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PlaceGuinea
… Guinea is the traditional name of coastal Western Africa . The historical colonies of French Guinea, Spanish Guinea and Portuguese Guinea gained … the…
PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
… The discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields provided in 1886, the funds … 1980 while still under construction. It is at this session of the Volksraad…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Olehile Bada Pharasi
… To the Student Movements of 2016 Dear Students, The events witnessed at the country’s … very confusing to a foreign observer. The moving targets of your ire…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… last. It was organised by the National Liberation League of South Africa and supported by the S.A. Indian Congress, … Coloured, Native, Indian, Malay and…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… (prior to 1910) The settlement of Hooge Kraal was established in 1813 as a station of the London Missionary Society (LMS) . In 1818, its name was changed to…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… African National Action Council was established in terms of a resolution adopted at a conference held at … your Government, after receiving a mandate from a…
New Generation Sculpture
… During the 1980s the work of a number of sculptors working in the northern part of the country, Gazankulu and Venda, came to the attention of …
Chapter 8. Capitalists without Money
… In 1928 the clothing industry presented a picture of primitive capitalism. There were about fifty factories on … roughly forty in Johannesburg and the rest…
Introduction - The anti-Apartheid Movements: a 40-year perspective
… Africa. Speakers included Julius Nyerere, future President of Tanzania and long-time fighter against apartheid, K.Chiume, press secretary of the Nyasaland…
PlaceKenilworth
… Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens , between the suburbs of Claremont and Wynberg . A leafy suburb, upper Kenilworth is a well established part of Cape Town and…
PlaceMalay Quarter, Cape Town
… The area, known as the Malay Quarter of Cape Town, nestles against the steep slopes of Signal Hill. It formerly covered a much larger piece of land but this…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… after it there was an outcry against the expansion of Indians, and to meet this outcry the Prime Minister, General Smuts, appointed the Lange Commission of…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… in his own community. He was faced with a rising storm of opposition from he anti-segregationalists led by Dr. … group around Kajee, which included men like…
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… populated. All eyes are focused on the speaker, who is out of your line of sight. In this 1989 photograph of a trade union meeting at the University of Cape…
Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer
… near Windhoek, and the book presents a sociological study of the black migrant labour force on the mine: in the words of the author, his motivation was " t o…
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… in 1888 by EF Bourke, who later became the first mayor of Pretoria. It is one of the last remaining examples of the kind of elegant mansions which…
Introduction - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… The story of the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa epitomizes the history of South Africa itself during the last thirty years, the …
ANC NGC 2015 Resolutions on International Relations
… 1. Introduction The important task of our National Democratic Revolution (NDR) is to grapple … the complex and ever-changing world order. The balance of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the summit on rural Safety and Security Midrand, 10 October 1998
… Chairpersons Members of the Cabinet Delegates Other than our legislative bodies, this is perhaps one of the most representative gatherings in the country…
ArchiveThe Arthur Chaskalson I knew by George Bizos, 5 December 2012
… former Chief Justice would never have been a secret member of a political party Speech by George Bizos SC, … Litigation Unit, Legal Resources Centre, in…
EventThelma Gutsche, a South African scholar, historian and film critic, dies
… was privately tutored at home and matriculated at the age of 14. Two years after her matriculation she enrolled at the University of Cape Town to study for a…
PlaceSteenberg Farmstead, Tokai Road, Constantia
… was granted to Catherina Ustings in 1688 and was one of the first farms in the Western Cape. Its Cape Dutch … its verandah and outbuildings were added at the…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… his last crumb with a passing stranger. The hospitality of the Afrikaners is famous and they will readily extend it … (Rooineks). I have often found a warm…
Document 98 - “The All African Convention”, Umlilo Mollo /The Flame, 1, 2, October 1936
… Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew At the beginning of October 1936 the all African Convention held its conference of the Transvaal section, and once…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… will have just cause for gratitude over the consummation of this first All-Student Congress held under the auspices of the National Union of S. A. Students…
PlaceThe Simon's Town Mosque
… the Malay Quarter of Simon’s Town. [i] The Noorul Islam Mosque looks down … curved lines and intricate Detail. From the Entrance of the Mosque one looks down…
EventEarthquake shakes up Tulbagh
… 10:04pm on 29 September 1969, the Boland farming towns of Tulbagh, Wolseley and Ceres experienced the most … earthquake in South African history.[i] The…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 3 - It’s a Mystery. Or is it? by Amanda Esterhuysen
… and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education This chapter looks at how archaeology and the … to the public. It examines the past hundred…
PlaceGroutville
… Groutville is situated approximately ten kilometers south of KwaDukuza and about 69 kilometers north of Durban. The name Groutville was acquired from its…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… If a life could be mapped, that of the Honorable Arthur Chaskalson would surely appear as a … human rights, and leading, without deviation, to the bench of…