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PlaceThe art lover’s summer road trip through the Western Cape
The province’s blend of ocean horizons, historic architecture, vineyard valleys and mountain passes hasn’t only shaped its landscapes; it has inspired…
PlaceZambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe
The river has supported villagers for thousands of years and 'Mosi-oa-Tunya', or known as the Victoria Falls, was considered a sacred site on the Zambezi. The…
PlaceJohn Vorster Square Police Station or Johannesburg Central Police Station
John Vorster Square Police Station, was officially opened on the 23 August 1968 by John Vorster, the then prime minister of the Republic of South Africa. It…
EventUnited Party MP for Benoni, D.G. Ross, dies in England after a long illness
The 68 year-old Ross was born in the Cape, but moved to Transvaal where he spent the greater part of his life. During the Second World War Ross served as an…
EventThe International Labour Organisation calls for South Africa's withdrawal at the Geneva Conference
On 29 June 1961, during its plenary conference in Geneva, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) adopted a resolution condemning the racial policies of…
EventANC's economic plans
African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of nationalisation if the…
EventPAC leader, David Sibeko shot dead in Dar-es-Salaam
Former Pan African Congress (PAC) director of Foreign Affairs and representative to the United Nations, David Sibeko, was murdered by a militant stance faction…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… into a covenant to build a society in which all South Africans, Black and White, could walk tall without fear, …
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… ethnic homelands. Deportation or expulsion of South Africans has been practiced for the last 10 years on the …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act in 1956 to prohibit Africans from joining registered unions. Nevertheless, …
America, Spanish conquest
… manual labour. The Europeans needed alternative labour and Africans slaves proved to be the answer. African workers were …
PlaceCape Town's Art Museum of Illusions-Kloof Street, Cape Town
"Museum of Illusions is a global education network with over 60 locations across 25 Countries and 4 Continents. We are dedicated to bringing mind-bending…
The Durban Strikes of 1973 and the End of a Cycle of Struggle by Mondli Hlatshwayo
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The Durban strikes of 1973, and the subsequent struggles waged by…
PlacePomeroy- Solomon Linda
Pomeroy is a small Town in KwaZulu-Natal which is some 72 km North of Greytown and 56 km South-South-East of Dundee. It falls under the jurisdiction of the;…
PlaceUlundi, Kwa-Zulu Natal, (also known as Mahlabathini)
Ulundi is also known as Mahlabathini. Ulundi Local Municipality is part of Zululand District Municipality. At one time Ulundi was the Capital of Zulu Kingdom,…
PlaceValley of a Thousand Hills
The Thousand Hills experience is to KwaZulu-Natal what the Garden Route is to the Cape. It is an area of great peace and tranquillity, affirmed by the fact…
PlaceCarletonville
There are no fewer than seven gold mines surrounding the town. As if to make up too all noise of this industry the Abe Bailey Nature Reserve lies just outside,…
PlaceUniversity of the Witwatersrand, (Wits)
The University of the Witwatersrand is the 1st picture in the Banner! With an interesting Link availible to read in Further Reading.The History of Wits is…
Chapter 3: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… artisans and craftsmen start a fight against non-national Africans. In the Ivory Coast, the anti-Dahoman and … in the towns competition is represented…
PlaceEmbassy of Azerbaijan, Pretoria
South Africa and Azerbaijan first established relations in 1992. Azerbaijan's embassy in Pretoria is the sole Azerbaijani representation in South Africa! The…
EventOliver Kgadime Matsepe, Northern Sotho writer and poet dies in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district.
Oliver Kgadime(Phukubjane) Matsepe is a novelist and poet who was twice awarded the S.E. Mqhayi Prize by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns …
EventJohn Ndevasia Muafangejo is born
John Muafangejo was born in Etunda lo Ghandi in the area of Ovamboland, in Southern Angola. He studied art at the College of Art in Rorke’s Drift from 1967 to…
PlacePlettenberg Bay, Garden Route
The Town of Plettenberg Bay lies almost on the border of the Western and Eastern Cape. "Built on the hillside, most of the Town is on a steep slope leading…
A Future Free of Exploitation - Address to the First Congress of MPLA by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, December 1977
… and fascist domination. Already, thousands of white South Africans have left and are leaving the country. The regime …
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
… are only free to be free. And so I say to my fellow South Africans, our future is in our hands and like the carpet …
Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural session of the Twelth Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries Durban, 2 September 1998
… prosperity and the restoration of the dignity of all Africans. These masses would like to see the same outcome for …
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the National Council of Provinces Cape Town, 7 August 1998
… of working together for a better life for all South Africans. It is therefore appropriate that this Council …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1972
… the African and other oppressed and peace loving South Africans, who constitute the majority that should determine …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Conference of the Association of African Universities: Cape Town, 22 February 2005.
… the commitment to lend support to a vision elaborated by Africans. I refer here specifically to the G8 African Action …
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 6 - Education for Freedom
… Africa. This is particularly important for black South Africans, since the one concrete advantage of separate …