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Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay, 12 August 1908
… One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay MacDonald, 12 August, … James Ramsay Macdonald Esq., M.P…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The British evacuate Rustenburg to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek
… After the fall of Pretoria on 5 June 1900, the British maintained a favourable command of several strategic points in the Transvaal area. Western … Anglo…
The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga by Ingrid Jonker
… The child is not dead the child raises his fists against his mother who screams Africa screams the smell of freedom and heather in the locations of the heart…
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… Next week is another confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the world, including the Security Council of the…
ArchiveUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
… In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a painting of Yahya Jammeh, the former president of The Gambia, adorns … Unlike The Gambia’s Jammeh…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the ANC’s manifesto launch 24 August 1995
… and optimism that I stand before you today. Last year, we, the people of South Africa voted for freedom. We laid a strong … and human rights for all citizens…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… This is a book about forgotten pages of South Africa's rich worker history from 1903 to 1921. It includes socio-historical analysis of the Cape Town 'answer"…
English Settlement in South Africa
… British presence in the Cape between the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined to the shores of the Cape and Table Bay as a halfway stop by the East India ……
EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… de Football Association (FIFA) officially recognised the White body of the Football Association of South Africa (FASA) as the sole … Professional soccer is…
Document 4 - ‘Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering’: report in the ‘South African Worker’
… Prime Minister, YOUR people more than any other section of the white community must surely know in the very core of their beings, if they were unaware of the…
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
… Constance Annie Nothard, nursing sister and recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest award of the … distinguished service in France. She…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… The apartheid era was characterised by different resistances … , Vaal and the East Rand in 1985 and Soweto uprising of 1976 . The apartheid era ended in 1994…
EventHestrie Cloete, world champion high jumper, is born
… Hestrie Cloete was born in Germiston, East of Johannesburg on 26 August 1978. She began participating in … age. Her long-time coach, Martin Marx, discovered…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with … the mineral revolution with the discovery of diamonds and gold gave…
EventWalter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba and Ahmed Kathrada address the public after 26 years
… After the release of Walter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba of the African National Congress (ANC) and Ahmed Kathrada of … Powell, I. (1989). "A time warp spirits the…
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
… Among the many personal accounts now published by those involved in the anti-apartheid struggle, Norman Levy’s substantial memoir … so well-written and…
ArchiveHamba kahle qhawe: Beyers Naude 1915-2004
… Gold, brown, blue and cream poster. Photograph of Beyers …
Chile
… Grey background. Black, white and gold artwork of a skeleton in military uniform. …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: President Steyn takes General Snyman to task for a cattle raid against Chief Montshiwa in which 203 head of c
… a cattle raid against Chief Montshiwa in which 203 head of cattle and 1 570 sheep and goats have been taken, … admonishing him that it was not advisable to…
EventThe Polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective
… In April 1955 the vaccine for Poliomyelitis developed by Dr. Jonas Salk was declared safe and effective. It had taken a whole year of trials and tests for…
EventZubeida Jaffer is detained, while pregnant, by the security police under Apartheid regulations
… Zubeida Jaffer , former reporter from the Cape Times and her husband John Issel , were detained by the security police on 31 January 1986. Jaffer who was…
Vi ar Afrikas framtid!
… Gold, black and white poster. Photograph of children …
EventSouth African athlete and Africa high-jump record holder Hestrie Cloete is born in Germiston, Transvaal
… (now Gauteng) on 26 August 1978. She began high jumping at the age of 13 when she was discovered by her coach Martin Marx. From 1995 Cloete enjoyed success…
EventThree South African provinces are renamed
… After the first South African democratic election, the country was demarcated into nine provinces. Some of these provinces were given geographical names,…
EventChief Cyprian Zulu warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign
… The Defiance Campaign was planned in the 1950s in response to the enactment of numerous apartheid laws by the South African government. … Chief Cyprian Zulu…
EventThe World Health Organisation confirms that Ebola virus killed thirteen villagers in Gabon.
… Thirteen people died of an unknown disease in a remote village in Gabon during the month of February 1996. On 19 February 1996, the World Health Organisation…
EventThe Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha
… The Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reported that almost half of the rapes in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township involved girls … Post-rape Center…
EventProVerb, the South Africa hip hop artist, television and radio presenter is born
… has released four studio albums, namely his debut album The Book of ProVerb in 2005; Manuscript in 2006; Write of Passage in … ProVerb was selected to…
ArchiveGabriela Commission on violence against women
… Gold and purple background. Black and white artwork of a man beating a woman inside a house with a crowd of other people outside. …
Education, the State, and Class Inequality: The case for Free Higher Education in South Africa by Enver Motala, Salim Vally, and Rasigan Maharajh
… Education, the State, and Class Inequality: The case for Free Higher Education in South Africa by Enver …