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Freedom In Our Life Time - List of Photographs
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe …
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… that the best thing for them to do was to trek away from the area as their ancestors had done from the VOC power back almost one century & a half earlier. ……
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia Potenza Between … and 1936, the number of Africans in the cities increased from about half a million to over one…
ArchiveThe migrant labour system
… The notion of migrant labour is based from a legal framework system that did not recognize … labourers. Migrant labourers across Southern Africa, from the…
EventSeretse Khama is born
… as Botswana. He studied in South Africa and graduated from Fort Hare College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1944. In … of Botswana . Under his leadership…
Oldest stone tools pre-date earliest humans by Rebecca Morelle (Science Correspondent, BBC News), 20 May 2015
… hammers and anvils Image source They were unearthed from the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya, and date to 3.3 … that has been found previously," said Dr Nick…
Address by ANC President, Nelson R Mandela, at the presentation of the Freedom of Miami Beach Medallion of Honour Johannesburg, 29 September, 1992
… that people, communities and their elected representatives from such far-off places have taken South Africa, with all … their dismembered lives. Development…
PlaceDemocratic Republic of the Congo
… , is located on the Congo River about 320 miles (515 km) from its mouth. The largest City in central Africa, it serves … with the capital added…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - ’The rock on which the future will be built’ by Emilia Potenza
… From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia Potenza Up to the … on borders. For seven months this committee heard evidence from all four groups who were…
EventSisulu is served with two notifications
… directed to resign as member, official or office-bearer from certain organisations such as the ANC. He was also prohibited from taking part in the activities…
EventFormer National Public Prosecutor Bulelani Ngcuka is born
… of Public Prosecutions. After his appointment he resigned from all political posts to avoid accusation of political bias and to distance the office from his…
EventPik Botha is born
… Nelson Mandela as Minister of Energy and Minerals Affairs from 1994 until 1996. In 1996, he renounced his National Party membership and retired from politics…
National Theatre Organisation (1947)
… of the board members resulted in a public outcry from the Federation of Amateur Theatrical Societies of South …
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… * Please note that the spelling of Bambatha varies from source to source. The spelling Bambatha is also …
Durban Historical & community
… of the largest independent African church also comes from Inanda. All three of these key figures were …
ArticleThe Order of the Baobab
… Central Motif / Symbolism This Order finds its inspiration from the Baobab which is a tropical African tree. The origins …
Bonani Africa 2010 Awards
… festival, we hope to provide a space for photographers from South Africa and across the continent to initiate a …
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… ‘mutually perpetrated sodomy’ according to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in August 1735. Jacobsz was a sailor from Rotterdam who worked for…
PlaceCalitzdorp, Route 62
… landscape with floods, droughts and extreme weather, from very hot to snow clad mountaintops in the winter. … hot during the day, mainly a dry heat, up to 40…
PlaceThe Wilds Park, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
… Paths ramble across the Hillsides with views of the City from various sides, mixing Urban life with Local vegetation. … Waterfalls and Fountains, it provides…
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
… and her husband woke up to the sound of shots being fired from the front and rear windows of their house. Petrol bombs … the shooting stopped, when he found…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… Herschel began to take a serious interest in astronomy from about 1816. Herschel's father was the famous astronomer … William Herschel, the discoverer of the…
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… It was named in honour of Wilhelm Ahrens, Principal from 1880 to 1906 of the School at Hermannsburg, 4 km to the … Ahrens and Greytown in the Midlands,…
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… 72 km southeast of Clanwilliam and about 250 km from Cape Town . This picturesque place has been a Moravian … are actually Rhenish . The name ``Wuppertal"…
PlaceBeaufort West, Cape Town
… A Town 573 km from Cape Town , established in 1818 on the Farm: … in an effort to prevent the Northbound Rail Link from being destroyed, the British built…
Chapter 27. The Police State in Action
… autocratic powers to ban meetings and prohibit anyone from attending any gathering whatÂsoever. "Gathering" was … any person who was served with this order,…
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) from its founding in 1987 until 2009, was both a man of his … Boards in urban areas to remove black…
Chapter 1 - The House at Lower Seoli
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 … British Empire, the last meal was served with greetings from his/her majesty. I doubt if anyone…
10. Seedat writes to his brother in India
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South … This letter written in Gujarati by Mohamed Ebrahim Seedat from Newcastle on 12 November 1901 may be…
Searchlight South Africa: a Marxist journal of South African Studies
… of South African Studies was founded by Baruch Hirson from 1988-1993, and to a large extent written by him in collaboration with other exiles and comrades…