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The Trust Feed Massacre
… struggle to be tried and sentenced to death for a part in initiating and maintaining the endemic political …
PlaceOld Morley
… in the small towns that were springing up in that part of the Cape Frontier. Consequently, in 1830, it was …
PlaceThe Free State National Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein
… in the City Centre, on the Slopes of Naval Hill, part of the Farm Brandkop and the Farm Winter Valley, about …
PlaceWelgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
… either Jacob van Reenen or his son Dirk. Today it forms part of the Property of the University of Cape Town. Close to …
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… Algeria and even more in Vietnam. South African "miracle" One of the longest and most bitter struggles has been in … history and spread to all regions of the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… ways of transmitting historical knowledge from one generation to another. They developed memory skills that … contradict apartheid historiography? Let us…
Document 15 - “Ruth First , “Progress in Unity Talks: African Organisations Agree Principle”, The Guardian , 23 December 1948
… average Congress person this (proposal) seems to mean that one mouthpiece of the African people (the Convention) is … must be drawn into the process of…
ArchiveThe All-African Convention: The Awakening of The People by I.B. Tabata
… time a focal point amongst the intellectuals. Tabata was one of a militant vanguard that entered the national struggle … racial law, or seeking concessions…
Executive summary of the statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC, Mangaung 8 January 2012
… Africa that was free, just and which belonged to all. One year after its formation, the ANC confronted one of its biggest challenges when the Native Land Act…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2012
… Africa that was free, just and which belonged to all. One year after its formation, the ANC confronted one of its biggest challenges when the Native Land Act…
ArchiveJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
… to the making of the CYL. Jordan Khush Ngubane is one such voice that has been silenced. He is marginalised … people to the brilliance of Ngubane. He was an…
The fight against passes continues
… Elizabeth in solidarity with that conference, and they had one in Johannesburg too. That was in August 1955. At that … for most of the campaigns, and we…
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
… South Africa’s apartheid regime to make it happen. For his part, John Vorster gambled that cooperating with the American … of state—“Super K,” the 1973 Nobel…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… tribute to the number of women who played such a splendid part in the struggle during the last two years. I must add … world today is divided into two camps…
Extract from a speech made at Koffiefontein on 11 August 1967
… in the National Party it could mean a watering-down of one's own language and cultural standpoint or that it involves relinquishing principles. No one has…
Burundi: A year later, still in crisis by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 05 May 2016, South Africa
… and secret defections are crippling Burundi’s army, one year into a crisis that has created hundreds of thousands … form it will take. It will not take the…
PlaceTownship Tours of Cape Town
… life. With South Africa’s volatile political past, one should approach a township tour experience with great … 1960), there were similar fatalities in Langa…
PlaceUlundi, Kwa-Zulu Natal, (also known as Mahlabathini)
… also known as Mahlabathini. Ulundi Local Municipality is part of Zululand District Municipality . At one time Ulundi was the Capital of Zulu Kingdom ,…
PlaceSongimvelo Game Reserve, an Early Archaeological Site
… Reserve is located South of Barberton in the South-Eastern part of the Mpumalanga Province on the South … of the Komati, Msoli and Lomati Rivers makes this…
PlaceKnysna Lagoon, Garden Route- Western Province
… the two sandstone heads that guarded its entrance so no one knew whether it would be possible to export timber by …
PlaceHogsback, Eastern Cape
… by Centuries-old indigenous Afro-Montane Forests . "One's overwhelming sense of Hogsback is the quiet, broken …
PlaceBokoni, Mpumalanga
… on them and extensive road networks, joining them to one another, (as shown in banner) . This has long been … territory from below. Adam's Calendar is…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… between the government and the ANC gathered pace. As part of that process, the ANC, PAC and other parties were … power both in government and the ANC to…
PlaceRhodes Memorial, Vredehoek- Table Mountain
… Helderberg and Hottentots Holland Mountain ranges but is one of the few vantage points where both the Atlantic and … Table Mountain, the Thodes memorial…
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… protest of approximately 20 000 learners in Soweto. With one goal and one voice, they marched through the streets of Soweto, but …
EventThe UN ends SA mandate over South West Africa
… SWA. In 1969 this UN resolution was followed by a further one, calling for the immediate withdrawal of South African … is reasonable to accept that *27…
EventPublic places of recreation for whites only, are proclaimed
… be divided into racially segregated zones where members of one specific race alone could live and work. Group areas were … It further became a criminal…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… by the authorities led to the killing of three escapees. One of three escapees, Jotham Njoroge, was killed by an angry … from Britain. Jomo Kenyatta, became…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… in a world that is mad, even evil. For him, at least, one answer is to bear witness by taking pictures. "I must … presented in wall texts (written by…
PlaceSt Margaret’s House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… it is to walk up the driveway through what must be one of the most stunning Gardens in Johannesburg. It was … is a mysterious set of six columns, also…