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PlaceBoschendal Wine Estate, Cape Town
Working with nature, producing real food and a simple farm lifestyle, is at the heart of Boschendal. One of the oldest Farms in South Africa, founded in 1685. …
David Goldblatt,The Transported of KwaNdebele by L'oeil De La Photographie, 26 September 2016
For over 60 years, David Goldblatt has documented the social and political developments of his native South Africa with a critical yet compassionate eye. Drawn…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thembinkosi Khumalo
Thembinkosi Khumalo is a student activist at the University of Pretoria. He is an active PASMA member. PASMA is a student division of PAC. Khumalo is also…
PlaceClanwilliam, Stellenbosch District
Clanwilliam is famous for its rooibos tea and oranges. Situated at the foot of the Cedarberg Range where the Dissels River flows into the broad Olifants River…
PlaceFort Klapperkop
This was the third fort erected by the German firm Krupp and designed by von Dewitz and Werner. The German forts were of the pentagonal reinforced type, which…
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
Among the many personal accounts now published by those involved in the anti-apartheid struggle, Norman Levy’s substantial memoir stands out, because it is so…
Document 12 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi19 to E. R. Roux 20, 27 January 1927
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 12 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi19 to E. R. Roux…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
On 3 September 1984, Members of Parliament convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution with a three-tier parliament which would re…
EventThe Prime Minister announces the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the reporting of defence matters, to be headed by Justice M.T. Steyn
More recent initiatives by the post 1994 SA government to establish a media tribunal have been condemned as an attempt to introduce 'apartheid style draconian…
EventAmerican President Ronald Reagan reverses his earlier stance on South Africa and agrees to limited sanctions
During the late 1970 and early 1980s the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations had tried to influence South African governments by working with them…
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a day in which all are encouraged to celebrate their cultural traditions in the…
EventThe first successful non-direct blood transfusion is carried out
On 27 March 1914, Belgian doctor Albert Hustin conducted the first non-direct transfusion, using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant. Initially, blood…
In search of the good society: Social policy in South Africa after twenty years of democracy
Invitation The HSRC Seminar Series In search of the good society: Social policy in South Africa after twenty years of democracy Speaker: Ndangwa Noyoo ,…
Document 23 - Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
Today marked the beginning of a process of mobilisation against privatisation in support of labour's demands as presented to the government. Workers who were…
17. Latief insists on his right to travel by any train
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Osman Latief, a resident of Vrededorp,…
PlaceNqamakwe
In 1865 a number of Mfengu clans were resettled in the area around Nqamakwe. As refugees from the Mfacane wars further north, they had relatively few links to…
PlaceCastle of Good Hope, Castle Street- Cape Town
When the Dutch first landed at the Cape on 6 April 1652, under the leadership of Jan van Riebeeck. They erected a Fort built of sods on a site in the Table…
PlaceAmalienstein, a Mission Station in the Western Cape
Former Mission Station of the Berlin Missionary Society, 22 km East of Ladysmith. Named after Amalie von Stein, who was a benefactress of German Missions…
PlaceCape Columbine Nature Reserve
Near Paternoster on the West Coast. One of the highlights being the Cape Columbine Lighthouse about 5km away along a gravel road. The Nature Reserve is…
PlaceLabia Theatre, Cape Town
The Labia Theatre is 65 years and older, originally an Italian Embassy, ballroom. It was first opened by Princess Labia in May 1949, as a theatre for the…
EventVan Zyl Slabbert is elected as the leader of the PFP
On 3 September 1979, Dr. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was elected as the leader of the opposition party, the Progressive Federal Party (PFP). He took over from…
PlaceSpringfield Convent School, Cape Town
When six Dominican sisters left Ireland forever in the 1860's to establish a girls’ school in Cape Town, 'they were decidedly blessed. Guided by faith and…
PlaceGately House Museum, East London
Peruse through the former home of John Gately, an Irish Immigrant who was one of the founders of the municipal council and voted Mayor of East London a number…
PlaceThe Old Slave Tree Memorial
The Old Slave Tree Memorial is located in Spin Street, Cape Town. It was an old fir tree that was cut down in 1916. The site is now an octagonal memorial…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaAn industrial revolution was affecting the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa. By the 1920s, one or…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 15 September 1970 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… and Indian Representation Bill was passed during the 1946 parliamentary session. This inter alia gave the Indian …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
1910 Anti-Indian Legislation: The Public Servants Superannuating Act and Teachers Pensions Act. This furthers discrimination against Indians. Anti-Indian…
Present Stage of the Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. Paper prepared at the request of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 1 June 1968
Twenty years ago last month, a minority of the white minority in South Africa, steeped in the doctrines Hitler sought to impose by force on mankind, seized…
Paper prepared at the request of the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid by Oliver Tambo, 1 June 1968, Stockholm
Present stage of the Struggle Against Apartheid In South Africa Twenty years ago last month, a minority of the white minority in South Africa, steeped in the…