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Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic NEW FACTORIES, NEW WORKERS described how rapid…
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance Despite the isolation and consequent defeat of…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Stanley Uys, 01 August 1983, Londo
Question: What has the ANC`s attitude been to violence? TAMBO: For decades we did not think violence had a role to play in the ANC`s struggle: not until the…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
New introduction to thesis 2019 by David Hemson Hemson, David (1979) Class consciousness and migrant workers: dock workers of Durban. PhD thesis, University…
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
Although Apartheid only ‘officially’ started in 1948, repression was rife in South Africa long before that date. This special project examines the Freedom…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter Abstract: The Black Consciousness…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
This article was written by Claire Wilt and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectAbstractInanda Seminary, a private all…
PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
The discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields provided in 1886, the funds necessary to construct this building that was able to house the first Volksraad…
Tribute by Comrade David Makhura delivered at the funeral service of Comrade Chilly Magagula, 16 October 2010
… of the militant and revolutionary youth. In the 1980s, he immersed himself fully in youth mobilisation to …
ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
Glossary of Ndebele building terms APOKORWAN - Eaves overhang AMAKAPA - Roof AMAKAPA IBALELO - Timber roof rafter AMAOBA - Enclosed room located in the…
ArticleXhosa
The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South…
ArticleThe San
The San, the first people in South Africa The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. The San were also known as 'Bushmen', a term…
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
In the early hours of 22 September 1979, an American Vela satellite recorded a double flash of light over the southern Indian Ocean, near South Africa's Prince…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
Introduction The 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, in which students were to find themselves at the cutting edge of social…
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
"The danger begins only when they make a virtue of necessity and want to freeze into a complete theoretical system all the tactics forced upon them by these…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker IDEALISED WOMANHOOD One of the means by which men in male-dominated…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
INTRODUCTION No significant change has occurred in South Africa in the last decade. Apartheid and racism continue their tyranny and the South African society…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
Main catalogue Books 1. ASVAT, Farouk, 1952- EXILES within : an anthology of poetry / 7 South African poets. - Johannesburg : Writers Forum, 1986. -- 68p. :…
87. Today’s lessons are tomorrow’s weapons for students
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai University students on black campuses were…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
… after the crippling international sanctions of the middle 1980s as a result of apartheid. The administration of Nelson …
ArticleMafika Pascal Gwala Annual Lecture
The Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu…
ArticleMafika Gwala Third Annual Lecture, 5 October 2017
The Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu…
Imvaba Arts Association
Established in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, in 1986, Imvaba Arts Association worked closely with artists in New Brighton, Kwazakhele and Motherwell townships…
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
Joseph Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia, on 21 December 1879. His father was a shoemaker and his mother a domestic servant. He was expelled from school for…
Bibliographical note and further reading
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai For the serious researcher investigating any aspect…
AAM and UN: partners in the international campaign against apartheid
I think of the 'anti-apartheid movement' as a coalition of anti-apartheid organisations and individuals, as well as a growing number of governments, which in…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… for the troops Cuba sends to Angola in the 1970s and 1980s. 27 October, Kgalema Motlanthe , the ANC’s …
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… amount of resources allocated to the prison. By the early 1980s, Barberton had far surpassed the capacity for which it …
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa homehomepolitics & governanceliberation struggleemerging…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa…