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Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
… extent of the losses in the present instance. But four 122 mm rockets, each capable of destroying anything within the …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - List of Passive Resistors
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer List of Passive Resisters [The names in this list are…
Minutes of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, February 1-2, 1947
SATURDAY - 1st FEB. 1947, 8 P.M. PRESENT: Dr. A.B. Xuma (in the chair) Messrs. J.B. Marks, C.S. Ramohanoe, R.G. Baloyi, J.E. Malepe, L.K. Ntlabati, A.M…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
The outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Cape Town appears to have given a measure of warning to other coastal cities in the Cape, and a number of preventative and…
ArchiveRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
Forty years ago, in the early hours of January 8th 1978, a 36-year old political philosopher was shot dead in his Durban home by ‘person or persons unknown’…
PlaceGeorge, Garden Route- Western Province
… altitude 225 metres Above Sea Level and receives about 864 mm of rain per Year. George is also the junction for the 68 …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
1930 October 5, The Asiatics Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill imposes segregation on Indians in the Transvaal. The South African Indian Congress meets at an…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… The entire ceremony at Curries Fountain was filmed [8 mm] by Dr R A Karrim of Clairwood, Durban, and the IPCI has …
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… in President Mandela's office. Mass Mobilisation (MM): strategies and tactics of mass mobilisation internally, …
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
Hayden Proud, Curator of Historical Collections of Painting and Sculpture, Iziko Museums of Cape Town Some years ago, a small body of artists clubbed together…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… Oskar Barnack developed a compact camera which used 35 mm film in 1913, after some improvements it entered the …
Indian Community
… During the 1940’s and 1950’s, leaders like AI Kajee aand MM Moola attempted to combine religious and secular education …
Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner
Cape Town. Christmas 1977. I was thirteen years old. That seems like a very long time ago now, in a galaxy far, far away. We were living in a period of Civil…
ArchiveCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
Prohibited from meeting openly by South Africa’s apartheid government, the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party was held in Cuba in April 1989…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 29 July 1990
… killed. POM How did you fight? VCG I used my 9 mm pistol. POM Did you kill people? VCG I didn't kill …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
Contents Town & regional planning in Johannesburg Residential development in Johannesburg <a data-cke-saved-href="#Black residential development in…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… Job Maseko was later presented with the Military Medal (MM) by Major-General F H Theron. The following extract is …
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
1930 Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, the third son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom came to South Africa as children with their…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer Report on Passive Resistance, 13 June 1946-13 May 1947 …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
1497 - 1699 1497 24 December, A flotilla of three Portuguese ships under the command of Capt Vasco da Gama sailed up the eastern seaboard of southern…
The Afrikaner Bond
… in October 1890, Rhodes took two Bondsmen, DC de Waal and MM Venter, on a trip to Mashonaland. There were attempts by …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last legal conference in Johannesburg prior to…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
"[B]y sheer accident, despite the [ANC] military's wishes, for the first time, military work was a complement to political work... [V]isibly through the media,…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… up a Passive Resistance Council in Port Elizabeth with MM Desai as Chairman, VK Moodley as Secretary and Dr SV …
Mission Stations - N-S
… OMARURU , Namibia: RM 1870; Rc 1906 OMATEMBA , Namibia: MM 1907 OMBALANTU , Namibia: Rc 1926 OMBURO , Namibia: RM …
Polokwane the Segregated city
Contents The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics Forced removals in the…
IX - The Doctors
… doctors found a small circular vascular wound 3 mm in diameter as though it had been pricked with an object …
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… for the MPLA soldiers, but that he could not fight the 120 mm rockets barehanded. Of course, I said to Mr. Schulzberger: …
ArticleCaste - meaning, profession, religion
Achari, Achary, Archary - Sometimes the last name of a person. Caste of the craftsman -architects, goldsmiths. Also associated with Brahmin class. www.boards…