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South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… Large size and medium. Then and now (dates range from 1965 to 2008). The images sprawl over the extensive, and … in any of them could easily fit in others…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… University of the Witwatersrand, March. Extracts taken from various sources: Here are documents from the months and days before the start of the Pan … branch…
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… conditions bordering on crisis. We have been excluded from the Commonwealth, and condemned 95 to 1 at the United … with the Government. None of us can draw…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 28 January 1977, Volume 95
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Gordon Battaliou, a pastor in the Stirling Baptist …
PlaceXumabokwe Hill, Queenstown
… The Hill is 1 535 Metres high and is found 26 Kilometres from Lady Frere. The name is said to mean 'jump for joy hill', derived from the Languages of:…
ArchiveCanaan rediscovered: Fingo trust lands in the Humansdorp-Tsitsikamma area
… History of the Mfengu people and their forced removal from their lands in the Humnasdorp-Tsitsikamma area. Canaan … area after the Mfengu people were…
ArchiveSouth African Library: exhibition
… at the South African Library, Queen Victoria Street, from 12th July to 29th September. Illustration of a page from an old manuscript. …
South African Students Organisations
… This is a letter from the secretary of South African Students Organisations to … held at the University of Natal (Alan Taylor Residence) from 4th-10th July,…
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
… of Rwanda Speaking at a book reading of her novel Far from my Father at the Library of Congress in Washington DC, … and to give the reader a vast array of…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and … into it. I became one of it.’ For most new workers fresh from the land, the noisy, pushy city came…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… full swing. This decade also marked the gradual transition from a mining and agricultural economy (before the war) to a … the ANC thus became ANCWL members…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… lived in little villages along the narrow strip of coast from the Sinoe River to Cape Palmas, amidst the lushness of … identifiable by the adornment of a…
ArchiveA broken landscape
… of an exhibition of photographs, covering South Africa from 1984 to 1986, by Gideon Mendel at The Market Photo Gallery. From the 16th March to April 5th 1986…
ArchiveA 70th Birthday Tribute to Oliver Tambo
… 70th birthday. Includes newspaper tributes, messages from friends and family, heads of State and Government, … the media, political parties and organisations…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… From the book: Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the … these developments is by seeing them as resulting from a process of globalisation . The…
New Generation Sculpture
… doubt the work can be compared with folk traditions from other cultures in Africa as well as Eastern and Western … in carved wood, established through church…
Archive=Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 21 February 1977, Volume 111
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Columbus Malebo, and a press statement issued by the …
ArchiveBlack Peoples Convention: rejection of foreign investment
… the involvement of foreign investors and this letter sent from BPC to 31 foreign firms calls on foreign investors to disengage from the economic system of…
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town 1994
… of the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town from 29 to 31 July 1994, discussing: Reports from headquarters, regions, finances, magazine, advice …
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… a new way, to question certain values which have adopted from the dominant “white” culture, and then to organize … themselves politically around the themes…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 8 February 1977, Volume 101
… Excerpts from the transcript of continuing evidence from Aubrey Mokoena; Rodney Rammakoa, a scholar at the Naledi …
ArchiveStreets: exhibition
… Six Museum Foundation, Cape Town. Notice of an exhibition from 10th December to 24th December 1994, re-tracing District … name signs. Poster covered in…
ArchiveHead Office report to NUSAS Congress 1981
… Report from the head office of the National Union of South African … 59th Annual Congress, University of Cape Town, Cape Town from 28 November to 3 December…
ArchiveFOSATU education lectures
… with black lettering. Notice of a series of lectures from Monday, July 11 to Tuesday, July 19, at University of … workers see it. Two black and white…
EventFormer diplomat and Director of Foreign Affairs Jackie Selebi is set to lead SAPS
… of Foreign Affairs, Jacob Sello Selebi, would take over from the outgoing South African Police Services (SAPS) national commissioner, George Fivaz, with…
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town 1975
… of the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town from 10 to 13 March 1975, discussing: Reports from headquarters, regions, advice offices and finances…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph When I began to … not suffer any disabilities, such as further detention, from giving evidence during the…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… a long ridge on the Highveld, explores the period from the mid-1880s when the discovery of gold propelled South … heading ‘structures of domination and…
The New Generation
… in 1979 at the University of Cape Town. ParÂticipation from black artists at this conference was extremely small … the extent to which black artists had…
PlaceAthlone - or Cape Flats, Cape Town
… sand, ultimately of marine origin, which has blown up from the adjacent beaches over a period on the order of a … , the Back Table of Table Mountain , and…