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Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism commissioned by The Department of Education
… Turning Point 2 focuses on the imposition of colonialism and explores its impact on African societies. … colonialism. This is not to deny the negative impact…
ArchiveReligious Society of Friends writes letter to Cabinet Ministers: forced removals of Africans
… A letter from Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, to the members of the Cabinet about forced removals of Africans. … Religious Society of…
ArchiveSlum clearance of the portion of Dassiekraal known as slum Case No. S. 577
… City of Port Elizabeth Departmental Circular No. 54 of 1954 announcing the relocation of forty seven families from the Dassiekraal slum area to New … Slum…
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Baleka Mbete, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Ms Thandi Modise, … is not baseless; it is grounded on…
ArchiveStatement by the Acting General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches...
… containing the statement by the Acting General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, John Rees and other church leaders on the decision of the…
ArchiveLetter from R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Information, to the Honourable Alexander M Haig, Secretary of State, United States of America
… Letter from Pik Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Information, to US Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, regarding the Ottawa Summit … Letter from R F…
ArchiveBolt: Magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.1 No.2 1970
… For women in Trouble, Douglas Livingstone. The Problem of Censorship, C.J.D. Harvey. Marcuse: The Power of Negative Thinking, Rick Turner. Whites Only,…
EventPupils boycott classes in defiance of the use of Afrikaans in their schools
… started boycotting classes in protest against the use of Afrikaans as medium of instruction in certain subjects in schools. The unrest … African event…
EventThe Prince Imperial of France dies in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
… The 22-year-old Prince Imperial of France, Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon, who studied in … party were attacked by about forty Zulus in the vicinity of…
EventThe Chernobyl computer virus damages hundreds of thousands of computers around the world
… April 1999, the CIH computer virus infected a large number of computers around the world with Korea bearing the brunt at over $250 million worth of damage…
ArchiveGeneral History of Africa Collection
… This groundbreaking work was the first of its type to present the entire history of the African continent. The collection sheds light on the … era and…
Peace Treaty of Vereeniging - transcript
… is hereby published for general information. By order of His Excellency the High Commissioner and Administrator of the Transvaal. WE Davidson, Acting…
ArchiveAnnual Report of the Department of Health year ended 31st December 1958
… Annual Report of the Department of Health for the year ended 1958 … Annual Report of the Department of Health year ended 31st December 1958 …
Document 3 - Peace Treaty of Vereeniging
… Today's opening address of President Nelson Mandela to parliament will go down in the history of our country as one of the most sober analyses of the…
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
… industrial struggle for an eight-hour day. Origins of May Day International working classes have existed since the development of agriculture, which began…
PlaceMichaelis School of Fine Art
… The Michaelis School of Fine Art, the namesake of the Fine Art Department of the University of Cape Town , is located on Hiddingh … https://showme.co.za/cape…
ArchiveMinutes: Ordinary Meeting of the Urban Bantu Council of Johannesburg, 26 February 1976
… Minutes of the 94th Ordinary Meeting record the service provision and the administrative duties of the Council within a segregated local government … Minutes…
Meeting of ANC, SACP, COSATU of Transkei and the Border held in Umtata
… Minutes of a meeting of the Tripartite Alliance. Discussed political developments … Meeting of ANC, SACP, COSATU of Transkei and the Border held in Umtata …
ArchiveMeeting of ANC, SACP, COSATU of Transkei and the Border held in Umtata
… Minutes of a meeting of the Tripartite Alliance. Discussed political developments … Meeting of ANC, SACP, COSATU of Transkei and the Border held in Umtata …
PlaceDitsong Museum of Natural History
… The Ditsong National Museum of Natural History used to be the Transvaal Museum of Natural History, which in turn developed from the 1892 … Gauteng’s only…
EventDay of the African Child
… The 16th of June is commemorated each year as the Day of the African Child. This commemoration was adopted on 16 … honour those who had laid down their lives…
PlaceCircle of Kramat's, Cape Town
… The circle of Kramats in Cape Town is a shrine to Muslim holy men buried … National disasters. Kramats or Mazaars, the holy shrines of Islam, mark the graves…
PlaceHistorical core of Wynberg Village
… The old village of Wynberg was developed during the mid-19th Century when it became the preferred place of retirement for British civil servants returning…
ArchiveInterim report of the African National Congress Joint Committee on Reduction of Expenditure
… Report by Moses Kotane on reduction of expenditure in the African National Congress. Recommends the reduction of allowances and reduction in camps…
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… South Africa entered WWI on 8 September 1914, on the side of the Allied Forces. On 15 July 1916, the S.A. Infantry … was ordered to clear the wood at d…
EventVorster appoints a Commission of Inquiry
… Prime Minister John Vorster appoints a Commission of Inquiry under chairmanship of Justice H. J. Potgieter of The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to…
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… multiparty negotiating forum agreed to repeal section 29 of the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allowed for detention without trial. This measure had been…
PlaceWits School of Arts (WSOA)
… The Wits School of Arts (WSOA) is ranked as one of the top interdisciplinary school of arts in South Africa according to World Universities … https://www…
PlaceCradle of Humankind, near Johannesburg
… The Cradle of Humankind was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999. It is about 50 km North West of Johannesburg , South Africa in the Gauteng…
EventDeath of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… was a teacher, lawyer, politician, and principal architect of Africanism in South Africa, died unexpectedly in Johannesburg at the age of 33. In 1944 Lembede…