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ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… is written by her daughter Shawn. 1992 17 August, Nelson Mandela delivers the Ruth First Tenth Anniversary …
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… marking Heritage Day in 1996, former President Nelson Mandela stated: "When our first democratically-elected …
District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list by Diana Mellow (GroundUp), 23 September 2016
… place. I am not from Bo Kaap.” In a 2004 ceremony, Nelson Mandela gave house keys to the first two ex-residents of … back to District Six, where they are…
Statement Issued By GCIS: Briefing on the Case of Robert McBride - 21 May 1998
… any representations to the contrary. Has President Nelson Mandela met McBride's family, and what has the South African government done to assist them?…
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
… whole body of united races and colours, Tutu’s and Nelson Mandela’s rhetoric of the Rainbow Nation invokes a connection … of man having a natural claim to…
PlaceMthatha Airport, Eastern Cape
… Hometown of many great African leaders, including Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu! The Airport was previously known … Hometown of many great African leaders…
On the 20th Anniversary of the passing of Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo, 24 April 2013
… words of the eulogy delivered by Isithandalwe President Mandela at the funeral of Cde Tambo 20 years ago that, …
Place'Agoada de Saldanha', Saldanha
… Duncan Dock '. Robben Island is in this Bay, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned there for Decades. …
PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
… 16 June 12H00 (Youth Day) 18 July 12H00 (Mandela Day) 24 September 12H00 (Heritage Day) 11 …
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… The African National Congress (ANC) President, Nelson Mandela, said; “She (Biel) made our aspirations her own and …
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… in the first democratic elections in 1994, with Nelson Mandela as the first Black President. The repeal of the legal …
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… out despite the four conditions that he had set for Nelson Mandela had been accommodated. The multiparty forum also …
PlaceOliver Tambo District Municipality
… Village of Mvezo, where the late former President Nelson Mandela was born into the Madiba clan of the Thembu royal family. The Nelson Mandela National Museum…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… for a lot of Afrikaners. 'I experience a hunger for recognition in almost everyone. With the exception perhaps of … died in detention. We'd lived through the…
Chapter III - The world outside
… upon their helpless victims. For Joseph Mdhluli and Steven Biko, for Neil Aggett, the full circumstances have never been … suburb of large houses and…
EventOlive Shisana was born on this day
… Director General of the Department of health, under the Mandela Administration. [3] Dr Shisana became the first …
PlaceWits Art Museum
… Cultural Precinct and is just three blocks from the Nelson Mandela Bridge . Its’ collections begun in the 1950’s and was …
Zuma to grow ANC membership in tribute to Madiba, 17 July 2011
… As part of realising ANC stalwart Comrade Nelson Mandela`s dream and that of his organisation - taken as far …
SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
… in national poliitcal campaigns like the 'Free Mandela Campaign', and through support of consumer boycotts. …
PlaceOns Huisie, Bloubergstrand, Cape Town
… Blaauwberg in 1806 overlooking Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 28 years. Ons Huisie is period …
PlaceAthenaeum building, Belmont Terrace, Port Elizabeth
… community hub for the emerging creative industry in Nelson Mandela Bay. Home of the colourful Pemads Ford Little …
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… Africa's first democratic election in April 1994, Nelson Mandela chose Mbeki to be the first deputy president in the …
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… Address to Parliament in Cape Town, President Nelson Mandela read one of Ingrid Jonker's poems. …
PlaceiSimangaliso Wetland Park, former Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park
… Site in 1999 during an unveiling ceremony where Nelson Mandela was the guest of honour. Previously known as the St … the world's biggest marine mammal (the…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… Our Urgent Tasks to the Nigerian government in a bid for recognition. They returned optimistic about the possibility … The Nigerian episode destabilised the…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… Freedom Songs. For instance, after the arrest of Nelson Mandela, in 1962, she composed the song 'Mandela ke senatla' (Mandela you are a giant! We stand by…
EventGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, SA minister of education since 2004, is born in Durban
… Court of Justice and was appointed Chair of the Nelson Mandela Foundation in October 2024. …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… to resolve it” - Former South African President, Nelson Mandela, Sunday Times, Sunday 10 Aug 2003 HIV can be … available at: www.avert.org [accessed 15 April…
Graveside tribute to Robert Shell by Joline Young, 3 February 2015
… so much of himself to people and had no need of accolades, recognition or wealth. An ex-colleague who worked at the …
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… “Higher than Hope (1988)”, the first biography of Nelson Mandela. She later attended the University of Witwatersrand …