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50. The campaign resumed in 1913
… to concede the points submitted by Mr. Gandhi in his letters to you, which my Association has seen. I venture … was willingness on the part of the Minister…
EventWalter Sisulu's appeal is dismissed
… and attempt to overthrow the government. The dismissal of his appeal meant that he would have to serve six years in …
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… frontier chief sympathetic to Christianity pressure from his people, who refused to countenance his enforce monogamy, resulted in the marriage being called ……
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… a far more varied and relaxed life. The "patriarch" plays his role in moderation and even if overbearing at times, compensates by his effective role as …
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… H. Balmer. The Choir’s members included Paul Xiniwe and his wife Eleanor, Sannie Koopman, Charlotte Makhomo Manye, …
PlaceKatlehong
… Lucas Sithole . The Society began in 1969 when Biko and his colleagues were expounding Black Consciousness as a …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Bibliography
… Peepal Tree Press, 1988 Calpin, C.H., A. I. Kajee. His Work for the South African Indian Community. Durban: …
PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
… to the Heeren XVII, asking for Slave Labour. He wrote in his letter; ‘if it could be agreed upon, however, it would be …
PlaceGriqualand West
… immediately petitioned the British for the annexation of his lands to the Cape Colony . As a result, on 27 October …
PlaceTable Mountain, Cape Town
… 1503 the Portuguese navigator Antonio de Saldanha anchored his fleet in Table Bay and named it ' Aguada de Saldanha ', …
PlaceDoornfontein, Johannesburg
… Lace demonstrated this one day to a group of friends while his Wife Josie Lace, was still in the bath. The Visitors were …
PlaceHamilton Primary School, Visagie Street, Pretoria
… and lead every primary school learner to develop to his or her full potential. Mr W J Berg (Headmaster 1969 – …
PlaceRissik Street Post Office, Johannesburg
… was the building contractor and was especially praised for his work. During this period the component parts of the clock …
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… Minister who has justly earned an international fame for his genius in statesmanship, will find a solution to the …
Document 20 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the Secretary, Communist Party of South Africa, 22 September 1930
… a request for reinstatement, and never replied to by him), his defiance of the Party since, amounting to very serious …
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… Afrikaner culture. The South African prime minister based his policy on a system which became known as apartheid by …
PlaceSprings
… is that he wanted to name it after himself, but because his name (Brooks) resembled the Afrikaans word ' broek ' …
Document 68 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 February 1937
… by the detective in charge withdrawal of charges and his job back at higher pay if he would scab. He refused. The …
An interview with Dorothy Molefi: Hector was ‘always smiling’
… so he left a message with neighbours. He said I must go to his place, so I went there. When I got there I saw women …
Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
… and progressive education calculated to prepare him for his responsibilities as a fully fledged citizen, the African …
PlaceLadysmith
… War’. Lieutenant General Sir George White made Ladysmith his centre of operations after having to retreat from a …
ArchiveDemocracy and the Left in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ben Turok interviewed by Carilee Osborne
… corruption efforts by former president Jacob Zuma and his allies, making him a target for the latter group. He has … interested to see that even a person…
EventThe People's Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
… in Bophuthatswana by President Lucas Mangope. He announced his banning order immediately after the aborted coup attempt …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first democratic President
… F.W. de Klerk as President. Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the Robben Island Prison. In June …
EventDjibouti and Cote d' Ivore strengthen diplomatic ties with SA
… to Nigeria by the state president, F.W. de Klerk, and his foreign minister Roelof "Pik" Botha a number of other …
Kaunda to be discharged from hospital, 25 September 2012
… director Lackson Kasonka told AFP. “We are consulting his family to know where he will be accommodated, because he …
EventIan Roberts is born
… on this day in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. It was his character of Boet in a series of television …
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… Star, and a member of the Native Voters Association, like his neighbour who was Venda, Xhosa, Tswana, Sotho, etc. Such … impoverished Afrikaner ex-farmer of…
Justice Arthur Chaskalson: President of Constitutional Court interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 2 February 2000, The Braamfontein, Johannesburg
… was something that appealed very much to me. I, Lorraine (his wife) and I talked about it afterwards and then the … political cases. Taylor: Mmm. I mean…
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
… A civil service where the phones just ring!" He ends his personal testimony with these words: "It is infinitely … of corruption in our prisons. He then gave…