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PlaceMount Fletcher, Eastern Cape
Mount Fletcher is a Town in Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, 69 km North-North-East of Maclear. Mount Fletcher is…
PlaceAmatikulu, a Nature Reserve in Kwa-Zulu Natal
Town some 130 km North-East of Durban, near Gingindlovu. Where the first sugar factory in Zululand was established in 1908 by Sir J.L. Hulett. Roughly an hour…
PlaceGod’s Window
A famous vantage point on the Drakensberg escarpment God's Window stands at an altitude of 1,829m/6,000ft extending northward over the Blyde River Canyon,…
PlaceElands Bay, Western Cape Province
Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Bobbejaan Mountain lies this hotspot for surfers around the world. Elands Bay is 95 km northwest of Piketberg and…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… mass action with ‘armed propaganda.’ Steven Bantu Biko died from brain damage caused by mistreatment suffered …
Polokwane the Segregated city
… Movement, in the making from around 1967, when Steve Biko and his peers were beginning to turn away from Nusas. … a constitution and elected office bearers,…
EventSouth African GMO Act implemented
The Genetically Modified Act 15 of 1997 was implemented by the Department of Agriculture on 1 December 1999.[i] The Act was aimed at regulating all South…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. His family were poor working…
PlaceMweni Valley, Drakensberg
For hiking purposes, the area stretches from the Royal Natal National Park in the North-East to the Cathedral Peak area in the South-West – it is a vast range…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.4 Nov-Dec 1979
Contents and Contributors Stories: A Conversion by Michael Silum, It exists by Denis Beckett; Man Against Himself by Joel Matlou. Jazz and Rugby, Tough Games…
PlaceKing’s Blockhouse, Devil’s Peak, Cape Town.
Following the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795, the existing Dutch line of defence, known as the French line, was extended by the addition of three…
PlaceWinterberg Mountains, Amatola
Winterberg lies virtually in the shadow of the Winterberg Mountains that include some of the highest peaks in the province, roughly 20 kilometres from…
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 centralise libraries and information related…
Interview with Ari Sitas, Of Socialism and Dentures by Jonathan Mandel, 10-11 April 2015
… feeling and black fundamentalists who have misunderstood Biko and Fanon. The world’s meltdown has seperated sheep from … it failed, that is why Fanon is back…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… presented at a symposium on The Legacy of Bantu Stephen Biko, Harare, June17-22, 1990, unpublished. *Tambo, O.R., … Verso, 1983). Arnold, M. (Ed.), The…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… Former President Nelson Mandela gives the 5th Steve Biko lecture at the University of Cape Town. 21 September, …
PlaceMbotyi, Eastern Cape
For the adventurer wanting to explore the many unique and wild treasures this coast has to offer, Mbotyi offers the privileged opportunity to visit the…
PlacePhala Phala, Game Farm
This Farm is situated about 43 km West of Bela-Bela in the Limpopo Province. It is located within the Central Bushveld Bio-region. 'Phala'-is the Tswana word…
PlaceGrootvaderbosch Farm, Heidelberg
Grootvadersbosch Farm offers a comfortable guest house named; 'Snelsetter', built in 1735, this Historic Homestead is largely maintained in its original state…
PlaceLuneburg, Kwazulu Natal
Lüneburg is located between the towns of Piet Retief and Vryheid on the border of the KwaZulu Natal Province and the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa, has…
PlaceSterkfontein Dam, Free State
The vast expanse of water which is the Sterkfontein Dam lies a few kilometers from the edge of the Drakensberg Escarpment in the topmost reaches of the Vaal…
PlaceNiger
Niger (was a former French colony to the north of Nigeria) and Nigeria (was a former British colony) were both named after the Niger River that flows through…
PlaceSlanghoek Cellar, Western Cape
Established in 1951, Slanghoek Cellar is situated in the picturesque Slanghoek Valley, 800 m above sea level, surrounded by the majestic Slanghoek Mountains…
PlaceTsaarsbank Beach, West Coast
The Cape West Coast of South Africa is known for its raw, rugged beaches and spectacular untouched landscapes. Although most of the little fishing towns dotted…
PlaceHerold, Route 62
The little Hamlet lies right on the Montagu Pass cradled by some of the most majestic Mountain scenery in the country on the R 62, (Route 62) one of South…
EventWriter J.M. Coetzee is awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
Born in South Africa in 1940, JM Coetzee has had a successful literary career. He is the only author ever to win the Booker prize twice, but the publicity-shy…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
On 11 May 1871 astronomer, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, died. Herschel began to take a serious interest in astronomy from about 1816. Herschel's father…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
The conference will cover the following topics: v Towards the Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and Bio-Diversity based products and services v …
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… people was at a low level. At about this time Steve Biko captured the mood as follows: "All in all the black man …
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… black consciousness movement’s leading spokesman, Steve Biko, and others had concluded by 1976 that the ANC [was] the … of [the ANC];... 13 Arrangements for…