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PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
Pretoria High School for Girls was started by Lord Milner in 1902 as part of his efforts to anglicise the Transvaal under British Occupation. And so it was…
Tribute To Michael Harmel: Oration At Funeral In Prague, June 24, 1974
We have come together to pay homage to Comrade Michael Harmel, an outstanding South African revolutionary whose whole life was unconditionally and totally…
Cataloguing the archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
The archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement arrived at Rhodes House Library in Oxford in 1996 and it is planned that the cataloguing process will be complete…
ArchiveThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
Few alumni know this, but one of South Africa’s most important civil rights leaders is part of the University of Minnesota family. One hundred years ago,…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
This moment’s gaping generational divide, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and collective memory fading,…
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
The Natal Law Society has apologised posthumously to passive resistance icon, Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi, 105 years after a racist decision barred the young…
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
The South African government was to grant self-government to KaNgwane. This move was seen as confirmation that it had finally abandoned its land deal with…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
The first formal settlement of the Algoa Bay region took place in 1776 when a number of farms were allocated to local Dutch graziers. In 1799 the British…
ArticleHistory of South African National Orders and Awards
The birth of a new non-racial and non -sexist democracy in South Africa necessitated a critical review of the system of National Orders. The previous system…
Polokwane an Overview
'Street soccer' game on a makeshift field, near Polokwane in the Limpopo Province. 2010. © Chris Ledowchowski The Limpopo Province was the scene of scores of…
ArchiveNobel Lecture
Bishop Tutu's Nobel lecture delivered in Oslo, Norway, on 11 December 1984 and his acceptance of the award speech on the 10th December 1984.
ArchiveLetter from J K Nkadimeng to Afred Nzo
Letter from J K Nkadimeng to Afred Nzo of November 3, 1982 and enclosing RC HQ Commission report of October 1982 at Lusaka. Note that the document is barely…
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
From the 1920s to the 1940s J.C. Smuts, J.B.M. Hertzog and D.F. Malan were the most prominent White politicians in South Africa. In 1933 Hertzog and Smuts…
EventHouse of Representatives impeaches American President Bill Clinton
In 1995, Monica Lewinsky, a recent university graduate, began working as an intern in the White House. This was during Bill Clinton's first term of office. A…
ArchiveSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu: 10 years
Black, green, yellow and white poster. Memorial to Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, executed on 6th April 1979, with his photograph and a rifle. Quote from him. Died…
ArchiveCape Youth Congress: hamba kahle
Yellow, black, green and white poster. Notice of a funeral on 18th July 1987, at Bonteheuwel, for Ashley Kriel. October 1966 - July 1987. Black and white…
ArchiveSWAPO Solidarity Freedom Justice
A2 poster litho blue red green black on white; SWAPO flag; text: 19th April 1985 25th Anniversary SWAPO Solidary Freedom Justice South West African People's…
ArchiveAnton Fransch and the Battle of Athlone
… his hands on some luxuries. More than 2 years later, in 1989, Anton was instructed to return to South Africa. Back in … On the 17th Nov 1989 ANC guerrilla…
ArchiveEducation Charter Campaign Transvaal launch
Education Charter Campaign poster. Blue and white. Open book in centre with venues and times. Conference at Ipelegeng Centre, Soweto on 13 October 1984 and…
ArchiveSAAWU Annual National Conference
Notice of SAAWU Annual National Conference at Soweto in 1984. SAAWU in white letters on black background. AGM in green letters on white background. White…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 3) The Broederbond Just as it was the white man’s way to think and dream for the…
ArchiveFour Johannesburg painters
Notice of an exhibition of four Johannesburg painters at the South African National Gallery. Black and white poster. Red strip at bottom. Painters - Anderson…
EventPolice open fire to disperse a rioting crowd in Cato Manor, Durban
Cato Manor, a shanty town, is situated 10 kilometres from the centre of Durban; it was named after Durban’s first mayor, George Christopher Cato. The area has…
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
Fifty-three churchmen were arrested while demonstrating in central Johannesburg against the detention of a fellow clergyman who had supported the school…
A short history of Port Elizabeth's famous Campanile
… structure. The piece was originally published in the April 1989 edition of Restorica, the journal of the Simon van der …
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
… in content. 2. In my letter to you written from prison in 1989 I outlined the kernel of the political problem which the …
ArchiveA theological rationale and a call to prayer for the end to unjust rule
This is a pamphlet containing the statement accepted for distribution by the SACC, April 6, 1985 regarding theological rationale and a call to prayer for the…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
The Role and Impact of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile and Women in South Africa Politics Abstract Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile has played a major and vital role in the…
Biography of Abdullah Ibrahim by Chance Overby
Figure 1 Image source Abdullah Ibrahim is a profoundly influential South African jazz musician who was frequently oppressed by the apartheid regime in South…
Letter from Paul Pretorius, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and others
Circular letter from Paul Pretorius, President of the National Union of South African Students with Information sheet number 4/1972 dealing with National Union…