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ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… Willem de Klerk served as president of South Africa from September 1989 to May 1994. He is widely recognized for … good education system, education has…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… UNO - 1947 International Support: UNO - 1948 Support from persons and Organisation - 1946 Support from persons and Organisation - 1947 Support from persons…
PlaceOld Lutheran Church, Kroondal
… and was consecrated on 24 June 1896. Prior to this, from about 1891, regular services were held in the dining room of the Ottermann house. From its…
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… Diaz’s arrival in Algoa Bay in 1488. Across the way from Market Square is the magnificent public library, … 204 stairs, which visitors are welcome to climb…
PlaceWorkers’ Museum, Johannesburg
… documents the History of South Africa’s Migrant Workforce, from the first arrivals to Unionisation. The original … the many thousands of Migrant Workers who…
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
… It begins by briefly tracing the community's struggles from the early 1860s, against the racist laws that … Based upon primary materials collected…
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… served simultaneously as ambassador to the United States from 1950 until his election to the Knesset (Israeli … References: Anon (2008) Briefing containing …
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… place in 1903 and in the process, land was forcibly taken from local groups such as the Herero. A system of forced … With good knowledge of the terrain and…
Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG) at UCT ‘WINTER SCHOOL 2014 : Using climate information for adaptation and policy development’
… information for adaptation and policy development ' , from 30 June-11 July 2014. This 2-week intensive course has been developed specifically for…
5. Muslims of Durban complain about the vexatious curfew law
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South … The Vagrant Law prevented Muslims in the borough of Durban from exercising their religious…
EventMswati III becomes King of Swaziland
… died, was ready to take the reigns. Queen Shongwe ruled from 1982-1983 while Queen Thwala ruled from 1983 until 1986. During that time the prospective King …
EventThe Supreme Court of Zambia ruled that former Zambian president, Frederick Chiluba should stand trial for corruption
… against the Zambian parliament for lifting his immunity from prosecution. A year earlier, Frederick Chiluba's … would remove presidential immunity protecting…
EventUN Special Committee on Apartheid urges a boycott of all SA racist sporting organizations
… the African bloc’s proposal to exclude the country from both the Munich Olympics and the Olympic Movement … Africa's ban. This resulted in the country's…
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 … calls. This represented a radical departure for the ANC. From its formation in 1912 until this…
Acceptance speech by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of being awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters in recognition of his contribution to education at Texas Southern University Houston, Texas, 23 September 2011
… Guests, It is a great privilege to receive this honour from such an esteemed institution of higher learning as Texas … to do so. My passion for education…
Interview with Ari Sitas, Of Socialism and Dentures by Jonathan Mandel, 10-11 April 2015
… and marginalised many others in the country. He comes from those parts. He knows them well. He admits that the transition from a Valley of a Thousand Hills…
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… Gandhiji led a seven-year long struggle in South Africa from 1907 to 1914 for the security and dignity of the Indian … Molteno . Gandhiji wrote this book in…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018
… has been surprisingly neglected. If we are to learn from Mandela, we need to engage with what he did, how he … Nelson Mandela, little is written on the…
The First South African side to play in the sub-continent: Boer Prisoners of War in 1901 (Part 1 of 2) by Arunabha Sengupta (Cricket Country), 12 October 2015
… The Colts from Colombo and the Boer prisoners-of-war who played a … as much as anything else, had prevented South Africa from engaging in cricketing contests…
Stuart Commission Report
… eating and other facilities are practically cut off from others and this has increased their separation. Special … to commit suicide because his girl-friend…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… to have to defy these laws and if we could detach whites from supporting the apartheid system we would help the process of liberation from racism…
ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
… This chapter comes from the book …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim … societies were still required to obtain permission from the Cape Governor for the…
EventIndian students join the Coloured schools boycott
… South African educational and political systems. Students from about 60 Coloured high schools, teacher training … was widely observed by approximately 100…
EventSA Rugby team loses to New Zealand
… by 18-6 at halftime until the All Blacks managed to come from behind to register a victory. This was Francois … him of having faked an injury and…
EventHealth officials launch an intensive campaign to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda.
… haemorrhaging and possibly coma. The disease got its name from the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, … As recently as 2012, thirteen…
EventPresent UN headquarters is opened
… team of architects that included Le Corbusier from Switzerland, Oscar Niemeyer from Brazil, and representatives of numerous other nations. …
'States of Emergence', at Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art by Sean O'Toole, November 2002
… gallery, in the old Camouflage space opposite the road from the Goodman, comes at a time when lower Rosebank is … pieced together group show featuring…
PlaceMadagascar
… separated the Madagascar-Antarctica-India landmass from the Africa-South America landmass around 135 million years ago. Madagascar later split from India…
African History Books
… and to promote awareness, we made a selection of books from our archive that intent to show Africa’s variety and diversity from a historical perspective…