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PlaceDurban Main Post Office
… left of the building. It served as the town hall until the time of the Union in 1910, and is situated opposite the …
The Neglected Tradition
… exhibition of art by 'black South Africans, I spent much time consulting artists, educators and members of …
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
… technologies, in total disregard of UN sanctions. At the time, there was little protest. This article was originally … reaching a value of more than one…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… readily know. J.M. Coetzee (1940- ) J.M. Coetzee is a two-time Booker prize winner, known for his political novels on … Beckett. He is best known for novels…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… small traders overlooked by larger wholesalers during war-time rationing, the AHI formed its own wholesale division in … of the majority of the white…
ArticleSummary: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… of an estimated half of the world's gold supply at the time, making him almost certainly the wealthiest individual … firmly on the mental map of medieval…
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
… where I actually started teaching adults for the first time in my life, before that I’d been a teacher at a high … some of the political work that I was…
Chapter VI - A strange kind of goal bird
… assembled in the Great Hall ”” could I get there in time to speak for five minutes before twelve o'clock? … students. I spoke for five minutes; there was no…
PlaceMarket Theatre
… Theatre ran as a non-racially biased theatre, which at the time, was against the laws of the country, it was recognized … pushed the confines of censorship…
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, August 1976
… It is time for intensified mass action against the racist structure … actions. United power of labour is unchallengeable. The time to finally bury the…
Document 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the Communist League of America’, 26 April 1932
… necessary with every issue of the Militant. Send us from time to time propaganda leaflets for free distribution if you have …
EventRenowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria
… he traveled in Africa and America, and worked for a short time as a teacher. In the 1960s he was the director of … politically active. Most of his literary…
67. The Xuma-Naicker-Dadoo Pact, 1947
… Charter . This joint meeting further resolves to meet from time to time to implement this declaration and to take active steps …
PlaceFederated Union of Black Artists Arts Centre
… and distribution. The Centre evolved into a full-time arts school, known as the FUBA Academy of Arts and later … who was the Co-founder and director of FUBA…
PlaceWoodstock
… of 4,000 Florins, he had incurred with Jan Winterbach. In time, a number of families began to Build their Homes near … of Fishermen, who had been drinking at…
Mission Stations - N-S
… of the Missionary. The settlement consisted, at this time, of the dwellings of the Missionary and Catechist, a … feet. Enclosures for securing their cattle…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… developments, in a very real sense the 1940s was a time of regeneration for African politics. It was a watershed … servility toward whites in authority. The…
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
… said the mine that exploded today was planted at the same time as all the others. Soldiers have found and defused four … bombs in South Africa, killing as…
Albert Luthuli`s foreword to pamphlet published by the South African Congress of Democrats, 8 August 1960
… thinking and action. There is much at stake. There is no time nor room for cowardly thinking and action. Too many of … A hard way, yes. It has to be so for…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… the underground he drove Mandela around for some of this time. In 1962, arrested for sabotage, he was imprisoned on … he served as a shop steward until he…
PlaceBoschhoek Farm, uMzinyathi,-a District in kwaZulu-Natal
… Boschhoek Farm in Waschbank, which was on auction at the time. Determined to help Inkosi Sigweje, the Priest came up … as their head and seven trustee…
PlaceNaval Hill
… the Lamont-Hussey Observatory on Naval Hill. At that time it was under the ownership of the University of … of King Moshoeshoe's top Steed. It is said that…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
… demanded continual expansion. Now it could leap ahead. The time had come for British Imperialism to take over proper … province to the Kimberley dry diggings…
Commemorating fifty years since District Six was declared for whites only
… Start time: Thursday, February 11 at 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM in UTC+02 …
ArchiveSome aspects of the South African industrial revolution
… clearly the economic conditions in South Africa at the time and specifically makes mention of the industrial …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.2 Jan-Mar 1961
… and Cleopatra, Patrick Keatley. Northern Rhodesia’s Time for Change, Mainza Chona. The Asian in Kenya, Sarjit S. …
EventTwenty former SA political prisoners launched a campaign against apartheid laws
… with President P.W. Botha at Tuynhuis on 5 July. At the time, Mandela was still held at the Victor Verster Prison …
EventThe 25th Summer Olympics opens in Barcelona, Spain
… 1972. South Africa took part in the games for the first time since 1960. The country had been banned from …
EventAt least twenty people are injured in a collision between the Blue Train and the Trans Karoo at Deelfontein, near De Aar
… De Aar. The Blue Train was ahead of schedule and whiling time when the Karoo Train was diverted on to the same track …
EventFrance supplies two new combat submarines to South Africa
… Soviet naval activity in the Indian Ocean. At the time, the Soviet Union was supporting Anti-Apartheid …