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EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… The end of World War I was followed by a global depression that … on strike. The reasons for the strike were a reduction of wages and the preference for…
Silent Cries from a Beloved Country by Ken Johnson, 20 August 2009
… Looking at the series of large color photographs called “In the Time of AIDS” by the South African David Goldblatt, you may wonder … with people, but no one…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… Behind the imposing grey granite walls of the National Mutual Building of Australasia, on Church Square, lie over 150 000 historical … in the Iziko Social…
PlaceNorthern Cape
… largest Province in South Africa, but has the least number of inhabitants. Before 1993 it was part of the Cape Province (under old Provinces ). "With only…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA TO THE RALLY AT KWA - MTHETHWA KwaMbonambi, 21 May 1995
… Nkosi Nyambose Bantu bakwaMthethwa Members of the Provincial Legislature Distinguished Guests Comrades and Friends I would like to thank the organisers of…
Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini by O. R. Tambo, Iran, 13 February 1979
… Maputo, People's Republic of Mozambique, February 13, 1979 His Excellency Ayatollah Khomeini, (2) Teheran Islamic Republic of Iran On behalf of the…
PlaceMauritania
… Mauritania, Country on the Atlantic coast of Africa. Culturally it forms a transitional zone between the Arab-Amazigh (Berber) populations of North Africa…
EventPretoria receives city status
… was established in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers who named it after his father Andries Pretorius. Andries Pretorius became a hero…
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 11 - … Alliance Despite the isolation and consequent defeat of the March-April 1960 Cape…
Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… cause bitter resentment among the workers, and nearly all of them are punitive in character. Before Union each of the four provinces in South Africa enacted…
New tactics in the revolt
… the partial stay-at-home which kept at least 60 per cent of the labour force away from work, the SSRC was forced on to … two days at the same place. On 11…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
… THE GREAT ILLUSION First of all 22 percent of the whites did not even bother to vote which is … 700,000 voters, i.e. about half the votes cast in favour of…
PlaceMapungubwe
… The ancient city of Mapungubwe (meaning 'hill of the jackal') is an Iron Age archaeological site in the … years ago, Mapungubwe appears to have been the…
ArchiveIndia’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael
… From the hypnotic effects of the circular motions of the spiritual dancing of whirling dervishes to the mesmerising qawwali [1] …
Address On World Aids Day, 1 December 1999
… People of South Africa, Today we mark World AIDS Day. As South … we participate in the World AIDS Day events as part of our ongoing support for the…
Citizenship and Justice: rethinking Political Theory and Political Philosophy
… A project of the Centre for Humanities Research, the Dept. of Political Studies and the Dept. of Philosophy, UWC invites you to a Reading Group and Seminar …
Archive`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement
… The magnificent response to the call of the National Action Council for a three day strike and the … people determined to win their freedom. In the face of…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 12
… on a black grape. He was working with the demonic energy of a man to whom time had become the only wealth worth possessing. He knew something of the despair…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… Muziwakhe Lembede Abraham, Peter. Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Basner, Miriam. Am I an African? The Political Mem^oirs of…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… and the woman to three months. There were two children of the marriage. In justifying the sentence imposed the … from present surroundings would "kindle the…
Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows
… which ended in Durban last night, touted the presence of Mafika Gwala as the “exciting re-emergence of the respected Black-consciousness era poet.” “Crap,”…
Place(The) Gambia
… neighbouring country, Senegal. It is a long narrow strip of land, 25 to 50 km wide, that surrounds the Gambia River . … over, they maintained that name. A…
PlacePiketberg
… The small, farming Town of Piketberg also sometimes spelt Piquetberg in the past. Is located at the foot of the Piketberg Mountain Range. It is surrounded by…
14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai By far the largest number of Indians (152 184 in…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… when I started my studies in 1950 at the University of Cape Town. In the long summer holiday between school and … on a fruit farm some 85 miles from Cape…
Liberation and Ethics. Is there a connection? by Raymond Suttner, 05 April 2016
… is no exaggeration to suggest that the legitimacy not only of President Jacob Zuma and the ANC, but also the notion of the liberation struggle itself is in…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history. There were several political and … First,…
25. ‘Free State’ implies equality, declare traders
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … O.F.S. Volksraad in May 1887. They were, like the authors of…
PlaceEersteling Monument, Polokwane
… The Eersteling gold mine, the site of the first commercial gold mining activity in South … short-lived – and the same can be said for the string of…
The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
… Africa was fighting in the Great War. After the conquest of both German South West and East Africa, General Smuts … and to render brilliant services to the…