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EventApartheid becomes official policy
… to us once more. South Africa is our own for the first time since Union, and may God grant that it will always …
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… readmitted to the international soccer body for the second time in July 1992. The reinstatement of South Africa was …
EventSmallpox Epidemic Strikes at the Cape
… come down with smallpox, a disease that was fatal at the time. Their clothing and other linen were sent to the slave …
PlacePeddie
… old watchtower on its hilltop was built in 1841, just in time to withstand a 4 000-strong Xhosa attack. …
Document 68 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 February 1937
… with great rapidity, because we dared not give the bosses time to lay up a stock of their products upon which to keep …
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… law at the University of Witwatersrand, where he found time to distinguish himself as a member of the football team …
PlaceOld Presidency
… approved plans for a new Presidency house. At that time, the Volksraad could only afford £800 for the …
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… at 27 Mansfield Road, Berea, Durban. 3. The length of time he has resided in the Colony is twelve years and four …
PlaceLadysmith
… should consider visiting this town while spending time in the Drakensberg. In the early years interestingly, … should consider visiting this town while…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… been the only Black residential area for Cape Town at the time. Transkei,one of the ten homelands, was created in terms …
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… against the wishes of people. In this intervening time, a vast number of people lost their stock which was … & Gelderblom Derik (1994) Urbanisation South…
PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
… Enslaved People at the Lodge, were not given enough time to wash their clothes or themselves as ‘for an extended …
PlaceGriqualand West
… and Kimberley were probably proclaimed at about the same time. However the Cape Government , faced with the objections …
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… teach or even associate with more than one person at a time she decided to move to London. She taught English there … Bram Fischer , was the chairperson of…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
… was overthrown in 1966, the films produced during his time were confiscated and a new system was created to be … a major impact on popular culture in Ghana. …
PlaceElands Bay Cave
… Since the climate has continuously become drier from the time of habitation of hunter-gatherers in the Later …
PlaceLangebaan Lagoon
… has been shaped by the rise and fall of sea levels over time, and is a self-sustaining, pure salt water lagoon. Daily … washed in by strong tides mean it…
PlaceWinnie Mandela Drive, Johannesburg
… William Nicol , the Administrator of the Transvaal, at the time of construction. It was changed in 2024 to the: 'Winnie … through Ferndale had to be re…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… of the 1978-1979 strategic review, the ANC wasted no time in bringing the front under its suzerainty. The report … often travelled in Africa; Hani had to…
Olof Palme and the liberation of Southern Africa by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1988
… party that might be in power in Sweden at any particular time, but on the fundamental reality that the peoples of our … humanitarian support to the…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… is complicated by the lack of written sources from the time, as well as the problematic fact that almost all of the … Catholicism was among the general…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… Rautenbach). Rautenbach took on the issues of race at a time when it was not easy to do so, given his terribly … ever received royalties from the film. A…
ArchiveThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
… “I eventually traced him to New York where he lived at the time working as a doctor in psychiatry and political science … that I was able to find out exactly…
‘Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making’ is a one day public workshop at Iyatsiba Lab facilitated by visual artist and educator, Scott Eric Williams.
… will be supplied. Date: Saturday 8 November 2025 Time: 10h00-15h00 (A light lunch will be provided) Venue: The …
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… when religious freedom was permitted for the first time at the Cape of Good Hope. Prior to this, the Cape … and others, along with prominent Muslim women of…
PlaceChristiana, North West
… with the diamonds, although some are still found from time to time. The first, 'Residential Stands', were sold in 1870. One …
PlacePort Alfred
… of Prince Albert , who was visiting the colony at the time. Wharf Street , the first commercial street in Port … has beautifully preserved buildings dating…
PlaceBenoni, Ekurhuleni Municipality
… . Benoni began in 1881 when the Surveyor-General of the time, known as Johan Rissik , found it difficult to assign … people of every colour and denomination…
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
… life itself. To the African people the declaration is a challenge to organise and unite themselves under the mass … this important national duty, as he saw…