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Cape Flats Details - Life and Popular Art in Cape Town’s Townships
… taken by Chris Ledochowski over a period of 25 years. His work has taken him across the cultural, racial and class …
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… during the absence of Lord Charles Somerset . In honour of his late wife, Donkin declared he the Settlement name; 'Port …
Famous Gatsha Buthelezi Editorial in SASM Newsletter, April 1973
… the Black People. This famous "daddy" of the "Zulus" with his "tricks" manages to confuse so many black people. …
EventMoroccan Army of Liberation attacks Spanish enclave of Ifni
… Sultan Mohammed V was revered as a leader by the locals. His exile to Madagascar in 1953 caused great anger, as …
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
… a number of insightful and novel negotiation tactics. His overall strategy was to limit the place and time of these …
EventThemba Sono is expelled from SASO
… came after giving a controversial opening address in his capacity as president of SASO. The address sharply …
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… rights and democracy in South Africa". On 24 May 1994, in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town, …
EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… encouraged the struggle against apartheid to continue. In his speech he stated that: "Throughout these long years the …
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… the British aministration, Frederick's brother, Hans, and his neighbour Hendrik Prinsloo, organised an uprising …
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
… Free State and Lord Gladstone would not agree to withhold his assent to the act because he claimed that it was not …
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… office from 1910 to 1919. Botha appointed Jan Smuts as his Minister of Defence. It was under Botha's government …
EventThe decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the First Matabele War (Ndebele), Zimbabwe
… the defeat at Bembesi but not before deciding to burn his capital Bulawayo to the ground rather than allow it to be …
PlaceCurry's Post
… is still in existence today, this where George Curry and his rather large extended family lived - he went on to have …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… hands of White Settler farmers. With no means to finance his land reform policies, Mugabe's supporters then went about …
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… would sweep all White people into the sea. Sarhili ordered his subordinate chiefs to obey the injunctions. The first …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… to be launched in South Africa in 1963. At the time of his claims, the PAC, African National Congress (ANC), the …
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 4 February 1974 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… in South Africa - as far as the ordinary man is concerned, his wage and his salary have more than kept pace with the increase in the … want to make it very…
Say It out Loud - The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923
… picture of the days of Johan van Riebeeck. For in his days the problems, which now concern us, had their origin. On his landing as the Cape of Good Hope he…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… Diocese of Johannesburg. 9 During the early years of his life, he was a committed socialist and a leading member … many years Vice-President of the Natal…
Message to the Soweto Rally to Welcome Released Leaders by O. R. Tambo, 29 October 1989
… must learn to celebrate freedom not oppression, life not death, our common humanity not separation and definition of …
Comments and Observations on Proposals for a United Nations Security Council Resolution on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, 1963
… of South Africa, and in each case the accused are facing death sentences. Generally, the apartheid policies are being …
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… campaigning drive that then exposed the reality of high death rates in the camps (particularly among children), …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference in solidarity with the frontline states and Lesotho, Lisbon, 25 March 1983
… that southern region of Africa, the extent of suffering, death and destruction inflicted on millions of people by the …
Constitution of the ANC
… of a Congress Committee shall be vacated by resignation, death, expulsion or removal as a disciplinary measure. (b) …
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… conflict in the platinum mines that ended in the tragic death of 44 people. Because NUM and the companies enforced …
ArticleCustomary Marriages in South Africa: Understanding The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act of 1998
… lower status than her husband and she was thus subject to his marital power. This was the position in terms of section … difficult for a wife to persuade the…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… World War I, he was held a prisoner of war because of his demand for a destroyer. When Ruth was just a young girl, … to marry on December 28, 1939. Francis…
PlaceGoodman Gallery
… artist Brett Murray painting The Spear as part of his solo exhibition Hail to the Thief II exhibited in … Jacob Zuma in the pose of Vladimir Lenin, but with…
PlaceGardens Shul in Cape Town
… male-blinkered records do not mention the women)! Met in his new house, Helmsley Place, in Hof Street, and held a … Abraham Horn, a Rhinelander, who died in…
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… congregation and taught the Khoisan to read and write. His good works came unstuck, however, when he began baptising … under developed and degraded Village…