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ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… are passed from parents to their children. Each and every one of us has our own heritage and is unique. Our heritage is … and plants, including many…
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 … federation and set out five principles:…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… where Indians can live, trade and own land. Kathrada is one of the 2 000 volunteers imprisoned in that campaign and … as student at the University of…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… later to join the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). One of these was Hilda Bernstein, who joined the CPSA in … cultures that posed a challenge to forms…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… numerous organisations that would help the movement grow. One of his achievements was to forge links with the … is a group that Pityana could have met…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… ANC Musician, Soldier, and Spy Abstract Barry Gilder is one of South Africa’s most important revolutionaries that … people, our future, and our freedom.” [i]…
PlaceCredo Mutwa Cultural Village
… for a more authentic experience and sets the village as one of the traditional attractions in Gauteng . The Credo … building styles. Some of Mutwa’s…
PlaceEshowe, Northern Kwa-Zulu Natal
… by sugar-cane Farms . The South African sugar industry is one of the world’s leading cost competitive producers of high … But the financially distressed…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
… of the National House of Traditional Leaders; Heads of Chapter 9 Institutions; The Governor of the Reserve Bank; … the exclusion of black people from this…
EventDarrell Roodt was born on this day
… racially oppressive regime. His film Place of Weeping is one of the first anti-Apartheid films made by a South African. One of his most memorable films is…
EventThe Esso Oil Company closes its business in South Africa
… South Africa was an affiliate of America’s Exxon. It was one of the main producers of petroleum products. Esso was one of the many companies to withdraw…
Document 79 - “What is the Communist Party? Lesson 4: What will be Done in the Bantu Republic?”, Umsebenzi, 17 March 1934
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 1 - Keir Hardie, … but these, as a rule, stood looking on…
Document 1 - Keir Hardie, “Stoned in South Africa”, 1907
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 1 - Keir Hardie, … but these, as a rule, stood looking on…
Solitary confinement
… they refused. A whole year without anything to read and no one to talk to. And a light on in the cell all the time. All … sleep. I was so thin when I came…
Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 29 - Letter from S. … C.T. when we landed) he was on bad…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… to carry "permission" documents. The issuing of passes was one of the cornerstones of the colonial and later racial … about passes, the ANC promoted what…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… Steve Biko is introduced to politics as a teenager, when one of his older brothers, Khaya, a student at Lovedale High … in Natal, a liberal Catholic boarding…
The ‘special branch’
… like this?' 'No, I just wanted to make sure you are in.’, One even said, 'Well, we can't go round the whole night … that the police didn't know where they…
EventWorkers embark on strike action
… Sixty-one Xhosa-speaking workers, under the leadership of their Headman known as One O'clock, went on strike at the Brakpan Electric Works. … and find…
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
… Eastern Cape. He was born in Gaga, near Alice, and was one of the earliest authors in Xhosa literature. Charles Brownlee rated him one of the best, if not…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… to World War II the city’s building industry experienced one of its most productive periods. Development took place in … fabric of the larger Braamfontein…
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It … government decided to make Heritage Day one of our national days, we did so…
Apartheid power in crisis
… for a non-racial democracy in South Africa. If there is one event, which could be said to have ushered in this new … at this time would encourage that…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… an investigation into and report on the allegation that one Anton Lubowski was a paid agent of the SADF: Military … has reacted with anger to the reforms by…
The diary of Maria Tholo - August 16 - 24 by Carol Hermer
… Saturday evening. We went to church in the morning but no one would say a word about all that's happening because we … to tell me that the schoolboy who was…
Awards of Recognition to Honourable Early Associates of Gandhiji and Phoenix Settlement 1904-1914
… and then joined the Satyagraha struggle. He later became one of the settlers at Tolstoy Farm and went to jail at least … Gandhi-Desai family. 3. Anandlal…
How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018
… is an opportunity to reflect on the character of his life. One of the features of being a leader, especially one who is a freedom fighter, is that one acts…
Debate in the House of Assembly during the second reading of the Immorality Amendment Bill on 23 February 1962
… which underlies her views. In the nature of things one is not liberal in respect of one matter only. Liberalism is a philosophy which permeates the whole of…
EventLibya becomes independent
… to achieve autonomy through the United Nations (UN) and one of the first former European possessions in Africa to … of a representative from each of the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… other and each other's aims in life They only come to know one another late in adult life after they have independently … toward each other. The resulting'…