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BiographyThomas Benjamin Davis
… built in 1886, and the next year presented it to the South African nation for use as a merchant navy training ship. It … 1942 and the ship was sunk in 1947…
BiographyPixie Benjamin
… occurred in England, where she and her husband allowed African National Congress (ANC) activists to stay while they … Party and became involved in the…
PlaceVereeniging, a City in Gauteng
… of Parliament for Vereeniging in November 1972. South African legend Leon Schuster, become a movie favourite in … has a restaurant, gift shop and nursery…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of IDASA Cape Town, 18 August 1995
… laws which the Coloured community suffered - Group Areas and Mixed Marriages in particular - are a thing of the … in racially-defined "group areas". De…
BiographyRoelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer
… he played an important and often prominent role in South African politics. His positions included Deputy Minister of …
BiographyFrederick Timpson I’Ons
… exhibited by the Tate Gallery in London (1948), the South African National Gallery in Cape Town (1976), and King George …
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
… son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. …
Elias Monare
… not abide with his calls. He was heard at meetings of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) promoting …
BiographyDr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena
… actively with the Pretoria branch of the South African Student’s Association (SASO). In 1976, Dr Mangena was …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 3 March 1977, Volume 124
… of evidence from David Thebehali and other members of the Urban Bantu Council in Soweto, to the Commission of Inquiry …
BiographyL.W.H Ackermann
… Justice of the South African Constitutional Court 1994 - …
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948 The African National Congress (ANC) arose as a mass organisation … swelled the size of the African working…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Budget Vote of the Presidency: National Assembly, 12th June 2007
… Deputy President will address the House on the important areas that she deals with, including matters such as her role … Growth Initiative of South Africa …
EventGovernment’s final consolidation of ‘homelands’
… to consolidate the total number of separate 'homeland' areas from 113 to 36. The homelands were officially … and a way to strip Black South Africans of their…
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… for writing her authentic and compelling stories of African women came. Local women in her Igbo community who … trade. It was us who found food for the men…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… The migrant labour system marks a period in which African men were integrated into wage labour. Black men … in their own lands to being cheap labour in the…
Chapter 10
… development reached by the people, as expressed by the All African Convention, a body which from its inception was … the most advanced individuals in their…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… Council under the mentorship of I.C. Meer. The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) launches the Passive … Indians limited political representation and…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… for, pride in what they represent. For, as members of the African National Congress and Umkhonto we Sizwe they stand … armed actions by units of Umkhonto we…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… to main Transport routes into Johannesburg. The three main Areas in Diepkloof are each characterised by Settlement type … Basic Services or Amenities,…
ArchiveAddress on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the ANC by Cyril Ramaphosa, Ohlange Institute, Ethkwini, 8 January 2019
… to celebrate the 107th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress. We have chosen to gather here – at … all necessary measures to achieve…
PlacePongola Game Reserve, Zululand
… The business is owned and managed by the Landman family, who's ancestors arrived in the Cape in 1744. The … Lake. It provides a leisure environment unique…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Le Monde, Addis Ababa, 08 June 1983
… mobilises us. The danger lies in the fact that the South African whites are not allowed to know what is really … fight; we will carry on. The struggle…
ArchiveReport
… Report from the Western Province African National Congress underground. Covers ANC work in the … of the Coloured people and Afrikaners, and the Group Areas…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… Bram Fischer was asked whether his sacrifice of family and legal practice, being hunted as an outlaw and the … grave of John Dube, the first President of the…
BiographyLucas Manyane Mangope
… in a one-day military coup that was put down by South African Defence Force (SADF) and followed by intensified …
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the departure of former president Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… departed. He passed on peacefully in the company of his family around 8.50pm on December 5 2013. He is now resting. … their love. Our thoughts and prayers…
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… impact of the 1913 Land Act on Africans living in rural areas. Ntate Bopape trained as a teacher at Botshabelo … a teaching post at Berlin School and joined…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… into the Union of South Africa. During this war, many African people associated themselves with the British in the … nationalism. At the same time, the…
PlaceBethlehem, Free State
… of the Orange Free State in 1900, during the South African War. The Town has railway workshops, cold-storage …