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Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia- Johannesburg
Place
Sep 01, 2020

Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia- Johannesburg

Liliesleaf Farm is the location where prominent leaders of the opposition to South Africa's Apartheid Government used to...

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Archive
Aug 28, 2020

Vejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith Ramlakan - Article from 'Congress Resister'

Dr Vijay Ramlakan was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. He went to prison along with Sibusiso Ndlanzi, Sibongiseni Dhl...

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Biography
Aug 27, 2020

Faith Gasa

Inkatha Freedom Party student activist, teacher, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) member, IFP Secretary, IFP Women’s Brigade ...

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Quanza Shipwreck, East London
Place
Aug 27, 2020

Quanza Shipwreck, East London

The Quanza was a four-masted steamship of 942 tons which went ashore at East London on Sunday, 26 May 1872 at 05h00. She...

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Aug 26, 2020

Women delegates to the inaugural conference of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)

Cape Town: 1. Dora Tamana – African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), Retreat Women’s Vigilance Association. ...

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Grootvaderbosch Farm, Heidelberg
Place
Aug 26, 2020

Grootvaderbosch Farm, Heidelberg

The Strawberry Hill Farmhouse (now a guest house) was built in the late 1800’s by Thomas Dunbar. Thomas Dunbar was a ren...

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Biography
Aug 26, 2020

Rebecca Lan

a member of Habonim, Modern Youth Society; social researcher; worked at the University of Cape Town’s Board of Studies; ...

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Asha Moodley interviewed by D. Shongwe (15 August 2002), Durban
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Aug 26, 2020

Asha Moodley interviewed by D. Shongwe (15 August 2002), Durban

Explore this africa item to learn more about South African history.

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The Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
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Aug 26, 2020

The Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)

THE HISTORY of the South African Trotskyists during the 1930s and into the next decade was never made available or discu...

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Ashlatha Rambally
Biography
Aug 26, 2020

Ashlatha Rambally

Anti-apartheid activist, feminist, member of SASO, the BCM, the BPC, and AZAPO, banned for three years

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Review of Kora: A lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep (Unisa Press), by June Bam-Hutchison (Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town)
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Aug 25, 2020

Review of Kora: A lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep (Unisa Press), by June Bam-Hutchison (Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town)

There have always been general assumptions that the KhoeSan people (‘Khoe’ is the correct spelling) are extinct and that...

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Hondeklipbaai, Namaqualand
Place
Aug 24, 2020

Hondeklipbaai, Namaqualand

Hondeklipbaai is a small fishing community along the coast of Namaqualand. The Village was original to export copper in ...

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Molweni, Kwa Zulu Natal
Place
Aug 21, 2020

Molweni, Kwa Zulu Natal

The Population of Molweni is made up of mostly Black Africans, with Females being the predominate Gender! Molweni is a R...

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Paradise Valley, Kwa Zulu Natal
Place
Aug 21, 2020

Paradise Valley, Kwa Zulu Natal

The Paradise Valley Nature Reserve, 100 hectares of coastal and remnant grassland, boasts one of the two National Monume...

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Primville, Soweto- Johannesburg
Place
Aug 21, 2020

Primville, Soweto- Johannesburg

Walter Sisulu Square in the heart of Kliptown , Soweto, is South Africa’s first township entertainment explosion centre,...

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