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ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way the … would be narrated for decades…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… By the end of 1931 and early in 1932 construction of the new housing project had begun. During the second half of 1932 … Johannesburg was the most preferred…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… addresses the Special Committee against Apartheid in New York. In his address he urged the United Nations to do … political row when he suggested that South…
PlaceSibudu Cave, North Coast near Ballito (can be spelt Sibhudu)
… possessing a large collection of well-dated middle Stone Age deposits that are well preserved. Sibudu Cave, boasts a … 77 000 and 35 000 Years ago during the…
ANC mourns the passing on of Mama Regina Nzo, 27 September 2011
… 2000. MaNzo passed on Saturday, 24 September 2011, at the age of 81. She was an ANC activist and went into exile with …
EventSouth Africa holds a referendum to decide if SA should become a republic
… Commonwealth of Nations or declare a republic. The voting age restriction was lowered to eighteen years and included …
EventJoyce Barker, SA soprano, is born in Mooi River, Natal.
… was born at Mooi River in the Natal Midlands. At the age of nineteen she started training under Daisy Holmes …
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… Assembly of South Africa. He died in June 1998 at the age of 84. …
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… League of South Africa, died in Johannesburg at the age of 65. In 1905 she became the first African woman from … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of…
EventAthlete Mathews Motshwareteu enters the annals of the country’s athletics history after only five weeks of track athletics
… and long-distance runners until a hamstring injury at the age of 40 hampered his career. No longer able to run, he …
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… was born into a Muslim family in Tangier, Morocco. At the age of 21 Battuta set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca. The trip …
EventJohnny Clegg, South African musician is born
… He left England for Zimbabwe where he lived until the age of seven. He and his mother immigrated to South Africa …
EventOlaudah Equiano, enslaved person and writer dies
… in the region that is now known as Nigeria in 1945. At the age of 15, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The slave …
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… first democratic elections. He died in 1997 at the age of 91, though it is believed he could have been at least …
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… on Zulu Philosophy and cosmology. He died in 2006 at the age of 76 in Durban. …
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
… L.A. Hurst, said Pratt had suffered from fits from the age of eight. According to Hurst, Pratt battled with both …
14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… of body: A fairly well-nourished man of about 35 years of age, muscles moderately developed, dead from 7 to 10 hours, … good, and as consequences the Indians…
14. Suicide among indentured
… of body: A fairly well-nourished man of about 35 years of age, muscles moderately developed, dead from 7 to 10 hours, … good, and as consequences the Indians…
Opening Statement at the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, 16 June, 1985
… a desolate road that ends in an abyss. For our enemy, the age of illusion is coming to its ignoble end. The belief … and democracy. The pursuit of the…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in 1911 to 35,000. Almost … outside designated areas. Existing…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… of cultures and sharing of cultural influences in the age of globalisation, there defiantly remains a tapestry of … against anyone else because of things…
Archive2013 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2013
… thirdly, land has been purchased for the development of a new dug-out port at the Old Durban airport. In the Eastern … Ngqura and construction is now…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… African interior provided economic stimulus to the new town, and by the 1860s it had overtaken Cape Town as the … amongst them were: Racecourse (1896) Walmer…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… Lembede. Lembede died the following year, however, at the age of thirty-three.4 In the preparation of the documents … fuller information on Lembede, see T…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… of life should be displaced by others derived from this new light – they should not be simply rejected without … and influence. Isaac was quite critical…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… of South Africa. However in 1996, under South Africa’s, new Democratic Constitution the Homelands were dismantled and … become an Area rich in symbolism and…
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… frustration with TUCSA’s inflexibility in the face of new worker activism reached the point where she began to … publicly disassociated itself from Harriet’s…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… from Africans in the routine performance of their duties. (New York Times) February, The Pondoland Rebellion: an … continued massive arrests of persons of…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 1: Student Activism
… a few months of the formation of Rhodes Must Fall (RMF), a new student movement evolved, with urgent issues that took … the disparity and not further…
Address at University of KwaZulu-Natal SRC awards, 7 May 2005, Howard College, Durban
… the success of Africa`s socio- economic blueprint, the New Partnership for Africa`s Development (NEPAD) and other … we can learn from Gramsci as we work…