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EventVuminkosi Zulu, S.A. sculptor is born in Mapumulo, Natal
… studied art at Rocke’s drift art school and completed his course in 1972. He decided to stay on as a resident artist until 1974. Zulu is famous for his…
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
… Lesotho in the 1930's, and like any other artist he made his tools with materials available to him. Brushes were made … in the Western Cape, and he is…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… Commissioner for Native Affairs, Sir Godfrey Lagden. Its work was to devise a common policy for black people. Picture … information reliably and accurately…
Address at University of KwaZulu-Natal SRC awards, 7 May 2005, Howard College, Durban
… These awards are made more meaningful by the fact that our work is being recognised by the youth of our country, people … captured the African`s quest for…
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… had joined this extremist right wing group and because of his organisational and public speaking skills, he soon became … imprisoned for five years, during…
Awards of Recognition to Honourable Early Associates of Gandhiji and Phoenix Settlement 1904-1914
… Desai came to South Africa in 1906 at the age of 22. His goal was to start a successful enterprise but he met … for prolonged periods in order to help with…
ArchiveBraklaagte: Resisting Incorporation: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1989
… incorporation of new territory into homelands, apartheid, forced removals, tribalism, work permits and migrant labour, poverty, schools and …
Address at the Opening Session of The South Africa-Algeria Bi-National Commission, Algiers, 22 September 2000.
… of the same continent, is aptly captured by Edward Behr in his book, "The Algerian Problem" quoting a report by Jules … sought all-round assistance in the…
EventJan Ernst Abraham Volschenk, landscape painter, is born near Riversdale, Western Cape
… excelled in the landscape genre. He found inspiration from his local surroundings of Riversdale and the Langeberg range served as the subject matter for most…
EventAbram Fischer is struck off the roll of advocates
… struck Abram Fischer's name off the roll of advocates for his role in the struggle against apartheid. As an advocate Fischer defended people such as … and…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… day the new town was named Port Elizabeth in honour of his late wife. 1820s The Hill, North End and South End are … arrives in Port Elizabeth and begins…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… order to rebuild and transform the economy after years of apartheid regime’s economic isolation and financial sanctions … to address and redress the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
… Gerhard Steidl prepares a series of books on the life work of David Goldblatt, Jeffrey Ladd spoke with the South … about the newly edited and designed…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… in character, you would soon realise that the world of apartheid suffused every aspect of the personal. Gordimer, … Madagascar, and wrote about those places,…
ANC Press Statement presented by Oliver Tambo, 16 August 1985, Lusaka
… to an arrogant reaffirmation by P.W. Botha that the apartheid system will continue unchanged. At a time when … to a little more than ten per cent of South…
ANC Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 16 August 1985
… to an arrogant reaffirmation by P.W. Botha that the apartheid system will continue unchanged. At a time when … to a little more than ten per cent of South…
III - Black Consciousness
… no charges had been proved against him? It was as though his very existence was regarded as threatening the stability of the apartheid state, and the state…
ArticleTransport in the air
… Daedalus was an artist, inventor and engineer. He and his son were prisoners of King Minos, and Daedalus invented wings for him and his son to fly away with…
David Goldblatt - 'Mostly Unseen' at the Goodman Gallery by Sean O'Toole
… works and three vintage District Six prints on offer. In his 'Die Hel' series, the dignity with which Goldblatt portrays his subjects certainly places his…
BiographyLawrence Ndzanga
… section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act on 18 November 1976. His wife Rita and twenty others were detained at the same …
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
… in 1951 to pursue a career in the theater. He changed his name to Harwood after an English master told him it was … of Sir Donald. He would later draw from…
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… from a different viewpoint because the racist dogmas of apartheid dictated that he would be incarcerated apart from his Black comrades and colleagues. That…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 1 : Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers 1919-1930 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… 3 November 1926 Document 39 Report by J. La Guma to Anglo-American Secretariat, ECCI, 10 March 1927 [Extract] Document … [October 1927] Document 48 Minutes…
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… of Black electorates followed the repeated call of anti-apartheid forces and largely boycotted the elections, with … of pupils, although most workers on the…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… considered illegal as it led to crime and absenteeism from work. Bilharzia was common in certain areas and leprosy … namely, feeding animals etc., and those…
ArticleIndigenous medicine and traditional healing
… become sick because they are having problems at home or work. This is the reason why sangomas look at the environment that people live and work in to find…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… However, on that occasion two other detectives met him at his trade union office, leaving only after they’d scrutinized … intelligence structures to train…
ArticleKey sites
… was one of Nelson Mandela’s favourite restaurants before his incarceration in jail. Kapitan Balcony Hotel closed in … the Divine Life Society to do community…
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… Hathorn was detained in Durban Central Prison in 1960, for his role in the struggle. Recorded below is an extract from … during the Sharpeville Massacre,…
EventAllan Boesak's plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… as a pastor in Paarl between 1967 and 1970. After received his PhD from a university in New York, he led a parish in … this platform to speak out against the…