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PlaceKimberley, Northern Cape
… to a diggers taste for beer or something stronger! Social life in Kimberley was as hectic as the frantic search for …
PlaceIrene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
… southern side of the town, were extremely primitive. Life was exceptionally hard, and very little notice were …
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… inevitably righteousness, justice, wholeness, fullness of life, participation in decision making, goodness, laughter, …
EventIt is announced that a child prostitution and trafficking task team rescues 14 underage prostitutes in downtown Johannesburg
… into South Africa. They are promised jobs and a better life, but are often forced into prostitution. The rate of …
EventHajara Ibrahim appears before a Nigerian Islamic court to launch an appeal against her conviction for adultery
… Islamic religious laws and deals with aspects of everyday life, such as politics, banking, family, sexuality and …
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… Charles Robberts Swart left a noticeable imprint on public life in South Africa. Although a larger part of his …
PlacePhillipton
… missionary was James Read who devoted much of his working life to promoting the rights of the Khoikhoi. Like Van der …
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… African National Congress were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment He was the President of the International …
PlaceCederberg Wilderness Area
… only the best of our seafood and have an abundance of bird life to be spotted. Wupperthal and Elandskloof , both … climbing at Rocklands; go and discover the…
PlaceHogsback, Eastern Cape
… and business people, live a rich personal and community life here. Hogsback has an active garden club and book clubs. … much to those who want to break away…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… This paper begins to probe an earlier period in Luthuli's life, when the teacher and organizer (and later elected Zulu … his political style and beliefs for…
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… attempts were made, almost in every department of life, to debase the God-factor in Man or to set a limit … not race, would fix the position of the…
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
… of the human soul and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all." Do you remember the dream we embraced to build … vow to promote transparency and…
EventOliver Kgadime Matsepe, Northern Sotho writer and poet dies in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district.
… baptized in the Lutheran church. For most of his adult life Matsepe worked as a clerk and interpreter for the …
EventJohn Ndevasia Muafangejo is born
… his paintings. His motifs were drawn from his everyday life, history, his surroundings and politics. Muafangejo died …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference in solidarity with the frontline states and Lesotho, Lisbon, 25 March 1983
… then, the apartheid system has become a gruesome fact of life not only for an oppressed and exploited majority in … "Constructive engagement" has destroyed…
Address at the Launch of the Millenium Labour Council, 7 July 2000
… the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so … and require new initiatives to…
Postscript
… extent that has been true of the past thirty years of my life ”” I have followed the road "less travelled by", the … its power, frightened for the…
Trade Unions in South Africa by Ari Sitas and Bianca Tame
… African trade unions had a decisive role in the political life of the territory that became the Union of South Africa …
EventPat Boone, American singer, actor and writer, begins a 10-day tour of South Africa
… Boone came to South Africa for a 10 day tour. In later life he switched from rock and roll to gospel and country …
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… I had ever met before. He didn't belong to my middle-class life, which he contemptuously called "spit and polish". Nor did I fit into his life. He had come…
EventProtest against gender- based violence throughout South Africa
… said that a minimum sentence for perpetrators must be a life sentence in jail. …
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
… population with inconceivable disadvantages. Yet daily life went on. People got up and went to work, dealt with … to a white town, the Johannesburg suburb of…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… 1977 to 1994, has produced a range of appraisals of his life. The general tone of the commentaries – including the … apartheid. The credit for that lies…
ArchiveMemories of Trafalgar High, District Six by Warren Ludski
… building here and there. Two of those buildings defined my life and shaped my future – Trafalgar High School in cobbled … and District 6, was and is, part of…
Bibliographical Data
… Press, 1950). Dr. A. B. Xuma wrote "Extracts from the Life Story of Dr. Alfred Xuma" in eleven brief installments … published in abridged form as South…
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
… the things which poison the springs of our national life and virtue; to label and distinguish the sins of … consolidation, critical both to improve the…
Input by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Farewell service for former President Nelson Mandela, Waterkloof Airforce Base, 14 December 2013
… understood and respected. That`s why he could combine the life in Qunu and the life in Johannesburg and there is no contradiction to Madiba. He believed in…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… in Johannesburg came to mount a permanent exhibit on Life Under Apartheid,they did it in the form of a series of … Foundation funding, and which was to have…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia Potenza Life in Southern Africa changed greatly because of the … Revolution in Britain, there was a very…