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ArchiveWe want to die here say aged
… Newspaper article in which elders from Black communities express their opposition to being evicted from their homes and forced to move to Glenmore Township …
EventA fishing trawler off the South African Coast catches a coelacanth
… coastal waters of the Indian Ocean. When he would return from a fishing trip, Miss Latimer was welcome to examine the … to the holidays, Courtenay-Latimer…
EventNapoleon assembles his army near Aboukir, Egypt
… laying siege to Acre (now Akko in modern Israel) from March to May 1799, Napoleon retreated to Egypt. By this … second Ottoman army landed at Aboukir,…
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… us. Please credit us as follows: “(name of article)” from South African History Online, www.sahistory.org.za ] 2. … us. Please credit us as follows: “(name…
PlaceAdderley Street, Cape Town
… 'Herengracht Street' was Cape Town 's main street, running from the foreshore to the foot of Government Avenue . In … side of the Railway Station, most of…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… and led big strikes in 1911. In 1912, Dunbar was ousted from the IWW, which faded away soon afterwards. From 1914, he was in the War on War League, which set…
PlaceBezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
… Ridge and North of Kensington Ridge. Takes its name from the Farm purchased in September 1861 from the Widow of BP Viljoen, by Frederick Jacobus … this was…
PlaceSierra Leone
… birds – including migratory swifts on their journey to and from Europe. "This recognition is not just a global … of stewardship by local communities,” says…
PlaceRooigrond
… North West Province). The place Rooigrond derives its name from the Afrikaans language meaning ‘red ground’. The small … believed they were defending their…
Edendale and the birth of the ANC, 06 January 2012
… ancient times African families derived their surnames from the behavioural tendencies of its people. The Msimang surname is derived from the Zulu word…
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
… WWII. Here’s a small sample of what they were capable of, from Wikipedia: “Physiologist Yoshimura Hisato conducted … allowing the limb to freeze. Once frozen…
PlaceWestern Cape Province
… Cape was the first place in the country where people from Europe settled . The Europeans brought slaves from Malay to serve them, and the Malay culture…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the ANC National Conference on Reconstruction and Strategy NASREC, Johannesburg, 21 January 1994
… of history which summons us to achieve our own freedom from tyranny, from injustice, from hunger, from deprivation and from the indignity and …
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … intern theoretical development, but something brought in from outside, imposed from above by the…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 14 June 1977, Volume 165
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Oscar Mpetha, to the Commission of Inquiry into the …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 15 March 1977, Volume 136
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Aubrey Mokoena, to the Commission of Inquiry into the …
ArchiveOxford: 1950s: enforcing apartheid
… Brown, red and black poster. Quote from Bram Fischer. Photographs of scenes from apartheid. Issued by the Apartheid Museum. Short bits of …
ArchiveSWA/Namibia: situation report as at Sunday, 16 April 1989
… Report from C von Hirschberg and J D Viall regarding the situation in Namibia from a military and political persepctive as well as the …
ArchiveThe Congress of the people
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and … and the Congress of Democrats. In Port Elizabeth we from the ANC organized too. We went from…
ArchivePress Statement of the United Democratic Front
… Press statement from Popo Molefe as the United Democratic front will hold a National General Council (NGC) from the 1st to 3rd of March 1991. …
ArchiveSummarised Minutes of discussions between South African and United States Delegations: 27 January 1984, Fleur du Cap, Somerset West
… Minutes of meetings between representatives from South Africa and the United States to discuss the tems of the ceasefire and withdrawal of Cuban troops from…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… activists, for the members of the ANC and their colleagues from the Indian Congress, the Communist Party, and others, … remained always beyond their reach,…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1700 - 1799 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim … Company brought slaves, political exiles and convicts from Indonesia and India, including…
PlaceAnglierbosch, Western Cape
… Locality some 15 km, South-East from Prince Albert. Takes its name from the Wild Carnation-Anglier in Afrikaans and the Dutch …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 28 June 1977, Volume 174
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Jackson Kama and others, to the Commission of Inquiry …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 24 June 1977
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from James Mhlunguza and others, to the Commission of Inquiry …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 16 June 1977, Volume 166
… Excerpts from the transcript of continuing evidence from Boy Dinisile Koloni, to the Commission of Inquiry into …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 2 March 1977, Volume 123
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Mr Dlamini and others, to the Commission of Inquiry into …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 23 February 1977, Volume 114
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Mr Auerbach and others, to the Commission of Inquiry …
ArchiveAn open letter to members of the UMSA who hav
… Open letter from Wycliffe Tsotsi to members of the Unity Movement, regarding Scrape Ntshona's suspension from the movement and accusations levelled against…