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Document 9 - First letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… should be the aims of the negotiations. 16. We are at one with them that the outcome of such a process should be a … on the basis of a universal suffrage,…
Document 13 - Declaration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ad hoc committee on southern Africa on the question of South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe (The Harare Declaration) Sections 14-24
… should be the aims of the negotiations. 16. We are at one with them that the outcome of such a process should be a … on the basis of a universal suffrage,…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) - Convenor: Janet Cherry
Webinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) Convenor: Janet Cherry Has the South African development trajectory over the past…
EventAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo died
… and grew up in Worcester. She came under the tutelage of one Miss Schreiner and subsequently dedicated her life to … In 1937 Sister Nannie was honoured with…
EventSouth African Police announce arrest of serial killer
… the country's most wanted man at the time. Sithole, thirty-one years of age at the time, was arrested in connection with the murders of at least thirty-seven…
EventReport released on the Waratah steamship's disappearance
… Cape Town. The twin-screw passenger and cargo steamship, one of the biggest liners on the Austalian run, was lost with … shortly after she failed to arrive…
EventFirst recorded discovery of diamonds in the colonial period of South Africa
… South Africa's agrarian economy to an industrialized one. South Africa is to date, one of the substantial providers of minerals world-wide. …
EventSouth African cricketer, AB de Villiers is born
… Graeme Smith and became captain of the South African One Day International (ODI) team. He is a right-handed … by a South African in an innings. He is also…
EventHenry Olonga, Zimbabwean Cricketer is born
… Kenya, before settling in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He is one of five siblings; one of his brothers, Victor Olonga is a rugby player. Ologa …
Steve Biko: Gone but not forgotten by Robin Comley and Claire Keeton (Times Live), 12 September 2017
… “We believed ourselves to be revolutionaries on one hand and intellectuals on the other. We were students and … was in exile in the UK. I picked up the paper…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… the British arrived on the scene. The Xhosa fought for one hundred years to preserve their independence, heritage … The suburb of Korsten was named after…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… pressure and persecution back in South Africa. She becomes one of the prominent communists to move there. She re-locates … 1975 Mozambique becomes…
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… to give the vote to all Whites at the age of twenty-one years, whilst Non-White men had to meet additional … the time she came into power until today, you…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… of South Africa in Kwaito music, this is interesting when one considers that the township was created to keep a ready …
ArticleThe New Group
… 1938 in Cape Town. Works valued at R400.00 were sold and one thousand visitors attended both the exhibition and its …
ArticleThe Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.
… Afrikaner Broederbond (AB). The formation of the AB was one specific organisational response to the social and …
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… This made the nomadic life more practical than settling in one place. As agriculture grew people settled in villages and …
ArticleThe legacy of the French Revolution
… in society today. The Declaration of the Rights of Man One of the legacies of the French Revolution is a document …
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… and whole truth was told by the person seeking amnesty. No one was exempt from being charged. As well as ordinary …
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
… in these rights and freedoms have seen them destroyed one by one. What has been the response of Non-White South Africans … of South African produce in…
Breyten Breytenbach writes to the editor of the Daily Maverick on vanishing UCT artworks and blank minds, South Africa, 11 April 2016
… reasoning weren’t so sleazy and infinitely self-serving one could perhaps take pity and guide these spokespeople to … to GroundUp Report: Prominent artwork…
ArchiveZuma rape case judge stands down (BBC News),13 February 2006
… charges when the trial began in the city on Monday. He was one of the country's most popular politicians but he was … which should weigh with me heavily."…
PlaceShri Jagannath Puri Temple, Tongaat
… The Temple's physical design was created Based on only one other Temple Kamal's Grandfather had seen in India, prior … from Sanskirt, meaning "Lord of the…
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
… not the most honourable to those deities at whose alters one half of the human race formerly bowed down. Thus Jupiter … for water and Solomon up to Table…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
… walk into the house, rifle through the box, take someÂone's parcel and out she'd go. Well, I thought, if she's … of the threat against church going. Their…
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… to raise children, how to live relatively peacefully with one another, as well as problems such as "what is the meaning … since it includes the way in which…
PlaceBoshof House, Boshof Avenue, Newlands
… 1985.The gateway to Boshof House was built in 1793, and is one of the few structures to have survived from the old … formerly owned by Alexander van Breda…
PlaceSmuts Hall, University of Cape Town
… This hall was erected as one of the first phases of the University of Cape Town's … a Place which you can make your own ..... (A comment from one of the…
EventMemorandum on housing conditions in Fietas, Johannesburg
… Fietas ,as the Pageview community was popularly known, was one of the oldest communities in Johannesburg and was one of the first 'locations' (non-white…
EventBafana Bafana play 2-2 draw with Cameroon
… South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana, came up against one of the African soccer giants, Cameroon, in three … and Bennet Masinga. The South African team…