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Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade unionist, political activist and a women's leader both in the Eastern…
PlaceWalter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, Krugersdorp/Roodepoort
This Botanical Garden was founded in 1982, but has been a popular venue for outings since the 1800's. The Garden has been voted the best place to get back to…
PlaceSouth African Library, Cape Town
The National Library of South Africa, as we know it today, was formed on 1 November 1999 as a result of the amalgamation of the two former National libraries:…
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea is a West African nation bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon and Gabon. The earliest indigenous population of this country…
EventThe second Carnegie Report on poverty in South Africa is released
The Second Carnegie Report on poverty in South Africa, Uprooting poverty in South Africa: Report for the 2nd Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in…
EventThe Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembly
King Goodwill Zwelithini became the eighth Zulu Monarch following the death of his father, King Cyprian in 1968 and brief regency that lasted until 1971 when…
The values of David Goldblatt by Zachary Rosen,13 June 2017
… Market Photo Workshop, a project Goldblatt helped found in 1989. What began as a short-term training course has grown …
PlaceSlangkop Lighthouse, Kommetjie- Cape Town
The Slangkop Point Lighthouse in Kommetjie has a long history dating back to 1914 when it was scheduled to be completed. When World War 1 broke out, the…
ArchiveApartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
It was early in the October 1977 morning that they came. Ironically, they came on the morning of the Hindu festival of lights called Diwali, celebrating…
PlaceTenterden, 60 Durban Road, Wynberg
… elements. It was declared a National Monument on 17 March 1989. …
PlaceHotazel
… major ports. The original Hotazel Mine closed its doors in 1989. However, the town survived, pivoting to service the …
EventThe Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
Horrified by apparent infiltration of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) by non-whites, right-wingers formed their own Church for white Afrikaners only. This…
EventPolitical activists seek refuge in the British Consulate in Durban
Six political refugees, Archie Gumede, the president of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Mewa Ramgobin, George Sewpersahd, M.J. Naidoo, Billy Nair and Paul…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
On 20 July 1998 former Law and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok testifies under oath that while in office, the former president of South Africa, Mr F. W. de Klerk…
EventWits attains full university status
The University College in Johannesburg attained full University status under the name the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg. The origin of…
EventQueen Victoria of Britain approves Charter for Rhodes
On this date the British Colonial Secretary addressed a dispatch that Queen Victoria has approved a Royal Charter creating the British South Africa Company …
EventGerrie Coetzee becomes the first South African boxer to win a world heavyweight title
On 23 September 1983, Gerrie Coetzee, went up against American Michael Dokes in Cleveland, Ohio for the World Boxing Association (WBA) heavy weight title. It…
Stuart Commission Report
1984 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA March 14, 1984 Lusaka CONTENTS PART ONE INTRODUCTION Per its…
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? Abstract This essay will firstly lay out government legislation…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cheryl WalkerQuestion: Do you favour votes for all women, irrespective of colourAnswer: As…
From Segregation to Apartheid
The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
The first recorded discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand was made by Jan Gerrit Bantjes in June 1884, on the farm Vogelstruisfontein, and was followed soon…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
Eugenics and Genocide in Nazi Germany Summary The Holocaust was a form of genocide, which refers to the intentional, systematic extermination of six million…
PlacePietermaritzburg Botanical Gardens
On 3 March 1874, the Pietermaritzburg Botanical Garden was founded. It was run by the newly formed Pietermaritzburg Botanical Society until 1969, when it was…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
My paper is about two women who focused on a common ideal, namely, the use of hand labour for social reconstruction after the Second South African War of 1899…
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
The Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930 Indians began settling in Natal from 1860 when the first indentured workers arrived.1 They were followed from the mid-1870s…
PlaceBeau Soleil Music Centre, Salisbury Road, Kenilworth
The original portion of this double-storey manor house was built by Dirk Cloete in 1877, and boasts of a number of fine neo-Gothic and Victorian architectural…
PlaceNewlands Cricket Stadium
Newlands hosted its first test match in March 1889, only five years after test cricket was first played at Lords. Not even a Country at the time, South Africa…
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
The building is the oldest existing dwelling in the immediate vicinity of Rustenburg. Designed in a neo-classical idiom, it was erected for William Robertson…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
On 3 September 1984, Members of Parliament convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution with a three-tier parliament which would re…