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BiographyGlynn Griffiths
… his later life. He was conscripted into the South African navy, where he excelled at Morse code in the signals …
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… Eugenics played a positive role in promoting health and on family planning. Countries who believed in eugenics such as … used in USA. The government treated…
PlaceSt James, Cape Town
… has been converted into a Retirement Hotel . In Cape Town areas affected by the Group Areas Act of 1950 include: ' District Six , Claremont , …
EventSmallpox Epidemic Strikes at the Cape
… ordered the immediate reconstruction of the affected areas. However, the indigenous Khoisan people were not as … was further eroded. Settler farmers moved…
PlaceCameroon
… Cameroon is sometimes referred to as a “true African crossroads” not only because of its geographical … many ways be considered a microcosm of the history of…
PlaceZimbali Coastal Resort, Ballito
Zimbali Coastal Resort is a place where miles of deserted Beaches divide the warm Indian Ocean and the lush Coastal Vegetation. A place where you observe…
Render South Africa Ungovernable! - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 73rd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1985
… 8th, 1985, we observe and celebrate 73 years of the African National Congress. As has been the practice in the … as is embodied in the policy and programme…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 73th Anniversary of the ANC 8 January 1985
… 8th, 1985, we observe and celebrate 73 years of the African National Congress. As has been the practice in the … as is embodied in the policy and programme…
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… after building it and the Estate was bought by the Eksteen family. At the time it was considered to be the most … not seen normaly in Cape-Dutch Architecture…
Address by President Jacob Zuma during the commissioning of the OR Tambo school of Leadership, 26 March 2010, Kaweweta, Uganda
… the President of the Republic of Uganda, Ugandan and South African Ministries of Defence and Public Works, Honourable … of our two countries. More than 20…
Address by President of the Republic Commander-in-Chief of SANDF and Patron-in-Chief of Military Veterans at the funeral of Major General (retired) Mongameli Johnson Tshali (aka Lennox Lagu), Thaba Tshwane, 17 September 2011
… The Tshali family, Members of the NEC, Minister of Defence and Military … General Solly Shoke, Officers, men and women of the South African National Defence…
PlaceJubilee Art Centre
… relocate to the Mofolo Art Centre in Soweto when the Group Areas Act made it illegal for Black students to be educated …
EventViolence erupts in Bophuthatswana Townships and Kathlehong
… police) residents from GaRankuwa, Mabopane, Soshanguve and areas in the Odi district presented a petition listing … South African Institute of Race Relations…
PlaceCato Manor Heritage Centre, Durban
… of photographs, artworks and other media that document the Areas turbulent History. Cato Manor, a Township boasting a …
Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… economics. The endless, cumbersome provisions of the South African industrialists laws and the employers' arguments … them. Every little tailoring shop…
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
… (now kwaZulu Natal). When Nkosi was three years old his family moved to Dukathole near Germiston in the Transvaal … South African History Online, Stanley…
South Africa's freedom struggle by E.S. Reddy
… Mohamed Dadoo played an outstanding role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - in … the Indian community to link its destiny…
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANC CANDIDATE PREMIERS, 23 April 1999
… Committee in 1997, Manne lives in Kimberley with his family. STATEMENT OF CANDIDATE PREMIER FOR THE N CAPE, MANNE … the Northern Cape, I have endeavoured to…
ArchiveChapter 2 Respect for all, Childhood in Cape Town, 1933 – 1949 by Denis Goldberg
… settled in South Africa, among them founders of the South African Communist Party . They came together with miners from … Witwatersrand, today’s Johannesburg…
Archive2023 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2023
… Former Deputy President Baleka Mbete, President of the Pan African Parliament, The Right Honourable Chief Fortune … in new transmission lines and substations…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… on the other. And yet, whenever the history of the South African resistance movement is being discussed or written, … strike. In the early hours of the…
Chapter 4
… bringing down on their heads the condemnation of the African people? To answer these questions is our main concern … on to press for the support of the Bunga…
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… wrote years later, "began a debate on what it means to be African by saying how much he wishes he was black because for … was precarious. His father was a…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to ANC National General Council fundraising dinner at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 19 September 2010, Durban
… we start the third National General Council of the African National Congress. It is an important gathering given … Of importance, is that the report also…
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
… article 0:00 / 8:26 1X BeyondWords The origin of South African Indians can be traced back to the demand for … In 1900 this tax was extended to all members…
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA's first Executive President
South Africa's Prime Minister since 1978, P.W. Botha, was unanimously elected by eighty-eight members of the Electoral College to the office of first executive…
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… local authorities. For the first time elections for all areas, except homelands, were held on the same day. This … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) …
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… apartheid plan to turn the residential and business areas of cities and towns white. A new, white suburb was …
EventDesmond Dube was born on this day.
… his philanthropic work and is respected as a devoted family man. He is the brand ambassador for the Clientèle …
PlaceSacramento Cannon, Cape Recife
… This bronze artifice, cast by the Bocarro family, also known as the Miracle Cannon , was salvaged in …