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Afra Newsletter
… all published by the Association for Rural Advancement, present case studies of families personally affected by the …
The Storming: Insurrections Ensemble by Dilip Menon, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, June 2017
… The idea of a storm condenses the anxieties of past sorrow, present distress, and future devastation. To call a production The Storming locates a predicament…
EventPortuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias erects the first stone cross on the South African coast
… of the expedition was to build a fort on the coast of present-day Accra in Ghana, known as Fort Elmina. In December … the African coast again, landing in…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… public office. This meeting requests the organisations present to lay before the Select Committee of parliament the … - amply demonstrated by the enthusiasm…
Document 98 - “The All African Convention”, Umlilo Mollo /The Flame, 1, 2, October 1936
… their national unity, and their revolt against their present slave status. A manifesto must be issued, a new … Europeans must possess to have their names…
PlaceSt Louis Catholic Church, 22 Jacobs Road, Clairwood, Durban
… he recommended that a new church building be erected. The present structure was built shortly afterwards, and underwent … In 1492, Father Weist and the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… it '' Inter-racial Relationship." One result of the present situation is that the best" educated Bantu never come … together in a conference under…
PlaceHawthornden-House, Herschell Walk, Wynberg
… probably dates to 1683, but it was rebuilt to its present form, as a double-storey home with French Victorian …
EventA delegation of seven Coloured leaders meets with SA Prime Minister Vorster to discuss the future of the Coloured community
… was decided unequivocally to tell the government that the present political dispensation of apartheid was unacceptable. …
EventDisaster strikes as Portuguese ship São João sinks
… went down near the mouth of the Mzimvubu River (at the present Port St. Johns) with 600 people on board. The ship …
EventAdam Kok III is killed in an accident
… December 1875. He is revered by the Griqua people of the present day as the greatest of the Kok chiefs. …
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… formation of several states, notably those of the Sotho (present-day Lesotho) and of the Swazi (now Swaziland). This … the area that later became known as…
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
… his master. (Refer to book again, find footnote 20 on page 76 in chapter on "The slaves and the sailors" for date etc.) …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… who also attended to me for the same complaint on 7/4/76 says my eyesight is excellent although the test revealed …
Message by Albert Luthuli to Asian-African Conference, 7 April 1955, Bandung
… the deliberations at Bandung, Indonesia, on April 18 will present the point of view of the African and Asian people for …
EventFirst recorded discovery of diamonds in the colonial period of South Africa
… By 1871, more diamonds were found in the vicinity of the present-day Kimberley, leading to the establishment of De …
EventPieter Jacobs Marais reports discovery of gold
… farm, Bultfontein, in 1853. The site was just north of the present Sandton. Though Marais thought that he was the first …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations of the PRC
… of Indians in South Africa, both these delegates were present and kept is touch with Mrs. Pandit and her … SAIC delegated Kajee, Pather and Christopher, were…
Olof Palme and the liberation of Southern Africa by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1988
… ANC, SWAPO, and the Frontline States. Those of us who were present as Olof Palme expressed this firm resolve to act … countries, Sweden had once more to…
ArchiveFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
… was ripped from its land in the space of a few decades. At present, capitalist production massively dominates all other … develop a worker response. Although…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… The offence created by the Proclamation was that of being present at a gathering of more than 20 persons, whereas the … could hold meetings was big enough to…
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… April 1848, by Bishop Robert Gray on the premises of the present Cathedral at the top of Adderley Street in Cape Town. … Building on the Mowbray Campus,…
Document 83 “Native Bourgeoisie as a Class”, Umsebenzi, 16 February 1935
… of the Native bourgeoisie, whose existence is at present being disputed. Further the article very clearly … Native bourgeoisie and the Native petty…
1. The whole Coolies petition the Durban Corporation for better wages
… Coolies have got large family and the wages that we get at present is not enough to maintain our poor distressed family … obliged to come in our bare body,…
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
… The primary aim of these lectures is to inspire the present generation of artists and academics to revisit the …
EventMass arrests in Pondoland
… to trial. While the South African Defence Force (SADF) was present in support of the police during at least part of this …
EventKabila is inaugurated as president of the DRC
… the largest UN force ever deployed in the world, was also present. Cannons fired salutes as the first president of the …
PlaceGeorge, Garden Route- Western Province
… after the British occupation in 1806. It then embraced the present Districts of: "Mossel Bay; Calitzdorp ; Oudtshoorn; … through the Years, also been…
EventPope John Paul II celebrates a papal mass in South Africa
… objective of his visit to the African continent was to present a papal document outlining the Roman Catholic …
20. Johannesburg Parsees claim special status
… de Villiers, the then burgomaster of Johannesburg, and at present member of the Legislative Council of the Transvaal, … tax to the late Republican Government…