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PlaceRawsonville, Winelands of the Western Cape
… Cape Province of South Africa. These are the wineland areas of the Breedekloof, Slanghoek , Goudini and Breede … whom this gorgeous scenery, surrounding the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Session of the Parliament of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 30 October 2007
… of Namibia, speaking on behalf of the South African people, to thank our brothers and sisters in this … be postponed for much longer. All of us, members of…
EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… Indians from occupying land outside certain exempted areas and was an attempt to marginalise Indians and force them to live in certain restricted areas. In…
1. The whole Coolies petition the Durban Corporation for better wages
… the Corporation, we the undersigned Coolies have got large family and the wages that we get at present is not enough to maintain our poor distressed family…
PlaceuMgungundlovu, Dingane's Royal Kraal
The uMgungundlovu was formerly known as Dingane's Kraal and royal Capital. He took power, after assassinating Shaka, his half-brother. Its name is derived…
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
… and cultural approach as rooted in the strands of South African resistance and Africanist culture, building upon the … was also a mere fourteen kilometers…
PlaceWoutersen Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point.
… Chief Justice of South Africa. Various members of the ‘family lived on the estate. Because the vault had been broken … permanently sealed. Consequently the…
PlaceCurry's Post
… Howick . It has a quaint history that involves the Curry Family, after whom Curry’s Post is named, who settled here, … this where George Curry and his rather…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… were stalinists and socialists of various hues in the African National Congress (and its ancillary movements) … restricting the number of Africans who…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… The African National Congress (ANC) in exile developed strategies … to question the National Party’s vision of what South African society should be…
The Court’s position in the justice system
… Courts) are binding on Magistrates' Courts within their areas. These decisions are an important source of law. A …
Learning about local history through pictures
… lesson we will investigate the history of different local areas and local events using these different sources. Let’s …
The Cape Northern Frontier
… stock in Campbell’s reports and only took interest in the areas he visited after 1820. In 1825 plagues of locusts and …
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… struggle by a triumvirate - Oliver Tambo, President of the African National Congress, who has been in exile since 1960, … political activity during the…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… struggle by a triumvirate - Oliver Tambo, President of the African National Congress, who has been in exile since 1960, … political activity during the…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… during the mid-twentieth century. At the end of the South African War in the nineteenth century Dutch and English were … as Afrikaners who fought against the…
ArticleCradle of Humankind
… Reserve and part of it is open to the public. The Stegmann family donated the caves to the University of the …
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Timbuktu, French Tombouctou, is a city in the western African country of Mali. Often used as a popular term to … through the Sahara desert to the countries…
!U’S STORY - Photographs 16 - 19
… see photos !U's story Part 3: How big is a family and who belongs to it? A family consists of a mother, father and children. A man can … or that of his…
EventZANU-PF under Robert Mugabe wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe becomes president
… On 4 March 1980, Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) won … of Matabeleland, whilst Bishop Abel Muzorewa's United…
PlaceClanwilliam, Stellenbosch District
… used during the 18th and 19th centuries to managed remote areas.) Daniel Johannes van Ryneveld was proclaimed as the … in honour of Dr. C. Louis Leipoldt- …
EventThe first large group of French Huguenots arrive at the Cape
… with the Dutch nation'. Today, many farms in these areas retain their French names. The Dutch East India Company … surnames survive. The Huguenots made a…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… in the life and work of Kally. Rajab, the son of a family whose friendship with Kally goes back “several … which Kally is frequently quoted. Born in 1925 to…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note
… at the height of the repression in the 1960's, she and her family were forced to flee the country. England became her … to many journals, articles on the…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… not yield much. My teachers, including some iconic South African literary scholars such as Michael Chapman, and … cultural expressions, that were not easily…
PlaceKhorixas, Town in Namibia
… but was unable to get enough water from it to sustain his family and herds of animals. David soon began to have doubts …
Edendale and the birth of the ANC, 06 January 2012
… parted ways with pride and embraced selflessness. For the African, it is that year that God gave us Pixley Ka Isaka … in the last decade of the 20th century…
A new class struggle
… cultivator." He neither manures, drains nor terraces hilly areas, and consequently after heavy rains, the soil is washed … islands of the West Indies and the…
PlaceSammy Mark’s Residence, Zwartkoppies, Pretoria
… became a Museum in 1986 and the opulent life of the Marks family is remembered today, in this carefully preserved House … Room, which is lined with old…
John Vorster Square revisited as Timol inquest reopened by Ernest Mabuza (Timeslive.co.za), 27 June 2017
… found that Timol had committed suicide. However‚ Timol's family asked for the inquest to be reopened because new … Essop was charged with furthering the aims…