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2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… Mofutsanyana branded Potchefstroom 'the most backward place for mad people', 14 an apt description for a town with … by 'uncontrollable' black youth who…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… 16 The regular meetings of the organisation took place at the comer of Grey and Victoria Streets, and Lee's … the Conference of the Indian National Congress…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… to take this conversation forward by revisiting his home city, Durban. I will explore the ways in which the ‘ politics of place ’ shaped a generation of left…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… floor and a front gable. Since 1666 burials had taken place inside the inner courtyard of the Castle, but the space … purposes and the removal of the…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… addressed public meetings, endeared him to the audience – city-dwellers, no matter their home language, are enthralled … Marxism to meet the mid-twentieth…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 102th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… of the National Democratic Revolution and put in place a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and … to be `the skunk of the world`. SOUTH AFRICA IS A…
ArticleKKNK – Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
… in March 199, to establish, and indeed, defend, the place of Afrikaans culture in post-apartheid South Africa. …
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
… African National Congress ( ANC ) National Conference took place from 16 – 20 December 2007 at the University of Limpopo …
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… consciousness. In addition, it also became the birth place of many of South Africa’s strongest trade unions. …
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… and the launch of the EFF as a political party took place. The 1,200 delegates in attendance joined the EFF and …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… the measure. In 1981 when the Council's election took place only 10% of the Indian voters cast their votes. Women …
List of deaths in detention
… there were 67 acknowledged deaths. Year Name Date died Age Place Days held Official/alleged cause 1963 1. Ngudle, …
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… Battle of Blood River of 1838. This historic event took place near the Ncome River in KwaZulu Natal, between the …
ArticleThe Western Front
… of battle and where most of the war casualties took place. It stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss border …
ArticleTransport in the air
… a wood fire. That year the first known human flight took place in such a balloon. It went as high as 26 metres and …
Safety and security issues
… in order to ensure that an assault or rape indeed took place. This medical evidence is of critical importance in …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Session of the Parliament of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 30 October 2007
… inspired to attend the independence celebrations in this city on that historic day in 1990. The reality that we … conflicts; a continent whose citizens…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
… or the mines). By 1940, new changes were taking place. By then, more black men had entered the factories and … as is production. In industrial society,…
Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic: Answers to Questions by May 1961
… are not held, we feel that demonstrations should take place on the eve of republic day, May 31. Question: What form …
EventPrime Minister opens SA's first atomic reactor
… Zone Treaty (Pelindaba Treaty), which is named after the place where the first atomic reactor was built. South Africa …
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… War 1899-1902. Discussions about a new flag were taking place intermittently due to interruptions caused by such …
EventSADF takes over security of Northern Natal from the SAP to prevent infiltration into SA by Liberation Movements
… deploying the armed forces, South Africa had a chance to place veteran soldiers from the Rhodesian bush war as well as …
EventPresident Vorster challenges Dr Rhoodie
… Citizen; nor of any other irregularities that had taken place. He said he would undertake to resign only if it could …
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… Though Robben Island has been used as prison and a place where people were isolated, banished and exiled to for …
EventSA signs multilateral treaty on the civil liability for oil pollution damage
… The most publicized oil spill in recent history took place in June 1994, when the Apollo Sea, a Chinese ore …
EventNP presents its revised constitutional proposals
… we Sizwe, before a full transitional government was in place …
EventNelson Mandela is voted the greatest South African
… of political pressure and the final ranking never took place. …
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… of civil wars, corruption and genocide, which was taking place in countries across the continent. The women aimed to …
EventLocal government elections thrown in disarray
… legislation if the local government elections were to take place as planned. Mandela responded by declaring that the …
EventPresident Paul Kruger lays the foundation stone of the Raadsaal on Pretoria’s Church Square
… in 1912, to imitate London's Trafalgar Square and Paris' Place de la Concorde. Church Square marks what used to be the …