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The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… of Biko’s political life until his death, he remains one of the indisputable icons of the Black struggle against …
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture by Pallo Jordan, 15th April 2003, South Africa
… murdered in broad daylight in an act of violence that is one link in a long chain of repression that commenced with … of Umkhonto weSizwe. He was commander…
ANC-KZN flabbergasted by DA’s denigration of Oliver Tambo, 11 July 2006
… made by the Democratic Alliance (DA) denigrating one of the greatest freedom fighters ever produced by South … measured by any standards in a media statement…
PlaceOur Lady of Montserrat Catholic Church, Betty's Bay
… traditions and desire to be known by the Love we have for one another. Our Lady Of Montserrat is denominated as Roman … and Rooi Els over the past few days…
PlaceCape Town Stadium
… a major tourist attraction. Welcome to Cape Town Stadium, one of our most iconic landmarks, where every visit is as … your own experience of the Cape Town…
PlaceBreakwater Prison, near Alfred Docks, Cape Town
… place. Stories will have it that the Breakwater Prison was one of the most feared prisons in the world. It is also said there was at least one representative…
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… by South African forces on 11 August 1963*. This was one of the first instances of across border abductions in … this and other actions of the South African…
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
… in London. Of the 1138 men killed in the attack, over one thousand of the casualties were Americans, making it the … who knew little about the circumstances…
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… all Military Police detachments under the control of one commanding officer, Lt Col (later Col) R.D. … of the Corps rendered valuable service in North Africa…
EventThe Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… the 1980s APLA came up with the provocative slogan of "One Settler, One Bullet". Killings and attacks on White farmers were …
EventFirst postage stamp in Africa is issued in the Cape Colony
… appeared in two values, the "four pence blue" and the "one penny red", and could be used to pay inland post only. … head against a black background and had a…
EventThe peace talks between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) are called off
… tensions between the ANC and its alliance partners on the one hand and the IFP and the apartheid government on the … known unofficially as Joe Slovo, was…
EventInitial experiments on the body of Egyptian King,Tutankhamen, conclude he is a fifteen year old boy
… child. It is believed that he is the son of Akhenaten and one of his sisters. There is evidence of congenital defects … his body well preserved when it was…
PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… The Rugby Museum has one of the largest private collections of rugby memorabilia and is one of its kind in the world, a must-see for rugby fans, the …
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… and wrote his findings in his native Afrikaans language. One of his biggest contributions as a naturalist is his … and when Maurice Maeterlinck, a Nobel…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the SA freedom day celebrations Pretoria, 27 April 1996
… Africans together made their mark to bring into being one of the truly remarkable events of this turbulent century. … of certainty because as we recognised…
Cyril Ramaphosa: Can ‘Mr Nice’ Be A Decisive President? Some say he lacks decisiveness, also in pursuit of his own interests by Liesl Pretorius (Huff Post), 21 August 2017
… 1996 profile, Mark Gevisser described Ramaphosa's smile as one "that wraps itself around his face". But, says Kuben … worked under Ramaphosa in the early…
Justice Arthur Chaskalson: President of Constitutional Court interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 2 February 2000, The Braamfontein, Johannesburg
… about those discussions from Felicia. And I was at dinner one evening where she was talking about what they had in mind … Taylor: At that time would it be…
Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
… nature of this year's Documenta not as heavy as the last one - however there will be four further supporting texts … of all his old films, On Kawara's year…
ArchiveOpening Address of Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Commemoration Project, by Nelson Mandela, 21 September 2004, Johannesburg
… man. What you have just witnessed could be described as one old man giving another old man two old notebooks. And let … This reality in itself was a form of…
Tribute at the funeral service of Walter Sisulu by Nelson Mandela (News 24), 25 January 2011
… of struggle and sacrifice. Today we stand at the grave of one of the greatest amongst that generation of great freedom … Many among us prisoners were…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… the kraal walls and two iron smelting furnaces, the later one - now vandalised - possibly still in use in the early … produced 40% of the gold ever mined in…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the state banquet in honour of President Abdou Diouf Pretoria, 30 July 1996
… to the people as a whole and shall be exercised through one central legislature, executive, judiciary and … a system of universal suffrage based on the…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1948
… fighting for their rights ... They cannot even move from one province to another without a permit. South Africa is … and come to a settlement with them. Why…
Eye of the Needle - Notes by Richard Turner
… group. Thus the African people are not to be put into one large black homeland, but into nine small ones, at least one for each major tribal group. While…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… of the foundation of the African National Congress. One of these, Pixley ka Izaka Seme, had declared in 1906: … which is everywhere manifest, crystallising…
Document 4 - B.M. Kies “The Background of Segregation”, Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943
… stand at present being made by the Coloured People is but one humble example of that new and militant spirit which is … years after the advent of the…
PlaceGallery 101
… expanded its premises and opened two additional branches, one at Hyde Park Corner and another on Hollard Street, close … two major retrospectives in…
PlaceDitsong Museum of Natural History
… Staatsmuseum. Gauteng’s only natural history museum, it is one of the largest of its kind in South Africa. The Ditsong … vacated for newer premises in…
PlaceKoopmans de Wet House, 35 Strand Street, Cape Town
… and John Fairbairn . De Wet had two daughters, one of whom, Marie, married Johan Koopmans, an officer in the … historic house, situated in Cape Town's City…