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ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 11 March 1977, Volume 133
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from John Holloway and Jacques Malan, both representing the …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 3 March 1977, Volume 124
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from David Thebehali and other members of the Urban Bantu …
ArchiveWhither Methodism
… This is a speech containing an exctract from an address given at a seminar on Africanisation in Natal. This was transcribed from a tape recording of the…
ArchiveToo many people suffering
… An exhibition of resistance posters from South Africa. Produced by CUSO. Image of army tank and … red poster. Small black and white photographs of scenes…
ArchiveBirth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe
… everybody was convinced that Oom Hansie was a coloured oke from the Cape Flats or Eersterust in Pretoria. Some maintained that he was from Bosmont or…
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… into an important chapter in the history of our struggle from a different viewpoint because the racist dogmas of apartheid dictated that he would be…
PlaceBattle of Muizenburg Monument, Muizenburg
… fort, as it is in a situation where any persons passing from North to South would have to go just below the fort. The … of the fort. The one disadvantage was…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church Hall, Uitenhage
… first and only church of the Dutch Reformed Church formed from three churches! When on 22 June 1950, the mother church … by the governor. Rev. Cornelis Mol…
PlaceCredo Mutwa Cultural Village
… . The private collection of sculptures that he constructed from 1974 to 1986 juxtaposes African folklore and art with an … alongside various dwellings and…
ArchiveBiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Sierra Hussey
… and as it gained influence, she was dismissed from her work as a doctor. This allowed her, she says, to … taught her to read the Quran but think with her…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… to me personally in spite of the fact that I was removed from the scene of the struggle by thousands of miles. It was … the effect of the Defiance Campaign…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Vietnam Institute of International Relations on the occasion of Africa Day celebrations, Hanoi
… is a self-contained period which can be tidily separated from other historical epochs. So seduced, we may even … of history, that what is happening now has…
The Gandhi You May not Know by Rajmohan Gandhi
… glimpse Gandhi the social scientist. Another example, also from a walk or trek but a much later one, is from the famous Noakhali walk which began in end-1946…
"United Nations must take Action to Destroy Apartheid": Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. T. Tambo, New York, 29 October, 1963
… of South Africa of all races. Here is an extract from a letter written by a person who sat in the courtroom … day in a cell twelve feet by seven feet. He…
ArchiveConference for a democratic future December 1989
… Red and yellow images of rays from a sun coming up from bottom of poster. Black images of people marching across …
ArchiveEducation Crisis
… and Schools under siege; Info Meeting: report back from fact-finding mission. Speakers from: Turfloop, BSIC, NUSAS …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 21 February 1977, Volume 110
… Excerpts from the transcript of continuing evidence from Olive Gibson; Andrew Ray Mardon; Sheena Duncan, National …
Zola Skweyiya, former Social Development Minister, to work at ANC Headquarters, 7 May 2009
… Comrade Zola Skweyiya, following his resignation from parliamentary politics, has been redeployed to work at … located in the ANC Presidency where he will be…
PlaceAnnisfontein, a Spring and Outspan in Richtersveld- Northern Cape
… through a network of cracks and fissure—openings ranging from inter-granular spaces to large Caves. The water eventually emerges from below the surface, in…
PlaceAloes Railway Station, Port Elizabeth
… of Port Elizabeth on route to Alicedale. Takes its name from the genus of plants with succulent leaves, erect spikes of flowers and bitter juice, extracted…
PlaceLand Adjoining Earle’s Dyke, Camps Bay.
… strip of land is still in its natural state and extends from Lion's Head down to the sea, giving visitors a view of … & Nature Reserve was purchased by Mr…
EventThe Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
… Church, a church for white Afrikaners only. Apart from the major fear of the DRC`s changed perspective on the … Anon, (n.d.), ‘Afrikaans Protestant Church…
EventLuthuli Combat Detachment crosses the Zambezi
… Union (ZAPU) guerrillas, crossed the Zambezi River from the Zambian banks of the river into Rhodesia (now known … References ANC, (n.d.), ‘Umkhonto we Sizwe …
EventThe first edition of the Graham’s Town Journal, mouthpiece of the Eastern Frontier settlers, is published
… Africa's important and influential early newspapers, ran from 1831- 1920. From its early days its editorial slant voiced the interests … As a result the…
EventCape of Good Hope Royal Observatory is founded
… included the most accurate measurement of Moon's distance from the Earth and the first observations from which the distance of a star (Alpha Centauri) could…
EventTrevor Manuel unveils GEAR
… goals, Manuel pledged to reduce the budget deficit from 4.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) to 4.0 per … and area. The policy document received a…
EventArthur Conan Doyle, medic during the Second Anglo, is born
… War. Doyle was a trained medical doctor, who had graduated from Edinburgh University in 1881. Thanks to his … wrote a book called The Great Boer War, which…
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl , SA artist and founder member of Artists Under the Sun, dies in Soweto
… paying attention to his studies. . His father withdrew him from school so he could look after cattle. A Reverend Hale … was demolished, Mohl was forced to…
EventSouth African Communist Party leader, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo dies
… to Muslim rights at Highgate Cemetery, a few metres away from the grave of Karl Marx. Dadoo was born on 5 September … by his mother. Following this in 1957…
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… army-escorted civilian convoy was attacked by guerrillas from the Mozambique National Resistance Movement (RENAMO). … happened on a Saturday on the main road…