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ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS, Congress of South African Students COSATU, Congress of South African Trade Unions COSAW,…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi played a prominent role in South African politics for almost half a century. He was one of the last of a generation of black South…
EventSA's Fifa membership reinstated
Thirty-one years after being expelled, South Africa had its membership of the Football International Federation Association (Fifa) reinstated on 3 July 1992…
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The first shoots of worker culture emerged in the early eighties with…
PlaceKingsmead Cricket Stadium, Durban
Although it operates under the sponsorship-based name of Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, this cricket ground in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal is more commonly referred to as…
PlaceBethal
Established in 1880, Bethal is a small farming town, in Mpumalanga. Farming in potatoes, maize, sunflower seeds, sorghum and rye. There is also a large amount…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
This timeline is NOT complete. Any omissions are unintentional as this timeline is a work in progress that will be added to over time. Please click on the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions
Explain to what extent Stalin succeeded in transforming Russia into a superpower by 1939. Stalin came to power on the back of Lenin’s death in 1925, after…
Oliver Tambo interview to Sechaba, 01 March 1976
Racists humiliated "The MPLA has always had the closest relations with the ANC - for well over ten years - and together with FRELIMO of the People`s Republic…
Racists Humiliated - O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Michael Wolfers, Sechaba, March 1976
"The MPLA has always had the closest relations with the ANC - for well over ten years - and together with FRELIMO of the People's Republic of Mozambique, PAIGC…
Tribute to DR Nthatho Motlana by ANC President Jacob Zuma, 6 December 2008, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Mrs Motlana and family, The President of the Republic of South Africa, Cde Kgalema Motlanthe, Former President Thabo Mbeki, Leadership of the ANC and other…
PlaceCircle of Kramat's, Cape Town
The circle of Kramats in Cape Town is a shrine to Muslim holy men buried in Cape Town. Legend goes that it is this circle that protects Cape Town from…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
The Swazi nation, as we know it today, originally came from Mozambique. Their Nguni ancestors probably moved there before the sixteenth Century as part of the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.3 and No.4 1988
Contents and Contributors Preface A.W. Oliphant and lvan Vladislavic, First Editorial 1978; Staffrider by Meshack Mabogoane; Remembering Staffrider by Mike…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
The period after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African Congress (PAC), especially after the…
PlaceGarden Route, Cape Town
The Garden Route begins about four hours outside Cape Town, and includes one of the most beautiful stretches of coastline, the starting point of which is…
Inside Robben Island (Part 1) by Thami Mkhwanazi, 14 August 1987
MY YEARS ON THE ISLAND Part One: The University behind locked doors April 1980. The Susan Kruger, a tiny Prisons Service boat, ploughed the Atlantic in the…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation, 9 February 2012
State of the Nation Address By His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic Today the industrial working class is more…
PlaceUniversity of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN)
Founded in 1910 as: 'The Natal University College', in Pietermaritzburg. The University of Natal was granted independent University status only in, 1949 and…
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
To mark the centenary of the founding of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), New Frame republishes work by historian Shula Marks about Allison…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Carlton Hotel, Saturday, 21 August 1993
Mr. Chairman, Distinguished leaders of the South African Jewish Community Ladies and Gentlemen, Compatriots and Friends, I consider it a privilege to…
Post-detention weapons
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As we have seen in Chapter 3, detention without trial,…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
Political freedom from foreign rule, essential as it is, is not freedom.1One freedom is essential. That is the freedom for an individual to develop to his/ her…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1960 Muslim Population According to South African Government…
History of Muslims in South Africa: Bibliography by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida References: 1. Mayson, J S, The Malays of Cape Town, Manchester, UK, Cave and…
Speech on Receiving the Freedom of Durban, Durban, 16 April 1999
Your Worship, Mayor Obed Mlaba Mayors of Local Councils Distinguished Guests Citizens of Durban I am truly honoured to be receiving the Freedom of…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
During the latter half of 2010, a series of events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the first Indian indentured laborers in Natal will take place across…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
This school was declared a National Monument. Pretoria Boys High School, also known as 'Boys High'. It is a public, tuition charging, English medium boys high…
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
The following is an interview with Mr. Champion conducted in 1964 by Mr. Stanley Trapido, Lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford. S…