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Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
… Goodwin… Beyers: June Goodwin, yes. Taylor: But I found one… it’s actually 18 years ago now, where Julie Frederikse … book (The Heart of Whiteness)? Where…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… (advanced manufacturing and arms industry), SA Express (one of two national airlines), Alexkor (a diamond miner) and …
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… Background Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is … official languages and a turbulent recent political past, one is…
Gandhiji and the struggle for liberation in South Africa
… Indian and a South African. Not only had he spent twenty-one years of his adult life in South Africa, but he had … was little discussion at the time of non-…
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
… with whose genesis I have just ended the tenth and final chapter, is the climax of our story. Footnote It provides us … of the inappropriateness of a…
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… of non-European trade unions, which opened an important chapter in Trade Union history. The Industrial Commercial … Conciliation and Wage Acts, and the…
ArticleShip list of Indian Indentured Labourers
… South African Indian Whos Who , Indentured Indians. One needs to obtain relevant documents that would assist in … that has indenture numbers etc. It is not…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… History University of KwaZulu-Natal - [email protected] One of the most remarkable figures of the Communist Party of … Fatima Seedat , an activist in her…
BiographyWilliam Cock
… members of the Legislative Council resigned, except one. The lonely voice praying that Christians should not … to spend a short holiday with his family at…
BiographyGovin Reddy
… public rallies and wrote extensively in the press. After one lively mass meeting of UDW students on the eve of the … job at the Institute of Race Relations …
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… The rescue effort of the Padavatan Six is considered as one of the largest civilian acts of bravery in South Africa. … swept away. The Volunteers…
South African and World leaders
… African president, Nelson Mandela. Source: www.afp.com One of the most important leaders in South Africa and even … important leader in the struggle against…
ArticleWay of life in ancient Egypt
… of omnipotent rulers. All of Egypt was subjugated under one ruler, the Pharoah, who was god, king and high priest all rolled into one. The Pharaoh, screening…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… activities after the banning of the ANC and SACP. She was one of the early detainees in the 1960s, held when she was … or exiled or killed by the apartheid…
Gandhi, Tamils and the Satyagraha in South Africa by E.S Reddy
… infants were in prison with them. Mrs. Kasturba Gandhi was one of the women prisoners. Tamil leaders – above all Thambi … the Transvaal is very severe; the…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… Trek. The Cape stayed a British colony until it became one of the four provinces of the Union of South Africa in … possibly because many of the Black groups…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… in possession of 11 slaves, of which four slave women and one male belonged to Commander Van Riebeeck , one slave to the sergeant, one female slave at the…
Checkmate for apartheid? July 199 1 - June 1992
… Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman In Chapter 8 we examined the emergence of a strategy of … occurred throughout the country in May 1991…
ArticleProvincial histories
… of South Africa’s different provinces, including each one’s government and symbols. We will also look at oral … provinces each have their own special history…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 facts about this continent … the view people are given of Africa is…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… cultural diversity is expressed in a number of ways; one of the most famous is the different cultural influence … is the Domba, or python dance which is held…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… of the world banded together to form the United Nations. One of the first tasks this august body set for itself was to … never happen again. This new, post…
The Arrival of the Khoisan
… For a long time the Khoikhoi were called "Hottentots". If one met the people called "Hottentots", they would say this … of sounds, which Europeans found…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… the Franco-Prussian War of 1871. In the ten month battle, one of the longest in the war, both sides suffered almost one million casualties. The aim of the…
ArticleTransport in the air
… like a bird. The Greek myth about Icarus and Daedalus is one of the most famous stories. According to the story, … has become the most popular and convenient…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… argument and an application to gag the media. 04 October, One of the Boeremag treason trial accused is rushed to a … Legal Aid Board disputes, have stretched…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… world had such a culturally diverse slave population, nor one in which the cultures of the slaves so intricately meshed … arriving at the Cape thus had very…
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
NEW DELHI: 19 TO 21 APRIL 1985 DRAFT FINAL DOCUMENT IN PURSUANCE of a decision taken by the co-ordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Countries at its meeting of…
The Origin of People
… you ever been told weird and wonderful stories about what one or other of your relatives did in the past? Some of these … The reasons become very clear when…
ArticleStructure of Government in South Africa
… responsible for a different issue – for example, there is one for health matters, one for education, and one for sport. The Executive is a committee of all…