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Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
… Back in the mid-1970s, when the writer was still feeling his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, … and who wrote Move Your Shadow, an…
Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial Court statement, 1964 (Video)
… BEAT, Nelson Mandela's famous declaration to the court in his 1964 terrorism trial, expressing his readiness face execution. In fact the sentence was …
EventSA artist Vuminkosi Zulu is born
… . He left school at standard VII to concentrate on his calling that was to be an artist. Zulu became a world-renowned artist and his depiction of the 'The…
EventSir Julius Jeppe, founder of the Witwatersrand Township Estate and Finance Corporation, dies in London
… He was a mining and property magnate who was knighted for his pioneering role in the development of Johannesburg. He … was born in Rostock, Germany in July…
Document 20 - F. Carneson, “The Franchise Action Committee”, Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951 The lecturer prefaced his address by stating that the views he would express were … of F.R.A.C., though many of its members…
Balfour Declaration 1926
… (WITH SUBJECT INDEX) [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] Printed for the Imperial … VARIOUS PARTS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 2 …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1947
… the community. He had abandoned the community long ago and his politics now consisted of corridor and parlour discussion' his Rotary speech was something of…
EventThe Trial of strength between the Conservative Party and the National Party begins as three Members of Parliament resign
… Waterkloof respectively, after which he would relinquish his seat in Soutpansberg. Botha together with Langley and … of this electoral challenge was that PW…
EventSouth African Prime Minister, John Vorster resigns
… 1966, John Vorster , shocked the nation by announcing his resignation from office, at the request of his colleagues, on the grounds of ill health…
EventHeadman Tshabalala, founding member of the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed
… band Ladysmith Black Mambazo and sang alongside many of his relatives. The group was first only known in the … Tshabalala was shot dead on *6 December 1991…
EventButhelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders
… called for talks between himself and Nelson Mandela in his capacity as the leader of IFP to find ways and means of … Buthelezi because he felt that the ANC…
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… from Balliol College in Oxford in 1981. After writing his law examinations in 1893 he joined the Department of … Revenue in 1893. Duncan came to South Africa…
PlaceBeaufort West, Cape Town
… Charles Somerset , Governor of the Cape, 1814-1826. After his father, the fifth Duke of Beaufort. It became a … however, one was totally destroyed in a flash…
ArticleGandhi and the burning of passes
… Smuts did not repeal the Black Act as he had promised. His breaking of the agreement angered the Indian community …
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… He organizes an Indian ambulance corps of 1100 men during his service in the Boer War 1906 He organizes …
Glossary: Learning from Leaders
… Ambassador A person who officially represents his or her government in another country. Banish Send someone …
Place'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay
… Bartholomew Dias and his crew landed with his men on 3rd of February 1488, but Mossel Bay's History can … sought shelter in Mossel Bay after losing most of…
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
… Kennedy of the United States visited South Africa to show his anti-apartheid support to the South African people. He … of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, Bishop…
EventGeneral Louis Botha dies
… by a cold that had developed into pneumonia while on his farm Rusthof. Very ill, he returned to his home in Pretoria where he died. He was buried in the …
PlaceGroutville
… father Reverend Aldin Grout who arrived in Natal with his wife Charlotte in 1836. Reverend Aldin Grout was part of … the American Board of Commissioners for…
"What I think of Macmillan`s speech": Article by Albert Luthuli, 1 March 1960
… about. Some of us, fearing that he might be manoeuvred by his host, the Union Government, to act and speak in support of apartheid, advised him that…
Celebrating 62 years of struggle, 10 September 2006
… a difference. We honoured Lucas Radebe with an award for his leadership of Bafana Bafana, and his sterling example on patriotism throughout his soccer…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… The last that South African intelligence, or most of his ANC comrades, had heard of him - in 1988 - was that he … regular three-way communication between…
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… resided in the Colony is twelve years and four months. 4. His trade or calling is attorney's clerk. 5. Your petitioner … to the value of about £200. 8. Your…
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… of the White Man's Burden in Africa, was arguably at his finest in his 1972 novel, The Sunbird. In it, he narrates the allegory of Great Zimbabwe as his…
PlacePageview
… if they were all one big family,” writes Nazir Carrim in his book Fietas. This forced people to “thoroughly enjoy … began in Sophiatown, where he was born in…
36. The fault of Indian immigrants is their poverty and their skin
… attention to what appears to us to be the one fault in his otherwise unexceptionable summary of the year's work in … that the officer in question may have…
EventJomo Kenyatta is elected Prime Minister of Kenya
… been sentenced to hard labour and was restricted following his arrest in 1952 related to allegations of his complicity in the Mau Mau rebellion. He was…
EventHarold Cressy is born in Rorke’s Drift
… African College, now the University of Cape Town . During his studies, having been denied entry to the Rhodes … now the University of Stellenbosch , because…
The Story of PR Panther, the gold man of Indian politics in South Africa: Introduction - By Riashnee Pather
… case of this thesis to PR Pather and to a lesser extent his son Masla. It is pitiable that today we find ourselves in … to do is to look at one man, PR…