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PlaceGriqualand West
… The Khoikhoi was a nation of widely scattered migrant pastoralist clans, whose economy was not conducive to the creation of permanent Settlements. As a…
PlaceBlyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga
… One of the largest green canyons in the world, the Blyde River Canyon is a masterpiece carved over millions of years by the Blyde River as it cut through…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's part. For many months the committee … discussing what action the…
UCT defends stance on artistic freedom after Goldblatt pulls out by Paul Herman (News24), 4 March 2017
… Cape Town - The University of Cape Town has defended its protection of freedom of artistic expression, after the David Goldblatt Collection …
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
… have just ended the tenth and final chapter, is the climax of our story. 1 It provides us with a kind of promontory from which we can now, in this conclusion…
PlaceFlagstaff
… a Mr Owen, established a trading store on the site of present-day Flagstaff. The Town owes its name to their practice of running a white flag up a flagstaff…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - What is industrialisation? by Emilia Potenza
… All That Glitters by Emilia Potenza During the course of the last century, industrialisation has affected the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa…
Black consciousness and the land question by Pandelani Nefolovhodwe, 17 March 2015, South Africa
… Introduction A Sowetan article of the 6th September 2013, states that 14% of audited land in South Africa is in the hands of the state, and 79 % is in the…
Notes from Books
… Jean Gelman Taylor, THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 The book…
ArchiveThe Tay Bridge Disaster by Peter Ball (The Heritage Portal), 24 September 2016
… pride, as in pride before a fall, has been the ruin of many a man, no more so than Thomas Bouch, a Victorian … engineer, whose life and career were blighted…
2003 New Year Message, 30 December 2002
… The year 2002 is rapidly reaching a close. The last month of this year will be remembered in the Southern hemisphere … in the year 2002, we know better and…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - ’The rock on which the future will be built’ by Emilia Potenza
… Glitters by Emilia Potenza Up to the 1860s the economy of South Africa was based on agriculture and trade. Then the discovery of diamonds marked the…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… be built in 1910, and was initially housed on the campus of Witwatersrand. The gallery was overlooked by blocks of flats on three sides. To the east was one…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… Date of birth : 29 October 1938, Monrovia, Liberia. Ellen Johnson was born in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, amongst the descendants of original colonists…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… by Luli Callinicos Topic This part describes the nature of housing and shows how it was related to the labour needs of the employers on the Rand. Housing in…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Informal Ministerial Consultations on COP 17, O.R. Tambo Building, Tshwane, 09 September 2011
… honour and pleasure for me to welcome you on the occasion of this informal Ministerial consultation on climate change … The fact that we are gathered here is…
PlaceTunisia
… kilometres and is home to 10.6 million people. The capital of Tunis is home to nearly 800,000 people, though over 60% of the population lives in urban…
PlaceRondebosch Common, Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch.
… by Batavian forces during the first British invasion of the Cape. However, following an outbreak of dysentery among the troop, they were moved to higher … to…
PlaceGlen Grey Division
… The frontier war of 1850-53 was precipitated when the amaNgqika, faced with the increased pressure of European settlement upon their ancestral lands, rose in…
PlaceFree State Province
… The Free State Province lies in the heart of South Africa, with the Kingdom of Lesotho nestling in the hollow of its bean-like shape. Lying between the Vaal…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… schools in rankings nationally, as well as in all of Africa. Notable alumni includes: 'two Nobel Prize … Rhodes scholars; several Government Ministers and…
Address to the Commonwealth Club, World Affairs Council and US/SA Business Council Conference, 24 May 2000
… in his book 'Future Positive', captures the essence of the dilemmas of the current economic relations between the rich and poor countries, where the process…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… just returned from my vacation there." Cape Town is one of South Africa’s most Historically important Cities. It was … set foot in South Africa —which also…
34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A fresh piece of legislation sought to tighten…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… that she made to the constitutional transformation of South Africa. It is important to remember that when … most African countries it was an artificial…
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… Introduction The Islamic community of South Africa has grown significantly since the arrival of the first Muslims to the Cape Colony in 1658. The first ……
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's part. For many months the committee … discussing what action the…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad … that make up “Intersections…
PlaceTulbagh, Western Cape
… On 1 February 1808 the territory North of the Great Berg river was annexed to the new District of Tulbagh, and declared a separate sub-drostdy with its ……
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… reader an insight into an important chapter in the history of our struggle from a different viewpoint because the racist dogmas of apartheid dictated that he…