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Memorandum to the Shlebusch [sic] Commission of Enquiry into Certain Organisations on the paper presented to the NUSAS seminar at Botha's Hill by Jonty Driver
… may have had a different connotation then. He also gives his view on propositions stated by Martin Legassick and …
ArchiveChapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg
… the police were waiting for George with no possibility of his evading capture. No warning was given to George’s driver, … that I had been involved but…
Chapter 3
… the Black man, depriving him of the last vestige of his rights and reducing him to the status of a baggage animal … of citizenship and render him a foreigner…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Apartheid, Reflected in an Inventory of Simple Objects by Sarah Boxer (The New York Times), 24 July 1998
… David Goldblatt sold his family's menswear business in South Africa to become a … the Natal region showing a house with an African man and his son standing…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
… is as relevant today as it was one-and-half centuries ago. His famous description of the 1845 settlement on Algoa Bay, … he who ventures to walk through…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
… is as relevant today as it was one-and-half centuries ago. His famous description of the 1845 settlement on Algoa Bay, … he who ventures to walk through…
ArchiveAfrican languages should be at the center of educational and cultural achievement by Abdi Latif Dahir (Quartz Africa)
… At his farewell speech as the chairman of the African Union in … Joaquim Chissano surprised African leaders by delivering his remarks in Swahili. At the time…
EventNgoako Abel Ramathlodi is born
… six months after he was denied admission to proceed with his law studies at the University of the North, Ramathlodi …
EventBusiness leader Matome Maponya is born
… Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural …
EventGriffiths Mxenge is buried
… political activist murdered on 19 November, was buried at his home village of Rayi, near King William's Town. More than …
EventANC member, Henry Fazzie sentenced to 20 years in jail under the Sabotage Act
… to receive training in guerrilla warfare in Ethiopia. On his return to South Africa, their movements and whereabouts …
EventSchabir Shaik is convicted on two corruption charges
… to ponder opening a corruption charge against him. In his verdict Judge Squires announced that there was a corrupt …
EventCecil John Rhodes is forced to resign
… minister of the Cape Colony, was severely censured for his involvement in the infamous Jameson Raid and forced to …
EventPretoria’s first Black mayor
… Mamelodi. A street in the Pretoria CBD has been named in his honour. …
Michael Mosoue Moerane, pianist, choirmaster and composer, is born in Gumtree, Basutoland (now Lesotho). He died in Gumtree in
… Eastern Cape. He died in Bloemfontein in January, 1980. His siblings included Manasseh Tebatso Moerane and Epainette …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… Act passed by the government. Dr James Moroka gave his first public address. The ANC called for a May Day …
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… Trialist , who left the country without a passport after his acquittal, attended the AAPC on behalf of the ANC. Also …
ArticleThe Homelands
… as the Government aimed to move every Black person to his or her respective ethnic homeland in order to have South …
Professor H. W. van der Merwe: former Director of the Centre for Intergroup Studies interview with Rupert Taylor, 23 November 1999, 6 Cambridge Road, Observatory, Cape Town
… and he was trying to get hold of this new institute under his own auspices, and the only way they could keep him out of … Town. That situation changed…
PlaceCeres, Western Cape Winelands
… the land, Carl van der Merwe, known as Carl Boplaas, was his nephew and a poet in his own right. Embedded within the rich heritage of Boplaas …
David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion & Democracy (Artthrob), 31 March 2015, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
… at the KZNSA by Goldblatt begins, historically, with his 1993 image of the deceptively picturesque remnants of a … the inherent contradiction of the…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… of situation that Biko had in mind when he expressed in his column, "I write what I like", in the SASO Newsletter, his objection to this type of …
PlaceRondebosch Common, Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch.
… Paul's Church, Rondebosch, was granted the right to graze his cattle on the land. At the same time two pieces of land … it is a donation of private Land by…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Silkaatsnek begins
… of Silkaatsnek towards Rustenburg with some 200 men, when his scouts brought information that the Nek was lightly held … Boers casualties are unknown, but De…
PlaceAasvoelberg known as The Eye Of Zastron
… the legend goes, he was out hunting below the cliffs with his ancient rifle, when he met the devil. Mistaking his weapon for a pipe, the devil asked for a…
EventIan Roberts was born on this day
… on this day in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. It was his character of Boet in a series of television …
PlaceAlverstone, a Railway Station near Drummond
… permitted to choose which was "closest" to Sandown, one of his favourite Locales) …
EventSouth African Actor, Henry Cele , dies
… Henry ”Black cat” Cele was a revered actor, most famous for his chilling portrayal of the Zulu King, Shaka in the 1985 …
EventPercy Montgomery, Springbok rugby player of the Western Province, is born.
… first player to earn a hundred caps. Montgomery announced his retirement from international test rugby in 2008 and has …
EventJudas Mahlangu, South African graphic artist, is born
… corporate and private collections contain examples of his work. …