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PlaceTownship Tours of Cape Town
… South Africa is a country famous for its diverse cultures. Cape … into a person from a different culture’s life. With South Africa’s volatile political past,…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… audiences. On 8 January 1912, at the first meeting of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), the … for its meetings. The song spread beyond the…
Address by President Mandela at a Masakhane rally in Vosloorus Katorus, 21 September
… was in pain. The community was divided into two groups at war with each other. I visited mortuaries showing the … and bullet marks on outside walls bore…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the launch of the Public Administration Leadership and Management Academy, 1 August 2008,
… and Administration and led the establishment of the South African Management Development Institute (SAMDI), to … is an interesting addition to the extensive…
EventThe Eureka Diamond is sold in London for 5 700 Pounds
… mining company De Beers bought it and brought it back to South Africa. … Davenport, J., Eureka – South Africa has diamonds! , from Mining Weekly, [online], …
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1946
… A new spirit of freedom pervades the Indian people. South Africa's Racial Policy laid bare General Smuts and the Union … condemned in the eyes of the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
… in a fleeting moment, the centuries of history that the South African people have endured in search of a better … of millions. And so it has come to pass,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the mural celebrating the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
… Friends and Fellow South Africans; In the history of our country there have been … of the majority of citizens, as it means for the world;that opposition to…
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… This Day in History: 10 June 1990 Miriam Makeba returned to South Africa on 10 June 1990 after 31 years in exile. Known as Mama … twice on the horrors of…
EventSA artist Vuminkosi Zulu is born
… Former graduate of the famous Rorke's Drift School of Art, South African artist Vuminkosi Zulu , was born in Mapumulo in … on his calling that was to be an…
ArchiveA History of Botsotso by Allan Horwitz
… a collage of poetic identities to reflect the changing South Africa and dramatized poems so as to reach a wider audience … the varied cultures and life…
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai … This 'Natal formula' was soon to be adopted by…
EventThe Rev. John Langalibalele Dube dies
… first Black person to receive an honorary D.Phil. from a South African University. Dube, who is of royal descent, was also founder and first president of the…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk promises repeal of apartheid laws
… to argue for the lifting of economic sanctions against South Africa. However, most of the world was sceptical of de Klerk's actions and thus kept most … …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 4 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… has been getting very good support and from all over the world too many people have been sending messages of support. … want this country to be like the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day Celebrations: Landsdown Stadium, Cape Town, April 27, 2008
… of the Diplomatic Corps, Distinguished guests, Fellow South Africans: Molweni! Goeiedag! Dumelang! I am honoured to … is an achievement that belongs to all…
EventSA tenor Johan Botha is born
… and the United States and is a popular performer at the world's major opera houses, but still finds time to visit South Africa occasionally. …
PlaceWitwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)
… ridge of gold-bearing rock mostly in Gauteng Province , South Africa. Its name means “Ridge of White Waters, in Afrikaans … Gold Rush initiated South Africa…
EventViolence erupts on the eve of Soweto uprising anniversary
… the march the next morning. The uprising that would change South Africa began the following day. … at: www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed on 14 June 2013]|…
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa (later SACP). In 1943, he helped A. B. Xuma revise the … , Westport: Greenwood.|SAHO, Bram…
Chapter 13
… middle forties. Picture once more the situation, with the war at an end and the Herrenvolk going full steam ahead with … while there is still time and temper…
Cutting Through The Mountain
… Through The Mountain is a collection of interviews with South Africans - most of them prominent and all of them … Jewish - who fought against…
How the Ahmed Timol case was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017
… South African Institute of Race Relations, Survey of Race … be regarded as a national day of mourning in sympathy for South Africa's political prisoners…
Chapter 10. Cleaning Up the Clothing Industry - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… there was no one to enforce the Act and secondly, like all South African labour legislation, it was drafted so clumsily … would be strictly observed…
PlaceMandela House
… housed in what was once the home of Nelson Mandela , the World's most famous political prisoner and South Africa's former president . Soweto was an…
EventRetief Goosen is born.
… On 3 February 1969 Retief Goosen, a prominent South African golf player was born in Pietersburg, Limpopo … Goose" became a professional golfer in 1990 and…
Nelson Mandela Speaks on Tolerance, April 30, 2006 on CBS (Video)
… first ever PSA on Tolerance for the U.S. There is no world leader with greater stature on the issue of Diversity … how Mandela has lived his life and why he…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu All true Christians in South Africa will have just cause for gratitude over the … goodwill under the shadows of which future…
PlaceLamu, Kenya
… the oldest and best-preserved Swahili Settlement in East Africa, retaining its traditional functions. Built in coral … along ancient trade routes between the…
EventThe Minister of the Interior warns that re-registration of the Post newspapers would be banned
… they had aimed at creating a revolutionary climate in South Africa. This decision was widely condemned. Percy Qoboza, who … how a credible newspaper for…