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Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
… other colonial towns. Overcrowding, especially in those areas occupied by Blacks, the inadequate programme of refuse, … consequently, the chances of an…
EventWinnie Mandela's Soweto home reported burnt down
… of Winnie Mandela, wife of an imprisoned leader of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela, was burned … was one that the attack had been aimed…
Links & Partnerships
… recommends (and uses) for further research about South African History. Please inform us if links are no longer … Website - This website is a joint project…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyPhathekile Holomisa
… the role that he has played and continues to play in South African politics. In 2002, he became a member of the … in South Africa . Leiden: Koninklijke Brill…
BiographyGlynn Griffiths
… his later life. He was conscripted into the South African navy, where he excelled at Morse code in the signals …
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…
Descom Bulletin
… have access to doctors of their own choice or of their own family's choice. The Johannesburg committee set up an …
![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.
… and grew up there. At the age of seventeen he and his family left Zanzibar and settled in Britain. In 1970, he …
No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa
… The Doctors X - Counsel’s Submission on behalf of the Biko Family XI - The Verdict XII - Unanswered Questions XIII - The …
PlaceAlbertskroon, Suburb of Johannesburg
… 1896 on the Farm Waterval, it was named after the Alberts family, who owned it. The Afrikaans term 'kroon', refers to … New Dictionary of South African Place…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
PlaceColigny, North West Province
… seen among the waving maize crops, was a lonely building, housing a school with two teachers and 37 students. Soon …
PlaceDe Vlugt, Garden Route
De Vlugt is a small Settlement located Halfway through the Prins Albert Pass. It is the only Pass in South Africa, where People live beside the Road and Trade,…
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…