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ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… as a single group or culture is like talking about 'Africans' being all the same. There are many different … manual labour. The Europeans needed alternative…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… and Telegraphs. His brother Dap Naude served as mayor in 1947/8 and 48/9, and again in 1951. Later he was elected … which celebrated its 80th anniversary…
EventSouth Africa celebrates the first National Women's Day
In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country's history, 20 000 women of all races marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings on 9 August 1956, to…
PlaceElandsfontein Phosphate Mine, Hopefield
Kropz acquired the Elandsfontein property in August 2010 and has since invested some $120 Million on Exploration, bulk sampling, and feasibility studies lead…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
… of the NA, Honourable members of the NCOP, Fellow South Africans, It is 30 years since Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela … universities last year. It is about the 6…
PlaceKoffiefontein, Free State Province
… of war being held there, along with around 800 South Africans who were thought to be pro-Nazi. Prominent political figure John Vorster was among the South…
PlaceMendi Memorial, Eastern Cape
… Channel was rammed by another ship. More than 600 South Africans died onboard. Many of these men were from Pondoland, … brothers" to highlight the role…
UCT Summer School 2020
… answers will be sought to explain setbacks the South Africans suffered at the hands of the Deutsches Afrika Korps (DAK) led by Rommel. Before North Africa,…
PlaceTransvaal Province
The Transvaal is a historical region and former Province of South Africa, located North of the Vaal River, that existed from 1910 to 1994. It's now part of the…
EventThe Natal Indian Congress is formally revived
The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) was formally revived in 1971 after a long period of inactivity due to the harassment of its leaders by the apartheid government…
EventZANU-PF under Robert Mugabe wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe becomes president
On 4 March 1980, Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) won Zimbabwe's first free elections, securing 57 of the 80 common…
EventClements Kadalie dies
Trade unionist, Lameck Koniwaka Kadali Muwamba, known by his adopted name, Clements Kadalie, was born in April 1896, near the Bandawe mission station in…
EventOne-fifth of SA's military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks
It was announced that at least one-fifth of South Africa's military was infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Therefore on 7 October 2003 the Defence…
PlaceSeshego, a Township
Seshego is a Township in the Polokwane Local Municipality of the Capricorn District Municipality of the Limpopo Province It lies directly North West of…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
Good afternoon Dumelang Hello Absheni! Hola! It is an honour to be with you this afternoon. The task at hand certainly daunts me. Yet, it is…
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… system in Gerard Sekoto’s painting Song of the Pick, from 1947. He attained no artist’s celebrity of the kind of a …
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
… Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. But for us, as South Africans, the passing of that baton has a deeply historic … subjugation is the common experience of…
Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry
… impossible to have any form of open contact with South Africans who were intending to return to South Africa. The … obviously had its own machinery for…
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… peace led to an alliance of Britons and Boers against the Africans, Coloured people and Indians, and responded to … fought for their freedom, joined with the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… It showed that ANC-aligned popular organisation among Africans remained weak. Footnote Maharaj and others believed … bills which promised to intensify the…
Archive2000 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 4 February 2000
… The remaining controls therefore relate only to South Africans. Again, the Minister of Finance will address this … deviant behaviour. Nevertheless two…
Archive1997 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 1997
… abstract national or regional or local people, but South Africans, requiring and deserving of the highest professional … steps that have transformed the…
Chapter II - More of the same
… it all because the hoaxed people were typical white South Africans, unlikely to feel any sympathy towards my brand of … us would have become forgotten people…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… felt the full force of apartheid. Over time, black Africans were forced to the perimeter. Children of different …
Archive2022 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2022
… Supporting Democracy, Members of Parliament, Fellow South Africans, This year, for the first time since the dawn of our … years has taken the lives of tens…
PlaceLeliefontein
The pretty, Historic Village of Leliefontein is located in; the Kamiesberg Mountain Range. The turn off the Road, between Kamieskroon and Garies in the Namakwa…
![Letter from Steve Biko to Colin [Collins] re follow-up discussion on financial assistance to SASO from UCM, Aug 15, 1969.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/archive-files2/let19690815.032.009.743.thumb.gif?itok=6M3u975_)
ArchiveLetter from Steve Biko to Colin [Collins] re follow-up discussion on financial assistance to SASO from UCM, Aug 15, 1969.
A request for financial assistance from the University Christian Movement by the President of the the South African Students Organisation Steve Biko
ArticleTransport on land
… useful in areas that are not accessible to cars. South Africans using a donkey to travel to town. Image source …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… membership of the National Party accessible to all South Africans". The decision is subject to approval by the Party …
ArchiveI Write What I Like: Selected Writings
… articulates Biko's central conviction: that black South Africans could not achieve genuine liberation without first …