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Book launch: Attacking the Heart of Apartheid by Yunus Carrim
For over three decades, the remarkable story of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Special Operations Unit has remained largely untold. Formed under the direct command of ANC…
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
With politicians showing unusual agreement among themselves and media focused on the "global" tribute to Nelson Mandela, there has been unanimous praise in…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
1. Introduction ↵The value of history is derived from its obligation to view all factors and clues of the past that lead up to one particular moment, event or…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires
… Peires, The Dead Will Arise, Johannesburg, Jonathan Ball, 1989, p.57. This discrimination was extended even to anybody … Peires, The Dead Will Arise,…
Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 After the raid into Lesotho on Thursday, 9…
ArticleThe legacy of the French Revolution
A legacy is the long-term effect of something. A person or an event or a piece of writing from the past may still shape what people believe and how they live…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
The Society of Young Africa (SOYA) held its opening conference on 20th December 1951. Led by I. B. Tabata, SOYA was closely linked to the Non European Unity…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
The indigenous inhabitants of Australia The continent of Australia was settled about 60,000 years ago. Before European settlement, most of the inhabitants of…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
Nelspruit lies in the Lowveld, in the valley of the Crocodile River just below the great eastern escarpment of the Transvaal. Long before it acquired a…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
The main building of the SA Army College was designed in a so-called block-house style and its cornerstone was laid by Lord Kitchener on 12 June 1902. It…
PlaceShree Ambalavaanar Alayam Temple Complex, Cato Manor, Durban
The original building is the first recorded public Hindu temple to have been erected on the African continent. Built in 1875, . It was declared a National…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker By at least the turn of the century, African churchwomen across the…
20 Years of Democracy - Profiles of the Presidents
South Africa’s advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 Interim Constitution, drawn up through negotiations among various political parties,…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… in Angola and used about nine locations in all until 1989. 103 It established MK training camps in newly …
Chapter 8 - Survivors
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 In the accounts that follow no one was killed…
EventUnited Party MP for Benoni, D.G. Ross, dies in England after a long illness
The 68 year-old Ross was born in the Cape, but moved to Transvaal where he spent the greater part of his life. During the Second World War Ross served as an…
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
Constitution Hill is a Living Museum that tells the story of South Africa’s journey to democracy. The site is a former Prison and military Fort that bears…
Everard Read Art Gallery
In 1912, in Johannesburg, one of South Africa’s most famous art galleries was established. The Everard Read Gallery has grown in sophistication and size, just…
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was a very different one from that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had shattered the…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a giant among African American activists. He was a key founder of the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights…
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to Kwa Mashu, a newly established black township on the…
The Trust Feed Massacre
An incident occurred in December 1988 which shocked the nation and forever changed the lives of the close-knit community of Trust Feeds, a rural village near…
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
Charles Robberts Swart was born on a farm in the Winburg district of the Orange Free State (OFS) on 5 December 1894. Part of his childhood was spent in a…
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
On 13 March 1888, De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. was founded to exercise control over virtually all diamond production in South Africa. The company was…
PlaceThe Free State National Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein
The Free State National Botanical Garden dates back to 1965. During the 1963 Kirstenbosch Jubilee Year Tour it was decided that the Free State warranted a…
PlaceSahlumbe
Sahlumbe, a Settlement along the Tugela River, about 23km from Weenen and on the edge of Msinga which was a District, established in the former Homeland of;…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
The period 1860-1923 is characterised firstly by the introduction of indentured Indian labourers into Natal and of the "passenger" Indians who came to trade,…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… women under detainment. According to a report issued in 1989 by the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), women … (Cape Town, South Africa: Allie’s…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
At seven p.m. sharp, seven nights a week, during the darkest days of apartheid, an incendiary radio broadcast beamed out from Lusaka, Zambia. It began with the…
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) came into being in 1996 when communities on the Cape Flats, Cape Town decided to form an anti-crime organisation…