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ArchiveStatement made by Senator O P F Horwood in Senate on June 4, 1971
… university subsidies should be cut. There are responses from several University Principals either criticising or supporting this statement, as well as from…
EventMandela is moved to Victor Verster prison
… African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela from the Constantiaberg private clinic in Cape Town, where he had been recovering from tuberculosis, to…
EventThe Internal Security Act is passed
… confinement to a particular district, prohibition from attending any kind of meeting and prevention from being quoted. It also provided for house arrest. … O…
Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 … emigration to develop through the British Empire from 1830 onwards, had evolved a network of…
PlaceSudan
… habitation which dates back tens of thousands of Years. From the end of the 4th millennium BCE, Nubia (now northern … Egyptian rule, and it was part of the…
PlaceDarling, West Coast
… The warm, welcoming and friendly Tourism Folk from Darling, believe that peace and quiet of the foremost importance! A calm and peaceful Retreat from the…
PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
… This structure probably dates from the 1890's and was built in sandstone in a predominantly … a number of fortifications, stretching in a semicircle from the…
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… to maintain its racial policy and exclude all other races from representing South Africa in international sports. SAFA … Southern Africa (FASA) and removing…
PlaceEgypt
… found in the Tombs of the Pharaoh's! Separated from the Middle East by the Red Sea , a very important trade route! From 1852, Britain kept an increased…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 1 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and … father, Herman Maswabi, was a well-educated man. He came from Ramotswa in Bechuanaland2, to…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of … in India in 1943, when I read three pamphlets brought from Durban by a friend, one of them by Dr…
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A … The South African struggle received little attention from the Comintern (the Communist…
The Soul Of The ANC Under Attack by Frank Chikane
… The Soul of the ANC is under severe attack not from external forces as we would have thought, but from its own members and leaders. At the beginning, and in …
PlaceDu Toit's Kloof Pass and the Huguenot Tunnel
… between 1984 and 1988. Leading up to the Huguenot Tunnel from its South side, is an awe-inspiringly beautiful, … left side driving traffic. The main control…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida, 29 March 1986, Maputo
… here today to bid farewell to a warrior. We have converged from all corners of the globe to pay homage to a … because he was supremely human, Moses Mabhida…
Statement at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida by O. R. Tambo, Maputo, 29 March 1986
… today to bid farewell to a warrior. We have converged from all corners of the globe to pay homage to a … because he was supremely human, Moses Mabhida has…
ArchiveUnited Nations Security Council Address on Arusha Peace Process, by Nelson Mandela, 29 September 2000, New York USA
… visit to Arusha, the seat of the peace negotiations, from where we proceeded directly here to brief the Security … the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. The…
Address to the United Nations Security Council on the Arusha Peace Process 29 September 2000 Mr President Honourable Members of the Security Council
… visit to Arusha, the seat of the peace negotiations, from where we proceeded directly here to brief the Security … the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. The…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires
… From the book: Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of … brought by the Dutch in 1652, and subsequently exported from the Western Cape to the Afrikaner…
PlaceAkasiapark, Residential Area for Civil Servants
… on part of Wingfield, a former Naval Aerodome named Sassar from 1947 to 1 December 1959, then Acacia Park after the Port … training school, SAS Wingfield,…
ArchiveAfrica beyond the Union
… all the African countries should come together and learn from each other and that South Africa, especially, has much to learn from it's neighbours. …
EventThe Star Condemns Forced Removals In Sophiatown
… newspaper condemns the forced removal of black residents from Sophiatown, near central Johannesburg, to Soweto, … Africans to ghetto-like 'locations' or …
EventNelson Makhuba murders his family and commits suicide.
… was also a band leader, committed suicide. Upon his return from Johannesburg exhibition, Makhuba first killed his wife … and his work alight. He survived the…
EventMobutu Sese Seko dies
… Mobutu Sese Seko (66), former president of Zaire, died from prostate cancer while in Rabat, Morocco, three months … reign. Sese Seko was exiled to Rabat…
PlaceCoerney, Port Elizabeth
… as 1752 in the journal of A F Beutler. The name is derived from Khoekhoen and means 'narrow forest'. Formerly also known as 'Hoender Kraal', from Dutch, …
PlaceDutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)
… the wind blows into Hout Bay throughout the year (Fig. 1). From the beginning the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good … - in the minds of the colonizers -…
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
… his belief that you cannot divorce political emancipation from economic emancipation. Given his outstanding leadership … 1955. It was at this historic…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … the Cape by Dutch commercial capital which tore them away from West Africa, the Malay Archipelago,…
The Story of PR Panther, the gold man of Indian politics in South Africa: Introduction - By Riashnee Pather
… From the book: The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of … scene was turbulent. However even interviews are far from unproblematic. The difficulties with…
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… after the installation of the railway line running from Wynberg to Cape Town in 1864. All of the cottages were … were often relatively crowded, though oral…