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Address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association 24 April 1995
… lay! On a more serious note: as we approach 27 April, South Africa Freedom Day, it is crucial that we reflect on the … at least in this period, will leave…
O. R. Tambo Interview with Mayibuye on the Current Situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in General 1984
… as an army against their own future, against a free South Africa. They were rejecting yet again the concept of white … every aspect of our struggle, touching…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye on the current situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in general, 01 March 1984
… as an army against their own future, against a free South Africa. They were rejecting yet again the concept of white … every aspect of our struggle, touching…
PlaceNelspruit
… Kruger National Park. Known now as Mbombela, which has a World Cup Stadium. This stadium which was built for some of … attraction in Mpumalanga. As the…
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
… favour of the ANC. Thus: "There were periods, during the war years especially, when Africans flocked to the Party in … to fulfil its long-term mission of…
EventThe first indications of protest over Afrikaans in Soweto schools
… in 1976 helped radicalise and made an entire generation of South African students aware of the political situation. This … in turn, signalled the beginning…
PlaceWits Art Museum
… having one of the best African beadwork collection in the world. The amount of purchased and donated art works grew … and includes contemporary and…
EventThe possessions of Piet Retief are auctioned
… then granted the Voortrekkers the land that stretched from south of Thukela river as far as Mzimvubu river in present … known as 'the battle of Blood River'…
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… doctrine. Themba Sono was elected president of the South African Student Organisation (SASO). He was also … the Black Consciousness doctrine. AZASO…
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… doctrine. Themba Sono was elected president of the South African Student Organisation (SASO). He was also … the Black Consciousness doctrine. AZASO…
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
… has a following of between 200 000 to 800 000 world-wide. The largest Rastafarian community in South Africa is situated in Knysna and comprises of 30…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… of the heart. The £1-a-Day Campaign is regarded as South Africa Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU's) most successful … perpetuation of the cheap labour policy…
PlacePringle Bay, Cape Overberg
… beauty of the Kogelberg Biosphere , the only reserve in South Africa to be proclaimed by UNESCO , which supports over 1600 … with some of the best land-based…
“I want to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness by Hannah Dawson
… Celebrating 50 Years Conference Why would young Black South African men refuse low wage jobs in a time of mass … labour market volatility, and the place of…
EventZuma announces freeze on university fees increase
… tertiary education fees, due to the high inflation of the South African economy, the news fell on an already … Student protests in democratic South Africa;,…
EventZuma announces freeze on university fees increase
… tertiary education fees, due to the high inflation of the South African economy, the news fell on an already … “Student protests in democratic South Africa”,…
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… of a vital communications link between Europe and Southern Africa, the RMS Windsor Castle was the last of the Union … liners and freighters had helped…
PlaceFranschhoek Motor Museum
… in Gauteng. This was done through the initiative of one of South Africa leading entrepreneurs and businessmen: Dr Anton … Motor Museum. This Museum gives…
Say It out Loud - The Education Bill, 1906
… education: " Even if there were no souls to cure ... the world needs accomplished men and women to keep up its outward temporal prosperity. " Yes, South…
Preface
… This study of "protest art" in South Africa for the period 1968 to 1976 presented me with several … documented and - as I argue - little understood period of…
EventMembers of the ANC and SACP are detained due to Operation Vula
… forty members of the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP). Among those arrested … of this operation were to smuggle…
PlaceThembuland
… It is a natural region in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Its territory is the traditional region of the Thembu … From 1871 the Thembu became…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… and its lack of understanding of the nature of the South African state meant that it would take years before the … underground networks that could continue…
Say It out Loud - The 1909 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 13th April 1909
… that he meant everyone who was a British subject in South Africa, and who was not a European. (Cheers). He must ask … REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES But in the…
Storming: The Insurrections Ensemble by Marcus Grossman, September 2015
… but about a sense of the demonic power of the current world system. He is a white man who hates the feel of money … slavery makes sense, brought fine…
PlaceWaverly Road Memorial, Durban South
… The South African War Memorial was unveiled on May 24, 1910, at … in memory of those who lost their lives in the Boer War . It was designed by Walter Seymour…
PlaceKalahari Desert
… large basin like Plain in the interior Plateau of Southern Africa . It occupies almost all of Botswana , the eastern … the Northern most part of Northern…
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Both my father and my grandfather fought in the Boer War and were taken prisoners. My mother, as a little girl, … farm and became an ardent Nationalist,…
EventANC, COSATU and SACTU issues a joint statement in Lusaka
… The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the African National … their commitment to…
David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of their Crimes by Max Campbell, 6 October 2016
… “Ex-Offenders at the Scene of the Crime,” a series by the South African photographer David Goldblatt, we see an older … In 2012, having taken many photos of…