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Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… this Act were re-arrested at the end of the first 90 days. One thousand people were detained under this law over the … mentally ill. Because of this and…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… from Mozambique . It was founded in 1962 and formed a part of the Mozambican liberation movement, eventually … Sue Rabkin arrived in Maputo in 1979 and was…
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
… Boeren vereenigingen (Afrikaner farming associations) were one of the first expressions of Afrikaner political awakening … Hofmeyr lauded the branch. Hofmeyr…
PlaceBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town
… Gardens albeit separated by a road these days. In 1890 a part of the Van Oudtshoorn Garden, was purchased by the Cape … sides were preparing for war. The new…
Address to Beijing University Beijing, 6 May 1999
… organisation and sector of society - is unique. Each one involves a relationship between peoples, in this case the … of the twentieth century, is deeply…
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
… problems are coalescing. You heard the news We three in one Midwife womb child Of truth will triumph South Africa … but paid back the money. Mbete, while…
EventZwelethu Mthethwa found guilty of murder
… the work of a man accused of murdering a woman as part of an exhibition aimed at empowering women, is not …
PlaceUnion Tavern and Stables, Simonstown
… recently as 1913 when it was subject to a forced sale as part of an Insolvent Estate. …
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… by the Department of Public Works . The restoration is part of a long-term programme initiated by the PWD during …
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
… Mr. H.E. van Santen, Johannesburg. While the greatest part of the papers relates to Herman Eugene Schoch (1862- …
EventThe New Zealand Mounted Rifles leave Wellington for the South African War
… troops arrived in Cape Town and deployed to the northern part of the Cape Colony to join the cavalry division …
EventThe first large group of French Huguenots arrive at the Cape
… quality of Cape wines. The Huguenots played an integral part in the stabilisation of the free burgher population. …
ANC AND 1999 ELECTION NOMINATION LIST
… up a list of its own people to be given to the ANC as part of the election nomination list. This decision was taken …
Don’t be misled by the PROPAGANDA OF THE KAJEE-PATHER GROUP
… to assist in bringing violence to an end and to take part in peaceful political negotiations. 3. The government …
PlaceOudtshoorn, Western Cape
… The division of Oudtshoorn was originally part of the District of George, and was proclaimed a separate … The division of Oudtshoorn was originally part of…
Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 76 Communist Party … the Native peasants who have been…
PlaceKnysna, Garden Route- Western Province
… spellings since about the 1770's. It was ‘Nysna’ in one of the earliest letters from James Callander (who built a … A second ship was sent to salvage the…
Address by Nelson Mandela at the Funeral of Adelaide Tambo, 10 February 2007
… heavy in mourning as we lay a wreath on the grave of one so special to that generation and to ourselves as … the passing away of a close personal friend, a…
ArchiveBirth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe
… Dans even found itself in soccer lore as the nickname of one of the deadliest strikers of the era - Basil Steenkamp, a … He was a temporary deviation before…
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… cent of the Constitutional Assembly. This Constitution is one of the most advanced in the world, establishing a … a system of government that allows South…
Document 3 - Peace Treaty of Vereeniging
… parliament will go down in the history of our country as one of the most sober analyses of the challenges we face. The … at every turn. It is remarkable that…
PlaceParsonage House Museum, Port Elizabeth
… or No 7 Castle Hill. The Georgian house, now a museum is one of the oldest houses in the city and is a fine example of … National Monuments now provincial…
PlaceNewington Road Victorian Houses, Port Elizabeth
… legislation on 15 July 1983. Newington Road is found in one of the most historic suburbs in central Port Elizabeth, … decor style shop and upmarket…
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… condemned as slums in the 1920s and early 1930s. One of the slum yards known to have been very active in … clearance was Rooiyardin Doornfontein, currently…
Document 67 - Letter from the African Metal Trades Union, Johannesburg, to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 21 February 1937
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 67 - Letter from … Scaw Works, (Steel Ceilings &…
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… re-emergence of FEDSAW. Through her organisation, Meer was one of the initiators of the Free Mandela Campaign launched … people and their families. In 1981,…
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… of the Republic of South Africa is regarded as one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. The process that led to its approval was not an easy…
EventDavid Livingstone “discovers” Lake Nyasa
… a tributary of the Zambezi, and discovered Lake Nyasa, one of his many great discoveries of the African interior. Today it may seem strange to credit one…
18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child
… Umzimkulu Estate Ltd. My wife Chinnama, and child - a girl one month old ”” arrived with me, but she was detained at the … and night untold agony in thinking…
88. Gandhi’s legacy
… rich in humanity, imagination and creativity. I am one of you and I would therefore like to believe that I could … it is their duty, to rise against an…