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BiographyFrances Rix Ames
Frances Rix Ames was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), on 20 April 1920. Her father deserted the family when she was still an infant, leaving her…
BiographyMongane Wally Serote
… work as a poet is far from over. Those who love this land and yearn for its reconstruction want honest talk and an …
EventCorner stone of Mission Church is laid in Graaff-Reinet
… magistrate Andries Stockenstrom had donated a piece of land and six windows, building started on the Dutch Reformed …
BiographyMolly Fischer
… , near Pretoria . Her father, P.S. ‘Tottie’ Krige was a land surveyor and her mother, Emmy Bernsmann was the daughter …
BiographyJane Alexander
… references colonial residues around labour, migration and land. These themes continue in later work:The sacrifices of …
BiographyOlive Schreiner
… dog who had been her faithful companion. She had bought land at Buffels Hoek, near Cradock in the Eastern Cape for …
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
… Traffic Legislation 1973 The South African Law of Land Lord and Tenant 1975 South African Motor Law 2nd … R Bamford) 1977 The Rent Control…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
Art in the state of siegeThe Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of South Africa. It triggered a chain of events,…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… This problem is difficult because many Europeans in this land would shrink in anger at the idea of black students …
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… Authorities structures and the accompanying measures on land allocation and distribution inspired resentment from …
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
This article was written by Jarvis Pruitt and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project In order to stand up straight,…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
The passive resistance campaigns led by MK Gandhi in South Africa had huge consequences not only for the history of the country but also for world history in…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… said, upon people who had come to take and to occupy the land which had been their own in all ages, turning with the plough and cultivating permanently their…
References and links: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
PlaceThe Mead and Meadway, Pinelands-Cape Town
… The land was granted to the Garden Cities Trust in 1919 and was … an economic failure by the Department of Forestry. The land was then granted to "The Garden…