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PlaceDutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)
The Cape Peninsula is surrounded by oceans on three sides and has three natural harbours: Table Bay and Hout Bay on the Atlantic coast and False Bay on the…
An evolution of Worker Education in South Africa since 1973 and its impact on Worker Movement by John Mhandu
… is, during colonialism, apartheid, post-apartheid, COVID-19 and 4IR. Theoretical framework: The article will use …
EventPiet Retief's Great Trek manifesto is completed
Piet Retief completes the manifesto that sets out the reasons why the Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony. It is published in English in the Graham's Town…
PlaceDe Doorns, Cape Winelands
De Doorns is a small Town, located in the Cape Winelands Region, of the Western Cape. Situated in the Hex River Valley, 32 km North-East of Worcester and 40 km…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… But it was a potential that was never realized: the 1959 Universities Act enforced the teaching of black students …
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… three groups. Thirty of us must stand trial in January 1959 and the remaining two groups on 24 April. On what … epic resistance. We had gone back to Pretoria…
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… written in cursive Hebrew, and recollects a period of 19 months in his life between 1892 and 1893. It reveals a …
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
… and our children for Rodrigo, my Brazilian boyfriend of 19 years.” That’s an identity crisis?—?the very axioms of …
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 76 - The Speakers' Notes - A Brief Course on…
PlaceDriekopseiland: Rock engravings
… are geometric motifs. There are 325 animal depictions and 19 human depictions found on the west end, while few animal …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
On Thursday 08 July 1897 two daughter congregations ceceded from the DR Church Johannesburg, being the DR Church Jeppestown and the DR Church Johannesburg East…
PlaceClifton and Camps Bay Beaches, Cape Town
Hidden from the visibility of the Coastal Road and vicinity of the wind, Clifton is a secluded collection of four Beaches naturally divided by Boulders and…
PlaceKwaMashu
The development of KwaMashu Township, in the KwaZulu-Natal province and located some 19km north of Durban, resulted from the mass resettlement of the slum…
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
Khayelitsha Township lies some 19km east of Wynberg and 25 km of south-east of Cape Town in the Western Cape. The name is of Xhosa origin and means ‘new home’…
PlaceSignal Hill
The Settlement at the Cape of Good Hope was founded by the Dutch in 1652 and the signal guns were originally part of the regular artillery at the Imhoff…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… a larger crop than that of the Virginia-type tobacco. 19 As the smoking habits of the Colony's populace changed … Tobacco Pipe Manufacturers who after a…
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
… pouring in from the original epicentres of the Covid-19 pandemic. Locally, a layer of parasitic middlemen sprang … local prices remain significantly higher…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… article by the historian Arnold Toynbee that appeared in 1959 in the Optima , a journal published by Anglo American … Nelson Mandela, which was by then…
PlaceGreat Fish River, Eastern Cape
The Great Fish River, distinguishable from the Namibian Fish River by the word ‘great’, that runs through the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, flows for…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… felt angry because it is an accepted crime ’ ( SPEAK 19). The SPEAK team asked themselves: ‘ Isn’t it time that women broke the silence about this crime? ’ (…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… rights of black people. Following these recommendations on 19 June 1913 the Union government passed the Natives’ Land … Africa, at Nelspruit. Image source…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… belief within themselves. They let themselves be used”. [19] He also exclaimed how American artist Steve Lacy’s music … Interview. ↵ [17] Rasmussen, Mbizo,…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… on Fordsburg square click on the accounts tab) From 15 to 19 March, government troops cleared areas of snipers and did …
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… died in Pretoria Central Prison on 12 September 1977. On 19 October 1977, SASO and its associated BC organisations …
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
Great Zimbabwe When Mapungubwe was abandoned, it was to the benefit of Great Zimbabwe. The cultural, political and economic power in the area shifted to…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… wholeheartedly supported Bolshevism in their speeches. 19 A move initiated by Herman and Pick to form an alliance … 14-26 Table I, "Average weekly wages...";…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… The locomotives were all due to be delivered by 2018/19, but Transnet’s annual report for 2018/19 said that by March 2019, a total of 525 locomotives had ……
“Dockers and solidarity activism: from the Durban Strikes to choke points in today’s global economy” by Peter Cole
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The Durban Strikes were one of the pivotal moments in the…
PlaceDundonald, East Mpumalanga
… a mall which was promised to them years ago. September 19, 2018 “Billboards for this development were displayed and …
PlaceChris Hani Municipal Region, Eastern Cape
The Chris Hani municipal region lies at the heart of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the second largest of the Eastern Cape province, district…