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Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Themes to Think About This Feature has shown how working…
The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre
… this dichotomy is made evident: Mbatha Elizabeth (b.1950) Double turkey jar Through Gowenius, [Azaria] Mbatha …
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
… 27 524, however more dwellings were being built! Between 1950 and 1974 state housing developments proceeded at some … area as per the regulations of the…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… life in the Pale of Settlement for many years to come. 17 The Jewish artisans who arrived in South Africa, and Cape … for at least 84 hours per week and were…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… homesteads whose heads passed away without a direct heir. [17] The following is another take on the incident: “ Famous … and Cape Town: Jonathan Ball…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… with ANC history and policies. On 24 February 1988, 17 anti-apartheid organisations were banned, including the … facilities in Sebokeng on 26 March 1990,…
PlaceSeweweeks Poort, Swartberg
… major Passes in South Africa. Due to its long length of 17,7 km one hardly feels the gradient changing and for …
PlaceLambert's Bay
Welcome to the seafood hotspot of the West Coast! Lambert’s Bay is known as the Diamond of the West Coast and the crayfish mecca of South Africa. Called this…
Article2016 in Review
In 2016 South Africa History Online celebrates 15 years of being a public open source heritage site. What a journey it has been. At the end of the first week…
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… fit enough to do work. The rest are either sick or dying. 17 prisoners die on Shark Island in one night. 1907 16 …
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… Movement strongly opposed this move, on March 17, 1992 a whites only referendum was held. F.W. De Klerk …
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… black. The battle took place during the early hours of 17 February. A surprise attack was launched on the …
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
… Indians had the vote in Natal. Secondly, in terms of Law 17 of 1895, an annual poll tax of £3 was imposed on all …
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… taking part in demonstrations and marches in Cape Town. 17 Yet in the early 1960s, at a time of great political …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
… of the European Union. This Policy has, since the 1950's, offered subsidies to farmers and guaranteed prices …
Document 12 - Notes prepared by Nelson Mandela for his meeting with P. W. Botha
… 2,500 worker leaders present here today - representing the 17 affiliates, with a combined membership of more than …
Doing Oral History
… of Indian families departed northwards from Durban, on 17 November 1860, to the cane farms that applied for them. … costumes. Day 6: First day of dancing,…
The melody of freedom
… made instruments out of reeds. It became popular in the 1950's, thanks to the film Magic Garden, in which Willard …
Document 60 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the Communist League of South Africa, 3 March 1936
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 60 - Letter from the Workers' …
Document 42 - Leon Trotsky, “Closer to the Proletarians of the Colored’ Races!”, The Militant, 2 July 1932
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 42 - Leon Trotsky, "Closer to …
Document 39 - Statement by S. P. Bunting, October 1931
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 39 - Statement by S. P. … Radical Tradition a Documentary History Volume 1…
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The All-African Convention came into …
Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… before a full bench of five judges and, on the 14th March 1950, the court, by a majority of three to two, upheld my …
PlaceUmlazi
… and ‘Asian’ suburbs in terms of the Group Areas Act (1950). African Durban residents were to be moved and … Own Town- ‘Umlazi Township’ , from EThekwini…
Presidential Address to the Extended Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, April 1975
Events across the globe in the past twelve months have moved at a new speed, in some instances, a dazzling pace. The period from the Lisbon coup to the…
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
… shall be able to frustrate an overwhelming majority. 17. The NP government's determination to impose a minority …
PlaceFugard Theatre, Cape Town
The Fugard, a theatre based in Cape Town, was built within one of the five interconnected Sacks Futeran buildings in District Six.[1] It opened in early…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… of West Africa in Monrovia. After marriage at the age of 17 to James Sirleaf, she travelled to America (in 1961) and …
INDIAN SOUTH AFRICANS - A brief history
… by a discriminatory system of taxation in Natal. Law 17 of 1895 provided that an annual tax of £3 had to be paid …
ArchiveSouth Africa wants to make history compulsory at school. But can it? by Linda Chisholm (the Conversation.com), 1 June 2018
… to register for history. What this means, as our 2016-17 study showed, is that staff members cut corners. Huge …