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ArchiveGarment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… go the credit for building the only trade union in the history of South Africa whose members enjoy a 40-hour week. … conditions. Were it not for his…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
… come under his care. From Robben Island to red carpet. History always depends on who writes it - one man’s terrorist …
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… have died in detention in the preceding eighteen months. A post-mortem was conducted the day after Biko’s death, at … magazine. Biko’s brutal death made him…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… as connected to the apartheid era, compared with the post-apartheid text of Magona’s Mother to Mother (1998) … work, it is through the lens of South Africa…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… as connected to the apartheid era, compared with the post-apartheid text of Magona’s Mother to Mother (1998) … work, it is through the lens of South Africa…
PlacePort St. Johns
… colour is contrasted with some crumbling reminders of a colonial History. In the streets you will hear Xhosa, Afrikaans and …
PlaceGreytown, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… and decided on 'Pretorius' after Andries Pretorius . The Colonial Government however refused to allow this, … of note. There are lots of scenic drives…
PlaceNewlands Cricket Stadium
… Bill Lawry’s 1970 Australians. While Newlands is rich in History it is peppered with exceptional cricket memories, it was also blemished by Colonial and…
Address on The African Renaissance to the Ghana-South Africa Friendship Association, Accra 5 October 2000
… it is necessary to take a brief journey back into our history, into some of the many monumental and epoch-making … This is the spirit with which we have to…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… the “mineral revolution”. A more aggressive stage in the history of white supremacy was the result. What were the … many Africans profited from opportunities…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… and destructive modern armed conflict in South Africa’s history. It was an event that in many ways shaped the history of 20th Century South Africa. The end…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… The issuing of passes was one of the cornerstones of the colonial and later racial capitalism in South Africa. Passes … now commemorated each year as Women's…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… prospectus. 1853 1 September, Issue of the Cape’s first postal adhesives. Designed by Surveyor, General Charles Bell, … telephone exchange in South Africa is…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… beliefs. The first Indians arrived during the Dutch colonial era, as slaves, in 1684. A conservative calculation … that the indentured Indians were to work…
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
… was at the forefront of community politics in the post-1976 era and steered resistance against apartheid into …
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… under old NMC legislation on 18 May 1979. The Horrible History and many names of Thaba Tshwane; South Africans just … the ANC to rid the Area’s Heritage of…
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… (and uses) for further research about South African History. Please inform us if links are no longer working or … - This website is a joint project between…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… 1872. 1874 At a time of extreme labour shortage, the Cape Colonial Government investigates the possibilities of … attempts to provide a platform for the…
EventSouth Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
… and Chinese pilots. In addition, China set up a staging post close to the North Korean border, where it stockpiled … in F-86F Sabres. References: Milestones…
PlaceThe Free State National Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein
… and the Farm Winter Valley, about 10 km from the main Post Office. The last-named site was the most suitable and it … thought to be over 200 Years old. …
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… the Republic of South Africa in 1961 . The Transvaal’s History in the rest of the 20th Century was primarily … NATIONAL PARK . An extraordinary and very…
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… leadership of the people of Zambia this rare moment in the history of their Party and country - a moment made the more … look forward to President Kaunda's…
Chapter 3: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… HISTORY teaches us clearly that the battle against … result of the mutilation of the colonized people by the colonial regime. It is also the result of the…
PlaceDarling, West Coast
… Wine tasting at Ormonde, Kloof- Darling Cellars and Groote Post along with its long established, family friendly Hilda’s … There’s something so interesting…
PlaceRustenburg
… has significance for many groups in South Africa, and its History is complex and rich in variety. The known History of Rustenburg spans from the 15th Century…
PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
… The Cape Supreme Court, the first Library, the first Post Office, Deeds Office, and the Women’s Auxiliary Services … The Building was restored in 1960, for…
PlaceGardens Shul in Cape Town
… in the Southern Hemisphere! Until the 17th Century the history of Jewry had been played out in the relatively … these Regions it did not spread until, on the…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… of her journalistic work failed to dampen her mark on history. [10] Sonia utilized her position at New Age and her … revolutionaries formed a vital component…
PlaceRobben Island Museum
… in 1996. Many ex-prisoners were actively engaged in the post-apartheid political scene, and three of them were … for unique and incomparable insights into…
Document 49 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: Introduction (Minority) (1934)
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document … is an exception in this case'? No! In…