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ICA launches 2017 Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series with Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o
… the end of 1977. His memoir, Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary (1982), is an account of those experiences. After …
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… reviewed by Comrade DG Wolton, who stressed the growth of colonial liberation movements and the colonial workers' growing unity with the workers of the home …
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… a period from the 1870s to the mid-1970s; from early colonial intervention against togt (day) workers to the … as the mobilization around wage hearings. Very…
PlaceRondebosch Fountain, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… bowl supported on legs in the form of horses' hooves. A post topped by a lantern rises from the centre of the trough. … Manufactured in England, was also the…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… a single and common visible outcome - the shaping of the history of South Africa with all its twists and turns. … historical context - was an important…
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… his unfailing instinct for survival, he re-emerged in the post-Apartheid era, once again as a politician in parliament. … into the Minority Front, which…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… recovering a sense of cultural continuity with the pre-colonial past. One aspect of this process was to appropriate … with new forms of cultural…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… African achievement. The Africanist revival of African history that centred around themes such as African … years after most of Africa had become independent…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew 2 000 … sufferings of the non-European people under…
BiographyMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
… Swaziland, where his strong attachment to Zulu culture and history is said to have earned him the affection of the aged …
BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
… and is widely recognised as a key event in African jazz history. Furthermore, it was during this time that Menell …
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
… South African war, will start here again. The Town has a History, steeped in bloody relations between the Afrikaners … and the African inhabitants of the…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… Hani , 10 April 1993. Online: http:www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1993/sp930410.html Alexander, N. An Ordinary … Rodney and Christopher Saunders…
PlaceChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg
… and the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital. The History of the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital The story of … a number of projects, John Albert started a…
Special Screening of Wat Was Hie? Followed by an engaging discussion with filmmaker Luke De Kock
… and Khoi peoples and confronts the harsh legacy of Dutch colonial slavery through poetic reenactments, asking: WHAT …
EventZulu King Cetshwayo address his warriors at the great military kraal of Nodwengu
… During the Zulu War, on 20 January 1879, British and Natal colonial troops under Lord Chelmsford, commander of the … than Paul Kruger of the Transvaal, and…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… under-recognised, book in South African politics, history and literature. At home and abroad, it is not nearly … Part polemic, part political commentary,…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… powerhouse of Africa. It led to a scramble by the British colonial administration to expand their political control …
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… as ‘ the school syllabuses taught a distorted version of history, emphasising the defeat in war of Africans and stripping them of dignity ’. (Sithole 1994)…
Liberation
… Conference in 1994.) The challenge to undo centuries of colonial and apartheid dispossession, repression, segregation … the fact that White commercial…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… those in the West Indies and Caribbean. Studies done on colonial era slave societies across the globe show how … that due to the isolation of these farms…
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… weaponry. Questions I will pose include; how has the colonial state employed photographic imagery to construct and … 14 Photographs have an intimate…
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… breaststroke event and this made her the only woman in the history of the Olympic games to do so. The achievement also marked her as South Africa's first…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… a widely felt need for a united struggle against colonial domination in Africa, Pixley Seme invited the … become part of the people`s political life,…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… unexpectedly, that arts and crafts initiatives in the post war period, which devolved from the mother country and … to put together a collection of modern…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) - Convenor: Janet Cherry
… early 1970s to date. Researcher and analyst of theory and history of women’s struggles for social emancipation. Public … The South African Communist Party (…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Although trade unions had a presence throughout the modern history of South Africa, Black trade unions never managed to … and Canning Workers Union, one of…
ArticleSocialism
… committed to creating a more equal and just society. The history of socialism in South Africa is closely linked to the … other hand, argue that the…
BiographyAhmed Timol
… by fellow South African exiles. He took up a teaching post at the Immigration School at Slough. This provided him …
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… an image of Mahlangu was unveiled by the South African Post Office to mark the 30th commemoration of his execution …