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PlaceKhorixas, Town in Namibia
The town is home to the region's main hospital despite the capital of the Kunene region now being located in Opuwo. (LINK IN FURTHER READING)Located to the…
PlaceCape Town's Art Museum of Illusions-Kloof Street, Cape Town
"Museum of Illusions is a global education network with over 60 locations across 25 Countries and 4 Continents. We are dedicated to bringing mind-bending…
Songimvelo Game Reserve, an Early Archaeological Site
The Songimvelo Game Reserve is located South of Barberton in the South-Eastern part of the Mpumalanga Province on the South African-Swaziland Border. The…
Knysna Lagoon, Garden Route- Western Province
The Knysna Lagoon opens between two massive cliffs, known as The Heads, these stand tall, acting as rugged watchmen over the pristine loveliness of the lagoon…
PlaceCederberg Wilderness Area
The Cederberg Region is only two hours from Cape Town and yet the landscape is completely different. With much wilder, warmer with a raw, dramatic beauty…
Matatiele Local Municipality
Matatiele Municipality is a Local Municipality, category B. It is within the within the Alfred Nzo District Municipality, nestled in between Kwa-Zulu Natal,…
PlacePietermaritzburg, Umgungundlovu District Municipality
Pietermaritzburg is the Capital and second-largest City, in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1838 and named after two leaders of…
PlaceBokoni, Mpumalanga
If you drive through Mpumalanga with an eye on the landscape flashing by, you may see, near the sides of the road and further away on the hills above and in…
Arniston, Cape Agulhas
Lying on the shores of Marcus Bay, just north-east of Cape Agulhas, is the tranquil little fishing village of Arniston, also known as Waenhuiskrans - ‘wagon…
Middleburg, Mpumalanga
Middelburg is a modern Town situated in the Cultural Heartland of the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa. Middelburg serves as the Agricultural, Industrial…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
Dr Mamphela Ramphele 16/4/98, Cape Town interviewed by Rupert Taylor Taylor: What is the nature of the conflict? Ramphele: I’ll take issue with the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London
Twenty-four years ago today, March 21st, 1960, 69 Africans were brutally murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on…
Address to the Anti-Racist Day Meeting of the Greater London Council by O. R. Tambo, London, 21 March 1984
Twenty-four years ago today, March 21st, 1960, 69 Africans were brutally murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on…
A Future Free of Exploitation - Address to the First Congress of MPLA by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, December 1977
Comrade President Agostinho Neto, Comrade Members of the Presidium of the Congress, Comrades Militants and Combatants of MPLA, Comrades and Friends: …
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
Oppressed people in South Africa have always associated the history of the United States with the great name of Abraham Lincoln. There was an issue involving…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
1940 9 October, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is born in Durban, KwaZulu Natal. 1959 Tshabalala-Msimang matriculates from Inanda Seminary. 1961 Tshabalala…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
The unique nature of slavery in the Cape Colony hindered many attempts at wide-scale resistance on the part of Cape slaves. Instead many slaves’ attempts at…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
In the early 1960s the Apartheid government moved swiftly to dislodge numerous Black communities on the Transvaal Highveld occupying land in what was…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
Several hundred artists and activists from South Africa living in exile and within the country, as well as foreign nationals, were hosted by the Botswana…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
Background The establishment of the Teachers’ League of South Africa (TLSA) emerged out of increasing racial segregation in the Cape. While segregation had…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
Several factors seemed to pave the way to apartheid, among them a colonial conquest, land dispossession, economic impoverishment, and exclusion from…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
The African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) was launched in Duncan Village outside East London in March 1961. The launch followed a…
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
For white South Africans the late 1960s was a time of political calm, rising living standards, prosperity and sharing in the sustained economic boom of that…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Three days before the massacre on Monday 6…
Closing speech by Oliver Tambo at the ANC conference "Peoples of the world united against apartheid, for a democratic South Africa", 04 December 1987, Arusha
The time has come for all of us to leave this friendly city which has been our home for a few days, and return to our respective theatres of struggle. The…
Message to the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party by O. R. Tambo, April 1989
Comrade Joe Slovo, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party, Comrade Dan Tloome, Chairman of the South African Communist Party, Distinguished…
Closing Speech at the ANC Conference "Peoples Of The World United Against Apartheid, For A Democratic South Africa" by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 December 1987
The time has come for all of us to leave this friendly city which has been our home for a few days, and return to our respective theatres of struggle. The…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the South African Communist Party Policy Conference, 27 September 2008, Randburg Towers
Chairperson of the SACP, Comrade Gwede Mantashe,Secretary General of the SACP, Comrade Blade Nzimande,Members of the SACP Central Executive Committee,Members…
Address by H.E. Ms. Baleka Mbete, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, at the Africa-Indian Ocean (AFI) Region Aviation Conference, Kwazulu-Natal, 24 November 2008
SALUTATION Programme director, Ms. Mpumi Mpofu, Honourable Minister of Transport, Mr. Jeff Radebe Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Mr. Sibusiso Ndebele, Secretary…