they were moved to higher … to…
PlaceGlen Grey Division
… The frontier war of 1850-53 was precipitated when the amaNgqika, faced with the increased pressure of European settlement upon their ancestral lands, rose in…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… operational strategic heritage, 1960-1975 The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And just when they…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… ban this book. If I were them I would distribute thousands of copies for whites to show their children if they were … with eventual survival. (Ernest Cole…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… schools in rankings nationally, as well as in all of Africa. Notable alumni includes: 'two Nobel Prize … Rhodes scholars; several Government Ministers and…
Address to the Commonwealth Club, World Affairs Council and US/SA Business Council Conference, 24 May 2000
… in his book 'Future Positive', captures the essence of the dilemmas of the current economic relations between the rich and poor countries, where the process…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… just returned from my vacation there." Cape Town is one of South Africa’s most Historically important Cities. It was … set foot in South Africa —which also…
34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A fresh piece of legislation sought to tighten…
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
… The inquest has recently been reopened into the death of the South African Communist Party (SACP) underground operative Ahmed Timol while in the custody of…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… that she made to the constitutional transformation of South Africa. It is important to remember that when … most African countries it was an artificial…
Restrictions on the media
… seventieth birthday had just been celebrated by millions of people throughout the world would have made it a logical … in Holland and Denmark, This was…
Document 4 - “The Great Native Strike”, “ The International, 27 February 1920
… issue the Rand has witnessed the unprecedented spectacle of a strike of 40,000 mine natives. Owing to the compound and indenture system, the general public…
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… Introduction The Islamic community of South Africa has grown significantly since the arrival of the first Muslims to the Cape Colony in 1658. The first ……
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's part. For many months the committee … discussing what action the…
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
… have just ended the tenth and final chapter, is the climax of our story. Footnote It provides us with a kind of promontory from which we can now, in this…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad … that make up “Intersections…
PlaceTulbagh, Western Cape
… On 1 February 1808 the territory North of the Great Berg river was annexed to the new District of Tulbagh, and declared a separate sub-drostdy with its ……
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… reader an insight into an important chapter in the history of our struggle from a different viewpoint because the racist dogmas of apartheid dictated that he…
Circular Letter To Trade Unions, Progressive Organisations, Democrats And Anti-Fascists by Yusuf Dadoo, June 10, 1946
… law. The already so weak and feeble democratic structure of South Africa has received a further blow and our country's … threatened with cultural, moral and…
PlaceEshowe, Northern Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Coastal Forest . Eshowe actually means Ekowe, the place of Mushrooms: "Esikhowe seNkosi uCetshwayo!" Eshowe offers visitors a variety of unusual attractions,…
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… OUR LAND AND JOBS NOW! PEOPLES’ MANIFESTO AND A PLAN OF ACTION FOREWORD BY THE PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF … The year 2019 marks exactly 25 years since…
PlaceFort Frederick, Port Elizabeth
… built in 1799 by the British Forces to defend the mouth of the Baakens River. Built in 1799 on a natural citadel, … Fort Frederick stands guard over a…
PlaceDjibouti
… Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, is a country of dry shrublands, volcanic formations and Gulf of Aden beaches. It's home to one of the saltiest bodies of …
Chapter IX - Return to my faith
… me and I cannot really account for it. There was a period of about two years between leaving convent school and going … although I would never have denied…
South Africa’s policy towards Zimbabwe: synopsis by Thabo Mbeki 22 February 2016
… with ZANU when it broke away from ZAPU. This was a product of a continuous process in Zimbabwe which had started with the establishment of the Southern…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… central to ANC strategy, armed propaganda and the boycott of state-approved institutions, would serve the ANC well over … latter would become the main…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… the post-colonial university, an authorised centre of knowledge production? In one form or another, this question has been at the centre of discussions in…
PlaceLibya
… history, has more recently been known for the 42-year rule of the mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi - and the chaos that … springboard for migrants heading…