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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…
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,…
South African History Online and Bridgewater State University Partnership Project - 2018 Submissions
… high school social studies teacher in the future. Some of his hobbies include traveling, watching sports, and … major in History and Secondary Education…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, “Presidential Address to the All-African Convention Conference”, Edendale, 14 to 16 December 1958
… who will submit to "traditional Bantu Principles" in all his professional and commercial dealings. In other words a … of the Herrenvolk policy; for rather…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Debates and Relations with Other Organizations
… Inkululeko, 9 September 1944. Hitler is rapidly losing all his supporters in Europe. The rats are leaving the sinking … he now says in the above letter, but…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… carried reports that sabotage would be punished by death. If this was so, how could we continue to keep Africans … of a group of Africans who had gathered to…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… plucky action of Reverend Scott, a white clergyman, and his equally white fellow-workers, who have undertaken to … of a worthy father, the late Parsee…
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… in 2007, Dr Saleem Badat stood on this stage to deliver his first graduation address as Rhodes’ new vice-chancellor. … years, and particularly to Rhodes…
EventPresident P.W. Botha suffers a stroke.
… 20 January 1989, but could not attend the meeting due to his ailing condition. Acting president, Christiaan Heunis, attended the meeting in his place. Some…
EventVuminkosi Zulu, S.A. sculptor is born in Mapumulo, Natal
… studied art at Rocke’s drift art school and completed his course in 1972. He decided to stay on as a resident artist until 1974. Zulu is famous for his…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… protests by Indians against racial discrimination. His philosophy of non-violence strongly influenced the ANC in … declared. 18000 activists arrested. Denis…
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… for their release the world over, Nelson, together with his comrades Govan Mbeki, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, … he has taken reasonable steps to ascertain…
Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
… into centuries, has been nothing but tension, conflict and death. In a sense we do not know the meaning of peace except … to walk this road with us, and…
Address to the International Labour Conference Geneva, 8 June 1990
… who refused to succumb to tyranny, who refused to fear death, who refused to be enslaved. It is thanks to their … the initiative of the ANC, we met President…
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… the Katberg Pass. There is also a bronze plaque in his honour on the Summit of Bain's Kloof Pass, 7 km North of Wellington. His son Thomas also went on too…
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… On his journey to South Africa in 1893, Mohandas Gandhi had … of the discrimination faced by people of colour. His response to this was the establishment of…
EventRenowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria
… (1930-) is a prominent Igbo (Ibo) writer, famous for his novels describing the effects of Western customs and … traditional African society. Achebe's knack…
How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018
… to move away from the cliché-ridden assessments of his multi-faceted personality. Understanding Mandela means … the life of a complex human being, who…
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… Heath Sussex, the youngest of three brothers. In 1911 his father, an Anglican priest, was transferred to a slum … the surrounding poverty and suffering…