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PlacePacaltsdorp
… Christianity. His grave is declared a national Monument. 12. Missionaries’ Acre: In the centre of the old cemetery …
For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated February 23, 1934.
… groups of his followers. First on Wednesday 14th instant (12) and Thursday 22nd instant (10) meeting again some on …
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… capital striving for economic and political domination”.12 In the Cape, the nationalist entrepreneurs in the … into employers and employees, workers and…
PlaceBethlehem, Free State
… in 1884. Named after the biblical Bethlehem (Judg. 17:7), the birthplace of Jesus. The nickname- ‘House of …
PlaceCrocodile River Bridges
… 80km Southwards, (this was done in leu of the exchange for 12 cases of gin.) The Crocodile Bridge is an open Area of …
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… in four Geneva Conventions revised and adopted in 1949. The Geneva Conventions established legal guidelines for …
ArchiveSteve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
… had been released from a New York jail after serving 12 years for a crime he insists he did not commit. He was 16 … attack on his wife and was sentenced to…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… in 1986,1987,1988 and 1989 extending uninterruptedly from 12 June 1986 up to and including the present time. • The … 5-year-period up to and including 1988: …
Archive2013 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2013
… twitter and Facebook. I also spent some time with Grade 12 learners who shared their own views on what should be … number of households with access to…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
… to an article suspected of an offence (Merrett:64) Oct 12: Pretoria News published a cartoon that read "Yes, there …
Lobenguela’s izinDuna by Martin Plaut (Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa ), 2016
… Amandabele, Rhodesiana, No. 23, December 1970, footnote 17, p. 53 ↵ [ii] For a detailed contemporary account of the …
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
Jacob van der Heiden, a political prisoner, spent part of his confinement in April-May 1706 in a dungeon in the Castle in Cape Town, which he shared with Ari…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
Photography is the common language of modern history. It’s everywhere; and everyone, in some way, understands it. No institution presents and parses that…
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Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… spot there is a scar, perhaps an injury long forgotten. On 17/5 I had a cortisone injection and we hope that it will at …
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… 1976, many pupils and students, their ages ranging from 17 to 24 years, had been arrested in Port Elizabeth and …
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Hester Cornelius (Translated from the Afrikaans) I was born and brought up in the Lichtenburg District, Transvaal. Both my father and my grandfather fought in…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… few pitiful rights they had in the Cape were ignored. On 12 October 1908, exactly nine years after the outbreak of the … Winston Churchill. They had…
Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles
… to the bill came from the Conservative Party (CP). 17 On 19 May the government indemnified ANC leaders for a … was confirmed at D. F. Malan Airport in Cape…
PlaceHilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School
… estate, Hilton caters for 555 boys from Grade 8 to Grade 12. The College faces Northwards across the wide sweep of the …
PlaceGreater Mapungubwe Heritage Site And Tour.
… with other stakeholders launched the route from 12 to 14 October 2012. Attractions showcased included the …
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… goals. Animosity between Indian and Zulu peaked in the 1949 Durban riots that resulted in 142 deaths. By the mid … [iii] South African Labour Bulletin…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… developer would reveal a vivid orange or yellow message." 12 The innocent letter would be organised around a … to work and revolutionary commitment and…
Pedi
[baPedi – People and sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… were also established namely; Grey College which opened on 17 January 1858, the so-called Dames Instituut or Eunice …
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
South Africa has one of the longest sequences of human development in the world. It begins with two million years old hominid fossils. Human Origins South…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
Evolution refers to the slow process of human adaptation over millions of years. The roots of humanity are believed to lie in South Africa, where the earliest…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… 2014]|African National Congress, (1954). Women’s Charter, 17 April. Available at https://www.anc.org.za [Accessed 25 …
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… fewer major high-profile attacks (massacres declined to 12) but a high number of incidents (nearly 20% more) … 3-year period as follows: Year l - 34 Year 2 -…
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… – 1791) the founder of Methodism . John Wesley (born June 17, 1703, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England—died March 2, 1791, … Lillian Ngoyi and Thomas Masekela…