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The diary of Maria Tholo - December 2 - 15 by Carol Hermer
… started on Friday night. Nyanga East is badly laid out. On one side of a section there are three blocks of family homes. … She fancied herself as quite an…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… his share of persecution. From 1956 to 1958 he was one of the defendants In the Treason Trial. In 1956 and again … the height of its power. During this…
Address during the 90th Birthday Celebration of Mr Walter Sisulu 18 May 2002 Mr President, Ladies and Gentleman, Comrades and Friends
… speak a hasty word or act in anger, he was the patient one, seeking to heal and bring together. We congratulate him … forget to mention Albertina who was…
ArchiveTrafalgar High School, Cape Town, marks 100 years
… but it also taught its students survival skills. "We were one of the three schools who in 1985 decided to sacrifice … Various other celebratory activities…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… photography to record the truth, but are different in one important way. Ernest Cole, formerly Kede, who changed … a new - artists were not above the…
Address on disturbances in Bloemfontein location, by I. J. Nthatisi, March 4, 1919
… people have been fully disclosed to you in your capacity — one as a representative of the Government in the Native … The people must not only ventilate these…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Stanley Uys, 01 August 1983, Londo
… to life. We carried out numerous sabotage actions, but no one was injured. We always selected targets away from the … and in almost every instance the…
ArticleKey sites
… Ken Gumpu, and Curtis Cokes. The Johannesburg branch was one of Nelson Mandela’s favourite restaurants before his … amongst the non-white population. This…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as part of its avowed policy. Twenty Years of Apartheid 1968 … people in South Africa do not enjoy the right to…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 34th independence celebrations of the Republic of Uganda Kampala, 9 October 1996
… healed inn the forging of a truly Rainbow Nation. For your part in all this, and more, South Africa reaches out to … in the joy of Africa's recovery of her…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… this article has been published in SAHO's library and is part of the publication 'South Africa in exile' edited by … The commemoration of Sharpeville , paper…
PlaceMozambique
… Sena language is also called Chisena or Cisena, which is part of the Bantu language family. The Sena language has many … hydroelectric facility on the…
EventThe League of Nations hands over German colonies
… colonies as mandates. Tanganyika, which formed the greater part of the German colony Deutsche Ostafrika, was transferred … and in 1961 became independent as…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts 1600s-1800s
… and the Mfecane was thoroughly exploited and a great part of South Africa was won for European colonisation in …
ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… during the Rivonia Raid. In June 1964, after having been one of the accused in the well-known Rivonia Trial in … in the drawing up of Operation Mayibuye or…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… areas and condemned the pernicious barrack system as ‘one of the greatest evils the local authority has to cope … Natal, excluding Durban, and Durban alone…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to parliament 6 February 1998
… enormity of the challenges we face. As the saying goes, one falling tree makes more noise than millions that are … include investment capital and tender…
Archive1998 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 1998
… enormity of the challenges we face. As the saying goes, one falling tree makes more noise than millions that are … include investment capital and tender…
PlaceKatlehong
… funding towards the purchase of art materials for KAC. One of the initiators of KAC and a former member of the … It had studios for full-time practicing…
PlaceSudan
… Sudan ) periodically came under Egyptian rule, and it was part of the kingdom of Cush from the 11th century BCE to the … mixed economy based largely on oil…
EventThe Dutch Indiaman, the Nieuwe Haerlem, is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay
… On 25 March 1647 the Dutch Indiaman, the Nieuwe Haerlem, one of a fleet of Indiamen, was wrecked in a storm in Table … leading to the creation of a new state…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… Communist Party (SACP) in the same year were momentous. One of the most significant impacts of the bannings was the … They were mainly split into four…
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
… so much of a class war... Alexander: Well, I don’t think one can actually separate these things out. I think these are all concepts that are necessarily…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… conditions of African workers. Moses Kotane is elected as one of ten members of an ‘African Parliamentary Committee’ of … the black peoples of South Africa…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2011
… and self-criticism, discipline and mutual respect, as part of the traditions of the movement. These are the … close partner as the Tripartite Alliance, and…
ArchiveWinnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018
… for godlike heroes on whom to pin all its dreams, and one-dimensional villains on whom to pour its rage. Yet … vilifying black consciousness. Even though she…
Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… The year 1944 was one of the busiest for the union. In the midst of the … which the worker so agreed; and the inquiry must form part of the record. In this…
Extract from a speech by the Honourable the Prime Minister during the Cape National Party Congress at East London on 3 September 1975
… of the case I gave it more thorough consideration than one would normally do and I want to say with conviction this … designed for us in South Africa is…
The Pioneers
… cultural history museums or in private collections. One would need to visit the Africana Museum in Johannesburg, … see a great deal of the art by black…
PlaceAngola
… inhabited in about 25 000 years BCE [vii] . The northern part of Angola which consists mostly of dense forest was … More is known about the early inhabitants…