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EventJosephine Wood, founder of the South African Library for the Blind, is born in Grahamstown
… The Library was officially opened in 1946 as the South African Library for the Blind in Grahamstown. Woods was also … affiliated to international…
ArchiveThe Hambanati Story: Paper Presented at National Conference 1985
… at National Conference on 15 March 1985 discussing Native Urban Areas Act, apartheid, housing, separate development, Group Areas Board, violence, …
Regarding the white male gaze in South African photography by Daniel Gallan, 14 Jun 2017
… How does a person place himself in the current South African discourse when he is young, white and male? As … David Goldblatt made its world premiere in…
BiographyKobera Manual
… two children, Ellen and Tommy. Opposite was the Chinese family. His surname was Shangley, but we called him Mr … actually had no food, she would send food…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… Native Affairs Act was yet another spin-off of the South African Native Affairs Commission report of 1905. It paved … these areas. Local authorities were…
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki's most stirring speeches
… "I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the … seasons that define the face of our native land. I am an African! I owe my being to the…
EventSouth African woman, Janice Bronwyn Linden, is sentenced to death in China for smuggling drugs
… was executed by lethal injection. In response, The South African International Relations Cooperations Department … do not subscribe to the death penalty and…
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
… an active role in the Woodstock branch of the South African Communist Party. Denis and his older brother Allan … from Observatory Boys School and was the…
Ntombikayise Priscilla Ngocobo (née Khubeka)
… , Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and was affiliated with the African National Congress (ANC) armed wing uMkhonto weSizwe …
BiographyHendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
… selected to do so. Coetsee came from a politically aware family with both parents active in the local NP. His … part in political negotiations after the…
BiographyNatvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia
… South Africa. In 1936, faced with economic hardship, his family returned to India which was engaged in its own … July 1962, Ronnie Kasrils approached Babenia…
Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
… The delegation of the African National Congress, and I particularly, feel specially … a piece of land on which they lived. Almost every African family…
Message to the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party by O. R. Tambo, April 1989
… Comrade Joe Slovo, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party, Comrade Dan Tloome, Chairman of the South African Communist Party, Distinguished…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
… The Constitution was the birth certificate of the South African nation. It is one of the most advanced in the world, … effect of these developments spurred…
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… Arthur Robert Ashe, a prominent African American tennis player who was born and raised in … black player to win a title-a doubles match-in the South African…
ArchiveUnited Democratic Front affiliates called upon to intensify campaign to unban the African National Congress
… affiliates called upon to intensify campaign to unban the African National Congress. … affiliates called upon to intensify campaign to unban the African…
National Education Minister Naledi Pandor launches the redesigned and updated South African History Online website.
… Naledi Pandor launches the redesigned and updated South African History Online website. … Naledi Pandor launches the redesigned and updated South African…
ArchiveFive Freedoms Forum - African National Congress Conference, July 1989: Report of Commission on Negotiations (A1)
… Report of the African National Congress - Five Freedoms Forum, Commission … Five Freedoms Forum - African National Congress Conference, July 1989: Report of …
ArchiveResponse of the South African Council of Churches to the WCC programme to combat racism
… Response of the South African Council of Churches to the WCC programme to combat … Response of the South African Council of Churches to the WCC programme to…
EventPublic places of recreation for whites only, are proclaimed
… Public places of recreation in white areas were proclaimed in accordance with provisions of the … Areas Act was first introduced. According to this act,…
ArchiveStatement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the current situation
… Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the Tri-Cameral elections and … Statement of the National Executive…
Minutes of the South African Council of Churches Consultation, Cartiony, Geneva, 22-23 October 1987
… Minutes of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) Consultation, 22-23 … Minutes of the South African Council of Churches Consultation, Cartiony, Geneva…
ArchiveLetter from Reverend Allan Boesak to the South African Law and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok
… Letter from Reverend Allan Boesak to the South African Law and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok announcing his … Letter from Reverend Allan Boesak to the South…
BiographyAlbert Dlomo
… Dlomo joined the African National Congress (ANC ) at Chesterville in Durban … Mxenge and others began discussion on reviving the South African Congress of…
ArchiveMemorandum submitted by the African National Congress of South Africa to the UN Decolonisation Committee
… Memorandum submitted by the African National Congress of South Africa to the UN … Memorandum submitted by the African National Congress of South Africa to…
ArchiveLetter from the South African Embassy, Paris, to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Cape Town
… Letter, written in Afrikaans, from the South African Embassy in France to the Department of Foreign … Letter from the South African Embassy, Paris, to the…
ArchiveMemorandum on the raising of affiliation fees of the National Union of South African Students
… in affiliation fees to the National Union of South African Students. The projects and expenses of the National … raising of affiliation fees of the National…
ArchiveStatement of the Controversy between the South African and Namibian Government regarding the Walvis Bay
… by Popo Molefe on the Controversy between the South African and Namibian Government regarding the Walvis Bay as a … Statement of the Controversy between the…
ArchiveMkhumbane our home African shantytown society in Cato Manor Farm, 1946-1960 by Iain Edwards
… structures of everyday life and the nature of power in the African shacklands of Cato Manor Farm. Click to read: … Mkhumbane our home African shantytown…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… Klug inserted himself into the conflict of South African apartheid and aided in the transition of the … on April 7, 1957 in Durban , South Africa. His mother…