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ArchiveThe Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018
Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Gottlieb plays traditional Damara music at the funeral of Ouma Juliana ǂÛ-khui ǁAreses on the family farm beneath the Dâures. Uis…
Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 At 1 a.m. on Thursday, 9 December 1982,…
Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Nationalist Government attacks on the union continued. Schoeman refused to gazette the agreement for the clothing industry, which contained the award of the…
EventYouth has been burnt to death in Mahwelereng Township
On 6 June 1986, Mr Ronnie Molifi was stabbed and burnt to death by a group of youth in the Mahwelereng Township in Limpopo province. He was accused of being a…
PlaceThe Old Durban Prison
The Old Durban Central Prison no longer exists, but it was used extensively during the earlier apartheid period to house political dissidents. The former…
ArchiveTen commandments for voters
A2 poster litho full colour, drawings of people; text: 10 Commandments for Voters: 1. You have nothing to fear. Remember that your vote is secret. Only…
ArchiveBolt Number 8 June 1973
EDITOR: Christopher Hope Leopold Senghor: A New Note, Barend van Niekerk. Two Poems, Stephen Grey. FICTION, Negatives, M.A. Cox. NEW POETRY, Mike Nicol,…
PlacePoswohl Synagogue, Mooi Street, Johannesburg
The temple was erected by members of the Jewish community who had originally emigrated to Johannesburg after the turn of the century from Poswohl, in Lithuania…
EventNIC calls for Passive Resistance against Ghetto Act
Natal Indian Congress (NIC) led by Dr. G. M. Naicker, met in an emergency session in Durban and decided on a hartal on 13 June, which was designated …
EventApartheid minister of Law and Order opposes White radicalism in the South African police force
The minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, announced in the House of Assembly that no member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) would be tolerated in…
EventThe Defence Special Tribunal Act becomes effective
The Defence Special Tribunal Act, No 81 of 1998, providing for the expeditious adjudication of disputes concerning military institutions and the…
EventJudge Goldstone calls for “truth commission” on atrocities
In May 1994, Justice Richard Goldstone called for the establishment of a "truth commission" on Apartheid atrocities because "victims would not be able to…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations in its landscape and the differing contexts and…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
1994: South Africa's first non racial, democratic electionsSouth Africa’s democratic system was endorsed by voters drawn from across the country’s racial…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa - Timeline
2009 February 2009, the University of Limpopo in Limpopo Province experienced student protests concerning accommodation, National Student Financial Aid…
ArticleThe Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries. It lasted until the 20th century. …
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
Awards Archbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid,…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
The involvement of the South African national rugby team, the Springboks, in international rugby is rife with controversy. In the 1960s, as international…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
On 5 June 1918 disaffected Afrikaners were brought together in a new organisation called Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South Africa). The following year its name was…
ArticleThe Homelands
The Bantustans or homelands, established by the Apartheid Government, were areas to which the majority of the Blacks population was moved to prevent them from…
ArticlePretoria (Tshwane): The Naming of a City
Introduction Pretoria is located in the north east of South Africa, to the north of Gauteng, and 60 Kilometres away from the north east of Johannesburg [i] …
Kingdoms of southern Africa: Thulamela
The city of Thulamela from the air. It has walled areas like the ruins at Great Zimbabwe, which separate royalty from commoners. Source: www.chico.mweb.co.za …
The oldest forms of human communication
Some of the oldest forms of human communication include talking or making sounds, drawing or painting, dancing, acting, and using symbols. From sounds and…
Disbanding, 1990-1991
With the ANC now legal, mass demands were made for a constitutional assembly to create a new non-racial, democratic, and unitary South Africa. The UDF had…
PlaceFunda Community College
Funda Community College was founded in 1984 in Soweto, Gauteng with the support of private sector funding and built on land which was donated by the Urban…
Photographer Juda Ngwenya was the face of Reuters in Africa and a special friend by Siphiwe Sibeko (Mail and Guardian), 25 Oct 2016
There is a saying that goes: “Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are.” I am what I am because I was inspired, motivated and mentored by Juda…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Pretoria
The Dutch Reformed Kerk, Pretoria was established in 1854, when it separated from the Rustenburg congregation. The site where the first church was built would…
PlaceOpera House, Port Elizabeth
This building, designed in a late Renaissance style based broadly upon the Doric order, was erected in 1891 under the direction of GW Smith, a prominent Port…
Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo on S.A.F.N.T.U. (1930)
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
From 1960 to 1983, the apartheid Government forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history…