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Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… by the launch of two important political movements. One was the South African Native National Congress (later … Resistance Campaign 1913-1914 ). Men and…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… by the launch of two important political movements. One was the South African Native National Congress (later … Resistance Campaign 1913-1914 ). Men and…
BiographyNomhlangano Beauty Mkhize
… by nine men because of his parents’ resistance. Not one to back down, Mkhize continued the fight, despite the … awarded Mkhize the National Order of Luthuli…
BiographyMono Badela
… weekly paper, South, in 1992, Badela was already there as one of the paper's top correspondents. At short notice, he … in the Department of Communications,…
BiographyHarold Wolpe
… from a Johannesburg jail by bribing a guard, setting off one of the nation's largest manhunts. For days Wolpe and … synthesis, Harold was without any doubt…
EventGerrie Coetzee becomes the first South African boxer to win a world heavyweight title
… if the third attempt would finally earn Coetzee the big one. Coetzee won the match by knock out in the tenth, and went from the boxer known as ‘the one who…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… first General Secretary of the organisation: ‘According to one of its founder members, it was the first of its kind to … where he mentored some of the…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… saw the formation of the Food and Canning Workers Union, one of the most durable in the history of South African … 1956. Sactu joined the ANC-led Congress…
ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
… reconcile Pretorius and Potgieter. 1854 Paul Kruger takes part in the campaign against Mankopane and Mokopane. 1855 … Kerk in South Africa is formed and Paul…
PlaceDie Grootkerk in Bosmanstraat
… as the Grootkerk. This church has played an enormous part in the shaping of the Reformed Church tradition in and around Pretoria. It also had a very…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… and its contribution to the liberation struggle one must have a contextual understanding of what it means to … of Apartheid Racism and segregation have been…
ArticleSita’s story
… in Durban began from Phoenix. My father was the only one left to run the Settlement as my Grandfather has wished … decided to operate on my leg and remove…
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… who later became the first mayor of Pretoria. It is one of the last remaining examples of the kind of elegant mansions which characterised this part of the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the book launch of the series on Southern African leaders 1 August 1994
… Fought for Freedom", straddles both categories. It is at one a reclamation of South Africa's history in its true and … ground. Our praise also goes to the…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… to relocate communities from an area with facilities to one without. A conference is called by the South African … residents. This article was written by…
ArticleZulu Family History
… for Zwelethini’s successor. He is unmarried and has one son. HRH Princess Ntandoyesizwe Zulu (by Queen … born 1985, married Sipho Nyawo, who paid 120 cows…
PlaceKenilworth
… . A leafy suburb, upper Kenilworth is a well established part of Cape Town and homes here are large and expensive with … industry, office blocks and…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… “disablement is nothing to do with the body” (1996) is one that clashes with the historical focus of bodily … since been adopted by the government of South…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… “disablement is nothing to do with the body” (1996) is one that clashes with the historical focus of bodily … since been adopted by the government of South…
ArchiveOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
… We are a few days away from the celebration of one of our national holidays, Heritage Day. The opening of … Day, Workers' Day, Youth Day or National Women's…
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
… One morning, in the middle-class suburb of Johannesburg where … upheaval. In one picture we see an elegant bedroom, but part of the double-bed belonging to…
EventBettie Cilliers, famous SA painter, is born
… in Rustenburg, Transvaal. Though Cilliers-Bernard was at one time one of South Africa's underestimated artists, her … She has worked consistently all the…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… Africa that openly accepted the taking of human life as part of its strategy and the PAC was thus manifestly more militant than the ANC. Poqo became an…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… of killing. [iii] Stick fighting forms an integral part of Zulu cultural tradition, fulfilling as it does an … to males only, there is no specific age for…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
… hindered many attempts at wide-scale resistance on the part of Cape slaves. Instead many slaves’ attempts at … farm, allowing them to catch each farmer by…
PlaceLinden, Johannesburg
… Nestled in the foothills of Northcliff Hill, Linden is one of the prettiest and oldest suburbs of Johannesburg, … Linden is named after the Linden farm,…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… South African Communist Party (SACP) . 1962 Hani becomes one of the first volunteers for Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) , the … command. Hani marries Limpho Sekamane…
PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
… Cape Town at the turn of the century when it was built as part of a hotel and functioned as an events venue. The … a ballroom, a theatre and exhibition hall…
EventCharlotte Maxeke, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born
… her secondary school. It was at this time that she took part in musical activities. She joined a choir, and traveled throughout Europe performing. One of the…
BiographyLucas Manyane Mangope
… In February 1988,Mangope was taken hostage in a one-day military coup that was put down by South African …