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EventSouth African Library Week is held from 22 - 27 March 2010 to make people aware of the value of libraries
… In 1997 the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) was formed. LIASA has worked diligently to … to promote libraries and to instil a…
PlaceTranskei
… were made to its border, sparking off the frontier war of 1834 and 1835. On 21 December 1834 the Xhosa attacked … a 'self-governing territory within the…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… Ottilie was a member of a student organization called the South West African Student Body, which eventually became … a white Marengo!” Marengo had waged an…
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
… an open operational mandate - to beget a revolution in South Africa. Vula was supposed to be the answer to chronic … PMC to move towards popular armed…
ArchiveAcknowledgements by Howard Barrell
… and Eddie Webster - willingly perjured themselves. The Africa Educational Trust generously financed my four years of … did so with their customary…
ArchiveThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
… First published by Spotlight.Africa Winnie Madikizela Mandela was not a safe pair of … drenched in boiling water,” before being “whisked out of South Africa…
31. Cape traders protest against the Hawkers’ Licences Act
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai … fellow-countrymen in this Colony. That…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Racism against Indians
… other countries to combat "the harmful propaganda against South Africa" . 6. Withdrawal from the United Nations "if they … of Natal for reducing the status…
ArticlePrehistory of the Bloemfontein area
… The origin of South Africa’s judicial capital goes back to the mid 19th century …
”The Global Information Infrastructure - What is at stake for The Developing World?” address to the Infodev Symposium, 9 November 1999
… Let me take this opportunity to thank the President of the World Bank Jim Wolfensohn and the World Bank for initiating … of the developing world, in…
EventSouth Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
… On 25 June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea in an attempt to bring it under communist rule … aggressors. Owing to the great distance between South…
A tribute to international solidarity support for Southern Africa
… London at the request of the African National Congress of South Africa. Present at that historic meeting were Mwalimu Julius … solidarity played a pivotal…
ArchivePhotography pundit David Goldblatt takes ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Matsepo, 2 June 2017
… South African photographer David Goldblatt (87) has … words. Goldblatt has previously focused on ex-offenders in South Africa and worked with the arts…
EventFormer anti-apartheid activist, Allan Boesak accuses ANC
… Boesak, former anti-apartheid activist, leader of the World Alliance of Churches and patron of the now disbanded … people's feelings of being marginalised in…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the Freedom Day Celebrations at the ABSA Stadium, Durban 27 April 2005
… of the Diplomatic Corps, Distinguished guests, Fellow South Africans: I am very pleased to address, you, fellow South Africans, on the occasion of our…
PlaceThe Durban Centre for Photography
… first public auction of photographic prints ever held in South Africa. This was to raise money for the DCP. Buckland set up … was a continuity of the…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… the first Liberty ship which sailed after the end of the war. Dr. Dadoo told him that he must help get support for the struggle in South Africa. [He moved to…
EventWorld Leprosy Day is celebrated in SA
… from leprosy non-governmental organisations converged in South Africa from 30 January to 3 February for the African Leprosy … was coordinated by Wits…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… equally divided between White and Black residents. The South African War of 1899-1901 saw a temporary downturn in Johannesburg's … activity in the region…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… 1970s, Harriet’s decision to take on National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) student volunteers facilitated …
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… protester against apartheid, was approved a visa to visit South Africa in 1973. This was after a number of refusals. He … championships. For 12 years, Ashe…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
… life work of David Goldblatt, Jeffrey Ladd spoke with the South African photographer about the newly edited and … local population to be the largest tailings…
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Insurrections I,II and III: Music as Ancient as the Future by Samuel Hove
… Tempest for 2015. It has been hard to say that this Indo-South African ensemble is larger than its parts because its … by the sarod’s young genius, Pritam…
The Polly Street Era
… Gerard Sekoto, that the foundations of a fine art by black South Africans had been established by the 1940s. All three … departure for Paris.) Sekoto has…
EventCosatu celebrates its 18 th anniversary
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) celebrated its 18th anniversary by becoming the first trade union in the world to sponsor a CD. The…
PlaceVredefort Dome, Free State Province
… and largest Meteorite Impact Site (Astrobleme) in the World. Formed an estimated 2000 Million Years ago when a … The Vredefort Dome is a UNESCO World…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Helen Stoilas, 30 May 2017
… The South African photographer David Goldblatt has installed … words. Goldblatt has previously focused on ex-offenders in South Africa and worked with the…
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… South African singer Miriam Makeba dies at the age of 76 … Saviano in the Italian town of Caserta. Nicknamed 'Mama Africa' or the 'Empress of African Song',…
EventA South African spy is released from jail
… to this day in history search archive Odile Harrington, a South African convicted and imprisoned for espionage in Zimbabwe in 1987, was released and returned…