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ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… Abstract The paper reviews the life of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote during apartheid South … the suffering and anger of the oppressed black South…
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…
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…
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… the Port of Durban, as well as in Northern KZN Forestry Areas between Paulpietersburg and the Mpumalanga border. The … there has been a reduction of charcoal…
This doccie about a SA photographer is worth the watch by Garreth Van Niekerk (channel24), 28 May 2017
… For the better half of the past century, celebrated South African lensman David Goldblatt has turned his camera away from himself, focusing rather on the…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Royal Visit - 1947
… M. D. Naidoo "We have the greatest respect for the Royal Family, but we think it best not to participate in the … planning a welcome as warm as any yet…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
BiographyLawrence Ndzanga
… and a national executive committee member of the South African Congress Trade Unions (SACTU),was detained under … Behind Closed Doors. By Shireen Motala …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleCradle of Humankind
… Reserve and part of it is open to the public. The Stegmann family donated the caves to the University of the …
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…
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…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… New York City renames the square in front of the South African mission to the United Nations 'Nelson and Winnie … [NALGO] Britain. Haringay Borough Council,…
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…