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EventRand Afrikaans University is established
… 46 000 students spread over five campuses across the city. …
Event’Purple rain’ used on women protesters
… T-shirts with the slogan "Troops Out" marched to the city centre to demand that troops, who were permanently …
EventGeorge Christopher Cato (79), Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies
… Cato, Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies in the city on 9 July 1893. Cato was born in London, England in …
ArticleHermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline
… state funeral is held for Loots at the Johannesburg City Hall on 3 February 2016. [xiii] A funeral service is …
ArticleThe Basotho
… of his own people resulted in many people flocking to his city for protection. He also conducted cattle raids and by …
European Societies in the Middle Ages
… Europe. At its head was the Pope, who lived in the Vatican City in Rome. The Church owned land, and people had to pay …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… further impetus to the struggle for our liberation from apartheid. We have also gathered here to salute the millions … ourselves to the pledge we made as we…
Statement of ANC National Working Committee, 5 September 2011
… session to deal with organizational matters. One of the issues that were discussed was the recent violent protest …
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
… police section was instituted to deal with female related issues. This took place despite the instruction of the Public …
EventFormer NP leader Sam de Beer joins UDM
… reason was the unhappiness of his constituency over issues they were experiencing. However, it was not long …
EventKenyan mediates in SA election deadlock
… would be amended before the election any outstanding issues in respect of the King of the Zulus and the 1993 …
EventA strong delegation of the ANC NEC members arrives at Caculam, Angola
… the army commissar, would be welcome to attend to these issues. …
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
… a loose alliance of those parties, which had held an anti-apartheid position. It also included some black political … Front members attending such an all…
Document 130 - Communists in Conference: The 1943/44 National Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa
… She and Sam Kahn are the Communist Party's two first City Councillors, victories won in Cape Town's municipal … in developing a wider and clearer…
PlaceRondebosch Fountain, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… have that Historical Architecture in that area. It makes a City interesting above all it keeps us humble because when we … somewhere safer. He said this…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
… Then. The newer ones show the work I've been doing on post-apartheid public art and structures. Although visually the … you look around at the public art…
EventMbongeni Ngema was born on this day
… in 2001, his name was engraved on the entrance of the City Hall in Durban, alongside those of Nelson Mandela, …
EventTwo ANC members gunned down in Swaziland.
… tension between South Africa and Swaziland. According to City Press the same incident occurred in the suburb of …
PlaceElsie’s River
… eight schools and a Civic Centre! The Municipality is The City Of Cape Town. It is with great sadness that we note the …
EventDavid Phaswane Mogano, SA artist, is born in Pietersburg , Northern Transvaal
… annually at Joubert Park in the Johannesburg inner city. One of his biggest exhibitions was of a collection of …
EventThe Transvaal Indian Congress takes a stand on Fietas removals
… and Vrededorp was known).They objected to a Johannesburg City Council meeting statement made on 17 October 1944, in …
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… government. About 700 women marched to the Bloemfontein City Council in the Orange Free State to petition the mayor. …
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid on June 25, 1982, to commemorate the 30th … to make statement to the Special Committee…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… document, known as a “dompas” (dumb pass), that the apartheid regime forced black people to carry, and which … a way of remembering the egregious human…
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… or vandalism becomes the sole way in which to bring issues to the fore. It often feels like the only time that … freedom having worked for years as a visual…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… movement and "Freedom Charter" ANC government has laws for issues the dispossessed people of this country never asked … The negotiations the ANC pursued at…
Chapter 4 - ‘SASO on the Attack’ : Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action
… galvanise students and the black oppressed against apartheid, what is treated as organisational initiatives - … Culture While the affiliated SRCs, campus…
83. South African Indian Council elections, November 1981: To vote or not to vote
… we can advance better arguments as to why we should fight apartheid from within. The Anti-S.A.l.C. Committee is basing … see separate political institutions…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to parliament 6 February 1998
… that, unlike some of us, those who bore the brunt of apartheid oppression say that things are a lot better. But … because they touch on the very essence of…
Archive1998 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 1998
… that, unlike some of us, those who bore the brunt of apartheid oppression say that things are a lot better. But … because they touch on the very essence of…