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PlaceThe Mead and Meadway, Pinelands-Cape Town
The land was granted to the Garden Cities Trust in 1919 and was capitalised in part by a member of the trust, namely Richard Stuttaford of Stuttaford’s fame…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
This complex dates from 1892 and includes the church building, Cornelia House, and the William Frederick School. It was built by the Tafelberg Congregation and…
PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
The discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields provided in 1886, the funds necessary to construct this building that was able to house the first Volksraad…
PlaceSudwala Caves, Nelspruit
The Sudwala Caves are the oldest known caves in the World and lie in the Drakensberg Escarpment, which separates the Highveld from the lowlands of Mpumalanga. …
Document 71 - Spartacus Club October Revolution Celebrations Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Street, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew PROGRAMME 1.Chairman's Address Interval 2.Speech…
Document 20 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the Secretary, Communist Party of South Africa, 22 September 1930
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 20 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
On 8 October 1962, Solomon Linda, the singer and composer of Mbube, which became the pop hit as 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight', died without receiving royalties for…
EventSteve Tshwete is born
Steve Tshwete (1938 - 2002) was born in Springs on 12 November. He spent his childhood in the village of Peelton, and later in King William's Town and East…
Document 68 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 February 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The origins and development of Trotskyism 171 Document…
Nelson Mandela Mandela and Winnie’s studies
Introduction Nelson Mandela has a commitment to education. Both Mandelas have continued to study and to write exams throughout their imprisonment. When there…
PlaceCity Hall and Francis Farewell Gardens, Durban
Click on image to enlarge Declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 12 December 1975. Diagonally opposite - in West Street, corner of…
PlaceLadysmith
Ladysmith is one of the most important industrial and commercial centres of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. Furthermore, it is also a town with a…
PlaceEgypt
Egypt lies North East in the African continent, its history goes back to Biblical times; with Pharaohs fighting for land in the fertile Nile River! There are…
PlaceTable Mountain, Cape Town
The World famous Table Mountain is part of the scenic Peninsula Mountain chain that stretches from Signal Hill in the North (rightmost peak in the image above)…
PlacePilanesberg Game Reserve
The reserve features the "Big Five" animals that is so popular with tourists: lions, hippos, rhino, elephants and buffalo.Among Southern Africa’s fascinating…
ArchiveRecollections of the Resurrection of Women’s Day, 40 Years Ago by Julie Wells
My Background When I look back at those activities of 1980, I think of it as the time when I got introduced to the realm of political activism. I had first…
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC When the mass movement recovered at the end of the 1940s, the…
76. The Indian people are an integral and permanent part of South Africa
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The South African Institute of Race Relations…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
My thanks to Professor Goerling for inviting me to present this paper to the conference on Torture and the Future. Torture has recently been often in the news…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 3 - What is Your Name, Age, and Whose Slave are You? by Rayda Jacobs
From the book: Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism commissioned by The Department of Education In1652, three ships belonging to the Dutch East…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
The Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union (HARWU) was a South African trade union whose short but intense history was shaped by many forces, both in the general…
Chapter 6
Regeneration of the All-African Convention: The Background In spite of all the forces ranged against the progress and political development of the African…
PlaceKathu
Its formation began only in the late 1960's and early 1970's, as a result of iron ore mining in the Kalahari Desert, which hosts one of the five largest open…
PlaceCalvinia
Calvinia was founded on the Farm-'Hoogekraal', in 1845. This property was purchased by the Dutch Reformed Church in order to establish a parish for the Town-…
PlaceTrafalgar High School
In the time of Education and its opposition to the Apartheid system, (when many students and teachers were jailed or banned). The School was nominated to the…
PlaceWeenan
Weenen stands as a testament to the turbulent History of South Africa! Located on the serene Banks of the Bushman River in KwaZulu-Natal, it remains as the…
PlaceMoses Mabhida Stadium
Stamford Hill is a Suburb known for major sports and event facilities like futuristic Moses Mabhida Stadium, a soccer venue with a viewing platform and bungee…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
Within 37 African countries, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has listed 135 World Heritage Sites within the continent…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
Ladies and Gentlemen, I welcome you all to this thirty-sixth annual session of the Provincial conference of the African National Congress (Cape). I know what…
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
Abstract Despite John Maxwell Coetzee’s Disgrace being the most critically engaged with novel in the South African canon, there remains an…