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PlaceKimberley, Northern Cape
… and many a digger celebrated a large find or drowned his diamond digging sorrows in these pubs. Today a few of …
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… the Black man's faith must be retained in order to bolster his resistance to oppression …
Resolution of the Executive Committee of the AAC, February 15, 1936 46
… urged that he should not be allowed to land owing to his policy of educating +organising the native workers they …
EventBrig. Ramushwana in NPKF admission
… Defence Minister Kobie Coetsee said he was confident his troops would be able to handle any situation during the …
PlaceOld Morley
… the tribes that were broken up and dispersed by Shaka and his Zulu armies in the Mfecane wars. Most of them fled …
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… Dingane planned an ambush and murdered Retief and his party of 100 people. This act culminated in the Battle of …
PlaceMhlathuze River
… thinking that he can surprise Shaka, and hastily sends off his much greater army to fight the Zulu. In one mighty … and Mzilikazi (Zwide’s grandson) and…
EventPat Boone, American singer, actor and writer, begins a 10-day tour of South Africa
… turning down a role if he felt that it would compromise his religious beliefs. In 1961, Boone came to South Africa … By the 1970’s he was singing Gospel…
EventControversial 'Black Jesus' painter, Ronald Harrison, dies
… of cancer on 28 June 2011, just before he was to exhibit his latest work. Black Christ remains his most famous work. The painting is now housed at the South …
EventRichard Maponya, one of South Africa's richest businessmen, is born
… first by opening small grocery shops in Soweto with his wife. He then went on to bigger ventures such as setting … motor dealerships, a BMW franchise and…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book about repression. More specifically, it…
PlaceChad
… Fadlallah (1840 -1900 CE) was born a slave, but gained his freedom (and fame) when he served in the army of Zubair … the French and killed Lieutenant…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… leader of our people, King Dinizulu ka Cetshwayo who, in his absence, was given this accolade in recognition of his commitment to the struggle against white…
EventWomen's Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein
… to ill health. The speech was read out to the public by his aide. In his speech Steyn emphasised that the memorial has not been …
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
… between the organisations. Each leader was to bring his followers to this body and he together with leaders of … spirit of co-operation. The leader who…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… fullest confidence in Mr. Sachs and deepest gratitude for his services to garment and other workers in the past … visited me. My four-year-old son, Andrew,…
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
… perhaps because the person on whom Daniel Defoe based his famous character – the real Robinson Crusoe – had … from the quayside in Cape Town, and having…
The curious case of the missing ANC members – and the crisis plan to win them back by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick),14 October 2015, South Africa
… many disgruntled ANC members followed Julius Malema and his friends into the new party. Although the ANC officials … system will bring back members is…
Address at the South African Millenium Trust Launch, Kyalami 19 November 1998
… passing century - will have to be answered. The poet makes his own his stern judgement on a dying century and a passing … the sergeants with their insignia…
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… in accordance with the sanitary regulations, and that his presence in town is in no way a danger to the community … with reference to this notice has already…
Mission Stations - G-H
… prest kind; to witness a despised and degraded portion of his fellow-creatures taken under the kind protection of those … such buildings, had been, as Mr…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… Bunting received a lesser hourly punishment later on in his sentence, a 12-hour house arrest for his communist involvement, yet his detainment longitudinally…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
… Jabavu A great lover of the Bantu was once asked what, in his opinion, were the three greatest needs of the South … fact it is now inevitable because the…
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… fighting units but to harass the enemy politically so that his forces are dispersed and therefore weakened. This calls … ourselves and of our own forces but…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… was so overwhelming. He lacked transport, houses and food. His daily struggle to exist in the squalor of the wartime locations exhausted him, and his…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
… about the newly edited and designed release of his long out-of-print collaboration with Nadine Gordimer from … In the end, I adopted a completely different…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… urgent. On 16th December 1677, Commander Johan Bax and his Council set aside a suitable area in the Company’s garden … 1700, Governor Willem Adriaan van der…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… them economic relief as well as to begin the training of his army of Satyagrahis. In the two or three years that they … from crossing the Transvaal/Natal…
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
… to be formally educated to know that he wants to live with his family where he wants to live, and not where an official … earn a decent wage; to be free to…
Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… Schreiner has said, and being amongst the most loyal of His Majesty's subjects, as Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Alfred … when once he has accepted a certain…