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From Segregation to Apartheid
… tenancy into wage labour. Farmers, who in the 1930s and early 1940s were desperate for unlimited supplies of labour, …
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… Eric Hobsbaum's "social bandits" that were a phenomenon of early British Industrial Revolution and the Capitalist system …
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… Cuba, Angola and South Africa, which began in London early in 1988 and continued in May in Brazzaville, Congo, and …
ArticleMaps of Africa through the centuries
… maps. 1644 One of the most decorative and popular of all early maps of Africa, from the “golden age” of Dutch …
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
… to be recognised as an official language in Parliament as early as the 1850s. The town’s Chamber of Commerce and the …
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… to make Nazi Germany Judenrein (free of Jews). In the early years, the policy of Judenrein did not include …
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… the eyes and ears of the British army. They formed an early warning system against Boer attacks on the British …
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… in the Natal area. These clashes, which had begun in the early days of the UDF, continued and escalated. Inkatha had …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… involvement in the armed struggle, prison and exile life Early in the 1960s, TIYC leaders like Ahmed Kathrada played a …
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… was and became active on the British side during the early months of the war. Reasons for not wanting to arm the …
Interview with Oliver Tambo in Luanda after summit meeting of Presidents of frontline states and Southern African Liberation Movements, 01 March 1977
… cut us out of power. They transferred power to the white settlers and we had to organise ourselves to defend our … of struggle the way we are doing. And that…
O. R. Tambo interviewed in Luanda after Summit Meeting of Presidents of Frontline States and Southern African Liberation Movements, 1977
… cut us out of power. They transferred power to the white settlers and we had to organise ourselves to defend our … of struggle the way we are doing. And that…
Letter from Maryland (http://www.archaeology.org/) by Julie Schablitsky
… archaeological project to include descendant communities early in the process. Some, including Hayes-Williams, were …
PlaceRondebosch Fountain, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… destroyed after a speeding car drove into it during the early hours of the morning last week. This Monument which is …
PlaceOld Pretoria Iron Mines Ltd Buildings, Iscor, Pretoria
… for South Africa’s war effort. Directly after the war in early 1947, the company decided to build a fully integrated …
PlaceChurch Square, Pretoria
… This simple Cape Dutch style building was replaced by an early Gothic style building, built by Claridge, together with …
PlaceSenegal
… node on trans-Saharan caravan routes. It was also an early point of European contact and was contested by England, …
EventHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, warns the League of Nations that he is going to mobilise his forces after threats of invasion by Italy
… of the most one-sided and brutal of the 20th century. By early May Emperor Selassie evacuated the capital city of …
Document 24 - De Klerk’s reply to Nelson Mandela
… action in defence of their demands. Any complacency and early celebration of victories will be too costly as the …
Introduction
… strident confidence that was evident in the late 1940s and early 1950s. There are two strands in Indian politics in this …
PlaceCrossroads Township
… notably his former vice-chairman, Oliver Memani, in the early 1980s. This began, in 1983, as a series of bloody …
PlaceDurbanville
… Durbanville Hills. Wine farming began in Durbanville as early as the 17th century, when the first farms in the area …
PlaceElgin
… Sir Lowry's Pass reached Elgin, on 1 August 1902. These early farming groups, had a strong liberal effect on Cape …
PlaceIxopo, Kwa-Zulu Natal- Midlands
… and the Ixopo Prison which grew from the remains of an early fort in 1900. Two churches built in the town during the … path to the Dam; walk past ancient…
Inside Robben Island (Part 1) by Thami Mkhwanazi, 14 August 1987
… the night in the Victor Verster maximum prison in Paarl. Early the following morning we were taken to Cape Town harbour for the early-morning trip to the…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… hothouse of internal resistance during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It has a wide ambit and covers a period from the 1870s to the mid-1970s; from early…
EventCongo administration is handed to the Belgian government
… to the workers. One of such incidents, which occurred in early 1900s, was widely covered by the media across Europe. …
PlaceHeidelberg, Gauteng
… the town was laid out and proclaimed in 1866. One of the early travellers writing about the place was EF Sandeman: …
PlaceFish Hoek, Cape Town
… to calf between July and November. Fish Hoek is home to an early stone age Historic site where the remains of the 12 000 …
PlaceTable Mountain Water Supply
… sources it turns Northwards and flows into Table Bay. As early as 1656, Rondebosch, on the Liesbeek, had been chosen … a path up the bed of the ravine…