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ArchiveAll That Glitters - What is industrialisation? by Emilia Potenza
… has affected the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa shaping the society we live in today. This feature examines the process of industrialisation in…
Chapter 7 - CONCLUSION
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The Party, as an organisation, underwent … period, some of which were revisited after the…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… and later Durban. He was a student at Sastri College in Durban. [A.I. Kazi, leader of the Natal Indian Congress … years (from 1920s to 1940s), was his uncle…
Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati
… Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati was born in Tlapeng Village, few kilometres from Ganyesa in Kagisano-Molopo area within the district of Bophirima, now … after her…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… of the social linkages between struggles particularly in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Born in 1922, George Peake was a bricklayer by trade, becoming active in…
Who was Khwezi? Here’s what we learnt during the Zuma rape trial by TMG Digital (Sowetan) ,10 October 2016
… according to a memoir she was writing and testimony in the High Court in Johannesburg‚ which is summarised in the judgment. Her identity was protected during…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 1980s were the culmination of the … popular uprising, which had received its initial spark…
PlaceBurundi
… Burundi is a relatively small country located in central Africa, and the name and approximate territory has … political assassinations has tended to be…
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… Acclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons died in Cape Town. Cussons was known for her poetry works in Afrikaans, produced in ten volumes. Cussons was born…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… In sharp contrast to Graca Machel and his feisty second wife … from the rural Transkei and had come to Johannesburg in the early 1940s to carve out a living…
PlaceDonkin Mount, Port Elizabeth
… origin and development to the arrival of British settlers in 1820. Sir Rufane Donkin was the Acting Governor of the … and he changed the name of Algoa Bay to…
PlaceEgypt
… Egypt lies North East in the Africa n continent, its history goes back to Biblical times; with Pharaohs fighting for land in the fertile Nile River! There…
PlaceBenin
… until the coup that brought Mathieu Kérékou to power in 1972. After gaining independence from the French in 1960, Benin’s first coup came in October 1963. A…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… Nontsikelelo (Blessings) Sisulu, on her 70th birthday in October. Albertina continues to be an inspiration to the younger generation of today in South Africa…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… Declaration of Human Rightsbears a very poignant meaning. In our country the Declaration of Human Rights is a … of the Declaration by the United Nations…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… and State President, Balthazar John Vorster was born in in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape on 13 December 1915. Vorster began his … (Cape Town), pp 298 to 301|…
EventSouth African poet Vincent Oliphant is born
… African poet, mathematician and educationist was born in 1954 in Alicedale, a small town near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. His first book of poems,…
May Day
… Unions, the Communist Party and other labour movements in the struggle against Apartheid. May Day , as we know it … old. Men, women and children forced to…
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… Charles Robberts Swart was born on a farm in the Winburg district of the Orange Free State (OFS) on 5 December 1894. Part of his childhood was spent in a…
PlaceCabo Verde
… now prefers to be called) is located on an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the West coast of … explorers who are believed to have settled there…
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
… Unions, the Communist Party and other labour movements in the struggle against apartheid. May Day, as we know it, … and children were therefore forced to…
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… Ross the discoverer of the malaria mosquito was born in Almora, India in 1857. After graduating in medicine, he entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical … …
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… Baker, replaced the original school which was established in 1858. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC … This building, broadly described as…
PlaceOld Pretoria Iron Mines Ltd Buildings, Iscor, Pretoria
… better known as the Pretoria Iron Mines Ltd. It was there, in 1918, that cast-iron from indigenous ore was produced on a large scale for the first time in…
EventJohn Traicos makes his International Cricket Test debut for South Africa
… his Test debut - for South Africa vs Australia at Durban in their final series before their banishment from Test cricket. Born on 17 May 1947 in Zagazig,…
Preface
… This study of "protest art" in South Africa for the period 1968 to 1976 presented me with several difficulties of research in relation to decisions regarding…
31. Cape traders protest against the Hawkers’ Licences Act
… 35 of 1906, which dealt with hawkers' licences, operated in the Cape in much the same way as the Dealers' Licenses Act in Natal. The following document…
Chapter 1: Introduction
… on an investigation of vigilantes and political violence in KwaZulu-Natal, it is important to give an account of what the situation in KwaZulu-Natal…
PlaceBotshabelo
… Alexander Merensky and Heinrich Grützner started work in the north eastern part of the South African Republic in 1860. There were unsuccessful early attempts…
EventPetronella Nellie du Toit South African soprano singer is born
… Nellie duToit was born on 17 December 1929 in Pietersburg (now Polokwane) into a musical family. Thus, … began to sing opera. After completing her school…