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South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… American space that contains them. Goldblatt records South African light even more than South African space: how hard and unforgiving it is — and also how, ……
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… Musarurwa, she began to compile a detailed inventory of African nationalist leaders in Rhodesia. Travelling as far as … biographies of 66 nationalists,…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… colony. They were influenced by various strands of South African resistance politics, and interacted in Cape Town with … who had been born in Windhoek’s Old…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Apartheid, Reflected in an Inventory of Simple Objects by Sarah Boxer (The New York Times), 24 July 1998
… David Goldblatt sold his family's menswear business in South Africa to become a … is a ''Cafe-de-Move-On,'' one of the coffee carts that African workers in…
ArchiveThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
… murder of Stompie Seipei, this gross abuse of the South African legal process and of his civil rights prevented … orders, you would die.” Mandela had “the…
Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… to inquire into and report on Communism in the South African Trade Unions, The report was published in booklet … of Mein Kampf - one long, foul slander…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… Engineering Union Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers South African Boilermakers’ Society Building Workers’ Industrial Union South African Typographical Union…
PlaceDriekopseiland: Rock engravings
… Botswana, Korana, Griekwa and Nama communities, who occupy areas surrounding the site, all hold oral traditions that … is present as metaphor and symbol in a…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the interfaith commissioning service for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town, 13 February 1996
… families, as well as communities. But the whole South African nation has been a victim, and it is in that context … The healing process is meant for the…
PlaceHankey
… injustice ! A VISITORS REVIEW: "We stopped at Hankey for a family picnic, so we didn't stay longer than an afternoon, …
PlaceUgie, Eastern Cape
… and Mrs. Murray the following day. The death of his family was a heavy blow to this young man. Griquas from Inxu …
EventThe Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, received a report of a police investigation into Steve Biko's death
… and Jonathan Gluckman, pathologist appointed by the Biko family, all of whose findings were unanimous. Death had been … United States of America and Britain,…
BiographyBabette Brown
… 2019 at the age of 87. At the news of her passing, former African National Congress (ANC) Minister, Ronnie Kasrils , …
PlaceDundee
… further significance in 1961 when the military wing of the African National Congress - ' Umkhonto we Sizwe ', chose that … by birth, Charles Willson was only…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… before a court within 48 hours after arrest. The South African equivalent of habeas corpus was now also excluded: … to comrades called Leon and Maureen Kreel…
ArchiveFrom the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019
… Mafika Gwala was a significant South African writer, who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. A … movement he founded. The ‘pure person’ rests more with his…
EventThe first 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… other departments remained under control of the South African government. The homelands: After South Africa became … and White people to live separately, so…
PlaceMatroosfontein
… Parow Industrial. Matroosfontein is just one more of the Areas that define the character and charm of Cape Town and …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… the early 1970s reflected a fundamental crisis in South African society. This crisis was both economic and political … Africans to “develop along their own…
’Appeal for action to stop repression and Trials in South Africa’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 8 October 1963
… which the United Nations is making to induce the South African Government to abolish and abandon policies which are … my own behalf, but also on behalf of my…
PlaceSeal Island
… also permitted. The boat has ample outside and undercover areas and individual seating. Breeding time for Cape Fur …
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… Loft. It dates back from 1815, it now serves as the South African Naval Museum. ( an interesting link: IN FURTHER … in 1910. The Naval Base was handed over…
ADDRESS AT A DINNER HOSTED BY THE FEDERATION OF INDIAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE (FICCI), CONFEDERATION OF INDIAN INDUSTRIES (CII), AND JOINT BUSINESS COUNCILS (JBC) Delhi, 26 January 1995
… Africans, but will have a positive impact on the Southern African region as a whole and more widely in the African continent. Our policies and approach also…
PlaceGroote Schuur Campus, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
… 1900 to 1907 it was the home of Rudyard Kipling and his family who stayed here during the summer months. The property …
EventBoutros Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary General, is born
… on 14 November 1922 into a prominent Coptic Christian family. He studied International Law and International …
ArchiveThe Final Prize by Norman Levy
… The Final Prize: Contents and Preface The Final Prize: Family - Chapter 1 The Final Prize: The Politics of War - …
ArchiveFrom eNcome over Bloedrivier to eNcome and Beyond by Ben Khumalo-Seegelken
… yaseNcome circulating among the inhabitants of the areas surrounding iNcome today which could help to identify … December 16 had moved from an informal day…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… you love me and that I enjoy the good wishes of countless family members. I wish neither to be sick nor sickening. Only … instance. The specialist thought it…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… of this region, correctly reflecting the positions of the African continent, have stood firm in defence of their … He entered political life, therefore, at a…
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… agree with Mngxitama. Biko’s words support this: “The Cape African, this is true, in the Cape particularly, has rejected … critics (e.g. colleagues in the…