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| A-0098530 | article | 2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa | 24 Oct 2014 | ✓ |
| B-0098414 | biography | Chris van Wyk | 1957-2014 | ✓ |
| A-0098355 | article | Yusuf Dadoo Timeline | 22 Sep 2014 | – |
| A-0097644 | article | The Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War | 19 May 2014 | ✓ |
| B-0097205 | biography | Miriam Tlali | 1933-2017 | ✓ |
| A-0097104 | article | Responses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: Impact on the Indian Working class: the Growth of Indian trade unions | 24 Feb 2014 | – |
| A-0096972 | article | Sharpeville | 3 Feb 2014 | – |
| A-0096956 | article | Pondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961 | 31 Jan 2014 | – |
| B-0096867 | biography | Lawrence Schlemmer | 1936-2011 | – |
| P-0096747 | place | Chatsworth, Suburb of Durban | 9 Dec 2013 | ✓ |
| B-0096739 | biography | Nomvula Paula Mokonyane | 1963 | ✓ |
| A-0096690 | article | The Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960 | 25 Nov 2013 | – |
| A-0096688 | article | Indian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948 | 25 Nov 2013 | – |
| P-0096560 | place | Langa Township, Cape Town | 25 Oct 2013 | ✓ |
| B-0096463 | biography | Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan | 1949-2024 | ✓ |
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
In democratic South Africa, the government allows citizens to express dissatisfaction through peaceful demonstrations. Workers are also…
BiographyChris van Wyk
Chris van Wyk was born at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, Johannesburg in 1957 and grew up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline
The Yusuf Dadoo timeline includes the history of one the leading members of the South African communist movement. Starting at the beginning…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
In September 1915, the Union Government offered to raise an infantry battalion of Cape Coloured men for service in the First World War. A…
BiographyMiriam Tlali
Miriam Tlali was born in Doornfontein in Johannesburg, Transvaal (Gauteng). She grew up in Sophiatown. Miriam wanted to study literature at…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: Impact on the Indian Working class: the Growth of Indian trade unions
Those who formed part of the poorest section of the Indian community, such a labourers, artisans, market-gardeners bore the brunt of the…
ArticleSharpeville
On 19 March 1960, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and thereafter gather…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
The Pondo people fiercely resisted the rise of the Colonisersand their attempts to reshape and re-engineer Pondoland and to co-opt their…
BiographyLawrence Schlemmer
Eminent sociologist and political analyst Professor Lawrence Schlemmer was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 11 September 1936…
PlaceChatsworth, Suburb of Durban
The origin of Chatsworth Chatsworth is a historically Indian township located in Durban some 14km south-west of the City centre, in the…
BiographyNomvula Paula Mokonyane
Nomvula Paula Mokonyane was born on 28 June 1963 in Kagiso on the West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She is the youngest in a family of 12…
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
1959-1960: Formation, Sharpeville and Banning For many years there was tension inside the African National Congress (ANC) between those…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
1946 Passive Resistance Campaign Introduction ↵ An acute labour shortage forced White settlers in Natal to plead to the Indian…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
Development of Langa locationIn the course of the Inter War Years the regulations of the 1902 Location Act were expanded to create a more…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
The contribution of Pravin Gordhan may never be truly understood and appreciated by millions of South Africans. For those of us who have…