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To Change the World ! Is Reason Enough ?, London, August, 1995
… Ron Press, This is Ron Press' story of his part in the struggle against apartheid. Forced into exile … the frontier's man in working clothes. My teacher was,…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… he was denied letters of recommendation to continue his studies elsewhere in the country. Other leading figures … head of Philosophy Department at…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… before turning back presumably due to protests by his ship crew. On his return Dias erected a cross (on the Gulf between the … Table Bay with a fleet in…
PlaceDie Kraal, Brummeria, Pretoria
… and then returned home to South Africa, which is when his artworks became so prominent in this country. A collection of his works as well as some of his…
EventJ.J. Hadebe replies to Thabo Mbeki’s plea
… J.J. Hadebe replied to Thabo Mbeki’s request to complete his Masters Degree. Mbeki, who would become South Africa’s … 1964, asking the organization if he…
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… KwaZulu-Natal. He is the second child of five children of his parents. He matriculated in Inkamana High School in KwaZulu-Natal. Gwala spent his adult life…
EventYoussou N’Dour, Senegalese singer, is born.
… Band, Senegal’s most famous band. He left the band to form his own, Á‰toile de Dakar in 1979. By 1995, N’Dour had his own recording label, Jololi . His music…
EventAllan Boesak’s plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… as a pastor in Paarl between 1967 and 1970. After received his PhD from a university in New York, he led a parish in … movements in South Africa. Although…
EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
… to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents relocated to South Africa in 1923 where they died … renamed him John Charlton. After…
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
… in 1951 to pursue a career in the theater. He changed his name to Harwood after an English master told him it was … of Sir Donald. He would later draw from…
Address by I. B. Tabata, AAC Conference, December 16,1941
… even the least small avenue for advancement, for voicing his grievances and aspirations, and for acquiring his full and rightful place in civilisation. And…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1932 - 1949 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… are indebted to Maulana Mahomed Moosa Mia Saheb and his brothers is the publication in English for free … Muslim community is indebted to him (M A Motala]…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… seen to be at odds with one another. Jon Soske states, in his essay ‘ The Impossible Concept: Settler Liberalism, … suffer national oppression.” [4] Neville…
ArticleSources task: The Berlin Wall
… John F.Kennedy visited Berlin in June 1963, and expressed his solidarity with the walled-in people of both West and East Berlin. His speech contained the…
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… started playing music on a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at the age of 16 and soon became a known and sought after bass player. In the course of…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
… us on Freirian pedagogy. I remember specifically his statement that has lived with me for all my life and that … quality and safe public transport, shouting…
EventCecil John Rhodes is buried in the Matopos
… ). Rhodes visited England in 1901. He was already ill on his return to Cape Town in the early months of 1902 and died soon afterwards at his seaside cottage…
EventThe Nelson Mandela Museum is opened in Mthatha
… himself on 11 February 2000, exactly ten years since his release from prison. Positioned in the area of his birth, the museum receives tourists from all over…
EventPaul Kruger is sworn in as president of the Zuid
… as the 'father of the Afrikaner nation'. This is because his firm belief in the destiny of the Afrikaner, his strong faith, and his obedience to his God…
David Goldblatt - 'Mostly Unseen' at the Goodman Gallery by Sean O'Toole
… works and three vintage District Six prints on offer. In his 'Die Hel' series, the dignity with which Goldblatt portrays his subjects certainly places his…
PlaceHankey
… on demeaning public display from 1810 in London until her death in Paris on December 29,1815. Her dignified burial many …
1. The Way to Fox Street
… border of the Orange Free State with Lesotho. 7 His mother, Linkhapa, was a daughter of Molapo, a son of King Moshoeshoe, the founder of the Basotho kingdom…
EventSpringboks beat Scotland at Murrayfield
… tries came from the 21 year old wing Bryan Habana on his first international start. Habana was voted for the … Despite the fact that the team had won…
PlaceNgcobo
… In 1876 Walter Stanford arrived at the station to take up his appointment as Resident Magistrate to the amaQwathi. He established the seat of his magistracy…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
… African rhetoric the world over will continue to recognise his 1996 “I am an African” speech as a remarkable text and … youths will not have seen the animals…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1946
… which is to bring peace to the world, to be true to his principles. We are asking for a definite procedure of … is meted out to South African Indians,…
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… and North and West Africa. It would be 24 years before his return to Morocco and 29 years before he completed his travels. Sadly, Battuta did not document…
EventSouth African writer J.M. Coetzee is born in Cape Town.
… Coetzee in Cape Town to Afrikaner parents, Coetzee uses his initials as his pen name. He studied at the University of Cape Town and … at the University of…
EventThomas William Bowler, prolific painter at the Cape, is born
… was a self taught painter and printmaker who spent most of his life at the Cape of Good Hope. He arrived at the Cape … astronomer Thomas McClear in 1834 whom…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… athlete knows that it is by competition with others in his class that he can record better times. As if this system … the Indian golfer, Sewsunker (Papwa)…