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Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… Britain takes control of the Cape Once revolutionary armies of France invaded … the interior as there was no knowledge of minerals such as gold or diamonds…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book … by the British colonists especially…
PlaceZimbabwe
… The earliest settlement of the area now known as Zimbabwe goes back about 100 000 … , and later Kilwa , south of Zanzibar . Zimbabwe traded in gold, ivory…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
… From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular … has shown how working life changed for the millions of people who came to live on the Rand…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… 1856-1910 Masters and Servants Acts of 1856 These Acts, which had been passed between 1856 and 1904 in the four territories, remained in force after Union…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… After coming to power in 1948, the National Party-led government began implementing apartheid by passing a series of racist laws, notably the Population…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… 1859 After protracted negotiations between the Natal Government and the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Natal Coolie Law, Law 14 of … and…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular … As a result, craft workers were deskilled and many of their jobs fell away. New workers,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… 1980 is declared the Year of the Charter, marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption … respectively, for black face and surface workers in the gold and…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… The Millennium Development Goals (MDGSs) were perceived as a life line the United Nations and the rest of the world were throwing to Africa in order to save…
ArchiveBiography of Dulcie September by Claire Albin
… resistance groups throughout her life, particularly the ANC , were incredibly influential in the fight against … apartheid. However, despite the…
ArchiveChapter 2 Respect for all, Childhood in Cape Town, 1933 – 1949 by Denis Goldberg
… in soapy washing-up water. “But, Mum, you’ve got to hold the book to see if I’m saying it right.” “Oh, just say it.” … that when she was a young woman, just…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… 1930 October 5, The Asiatics Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill imposes segregation … conference in Johannesburg to consider the position of Indians in relation to…
ArticleCaste - meaning, profession, religion
… Achari, Achary, Archary - Sometimes the last name of a person. Caste of the craftsman -architects, goldsmiths. … The caste members are mainly shopkeepers,…
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
… From the book: Black ViewPoint by Ndebele, Ndamse, Buthelezi, … Chief M.G. Buthelezi is the Chief Executive Councillor of the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… 1930 Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, the third son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom came to South … cash flows.' 1965 Started…
Has Socialism Failed? by Joe Slovo South African Communist Party
… 1. Introduction Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last … societies, seem mesmerised by pure…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… From the very beginning, settlement in Lenasia was a contentious … Calls were made by the Indian Congress to reject the plans of the newly elected…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… out as beacons guiding and inspiring peoples all over the world and for generations. Such was the great freedom movement of Ireland, and I believe the…
BiographyThembelakhe Mati
… Thembelakhe Mati (50) was from Ntabankhulu in the Eastern Cape. On 13 August 2012 Mr Mati was killed after he was shot in the leg. Initially the state…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… While the South African press readily covered stories of those having committed acts of treason or communism during … first mining fields in 1874, when Henry…
BiographyJan Hofmeyr
… A published and a principal figure in the Afrikaner Bond. However as a political moderate, he worked closely with Rhodes until the Jameson Raid that…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… San rise up in an unsuccessful but protracted rebellion in the eastern districts of the Cape in what becomes known as the Third War of … territory with the…
BiographyPieter Dirk-Uys
… drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and 1980s he was associated with the Space Theatre in Cape…
BiographyJulius Tokoti Mangcotywa
… Julius Tokoti Mangcotywa (61) was from Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2008. On … 2012 he was killed at scene 2 after…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last legal conference in … speak. Dadoo presents Dr…
BiographyThabiso Mosebetsane
… Thabiso Mosebetsane (49) was from Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. He started working at Lonmin in 2008 and … was killed at scene 2 after being shot twice in…
BiographyNtandazo Nokhamba
… Ntandazo Nokhamba (36) was from Lebode in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2006. On … 2012 he was killed at scene two after being shot…
BiographyR. Daniel
… Associated with the trade union movement from the early 1930s, he was known as a Trotskyist in his political leanings. In the 1940s he was associated with…
BiographySemi Jokanisi
… Semi Jokanisi (29) was from Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. On 13 August 2012 Semi was killed after being shot twice by the police, once in the abdomen and…