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PlaceLebowa
… in 1972. The territory was fragmented into six separate areas scattered throughout the northern Transvaal . Seshego … (detached portions). Lebowa was…
EventForced Removals commence from District Six
… district was declared a ‘White area’ under the 1950 Group Areas Act of the Apartheid government. Before the passing of the Group Areas Act, multiracial…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 19 February 2015
… of action for the current financial year. We outlined the areas of work that we believe are necessary to tackle, for us … level. Honourable Manyoni the…
Resist Apartheid Campaign Message to Meeting in Johannesburg, 11 July 1954
… on July 11, 1954, in protest against the Western Areas Removal Scheme--the forcible removal of Africans from … fellow-countrymen I have the honour to lead…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… absenteeism from work. Bilharzia was common in certain areas and leprosy occurred in a small minority. Veneral … the construction of thatched buildings and…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 103th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… We are celebrating 103 years of the existence of the African National Congress. We are the ANC of John … it was, even ten years ago. More people have access…
BiographyRas Thomas Mokoka
… “inimical to the peace, order and good government of the African people living there.” The banishment orders were …
BiographyStanley Basil Lollan
… A clerk by occupation, he was secretary of the South African Coloured People's Organisation in the Transvaal in …
BiographyDavid Thlolanyane Mabe
… ‘inimical to the peace, order and good government of the African people living there.’ The banishment orders were …
Brett Eloff
… men’s magazine. More recently, Brett was one of two South African photographers to have been nominated for the …
PlaceGeneral Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
… living memorial to the man known to everyone as 'Oubaas', housing many relics and mementos that offer fascinating …
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… led to Black people streaming into Durban. Thousands of African people moved into Cato Manor as tenants to Indian and African landowners. On 2 June 1946 the…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… in late 19th and early 20th Centuries. After the South African War of 1899-1902 (also known as the Anglo-Boer War, … of thousands of Chinese to undercut any…
PlaceGoedverwacht, West Coast of Cape Town
… in court twice but it was upheld and remained in Maniesa's family's hands until 1888 when her last child, Hester, died. …
ArchiveBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
… through political activism to change the future for the African people and free them from the white regime. Men such … as Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo and…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… country to appeal to the UN on the basis of how South African Indians were being wrongfully racially segregated and … which is being boycotted. To this end,…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… NIC and the CBSIA to unite. [5] Prior to this, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) representatives had gone to … but to face it as it had done in the…
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… workers' political organisation was being filled by the African National Congress. Though the CP leaders played a … the uneven character of the Defiance…
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… Later, it was to be re-named Durban, after Cape Governor D'Urban. Settlers such as Henry Frances Fynn, Lieut. Farewell … grass and weeds. First White…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Bibliography
… Colony and its Frontier Zones c. 1806-1870 , Journal of African History, Volume 37: 351-370, 1996. Couzens, Tim. … a Tale that is Told”: Oral Historical…
PlaceAdams Mission, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… because of his changing of clothes to suit his differing areas of work, (including a white medical coat). He was … Botswana and Uganda, several ministers and…
EventErfdeel farm in Orange Free State becomes SA’s richest gold deposit
… no shares soared as rapidly as those of Free State Gold Areas, Ltd., the company which owned options on the … A couple of days following the Erfdeel test,…
EventThe Cato Manor riots begin due to the ‘beer issue’ and looming forced removals
… In terms of the notorious Group Areas Act (1950), the following proclamation was made in June … Cato Manor began on 17 June 1959, when a demonstration of…
EventSir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor and founder of tropical medicine is born
… the disease in certain parts of the country, and in many areas of the African continent. …
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… as forced removals were instigated through the Group Areas Act of 1950. Temples, mosques, halls and other cultural … heritage, bridging generational gaps and…
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
… 1969. Upon his release, Sobukwe was allowed to join his family in Galeshewe, Kimberley. However, he still remained … ‘PAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released,’…
PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… local rugby history that’s designed to entertain the whole family. The experience tells the history of South African rugby with trophies, jerseys, boots and…
PlaceLangkloof Valley, Eastern Cape
Part of the Cape Fold Belt, the Langkloof Valley and Mountains are a short range of Mountains that serve as a link between the Tsitsikamma and Outeniqua…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… I AM DIRECTED by the All-In African National Action Council to address your Government in the following terms: The All-In African National Action Council was…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… Mrs Graca Machel and members of the Mandela family; Provincial Chairperson of the ANC, Comrade Cassel … 1961, after a long and anxious assessment of the…