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EventLucas Ntuba Radebe, SA soccer hero, is born in Diepkloof, Soweto
… legend was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. At the age of 15 his parents sent him to live in Bophuthatswana so could be … the political violence of the 1980’s…
Closing remarks to the 13th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government, 03 July 2009, Sirte, Libya
… and will have met the former President of the ANC, His Excellency Oliver Tambo, who always reminded his cadres … key pillars of the struggle that led to the…
PlaceCredo Mutwa Cultural Village
… said to have the powers to predict the future, depicted in his statues believed to depict the AIDs epidemic. The village … through the life of this…
PlaceTranskei
… to establish segregated districts before the period of apartheid. The Glen Gray Act of 1894 saw the establishment of … politics of the homeland. Although…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… company, owned by Carl Juta, who would go on to grow his company into a major book publisher in South Africa. The … Toit’s call for the recognition of…
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato … living in Britain. During the Second World War, increased work opportunities and the…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… British and then bitterly regretted it, as we may see in his autobiography 2. As has been proven by recent historical … to that organization of races which…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… women, boys and girls were different. Men focused on metal work, women worked on the day to day activities and children … significant in the Stone Age…
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… AROUND THE WORLD Aborigine Yanomami South America Native American Indian USA Through archaeological research and … During their courtship the young man…
EventSouth African poet Vincent Oliphant is born
… a small town near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. His first book of poems, Bloed vloei in stilte (Blood flows … in the annual Poetry International…
ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… been visiting him regularly since 1970 and, at present, am his only regular visitor. 3. I am 46 years of age, married to … John Collins in the 1950s for the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… the [ANC] military's wishes, for the first time, military work was a complement to political work... [V]isibly through … boycotts, etc... Molefe now…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Nelson Mandela an International Tribute for a Free South Africa, 16 April 1990, Wembley Stadium, London
… Wembley Stadium to greet Nelson Mandela and to celebrate his release. But it will also be an occasion for the African … in their own oppression. Their…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
… I predict that in the year 2100, students of post-apartheid South African rhetoric the world over will continue to recognise his 1996 “I am an African”…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… the British Central Africa Protectorate, but the date of his birth is disputed. Officially he was born in 1906, but he … later that it might have been 1898. …
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… Central Prison in Durban by deliberately standing with his young wife Maggie between them and white apartheid police pointing Sten guns, only days after the …
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… undermines all the fundamental premises upon which apartheid bases its rule. Pretoria continuously seeks to … 27 years the regime continues to keep Nelson…
PlaceGood Hope Centre, Cape Town
… one of Pier Luigi Nervi’s last works , featuring some of his most famous building techniques and architectural forms: … of multiracial audiences (what…
Event1300 Volkswagen workers dismissed for unprocedural strike against NUMSA leadership
… 2000 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, for not returning to work after going out on an unprocedural wildcat strike. What … workers would be retrenched if they did…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… Contents 1910-1950 Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Conclusion … in ‘White’ areas subject to a permit system which Apartheid legislation…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… Soviet Union and RENAMO, supported by United States and apartheid South Africa. At this time, the African National … He was re-elected in 1999, but stepped…
Letter to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 June 1968
… of my address to the session of the Special Committee on Apartheid in Stockholm, I asked the Chairman, Ambassador … peace for the future. We wish you all…
EventHumphrey Khoza, former chief executive officer of Uthingo Management (Pty) Ltd and director of several other companies, is born in Germiston
… High School in Dundee, Kwazulu-Natal and later earned his BSc at the university of Zululand in 1969 and his PED IMD in Switzerland in 1995. Khoza professes…
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… in Johannesburg on 11 November 1965. On 23 March 1966 his trial began in Pretoria. Fischer was convicted of … On 9 May 1966 he was sentenced to life…
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… F.W. de Klerk, former South African president announced his retirement as the leader of the National Party (NP) and from public life. It was under his…
EventMurder trial of “Sharpeville Six” opens
… against reputed corrupt councillors and the unjust apartheid system was not taken into consideration during the … for giving counseling to the victims of…
Invitation: BikoHausen - Steve Bantu Biko and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Johannesburg, 1971
… in March 1971, the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and his wife Mary Bauermeister visited Soweto. They were … We can however imagine and extemporize. Together…
Address to the Commonwealth Club, World Affairs Council and US/SA Business Council Conference, 24 May 2000
… San Francisco, USA. Michael Edwards, in his book 'Future Positive', captures the essence of the … for this confidence are the results of hard and consistent…
EventFlorence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies
… Not only did Zerfifi paint, but she also used needle work as a medium. She loved colour and always used it to bring an expressive element in her work. She…
ArchiveJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
… is marginalised when the story of the CYL is told. Perhaps his political fluidity and how he left the ANC in the 1950s … intellectual and programmatic…