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PlaceRandjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 26 February 1965. When Johannesburg was proclaimed in 1886 on the triangular site…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 By December 1982, the government of Lesotho…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
NameKoni Benson & Asher GamedzeOrganisationUniversity of Cape Town Biography Asher Gamedze currently cuts up most of his time between playing music, studying…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
1940 Dr. A.B. Xuma is elected President-General of the African National Congress (ANC). Walter Sisulu joins the African National Congress. The population…
PlaceHilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School
At the end of a road eight kilometres from the Village of Hilton, on an Escarpment above Pietermaritzburg, are large wrought-iron gates! Behind these is: …
PlaceBurgersdorp, E.C.
The Merino sheep-farming Town of Burgersdorp, in the North Eastern Cape has been a pivotal point in Afrikaner: History; Culture and Religion. Many Towns in…
PlaceThe Space Theatre
In 1970 Brian Astbury, a Professional Photographer, was hired to take rehearsal photos of Athol Fugard, Yvonne Bryceland, Val Donal and Wilson Dunster who were…
ArticleThe African Union and Regional Economic Integration
Following the wave of independence which swept the African continent in the 1960s, integration schemes became an increasingly important tool for facilitating…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
The opening moment of education in South Africa coincides with the foundation of the colonial experience at the Cape in 1652. Six years after the Dutch East…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
Xenophobic violence against foreign nationals in South Africa has worsened. South Africa witnessed widespread xenophobic attacks since 1994 in provinces such…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
The Natal Indian Association (NIA) was formed when the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the Colonial Born and Settlers Indian Association (CBSIA) amalgamated.[1…
Political report by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the African National Congress, 17 June 1985, Kabwe, Zambia
Comrade Chairman, Comrades, Delegates, This day, the opening of the National Consultative Conference of the ANC, is a great and moving moment in the history…
Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
Comrade Chairman, Comrades, Delegates, This day, the opening of the National Consultative Conference of the ANC, is a great and moving moment in the…
From retirement to parliament
(Including 'The Atlantic Charterfrom the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa' and 'Bill of Rights,' adopted by the ANC Annual Conference.)…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
Public lecture by Hermann Giliomee in honour of Richard Elphick given at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn, USA, May 4 2015 Nelson Mandela and the last…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Three days before the massacre on Monday 6…
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
I was a fresh-faced 16-year-old when I started my studies in 1950 at the University of Cape Town. In the long summer holiday between school and university I…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
The deadlock was not about principle, but about political power: the power to determine the final constitutional dispensation. It also served to fuel the…
The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
In 1979 the African National Congress launched an attempt to receive international recognition as the “sole legitimate representative of the people of South…
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
An immigrant from Lithuania, the young Charles Back I, landed on these shores in 1902. With a strong work ethic and passion for wine, he soon built up a…
Media briefing statement by ANC National Chairperson, Comrade Baleka Mbete, following the occasion of the Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence Day Celebrations
Introduction: I have just returned from Juba, South Sudan last night. I led an ANC delegation which attended Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
For the last few weeks millions of fevered eyes have been fixed on South Africa, host to the World Cup, which ends next weekend. For half a century the probing…
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
World-renowned as the ultimate destination for diving with Great White Sharks and “game-viewing” of the Marine Big 5 from land, sea and air, the greater…
PlaceEastern Cape Province
Before 1993, the Eastern Cape was part of the Cape Province. Today it includes the old homelands of Ciskei and Transkei. Many of South Africa's leaders were…
Document 21 - ANC National Consultative Conference: resolutions for the coming year
On December 2 this year, thousands of workers will gather in Durban, the birth place of COSATU, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Federation. This will…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza
Webinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors: Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza The Making of the Trotskyist Tradition in South Africa: A…
PlaceLiliesleaf Farm, Rivonia- Johannesburg
Liliesleaf Farm is the location where prominent leaders of the opposition to South Africa's Apartheid Government used to attend meetings in order to plan their…
PlaceQuanza Shipwreck, East London
The Quanza was a four-masted steamship of 942 tons which went ashore at East London, on Sunday, 26 May 1872 at 5am. She struck the rocks, just East of the…
ArchiveChapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg
After the State of Emergency in 1960, when so many of us were locked up for four or five months in detention, there was a widespread feeling that we were…