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… presented as the Third Annual Ruth First Memorial Lecture in Maputo, 27 September 1985. Considers whether the struggle against apartheid is a national liberation struggle, or a struggle …

… To call a production The Storming locates a predicament in the present continuous; as ongoing; as not yet resolved. … maelstrom: the storming of a bastion which needs to fall. In our present conjuncture, the world seems to be in the … ‘let your indulgence set me free’.  Janice Honeyman’s post-apartheid production of The Tempest in Cape Town, involving …

… Bevil Gordon d’Urban Rudd was born on 5 October 1894 in Kimberley, Northern Cape.[i] He is the grandson of Charles … company.[ii] Bevil was educated at Saint Andrew’s College in Grahamstown.[iii] He became the first South African to win … he immigrated back to South Africa, and was appointed as a sports journalist, and by 1930 he became editor of the Daily …

… brother. His earliest education was at a mission school in Graaf Reinet. After completing Standard 6 he enrolled for … and matric. Sobukwe’s schooling was briefly interrupted in 1943 when he was admitted to a hospital suffering from … post at the University of Wisconsin in the US, but the Apartheid government refused his request for a passport …

… on the fact that the victory the working class scored in this country in 1917 resulted in the emergence, on the … the remaining bastilles of colonial and racist oppression. Apartheid Aggression However, more than forty years after the successful conclusion of the Second World War, apartheid, colonial aggression continues to cause serious …

… Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - by Riashnee Pather Chapter One Before … of PR's entry into public and political life at this time in Pietermaritzburg, I believe it is imperative to first … The South African Experience. [Johannesburg: Ravan, 1985], p 49 8 Maureen Swan, Gandhi: The South African …

… eye back on the whole short life of our democracy. And in doing so, it was all too natural for us to appreciate the … another and build a new united nation. The dismantling of apartheid is liberating us all, oppressor and oppressed … that reconciliation and healing are about eradicating apartheid's legacy. And this goes beyond the capacity of …

… Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka was born on 3 April 1957 and grew up in KwaMashu , a township north of Durban , where she attended … carried out the abduction, torture and murder of anti-apartheid liberation fighters. De Kock led the ambushes of … a member of the ANC who turned to become an agent for the apartheid government’s police. The four combatants were …

… was born on 6 November 1952 to working class parents in the township of Merebank, south of Durban, Natal (now … of social work with the families of detainees.  As the apartheid regime intensified its suppression of political … was kidnapped during the raid and later executed by the apartheid security agencies when he refused to betray his …

… Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade Unionism in South Africa, 28 July 1928 Until recent years there was no native trade unionism in South Africa. The first trade unions in the country were white unions of skilled workers. Most of … Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade Unionism in South Africa, 28 July 1928 …

… In the early 1800s, there was only one hospital for army men in the Cape, as well as a naval hospital in Simonstown. So, in order to set up the first civilian … ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened …

… British Governor at the Cape from 1814 to 1826, was born in Badminton England on 12 December 1767. Under his term as governor, Somerset played an important role in British expansion into the Eastern Cape. When the British … to the Cape Colony. The first groups of settlers arrived in Table Bay on board the Nautilus and the Chapman on 17 …

… Ellen Phyllis Hellmann was born in Johannesburg in 1908. Her father had immigrated to South Africa from Germany in 1894. She studied Social Anthropology at the University of … anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg …

… Although I had been active in the labour movement since the days of my youth, my … of general secretary the union was purely fortuitous. In 1927 I entered the University the Witwatersrand to study … an organisation of about one hundred craftsmen) were in law neither employers nor employees but independent …

… cavalry and field artillery to bolster British troops in the South African War. The British initially declined … Canadian assistance. Canada joined the South African War in 1899 with its first contingent of 1000 troops sailing from … QuÁƒÂƒ©bec to South Africa on 30 October 1899 and landed in Cape Town on 30 November 1899. The second contingent …

… Pieter Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before … 1970s and 1980s he was associated with the Space Theatre in Cape Town and the Johannesburg Market Theatre. He has … SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town …

… pamphlet under the title, The Road to A New South Africa, in which the party's attitude towards trade unions is clearly stated. This policy is identical in every respect with that expounded by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, as Section IX of the pamphlet states: Labour …

… Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born in 1964 in Langa , a township near Cape Town . She was named after … band Brenda and the Big Dudes . Fassie began a solo career in the 1980’s working with producer Sello Chicco Thwala. Her … Brenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital …

… forced to work for a pittance on farms and plantations, in mines and factories. The struggle between Imperialist … greater conflagration than was ever known. South Africa is in a period of transition. At first it was a source of raw … to some extent a market for British manufacturers; and in addition there is a commencement of cultivation of …

… the United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups, organised highly successful boycotts of the Coloured and Indian elections to parliament in 1984. The UDF was against the exclusion of African people … led to a state of emergency being declared by PW Botha in 1985. Source: …

… Congo (DRC), previously known as Zaire. This was in an attempt to escape the vengeance of many surviving … during the genocide. Living amongst these refugees in the eastern Congo were the Hutu militiamen that carried out the genocide in Rwanda. During this time, the rebel forces of Laurent …

… September 1897, Prof. James Leonard Brierly Smith was born in Graaff-Reinet in the Cape Province (now Eastern Cape). He studied chemistry … Oxford, he began to teach chemistry at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. However, Smith gradually switched over to … James Smith, who identified the first coelacanth found in South Africa, is born …

… Rudolph Ludewyk “Okey” Lewis was born on 12 July 1887 in Pretoria.[i] Rudolph was South Africa’s second world class … He represented South Africa at the 1912 Olympics, held in Stockholm, Sweden.[iii] Despite competing against more … 2017). ↵ [ii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 233. ↵ [iii] …

… war was officially declared between Britain and the Boers. In March 1901 Lord Kitchener, the commander of the British … approximately 116 000 Boer women and children were housed in concentration camps, with camps housing approximately 115 … cough, typhoid fever, diphtheria and dysentery resulted in the death of 1 in every 5 people.  26 370 Boer women and …

… On 16 August 1924 the first radio licence in SA was issued to Dr J. van Rensburg of Carnarvon. The first station in South Africa was put up by the South African Railways in Johannesburg on December 29, 1923. The Scientific and … The first radio licence in SA is issued to Dr J. van Rensburg of Carnarvon …

… away.  The crowd gathered together at the Grand Parade in front of the City Hall in Cape Town, the place where Nelson Mandela delivered his … first public speech follow his release from imprisonment in 1990. At this commemorative occasion South Africans sang … Africans pay tribute to Nelson Mandela at the Grand Parade in Cape Town …

… was one of three orphaned lions whose mother was killed in self defence by George Adamson. Adamson was a wildlife conservationist based in Kenya. He was forced to kill Elsa’s mother in self- defence when she tried to attack him. It was only … lioness made famous by Joy Adamson’s book Born Free, dies in Kenya …

… Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe). This represented an … On this occasion, Smith led his extremist white government in breaking ties with Great Britain and declared Rhodesia a … political formations. Abel Muzerewa became prime minister in an interim government.    ZANLA declared 1978 the year of …

… born model Michelle Mclean was crowned miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand in 1992. Mclean had won the 1991 Miss Namibia pageant as well as making it to the top 5 of Miss World in the same year. After winning the Miss Universe crown, … Mclean, model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand …

… was unveiled. The statue stands on Heerengracht Street in Cape Town. It was sculpted in bronze by John Tweed and donated to the city by Cecil John … who was the first European to reach the Cape of Good Hope in 1487, and Maria van Riebeeck, wife of Jan van Riebeeck. …