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PlacePinetown and its Museum
… commercial town named after Sir Benjamin Pine , Governor of Natal (1873-75). At the heart of the town and just off the main road lies the Pinetown … the…
Introduction
… The energies of South African Indians, mobilised in the 1890s against growing anti-Indianism in various parts of South Africa, were channelled into a…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… Callinicos THE CHANGE TO WAGE LABOUR has described some of the different ways in which people lost the use of the land and entered wage labour. This happened…
VIII - The Pathologists
… Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa The cause of death revealed in the medical evidence was not disputed. … at least three brain lesions occasioned…
Slavery in South Africa
… known in India that there was a considerable importation of slaves from Asia to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company and its employees. Some of the…
PlaceSeychelles
… can trace its first Settlement back to 1770. It is made up of 115 small Islands. They were first settled on by the French, leading a small party of Whites,…
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… completing his matric, Woods enrolled at the University of Cape Town in 1952 to study law but switched to journalism. Woods initially supported the idea of…
PlacePaarl
… (prior to 1910) The division of Paarl was originally part of the district of Stellenbosch, and was proclaimed a separate division in …
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… among African American activists. He was a key founder of the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights … United States, and from 1910 to 1934 served it as…
PlaceParow
… Parow was a Residential Suburb of Cape Town located some 16km from the City Centre . It was … Ferdinand Parow was born on 1 March 1833 in a Province of…
ArchiveSouth Africa wants to make history compulsory at school. But can it? by Linda Chisholm (the Conversation.com), 1 June 2018
… South Africa’s minister of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has released a … a ministerial task team that recommends a major overhaul of the history…
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… Review of The Reb and the Rebel Jewish Narratives in South Africa … Schrire. Published by UCT Press and the Kaplan Centre of Jewish Studies and Research,…
Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Although the union had previously denounced the treachery of Neville Chamberlain, once war was declared it supported the war effort, and hundreds of members,…
74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … There were some 2 844 delegates present at the Congress of the…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… As adopted by the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress - 25 November 1992. The strategic perspective of the ANC is the transfer of…
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… The roots of White women's suffrage in South Africa began with the founding of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1899. The goal of this…
PlaceFraserburg
… The division of Fraserburg was originally part of the district of Worcester and was proclaimed a separate division on 12 …
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… The origins of Enoch Sontonga and the song he wrote, Nkosi Sikelel' … and rather obscure. Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa nation, was born…
Document 26 - Nelson Mandela’s reply to F. W. De Klerk
… to the political, social and economic transformation of our country. The workshop took place against the background of continued job losses, very little…
This doccie about a SA photographer is worth the watch by Garreth Van Niekerk (channel24), 28 May 2017
… Johannesburg - For the better half of the past century, celebrated South African lensman David … But in Goldblatt – the first feature-length documentary of…
Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati
… from Ganyesa in Kagisano-Molopo area within the district of Bophirima, now called Dr Ruth Mompati District … she continued her schooling at Tigerkloof…
Document 83 “Native Bourgeoisie as a Class”, Umsebenzi, 16 February 1935
… as a Class", Umsebenzi, 16 February 1935 To the Editor of "Umsebenzi" In your issue of 2 February, there appeared an article under the heading, … that this…
May Day
… the industrial struggle for an eight-hour day. Origins of May Day International working classes have existed since the development of agriculture, about ten…
PlaceScottish War Memorial, Johannesburg
… Visually it is very satisfying. It may not be a great work of art, but it is certainly a fine Memorial, beautifully … Scottish in the First World War,…
PlaceMaphikela House
… black leaders gathered here and forged the foundations of what would eventually become the ruling party of the country. The house was built in 1926 and was ……
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… Congress (1977), ANC Speaks: Documents and statements of the African National Congress 1955-1976. Alexander, Neville (1986), "Aspects of Non-Collaboration…
PlaceSudan
… There is evidence of human habitation which dates back tens of thousands of Years. From the end of the 4th millennium BCE, Nubia (now … There is evidence of…
PlaceSudwala Caves, Nelspruit
… Escarpment, which separates the Highveld from the lowlands of Mpumalanga. The renowned as the discovery site of some of the first pieces of evidence of…
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
… In March 1939, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a series of eight articles which were reprinted in a pamphlet and later included in his book The Unity of India …
EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
… Mahatma Gandhi , a champion of passive resistance and non-violent campaigns left the … initially known as Roodepoort No. 49 was a 1100 acre piece of land…