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ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… One of the Boer concentration camps. Photographical … to set the record straight and to refute his inaccuracies one by one. I do this based on the historical…
PlaceNorthern Cape
… millions of daisies, 'vygies'-(‘Mesembryanthemum’ are one of South Africa’s most colorful plant groups. They are … immersion into SA’s legendary flower…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
… from present attempts to make that future truly better for one city, one community and one people. The 150th birthday of the Herald marks the close …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
… from present attempts to make that future truly better for one city, one community and one people. The 150th birthday of the Herald marks the close …
Extracts from a press conference, 11 February 1990
… the question of the concern Whites have over the demand of one person, one vote. They insist on structural guarantees, that is the … (A) Well, I am very…
Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg
… This kind of thinking is totally irrational, why should one be ashamed of the fact that ones ancestor was the victim of slavery. If one wanted to lay blame…
PlaceRhodes Memorial, Vredehoek- Table Mountain
… Helderberg and Hottentots Holland Mountain ranges but is one of the few vantage points where both the Atlantic and … Table Mountain, the Thodes memorial…
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… protest of approximately 20 000 learners in Soweto. With one goal and one voice, they marched through the streets of Soweto, but …
EventThe UN ends SA mandate over South West Africa
… SWA. In 1969 this UN resolution was followed by a further one, calling for the immediate withdrawal of South African … is reasonable to accept that *27…
EventAngola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty
… of Cuito Cuanavale and the Cuban intervention in Angola is one of the turning points in Southern African History. It led … force, into the west, towards the…
EventPublic places of recreation for whites only, are proclaimed
… be divided into racially segregated zones where members of one specific race alone could live and work. Group areas were … It further became a criminal…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… by the authorities led to the killing of three escapees. One of three escapees, Jotham Njoroge, was killed by an angry … from Britain. Jomo Kenyatta, became…
ArchiveMarikana: The blame game - A special report by Niren Tolsi and Paul Botes
… operation after the killing of 17 miners at "scene one". Instead, police continued to another koppie, "scene … They also explore housing shortages in…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… in a world that is mad, even evil. For him, at least, one answer is to bear witness by taking pictures. "I must … presented in wall texts (written by…
PlaceRooipoort Nature Reserve, Kimberley
… mention a few, may be seen here. This is without question one of the 2 best available plains game hunting in South Africa – by far! Established in 1893 it…
PlaceSt Margaret’s House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… it is to walk up the driveway through what must be one of the most stunning Gardens in Johannesburg. It was … is a mysterious set of six columns, also…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… been sold at auction, so perhaps they will be retrieved one day… His work made in exile is also lost, part of it … in the world beyond the borders of South…
Archive1995 - President Mandela: State of the Nation Address, 24 February 1995 (after National Elections)
… contributions of all the speakers, even in instances where one did not agree with their points of view. Each one individually, and all collectively as…
Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014
… storage and other facilities. Separate but hardly equal, one museum is in a prime campus setting, while the other … and Ethnology down the street, where such…
Cataloguing the archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
… of sorting and cataloguing the collection is a lengthy one partly because of its size and partly because the papers … needed more space. The first task, a…
Say It out Loud - The 1910 Presidential Address, Port Elizabeth, Cape
… Cape 1 The present Congress of the A.P.O. is undoubtedly one of the most important that has ever met. It is important … in the faces of our brethren of the…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… One of South Africa’s oldest Towns and Naval base is Simon's … they were prepared to apply these with missionary zeal. One of the harshest, most cynical of…
Preface
… and provenance of works are rarely recorded. (In one case, I have had to rely on personal memory in … of protest (allowing for the view that paradigms shift,…
Forming the Federation
… quickly for that same night. We told many women and each one told another one that there would be a meeting. There were about 40 or 50 … to go to a…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… and other history of South Africa - this party is the one that has brought about most changes in South Africa. It … in any country, there are three kinds of…
ArticleRemembrance of Albertina Sisulu through the Work of Cartoonists
… St peter. Image Source A LOVE STORY: YALO completes what one commentator on the africartoons facebook page called …
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1999
… with the Indian-led Minority Front (MF), which held one seat in the new Assembly. The coalition agreement ensured …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… its means of keeping the Black population in check. One of the most significant of these was the power to curtail …
European Revolutions 1750-1850
… while some might focus on political differences from one period to another. We examine political revolution …
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… through to post-Apartheid - has been tackled in one grade. The report argues that this is as a result of "the …