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Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… Hathorn was detained in Durban Central Prison in 1960, for his role in the struggle. Recorded below is an extract from … prison diary that he kept whilst in…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… with Mzilikazi are contradictory. Paul Kruger , in his memoirs, describes how the Boers had crossed the Vaal … had crossed the Crocodile River. Kruger also…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter X - Triumph of disunity (2)
… of the baSotho, but he is not the central figure. To tell his story would to tell the story of the Builder of a Nation … Before the Whites appeared on the…
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
… as any and feared that they were going to be sentenced to death. So when the verdict came, the sense of relief was … forgotten? He had this dazzling moment…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… doctoral political science student, Izak Daniel de Vries. His interpretative testimony was based on the use of the … overthrowing of the government. De Vries…
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… heard once to express the hope that the trial would end in his lifetime. Yet it was not to end in Pirow's. On 12 October … we should stand with the rest of…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… Group Areas Act of 1950. 1954 H.F. Verwoerd states in his speech in Senate that the human reality needs to be … a tramp living in Fietas disappeared. On…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… larger unit of Southern Sotho groups, who had fallen under his centralized authority due to competition for resources, … protection from other marauding…
Colonial history of Polokwane
… the ZAR from Holland. Potgieter died in December 1852, and his son Piet Potgieter succeeded him. In 1854 Hermanus … over grazing and hunting territory and…
Conflict among civic organisations
… was carried out Rodney Wilkinson with assistance from his girlfriend Heather Gray. Wilkinson was former South … electric cables under the main control room…
ArticleTransport in the air
… Daedalus was an artist, inventor and engineer. He and his son were prisoners of King Minos, and Daedalus invented wings for him and his son to fly away with…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… unit of labour, with no allowance for the maintenance of his family. The system, somewhat modified but with a new … it described the mineworker “as a chattel…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer
… of today's visitors was Miss M. She passed an old man on his way to church, all prepared with his Bible tucked under his arm. Two girls walked by going in ……
ArticleThe Transkei
… Botha Sigcau, a man already discredited in the eyes of his people. As far back as 1939, when the choice had had to … of the day had picked on Chief Botha in…
PlaceIziko South African Maritime Centre
… at the Centre namely, “The Last Voyage of the Mendi: Death in Foreign Waters” which provides an overview of the SS …
Chapter IX - Triumph of disunity (1)
… David Livingstone, was to follow the same route on his way to the Zambesi, and still later Rhodes and the … was educated to assist the missionaries as a…
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… stalwart Raymond "Oom Ray" Mhlaba. Since the news of her death, tributes have been pouring from throughout the …
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… ‘long 1970s’, defined as the period stretching from the death of Hendrik Verwoerd (1966) to the Soweto uprising and …
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… Documents pertaining to Titles Deeds, Wedding, Birth and Death Certificates. The South African National Archive has … Documents pertaining to Titles Deeds,…
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… for Roberto Saviano, an Italian writer threatened with death by the Mafia after he exposed their underground …
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
… In 1993, the country’s fortunes began to change with the death of the first president Felix Houphouët-Boigney, and a … before she embarks on her journey. She…
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… member of the Congress of Democrats offered her a job at his private college. She was eventually imprisoned for her … found out when a man named Petr…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… Davidson Don Tengo (D.D.T.) Jabavu refuses to give his opinion regarding World War II. 1941 Council for … Dr. Alfred Bitini (A.B.) Xuma, vice president of…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… (private property) for Belgium’s King Leopold II and under his rule, over half of the region’s population died. At the … produced, and the food shortage…
PlacePiet Retief now officially known as eMkhondo
… reminded the settlers so much of Scotland, during summer. His settlement was part of a plan of the old Transvaal … poet), Bonnie Brook and Londina'. After…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… then and George Bizos, a school friend, was still in his early career. These were not exactly halcyon years – far … official gave no indication of the…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… South African liberation movements derives primarily from his two crowning achievements: President of the African … elected Zulu chief) engaged the world of…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… of Cambridge. An advocate of interdisciplinary research, his work often focuses on the means through which literature … Joshua’s main interest is Early…
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… task of sabotaging the Johannesburg area. Joe Modise and his unit were to sabotage the Kliptown area while Masondo and his unit were given the administrative…
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… in the establishment of Afrapix Collective. Badsha, and his colleagues Paul Weinberg and Lesley Lawson, also played … In October 1985, the American…