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PlaceAvalon Cemetery, Soweto
On the Southern edge of one of the Country’s most famous townships, Soweto, lies the equally Historic Avalon Cemetery. The biggest cemetery in South Africa…
EventGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, SA minister of education since 2004, is born in Durban
Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor was born in Durban on 7 December 1953. Her father, Joe Matthews, was a prominent anti-apartheid activist and the son of academic Z…
EventThe Missing Persons Task Team (MPTT) to Investigate Apartheid Missing Persons Cases
The Missing Persons Task’s Team (MPTT) emerged as a recommendation after the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1996 in its Final…
PlaceDessenhoek, Durban
Dessenhoek forms a Community of Durban, towards the Pinetown Area. In a continual effort to improve the lives of those around them, Gelvenor once again gave…
EventAfrican Mineworkers' strike starts
A week long strike by African mineworkers, led by John Beaver (JB) Marks, leader of the African Mineworkers' Union, started on this day. The strike was…
PlacePhuthaditjhaba, Free State
… name is a seSotho word that means 'meeting place of nations or tribes'. Long before this, though, the area was …
EventBlack Wednesday, the banning of 19 Black Consciousness Movement Organisations
It was known as Black Wednesday. On October 19, 1977, The World and Weekend World were banned. The editor of The World, Percy Qoboza, who became the editor of…
PlaceWagenaer's Reservoir, Sanlam Golden Acre-Cape Town
In the heart of the 'Mother City', Golden Acre Shopping Centre has been a key part of everyday life in Cape Town since 1979.This shopping-Centre on the site of…
ArchiveChapter 17 Affairs of the heart and Community H.E.A.R.T.
… for Governments and the specialist agencies of the United Nations to do if it were needed. We would work to develop …
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… involving South Africa. We appeal to the United Nations Security Council to convene as a matter of urgency to …
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
Fellow South African citizens, I am here today to invite you to join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams. I ask those of you of my generation:…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… April-May 1962. [76] Moses Kotane , p. 273. [77] United Nations Office of Public Information, Apartheid and the …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… mentality. The Bantu were taken by surprise that European nations who led in education and Christianity should find no …
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Short Bio Johann Maree was one of the founders of the Western…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… and President of the African National Congress Youth League, together with Walter Sisulu, Secretary General of the …
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… the eager help of the African National Congress Women's League and several trade unions. The conference drew over 150 …
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…
PlacePhalaborwa, Limpopo Province
Phalaborwa is a town in the Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo province, South Africa. Phalaborwa is the site of the 'Big Hole', the earth's largest man…
EventRocklands Community Hall declared a heritage site
On 20 August 2019, the 36th anniversary of the founding of the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Rocklands Community Hall, located in Mitchell’s Plain,Cape…
EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
Two members of the banned liberation movements, Harry Gwala, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and Zephania Mothopeng a member of the Pan…
PlaceSomerset Hospital, Cape Town
The Somerset Hospital in Green Point opened in 1864 and has been declared a National Monument. The Hospital replaced one of the same name in Cape Town which…
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
Queenstown was founded in 1853. It was intended to be a Military Outpost designed to protect the British subjects from attack during the time of the Frontier…
PlaceVictoria Falls, Zimbabwe and Zambia
Victoria Falls is known locally as 'Mosi-oa-Tunya', which translates to “The Smoke that Thunders”. This nickname is iconic and discribes the sounds of the…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… Firstly, it is a matter of history that the United Nations General Assembly adopted a number of resolutions … Observing that the General Assembly of the…
PlaceSimon's Town Museum
… in a history which is intertwined with that of many nations around the world. The greatest tragedy to befall the … Simon's Town community. Simon’s Town was a…
"Attack, Advance, Give the Enemy No Quarter!" by O. R. Tambo, Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 74th Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 1986
… National Liberation Front. To all the forces, to the nations organised in the OAU, the Non-Aligned Movement and the United Nations, we, the people of…
ArchiveChapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg
… to self-determination of peoples enshrined in the United Nations Charter, and their actions, including armed struggle, … of all the provisions of Chapter VII…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
… National Liberation Front. To all the forces, to the nations organised in the OAU, the Non-Aligned Movement and the United Nations, we, the people of South…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 1 - State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa by Yonah Seleti
… a fundamental way. The change included the creation of new nations with new structures for ruling themselves. While … guns which they saw as necessary for…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated unequal relationships between Europeans and their descendants and local people…