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ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
Born on 21 March 1936, Roseinnes Phahle grew up in Alexandra Township. From 1950 to 1952 he boarded at St Peter’s School (now St. Martin’s) in Rosettenville,…
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
With politicians showing unusual agreement among themselves and media focused on the "global" tribute to Nelson Mandela, there has been unanimous praise in…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 102th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 102nd Anniversary of the ANC 8 January 2014 Comrades and Compatriots The African…
10 YEARS PROJECT
close Document 6 Africans' claims in South Africa 16 December 1943 (Including 'The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
In this chapter my concerns are with SANSCO's mobilisation of students and its collective actions, and especially the form and content of mobilisation and…
Apartheid power in crisis
… peace is to become a reality. The Native Land Act of 1913 and the Development Trust and Land Act of 1936 strictly …
Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
… part, were compelled to go upon the European farms. Until 1913, they lived on the European farms or as squatters … of the Native Land Act by the Colonial…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 11) “Bantu Education or the Street” The first half of the 1950s was the…
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
The Prime Minister described and analysed the political dispensation of the day in an exemplary fashion. It was his first public appearance following the…
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
Abstract The paper reviews the life of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote during apartheid South Africa in the mid to late 20th century. During this time…
EventRocklands Community Hall declared a heritage site
On 20 August 2019, the 36th anniversary of the founding of the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Rocklands Community Hall, located in Mitchell’s Plain,Cape…
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate Library
The library at Vergelegen Wine Estate situated in Somerset West, Western Cape used to be a winery that was built during 1816. It was converted to a library in…
EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
Two members of the banned liberation movements, Harry Gwala, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and Zephania Mothopeng a member of the Pan…
EventLord Baden-Powell’s sister, Agnes, establishes the Girl Guides Movement
The Girl Guide movement shares its roots with the Boy Scout movement that was founded by Baden-Powell during the South African War of 1899-1902. During the war…
PlaceSeshego, a Township
Seshego is a Township in the Polokwane Local Municipality of the Capricorn District Municipality of the Limpopo Province It lies directly North West of…
PlaceSomerset Hospital, Cape Town
The Somerset Hospital in Green Point opened in 1864 and has been declared a National Monument. The Hospital replaced one of the same name in Cape Town which…
PlaceZonnebloem College, Cape Town
The College was founded in the 1850s on the farm Zonnebloem (sunflower) by controversial Cape Governor Sir George Grey in his drive to strip the Xhosa people…
Chapter 6 -The making of a black Bolshevik: Gumede and the League Against Imperialism, 1927
… pointed out the hardships brought about by the Land Act of 1913 and even condemned the British government’s policy of …
PlaceUmdoni Municipality
Umdoni Local Municipality is located under the Ugu District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. It is made up of 10 wards, most of which are rural…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
I would like to state in my preliminary remarks that the overthrow of the hated and criminal policies that prevails in South Africa requires first that the…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
I would like to state in my preliminary remarks that the overthrow of the hated and criminal policies that prevails in South Africa requires first that the…
David Goldblatt,The Transported of KwaNdebele by L'oeil De La Photographie, 26 September 2016
For over 60 years, David Goldblatt has documented the social and political developments of his native South Africa with a critical yet compassionate eye. Drawn…
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
The South African Archive is made up of records pertaining mostly to Governance and Laws Enacted, but also includes Documents pertaining to Titles Deeds,…
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
The building is the oldest existing dwelling in the immediate vicinity of Rustenburg. Designed in a neo-classical idiom, it was erected for William Robertson…
PlacePaardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp
It was declared a National Monument underold legislation on 6 April 1936. The monument was designed by Sytze Wierda who was the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
South Africa's former Prime Minister on two occasions, from 1919 - 1924 and 1939-1948, General J.C. Smuts passed away at the age of 80 on his Doorkloof farm in…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
On 3 September 1984, Members of Parliament convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution with a three-tier parliament which would re…
EventThe Prime Minister announces the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the reporting of defence matters, to be headed by Justice M.T. Steyn
More recent initiatives by the post 1994 SA government to establish a media tribunal have been condemned as an attempt to introduce 'apartheid style draconian…
EventThe apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko
Steve Biko was born in King Williams Town and began his political career as the co-founder of the all-black South African Student's Organization (SASO). It was…
EventDue to insufficient evidence South African police are cleared of charges with regards to the death of Steve Biko
Steve Biko, who died at the hands of apartheid security police on September 12, 1977, is widely seen as the greatest martyr of the anti-apartheid movement. He…