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HIV/Aids in South Africa

... the spread of HIV. These include: poverty; inequality and social instability; high levels of sexually transmitted infections; the low ... (Social histories) ...

Article - Anonymous - 2011-12-22 10:55 - 0 attachments

Santu Mofokeng

... "Landscape is the mute witness to histories and narratives" Santu Mofokeng, a storyteller of note. Mofokeng won ... documentary photographer for the Institute for Advanced Social Research for ten years at the University of the Witwatersrand. He ...

Biography - Anonymous - 2011-10-25 09:46 - 0 attachments

Dr James Moroka (left) and his successor Chief Albert Luthuli in December 1952

... Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA, Collection: Drum Social Histories, Permission: Africamediaonline ...

Image - mads - 2012-05-18 15:01 - 0 attachments

Nelson Mandela Timeline 1800-2010

... enters Xhosa folklore and becomes notorious in Xhosa histories of resistance. 1856 A young woman, Nongqawuse, has a vision ... of the massive loss of lives and the destablisation of the social and economic fabric of those tribes who fought against the conquest and ...

Article - Anonymous - 2012-05-03 17:08 - 0 attachments

Mongane Wally Serote

... South Africa and Ireland have both been subjected to histories of violence based on colonial ethic discrimination and it variations, ... more contentious one . . .  which has to do with the social reverberations of art.” Meihuizen observes “if hope is a tool, ...

Biography - Cabral - 2012-03-12 12:24 - 0 attachments

Afrikaners and the Second World War by Rodney Warwick

... aspects concerning Afrikaner history, politics and social demands. But for Afrikaner nationalists of yesteryear, the harsh reality ... even beyond the coming of republic. The Union War Histories section of the SADF, originally launched on the initiative of Smuts, ...

Archive Item - mads - 2012-03-08 12:40 - 0 attachments

Rand Rebellion 1922

... in the first place, without disturbing the racist social order that had evolved in the mining industry. The ensuing balancing act ... Alfred (Taffy) Long , heralded by subsequent labour histories as one of South Africa’s greatest working-class martyrs, was ...

Article - Anonymous - 2011-11-11 12:08 - 0 attachments