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10. Seedat writes to his brother in India
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai This letter written in Gujarati by Mohamed…
PlaceMali
Mali, landlocked country of western Africa, mostly in the Saharan and Sahelian regions. Mali is bounded on the north by Algeria, on the east by Niger and…
PlaceCentral African Republic
Diamond prospectors in the Central African Republic have found polished flint and quartz tools that are at least 8,000 years old. About 2,500 years ago local…
PlaceZambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe
The river has supported villagers for thousands of years and 'Mosi-oa-Tunya', or known as the Victoria Falls, was considered a sacred site on the Zambezi. The…
PlaceNelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Eastern Cape
Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality includes: 'Port Elizabeth now Gqeberha; Uitenhage; Despatch and Colchester'. Named after; Nelson Mandela, who is South Africa's…
PlaceSedgefield
The Cape Fold Mountains of the Western Cape create the great divide that separates the temperate region of the Garden Route from its drier inland counterpart,…
Chapter 4 - ‘SASO on the Attack’ : Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action
I now turn to examine select aspects of SASO's organisation and its activities related to student and popular mobilisation and collective action. However,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
1799-1802 Khoi-San rise up in an unsuccessful but protracted rebellion in the eastern districts of the Cape in what becomes known as the Third War of…
ArticleJune 16 Youth Uprising casualties
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ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. This was the original model of colonialism brought by the…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
Ruth First: An Ally of the Struggle Throughout the history of apartheid, freedom fighters were subjects of legal repression by the apartheid government who…
Address at the official opening of the ASB Congress on 28 June 1971 in the Aula, Pretoria
On this occasion the Prime Minister made good use of the opportunity of talking to Afrikaans students. At the time there were disturbances among students,…
Chapter V - Acts of conscience
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph One of the special joys of being unbanned was that although banned people could still not communicate with me,…
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The months of legal argument on the indictment were over at last and thirty "high traitors" pleaded not guilty to…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
Vladislavic: What work are you showing at the Art Fair?Goldblatt: I've chosen 30 pictures, both old and new. It's a rather disparate collection of work that I…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - ’The rock on which the future will be built’ by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaUp to the 1860s the economy of South Africa was based on agriculture and trade. Then the discovery of…
Chapter eight - Conclusion
From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson Gomas died on the morning of Wednesday 25 April 1979 two weeks…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
Dr Mamphela Ramphele 16/4/98, Cape Town interviewed by Rupert Taylor Taylor: What is the nature of the conflict? Ramphele: I’ll take issue with the…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin’s experiences in Nylstroom and Pretoria Central Prisons as a female political activist who was detained for her work in the underground…
The Gambia: 50 years of independence, 20 years of terror by Fatou Diagne (Pambazuka News), 17 March 2015
He claimed to be a different kind of soldier and promised not to hang on to power, and never to install a dictatorship. Who said that power corrupts and that…
ArchiveDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
Programme Director, Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula, Acting Premier of Gauteng Ms Qedane Mahlangu, Family and friends of Steve Madi Mokone, …
ArchiveJohnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019
Universal Man: Jonathan Clegg “Sikeyi” (1953-2019). “Sikeyi” is a Zulu dance praise name: “The peg through a yoke that secures oxen in position, from Afrikaans…
PlaceWitbank, Mpumalanga
eMalahleni, formerly Witbank, in the Mpumalanga Province, East of Pretoria. Established in 1890 as Witbank, it is at the centre of a coal-mining area in which…
PlaceStikland Cemetery
In a 1947, a letter to the Cape Town Clerk and the secretary of the Board of Trustees to the Cape Peninsula Cemeteries requested the establishment of a new…
PlaceAdams College, Amanzimtoti
Adams College is a Public School situated in Adams Mission which is 8 km inland from Amanzimtoti and 35 km South of Durban. Established in 1853, Adams College…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
"South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, Billy Monk," which opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last weekend, will…
Address by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 1 December 2010
1 December 2010 President of COSATU; General-Secretary of COSATU and other national officer bearers; Presidents and Leaders of Affiliated Unions; …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner The start of a bad time The treason trial was the start of a very bad time. At…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
Indres Naidoo Born: 26 August 1936 Died: 3 January 2016 Transvaal Indian Congress, Umkhonto we Size, African National Congress, South African Communist…
PlacePageview
Fietas (as the place was popularly known) is one of the oldest communities in the Western suburbs of Johannesburg, and one of the first 'locations' (multi…