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Address on the occasion of the Launch of the Final Report of the World Commission on Dams 16 November 2000, in Cabot Hall, London Friends Honoured Guests Ladies and Gentlemen
… is the hunger. It is the thirst. It is the darkness of a township. It is townships and rural huts without running …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… in caring for their families with the barest or resources. Township women could not escape the realities of the …
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… This legislation contributed to the establishment of Langa township and de-proclamation of the Ndabeni location in order …
Biko’s legacy lives on in our nation’s history and culture by Nkosinathi Biko, 12 September 2012, South Africa
… opening of the Steve Biko Centre. Located in the Ginsberg township of King William’s Town , the centre will focus on … London; Zanempilo Clinic, Zinyoka;…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
… Steadville is an African township situated in Ladysmith/Emnambithi, KwaZulu-Natal . … first inhabitants moved to the area in 1932 and the first township was…
30. Potchefstroom traders: we please the poorest class of customers
… of against us. The policy adopted to drive us out of the township is a policy of irritation and insults which, though … hope that, as a result of Your…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Cape Town 1900-1959 1901 Outbreak of plague at Cape Town Township of Uitvlugt established at Ndabeni City Hall … naval escalation in the Indian Ocean 17…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
This article was written by Ben Forstate and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship Michael Guthrie Scott was born on 30 July 1907 in the village…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… Bantu High School (later Madibane High School) in Western Township, Johannesburg in 1946. Nkobi went to further his …
PlaceMohodi
… white owned farms and others from freehold land. After a township in Dendron Municipal area was de-proclaimed, a …
PlaceDundee
… Craighead Smith, Dugald MacPhail and Charles Willson. This township was called “Dundee Proper”. George Sutton, had a township surveyed and planned on the…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… took place in Germiston when 40 volunteers entered a Black township without the required permits. The group included …
EventNyanga school Principal's office burnt
… as a teaching medium in their schools. Riots raged in the township for 3 days and quickly spread throughout the …
PlaceWindermere
… government to be the future site of a ‘model Coloured township’, and forced removals from Windermere began in 1953, …
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… 1981, Sash member Di Bishop took Blackburn to the Black township of Langa outside of Cape Town. A police raid had …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… in a meeting which is held in Lady Selborne, a non-white township in Pretoria. 30 September - 2 october, Sisulu speaks … Sisulu acts as speaker at an ANC…
PlaceAlabama, Klerksdorp
… Township 6 km West of Klerksdorp in the North West . It … Township 6 km West of Klerksdorp in the North West. It …
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… in 1946. He spent most of his adult life in Mpumalanga township, west of Durban. He was at the forefront of the …
PlaceCiskei
… labour pools. The working population of Zwelitsha township, first declared the capital of Ciskei, were mostly …
PlaceFederated Union of Black Artists Arts Centre
… an outreach programme that included teaching operations in township schools where they would approach different schools …
EventSADF's 31 Battallion is disbanded
The South African Defence Force's (SADF) 31st Battalion was disbanded at a public ceremony in the Cape Province. This Battalion was composed primarily of the…
PlaceMatatiele Local Municipality
… the Town of Cedarville and the R293 leads to the Township of Maluti . The Municipality is predominantly rural … Development planning. On the 6 December 2023…
PlaceBotshabelo, Motheo Region near Bloemfontein
… Botshabelo, which means 'place of refuge', is the largest Township in the Free State , after Soweto which is the … Botshabelo, which means 'place of refuge',…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… 1980 3 March, A large cache of arms is discovered in a township near Springs, East of Johannesburg. Together with … bomb explosion in an administrative…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… mbaqanga and bebop”. Mbaqanga is form of South African township jive and bebop an American jazz style developed in … Booga”, he demonstrated the creative…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… mbaqanga and bebop”. Mbaqanga is form of South African township jive and bebop an American jazz style developed in … Booga”, he demonstrated the creative…
PlaceMatroosfontein
… a full spectrum of the South Africans. Bordering on: the Township of Gugulethu, Bonteheuwel, Elsie’s River, Goodwood, …
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
… She met the late Oliver Tambo at a meeting of the Eastern Township branch of the ANC and married him in December 1956, …
ArchiveBirth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe
… of the day. The platinum-selling album was the mainstay of township parties and I suspect it also reached the platteland …
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… Inanda (isiZulu: Pleasant Place) is a township in Eastern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa that is …