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ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… Pretoria he met a Negro friend who took him to Johnston's Family Hotel where he was accommodated. Later, a baker's wife … the protesters to the docks. Almost…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… Some were sold into slavery by their families, if the family was poor and could not afford to survive. Some could … as bobotie, bredies and samoosas have…
The death of Mama Luthuli,16 December 1996
… South Africa. The ANC sends its deepest condolences to the family, relatives and friends of the Luthuli family. Funeral arrangements will be announced later…
Silent Cries from a Beloved Country by Ken Johnson, 20 August 2009
… photographs called “In the Time of AIDS” by the South African David Goldblatt, you may wonder why they are so … painful economy. A 2006 landscape shows an…
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… many of whom lived in marginalised communities or in areas where facilities were minimal if any. It played an …
The Mountain Committee
… in East Pondoland who carried back the news to their areas. Repeated requests by the Mountain Committee for the …
Work and education
… fields, they remain under-represented in certain areas - for example science and technology. Women are also …
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… On New Year's eve in 1977 he escaped to Lesotho and his family followed soon afterwards. Once in exile Woods continued to publish articles on the South…
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
… a press statement with regards to the work of the South African Students Organisation (SASO). This suggests that … to my normal, cosy life, but the…
EventZeph Mothopeng, President of the PAC dies
… in the District of Amersfort in Transvaal where his family had relocated. After passing standard six at St Bedes … school between 193 and 1937. Mothopeng…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… that the special branch wanted to destroy the whole family, as Dweba's death was becoming a matter of public … Dweba was suspected of being a courier of guns…
PlaceAddo Drift, Sunday's River in the Eastern Cape
… used by visitors travelling from the coast into the South African interior. A military post was erected there in about … and Castle, and remained in the…
PlaceTransvaal Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History
… on Earth and of the unique Geological Foundations of the African Continent are outlined, and the Theory of Evolution … are also transcribed in Braille for…
EventQueen Mother Elizabeth turns 100
… her. The Queen Mother is the first member of the Royal Family to reach her centenary. Her popularity stemmed from … occasion. Queen Elizabeth, the first…
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool
… 19th century Cape Colony to the early 1950s covering the family history or the Gools, Rassools, and Abdurahmans. The … Street, the unoccupied and shuttered…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… biography. Adichie is a young writer, whom the foremost African Storyteller, Chinua Achebe, has described as having … at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka…
PlaceMitchell Park Zoo, Durban
… in the early 1900's. This followed a worldwide trend of housing animal collections in public Parks or Botanic … among the most well-known and remembered. The…
Mary Matilda Brown
… 1880 she sent the manuscript of her novel, The story of an African farm, to the Browns for evaluation and dedicated the …
Faith Gasa
… Brigade into peace talks with their counterparts in the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) in a bid to … Africa. Gastrow S. 1995. “Who's Who in…
ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
… 1.11 billion people call Africa home and call themselves African. Africa, and being African, has become a core part of the identity of millions … beyond…
EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… Todd Tozama Matshikiza was born to a musical family in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape on 7 March 1921. He … huge success both locally and abroad. In 1960, he…
BiographyDiana Ferrus
… Internationally renowned South African poet, writer, and activist for marginalised groups, … (a poem dedicated to her mother who died in 1997), The African…
2003 New Year Message, 30 December 2002
… optimism in nature and also in ourselves as a new South African nation. Another year recedes into the past and we … permanent feature of our society. This…
Why protect worker’s rights?
… applies to all employees and employers except the South African National Defence Force, various intelligence bodies … to annual leave, sick leave, maternity…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… way of reinforcing the human rights embodied in the South African constitution. Keep in mind that teenagers learn from … Anne Frank was a Jewish girl born in…
PlaceOrigins Centre
… origins of humanity and the evolution of culture in the African Continent. Origins Centre is dedicated to exploring … the history, lifeways, and beliefs of…
66. G.M. Naicker: We will not colloborate
… way as others are South Africans of English, European or African decent. Nearly all of us were born in this country. … non-Europeans free and equal…
66. G. M. Naicker: we will not collaborate
… way as others are South Africans of English, European or African decent. Nearly all of us were born in this country. … non-Europeans free and equal…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 3 - What is Your Name, Age, and Whose Slave are You? by Rayda Jacobs
… came from Madagascar, some from Mozambique, the East African coast, India and the islands of the East Indies such … Ternate and Timor. They had been snatched…
PlaceYsterplaat, Cape Town
Ysterplaat is an old Northern Suburb of Cape Town and home to: An Airforce Base; School's and a Museum. Amongst many Churches and a nearby Synagogue. This Area…