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EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… in 1908. Her father had immigrated to South Africa from Germany in 1894. She studied Social Anthropology at the … attempts by the Johannesburg municipality…
EventUSA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
… radiation released by the bombs and have since suffered from radiation poisoning, acute radiation syndrome (ARS) and … that a nuclear attack similar to…
Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
… hit. During this period diamond exports fell in value from 16.5 million pounds in 1928 to 1,4 million pounds in … 1934. In the agricultural sector, the price…
EventRylands Civic Association collectively rejects the proposed move to remove non
… move in the Cape Province to remove non-White voters from the common municipal roll. The Association gave its … the Government proposed to eliminate these…
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… He was given a nine month sentence and was prohibited from leaving the Kimberley area until August 1953. Letele was … being diagnosed with an incurable…
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… After a power struggle with Bédié, who excluded Outarra from running for the presidency on the basis of his ethnicity, Outarra resigned from his post. On 17…
EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… socialist programme based on a concept derived from a variant of African socialism. Nyerere called for an … speeches of the Arusha Conference. The Conference…
EventDay of mourning held for Kinross mine disaster that claimed 177 lives
… had also objected to the exclusion of union leaders from the company-sponsored memorial service guest list, … The day of mourning was observed by thousands…
EventJonas de la Guerre leaves the Cape in an expedition to the north
… a legendary city. This area was situated in Zimbabwe, from the Zambezi to the Indian Ocean, and was rumoured to be … and was only actually discovered by an…
EventVan Riebeeck lands at the Cape
… accompanied by his wife and son, Jan van Riebeeck set off from Texel in The Netherlands for the Cape of Good Hope. Van … – minutes of the meetings of the…
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
… is attended by a large number of people, men and women, from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland. The … forward. Also in the agenda of the meeting…
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… and also about African Art exhibited in museums abroad. From these studies it became apparent to him that African Art … sculptures and concentrated on…
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… was to tell the AmaXhosa that their ancestors would rise from the dead on a certain day and also to instruct them that … erect strong cattle-folds to house…
ArchiveThe Final Prize: Family - chapter 1
… From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy I literally … a meeting by the side of the road, I made a sudden slide from the street onto the pavement. The…
PlaceMaphikela House
… was Maphikela’s second house, following his forced removal from Waaihoek. Thomas Mtobi Maphikela was one of the founder … was Maphikela’s second house,…
PlaceFirst Raadsaal
… Legislative Council of the Orange River Sovereignty, and from 1854 by the Republic of the Orange Free State as an … State coat of arms in relief and iron…
18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South … living or dead. I have often enquired, week after week, from my employers, and they have said they…
First National Consultative Conference: The Freedom Charter revolutionary programme of the ANC, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… a nation and to forge an instrument for their liberation. From the outset the African National Congress asserted the … all the progressive people of South…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and … in isolation. In the rest of Africa, particularly from the 1950s onwards, a wave of black…
ArchiveRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
… an inspiring and eclectic scholar whose interests ranged from Aquinas (Versfeld was a Catholic convert) to … Existentialism. Paris in the 1960s shifted his…
PlaceHangberg, Hout Bay
… began a process of moving people classified as Coloured from the Hout Bay village to Hangberg. Apartments and council … the Harbour, built and rented out…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1948
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of … days before the United Nations session and the delegation from India had not yet arrived. The…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the General Assembly of the African Ombudsman Association (AOA): Misty Hills Conference Centre, Muldersdrift, Johannesburg: 11 April 2005.
… might be set on the right path; dozens of families saved from destitution, from ruin from vice, from the Lock hospitals - and all with her money. …
Chapter 6 -The making of a black Bolshevik: Gumede and the League Against Imperialism, 1927
… Harris that he would call at his office on his return from Brussels. Harris replied that he was looking forward to … Communists, left-wing Socialists and…
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
… From the book: Black ViewPoint by Ndebele, Ndamse, … that one-third of German university students broke down from overwork, another third broke down from…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 2 - Human Models: Christianity and Capitalism
… From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner Our … slightly wider glance, as we have already seen, shows that from society to society what people…
ArchiveAppendix 5 Notes on Palestine and Israel by Denis Goldberg
… occupation of Palestine I mean the whole of Palestine from which Palestinian Arabs have been driven out The … of Palestinian Arabs The suffering of people…
PlaceVoortrekker Monument
… focus of the Monument. In addition to being viewable from the Hall of Heroes it can also be seen from the Dome at the top of the Building, from where much of…
Address by President Mandela at the Seoul University Seoul, 6 July 1995
… Koreans for our country. Distant as our delegation may be from home, we feel really at home in your country. The moving … naturally brings gushing back the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Annual Gold Award ceremony of the President’t award Pretoria, 25 November 1994
… daunting, circumstances. You had to assert your own worth from the margins to which society had pushed you. The … institution that it changes itself in order…