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My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 4 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and … still wants what I have always wanted.' Frances Board, from an interview by Cheryl Walker I am…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - ‘Locations’ For Labour
… From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and … officially and then get the money back in a number of ways from the tenants themselves. Control The…
52. Gandhi: my experiences, 1914
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South … represents a warm, personal account of the campaign from 1906 to 1914. Source: Collected Works of…
PlaceAchab se Berg, Northern Cape
… Hill 23 km East of Aggeneys and 34 km from Pofadder, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The name is taken from the Farm Achab. Aggeneys the Town was…
ArchiveBolt Number 12 July 1975
… Cover, Nils Burwitz; Five Poems, Christopher Hope; from Local Colour, a novel by Stephan Grey; Two Poems, … kaiser’s bus, Shabbir Banoobhai; Sigameko (an…
EventPrime Minister Smuts set to replace Pegging Act
… Act, due to expire on 31 March, prohibiting Indians from purchasing land from non-Indians. Indians would be entitled to elect three … D., (1984), Smuts and…
EventSA poet and artist Wopko Jensma is born
… Eastern Province. Highly talented but suffering from schizophrenia, he studied at various tertiary … South Africa where he disappeared in 1993 without a…
EventDutch East Indian Company expedition into the interior
… an exploration expedition into the Eastern Cape. Apart from valuable information gained from the interior during the eight months' long journey, the …
EventZulu army returns to Nongoma
… in confrontation and about 48 000 head of cattle looted from the Boers during the expedition. Bottomley had … was a problem and some of the Zulus had been…
PlaceMoletzie Bird Sanctuary
… Southern Africa, but a few individuals have been recorded from Zambia. They are now mostly found in two regions: North … by white down while the rest of the…
EventQueen Elizabeth ascends to the throne
… artistic developments under the Tudor dynasty, the house from which Elizabeth was descendant. Among some of the … 69. References: Britroyals.com (2011). …
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… was leader of the Nationalist Party (NP). The NP withdrew from the GNU in June 1996 and Mbeki became the only deputy … on 16 June 1999. In 2005 Mbeki…
EventNelson Mandela is born
… Mandela was sentenced to life in prison on Robben Island. From Robben Island he was transferred to Pollsmoor prison and … called a press conference to…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong and Thokoza. They … police force and this had resulted in a…
EventSouth African Parliament votes to restore citizenship to residents of so-called independent states
… reactions and counter reactions. The first reaction was from the president of Bophutatswana, Mr Lucas Mangope. He … that his territory would retain the…
Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
… had anything to do with the attack. Non-strikers from Germiston claimed that intimidation by strikers led them … to take matters into their own hands. They…
EventNelson Mandela meets President P.W. Botha to begin negotiating the end of apartheid
… imprisoned at Victor Verster after he was transferred from Robben Island to Pollsmoor in 1982, then to Victor … Mandela states in his autobiography Long Walk…
EventBambatha Rebellion
… the unification of South Africa mining companies suffered from a shortage of unskilled labour. Most African people … government. The tax was instituted to…
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… that was focused on the resistance against and liberation from apartheid. In 1973 he was banned by apartheid … On 18 August 1977, he was arrested on his way…
PlaceCity Hall, Cape Town
… on the Grand Parade to the West of the Castle and is built from honey-coloured oolitic limestone imported from Bath in England. Inside, it’s a symphony of…
Turning Adwa into a global heritage site of Pan-African struggle by Mammo Muchie (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
… discriminating actions of the colonial officials." Taken from S.K.B. Asante, in his study of Ethiopianism in West … constructive and positive heritage of…
Speech on Receiving the Freedom of Durban, Durban, 16 April 1999
… am therefore proud to accept the honour, in all humility, from a city in which I feel at home whenever I visit it. … that even before it was colonised by the…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… have already inspired wide-spread debate; individuals from a variety of communities and political perspectives have … isolate the lives and struggles of…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… of the right to own land. Plaatje, known as Sol, came from a family that had been associated with Christian … Plaatje was exposed to a very diverse spectrum…
30. Potchefstroom traders: we please the poorest class of customers
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South … Potchefstroom was being inundated with indentured Indians from Natal. To this we beg to give an…
3. The Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International
… and solidarity. 48 Although many whites drifted away from the Party after its executive opened up its membership … When the CPSA's general secretary Douglas…
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
… say that I still feel a bit let down hoping that someone from the Municipality would come and tell me about the … were flying above to capture that moment…
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
… as complements to the dominant landscapes. These shots, from a series entitled "Municipal People," focus on the new … of Nelson Mandela. Despite the dignity…
Document 39 - Statement by S. P. Bunting, October 1931
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … be put out of the party. The trouble does not emanate from the membership, however, but from the …
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… [Dr. Jadwat is from Natal; probably from Isipingo and later Durban. He was a student at Sastri … leader of the Natal Indian Congress for twenty years (from…