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ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… by mobilisation of the Coloured opinion against the Land Tenure Board, instituted to probe the application of the …
ArchiveLeadership and conflict in Bushbuckridge: struggles to define moral economics with the context of rapidly transforming political economies (1978-1990)
Thesis has been submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of the Witswatersrand. This thesis analyses the effects of state…
EventJan van Riebeeck, Dutch colonial administrator and first commander of the colony at the Cape of Good Hope, is born
Founder of and first commander of Cape Town, Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck, was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands on 21 April 1619. An administrator for…
EventLady Mary Bailey, the first pilot to complete the London to Cape flight and back solo, dies in Cape Town
Lady Mary Bailey, wife of a South African mining magnate, was the first person to fly solo from London to Cape Town and back. She was already the mother of…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on signing Declaration, on behalf of the ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, adhering to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Protocol 1 of 1977, at the headquarters of International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 28 November 1980
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the 12th International meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties, 3 December 2010, Centurion, Pretoria
General Secretary of the South African Communist Party, Comrade Blade Nzimande; Comrades` delegates to the 12th International Meeting of Communist and…
The worst ever recorded floods occur in Mossel Bay and surroundings as 238 mm of rain falls within 24 hours
The worst ever recorded floods occur in Mossel Bay and surroundings as 238 mm of rain falls within 24 hours.
ArchiveConference Programme: Five Freedoms Forum and African National Congress - The role of Whites in a changing society, June 29 - July 2, 1980,
Conference Programme of the Five Freedoms Forum and African National Congress: The role of whites in a changing society, June 29-July 2.
ArchiveJoint Press Conference, Department of State, 14 May 1981 with Secretary of State Haig and Minister of Foreign Affairs Botha
Press Conference in the United States, with US Secretary Haig and Minister of Foreign Affairs Botha, regarding the independence of Nambia.
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 1 December 1976, Volume 75
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Alicia Falezi, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa,
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 5 November 1976, Volume 46
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Aubrey Mokoena, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa,
ArchiveMeeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the United States Ambassador, Mr Herman Nickel: Cape Town, 27 May 1985
Minutes of a meeting between United States Ambassador, Mr Herman Nickel and Mr Pik Botha, South African Minister of Foreign Affairs, regarding South African…
Copy of the treaty allegedly signed by Dingaan and Retief ceding large tracts of the Zulu Kingdom to the Voortrekkers
Copy of the treaty allegedly signed by Dingaan and Retief ceding large tracts of the Zulu Kingdom to the Voortrekkers, created by Jan Gerritze Bantjes, late…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 7 February 1977, Volume 99
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Dr Aaron Matlhare, a medical practitioner in Soweto, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and…
ArchiveLetter from R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Information, to the Honourable Alexander M Haig Jr, Secretary of State, Washington DC
Letter from Pik Botha to Alexander Haig regarding the independence of Namibia in the context of international relations, stabilisation of the southern African…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 9 March 1977, Volume 129
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Brunhilde Helm, President of the Association of Sociologists, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at…
ArchiveThis is what Yahweh asks of you, to act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with your God
White poster with black lettering and artwork. Quote from the Bible - Micah 6. Artwork of a woman kneeling, holding a pot with a flower stem with a yellow rose…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 1 December 1976, Volume 73
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from David Curry, a member of the Coloured Persons' Representative Council, to the Commission of Inquiry into the…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 2 November 1976, Volume 45
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Andrew Moneymore, a member of an Advisory Board in a school in Klerksdorp, to the Commission of Inquiry into the…
10th Annual Oral History Conference
… Northern Cape, under the theme “Centenary of the 1913 Land Act”. The theme speaks directly to the 1913 Natives Land Act legislation, an act that formed the…
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… DAVENPORT, TRH and HUNT, KS. 1974. The Right to the Land. Cape Town: David Philip. DAVIES, Horton and SHEPHERD, … and Sons. FRERE, Sir H Bartle. 1883. On…
Document 73 - Letter from The Spark to M.S. Njisane, Flagstaff, 15 September 1938
… and this in turn is the problem of insufficiency of land. This is the crux of the rnatter, and any "solution" … that does not touch this fundamental problem …
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… 'Homelands') out of the 'Reserves' carved out by the 1913 Land Act. Between 1960 and 1985, approximately 3.5 million … democratic order which represented all…
EventCommuters cause damage estimated at R30m when they set fire to several coaches and two offices at Germiston Station
On 6 October 2005 angry commuters set fire to several coaches and two offices at Germiston Station. The commuters were travelling from Katlehong to Germiston…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
… which was a device that helped people to navigate on land. This was used by Arab traders and astrologers for many … on the right course. They did not have to…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
Born on 1 November 1935, in Berlin, Germany, Gerhardt joined the South African Navy after his father successfully persuaded naval chief Hugo Biermann to take…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Teboho MacDonald "Tsietsi" Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
Letlapa Ngoato Mphahlele was born on 8 December 1960 in Rosenkrantz, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) to Radikubu and Nkone. He grew up in the village of…
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
Livingstone Mqotsi (Livie) was born in the village of Rabula in the Keiskammahoek district in the former Ciskei, now Eastern Cape, on 18 April 1921. Mqotsi…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
It was...a way in which we could give real meaning to people's involvement; to once and for all take away this myth that MK is their highly trained,…