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EventSA athlete Ernst van Dyk is hard done by at Paralympic games
… an outcome, which would move Van Wyk to gold. In the end though, Van Wyk and the team management decided to … SA athlete Ernst van Dyk is hard done by at…
Work In Progress
… The context in which the first issue of Work In Progress appeared was one in which the embryonic trade … incorporated with effect from July/August 1992. In…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… articles & documents NANA SITA: LAST OF THE GANDHIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA (2) Among those who kept the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi alive in South Africa, long…
BiographyAziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad
… Province, (formerly a part of the old Transvaal Province). In 1959, he matriculated at the Central Indian High School, … was a member of the National Peace…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… Prison labour has a particularly debatable history in South Africa. Historically, South Africa operated on the … ‘civilisation’ to Africans. With the…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… and 1940s, there were few black workers organisations in Namibia (then known as South West Africa). However, there … system had been a perpetual focus of…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… and resisters were shot and killed, raped, tortured in various ways, and sent into prison where some of the worst came for South African women. Women in…
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was different that of the previous decade. The … government had banished the Black resistance…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… are promulgated at the Cape. 1800 A massive drought begins in Southern Africa resulting in the Mahlatule famine. This resulted in conflict over cattle, grain…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… Gender roles in Ndebele home-making From the 1940s onwards the settlement … farm Hartbeesfontein. The creation of a built environment in southern Africa's…
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
… of missionary settlement and the spread of Christianity in southern Africa during the period 1800 - 1925, including a … researched and prepared by Franco…
The Court’s position in the justice system
… 165 says the judicial authority of South Africa is vested in the courts, which are independent and subject only to the … parliament. The Constitutional Court…
ArticleCapitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940
… How did the Great Depression in the USA bring about a crisis of capitalism? Background and … to understand that the focus of THIS section is almost in direct…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa - Timeline
… 2009 February 2009, the University of Limpopo in Limpopo Province experienced student protests concerning … of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the University of…
BiographyAugust Aime Balkema
… Several dutch publishers have featured prominently in the South African book industry. They include JJ van … August Aime Balkema (Guus to his friends) was…
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… Montagu began his career as a colonial administrator in 1834, when he was appointed Colonial Secretary to Van … he held from 25 April 1843 until just before…
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… Natal between 1860 and 1911 to develop the sugar industry in this province. A complete list of Indian Indentured … owners. Click here to make use of the…
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… 1984 15 July Ngalo, Johannes (26) Parys Found dead in cell due to serious internal injuries. 29 September Sebokeng Shot in head by policeman during…
ArticlePeople involved in Rivonia Trial 1963-1964
… Rivonia, near Johannesburg. After three months’ detention in solitary confinement we were brought before the Supreme … then serving a five-year sentence…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… ↵ An acute labour shortage forced White settlers in Natal to plead to the Indian Government to send its citizens to work in their cane fields. After…
Activity: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… used for grinding Remains of huts made from clay and built in a circle around a cattle pen Furnaces for smelting iron … have existed since approximately…
Statement by Mr. Thabo Mbeki, First Deputy Vice-President of South Africa, at the 3379th meeting of the United Nations Security Council S/PV.3379, 25 May 1994
… of the United Nations Security Council S/PV.3379, 25 May 1994 …
Statement by Mr. Thabo Mbeki, First Deputy Vice-President of South Africa, at the 3379th meeting of the United Nations Security Council S/PV.3379, 25 May 1994
… of the United Nations Security Council S/PV.3379, 25 May 1994 …
ArchiveRussian navy menace to SA growing, Pretoria News, 27 September 1982
… Russian navy menace to SA growing, Pretoria News, 27 September 1982 …
ArchiveThe SACP – the communist tail that wags the ANC dog and its mythical future for SA
… w.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2020/01/07/sacp-communism-anc-sa-future online. Accessed on 8 January 2020 … has advocated the benefits of communism to South…
EventErfdeel farm in Orange Free State becomes SA's richest gold deposit
… On 3 June 1954, a mining engineer at the Erfdeel farm in the Orange Free State pulled up a drill-core laden with … a ton. The discovery was declared the…
Address to the Commonwealth Club, World Affairs Council and US/SA Business Council Conference, 24 May 2000
… San Francisco, USA. Michael Edwards, in his book 'Future Positive', captures the essence of the … R19 billion or just under $3 billion. In the period from…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… Popular violence in the decade between 1984 and 1993 is well documented. … Existing literature on this brutally violent chapter in the history of the…
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
… the youngest son of Ama and Thambi Naidoo, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in … of Johannesburg since the democratic…
ArticleKey sites in and around Soweto
… Key sites in and around Soweto …