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PlaceKokstad
The little town of Kokstad sits on the boundary between KwaZulu Natal and the Eastern Cape, nestled in the heart of Griqualand East. Kokstad lies in the shadow…
PlaceMacfarlan, Village in the Eastern Cape
Their ancestors were settled in these Villages after the War of 1850, by the colonial authorities. The starvation and hardship caused by the cattle-killing…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba's mutilated body is found
According to Coleman (ed.) in A Crime Against Humanity, the mutilated body of Toto Roy Dweba, member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and of the Natal…
Address of the TMF Patron, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occassion of his Installation as Chancellor of the University of South Africa: UNISA Campus, Tshwane, 27 February 2017
… Final Draft’, dated 1 June 2005. Naturally this provoked a response from our leaders in higher education some of which … indeed have a view about what the…
ArchiveJohnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019
Universal Man: Jonathan Clegg “Sikeyi” (1953-2019). “Sikeyi” is a Zulu dance praise name: “The peg through a yoke that secures oxen in position, from Afrikaans…
PlaceAdams College, Amanzimtoti
Adams College is a Public School situated in Adams Mission which is 8 km inland from Amanzimtoti and 35 km South of Durban. Established in 1853, Adams College…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… against the abuser; and the Films and Publications Act of 1996, which protects children from exploitation in child … pornography. One example of new…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… Ramphele notes: ‘The Eastern Cape office was set up in response to Steve Biko’s banning and restriction to that area …
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… to arrest them for not carrying their passbooks. In response, approximately 300 policemen opened fire on the …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… disrupting meetings held by the Convention organizers. In response to the 1st May call to “Stay at Home”, the …
ArticleZulu
… last Zulu uprising, led by Chief Bambatha in 1906, was a response to harsh and unjust laws and unimaginable actions by …
PlacePhiphidi Falls, Limpopo Province
The vhaVenda clans of northern South Africa, in present-day Limpopo Province, are among the nation’s most traditional, hewing to rituals and practices passed…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018
… relates this in Long Walk to Freedom and examines his own response and admits to being “extremely uncomfortable” with … in the course of defiance they were…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to ANC National General Council fundraising dinner at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 19 September 2010, Durban
… and can host an event of any size successfully. The response of the South African population was remarkable. Our …
David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa
… he said. Goldblatt has yet to receive any government response to his email, and neither does he particularly …
Press Conference in Addis Ababal: Oliver Tambo, 02 July 1987
… racist in South Africa. Of course, we are inspired by the response of the countries concerned who rejected this …
Address On World Aids Day, 1 December 1999
… Let future generations judge us on the adequacy of our response. To overcome the challenge that this disease poses, …
Democracy - The only solution by Nelson Mandela, President of the ANC 1 July 1992
… received yesterday afternoon from President De Klerk in response to the ANC's memorandum It is said that South …
PlaceRooigrond
… its services during the first Anglo-Boer War of 1880-1. In response to resistance mounted by the community, its members …
Address at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 4 March 2002
… to the challenges of the new century. Part of the basic response to the challenges of the new century will obviously …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… and decided to 'starve these farmers of labour'. In response to poor wages, labourers deserted*; when they were … strike. The white miners had lost the…
Court Verdict Docket, 11 February 1978
… according to available information, was the mosque in Kerk Street (Stand 1424) in Johannesburg (Is’haq, 1979:29). … of the Mohammedan Church - Kerkraad van…
Chapter five: A Historical Overview of Madressa Education
… according to available information, was the mosque in Kerk Street (Stand 1424) in Johannesburg (Is’haq, 1979:29). … of the Mohammedan Church - Kerkraad van…
An historical overview of madressa education - Chapter 5 by A. Akhalwaya, I. Waja, A.H. Gabru, A.K. Dockrat, S. Pandor and E. Garda
… according to available information, was the mosque in Kerk Street (Stand 1424) in Johannesburg (Is’haq, 1979:29). … of the Mohammedan Church - Kerkraad van…
PlaceMtubatuba
Mtubatuba, which means: ‘He who was pummelled out!' and named after a chief of the Mkwanazi Tribe, originating from the Zulu's. The name is said to mean: …
PlaceHopefield, Heritage Town in the Western Cape
Hopefield is a town in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, north of Cape Town. The town was laid out in 1852 and was named for the two Cape Colony…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… uprising and especially in the wake of the state’s violent response, a hardened suspicion of its speakers’. [23] In … Afrikaner nationalism also arose during…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… and of African Affairs, and is currently the Desmond Tutu Professor in the Faculty of the Social Sciences at the … made in negotiations leading up to the new…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… of the South African economy. In their book, written in 1996, they argue that South Africa’s economic strength lies … or “consumption reduction” between 1948…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… London, 1970, p. 205). When war was declared the first response London received from Pretoria was promising. On 4 …