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Nelson Mandela Correspondence around birthdays and anniversaries
… when she had every right to share the limelight: all these things shock me as nothing else has ever done … Tshawuza Ntwasa and Makhulu who were at our…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 4
… almost every direction. Indians felt they secure in South Africa for the first time. The Government had promised to … politics, and to some extent…
ArchiveThe defiance campaign
… like the apartheid laws. The Defiance Campaign happened all over South Africa at the same time. It was a very big thing. There were … started we had big…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1947
… in honour of the Royal visit to the Union of South Africa. They feel that in view of the disabilities imposed … to share in the rejoicings of the white…
EventIt is announced that a child prostitution and trafficking task team rescues 14 underage prostitutes in downtown Johannesburg
… fact that child trafficking is on the increase in South Africa, child prostitution and trafficking task teams have … Of the children who were rescued in the…
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… There was freedom of religion and secular education. All of this went against the Old Order, and so the … that were introduced by the French Revolution…
ArticleKey sites
… in India. The story goes that the sugar produced in South Africa gave the sweetmeats in this country a unique taste, … in the number of stallholders and…
ArticleTuberculosis
… Tuberculosis, also known as TB, occurs all over the world and is one of the most infectious … and at risk of developing the disease [3] . In South Africa, TB…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… was that of the status of the Indian community in South Africa. The Appeasers had been prepared to accept a status of … other alternative as they were…
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… of the Nazi Party, argued that the Germans was superior to all other races. Hitler became obsessed with 'racial purity' … believed that the Aryans had the…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… of nineteenth century mining camp planning. In the case of all other gold discoveries made previously in the Transvaal, … and excellent workers under white…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… of African people in urban areas, and it was proposed that all urban rights would be removed. All Africans living in "white" areas would only be allowed to ……
Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini by O. R. Tambo, Iran, 13 February 1979
… National Congress and the oppressed masses of South Africa we express to you our immense joy at the glorious … a brutal racist fascist dictatorship. The ANC…
EventPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka sworn in as UN- Women Executive Director
… United Democratic Front (UDF). She also served as South Africa’s first female deputy president from 2005-2008. She is … admired as one of the exceptional…
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… Trial in progress and grant amnesty to the defendants and all other political prisoners already sentenced to death. … a moderate UN resolution, which, while…
EventWW2: Italy invades Ethiopia
… Hitler's plans to expand German territories by acquiring all territories it considered German. Mussolini followed this … (now Ethiopia) the African country…
EventDr. Rhoodie is arrested
… down by a journalist at Ecuador. Rhoodie had fled South Africa shortly after testifying before the Judicial … held in custody for 88 days pending extradition…
PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… passing and more. From 1984, during apartheid, South Africa was banned from taking part in international rugby … New Zealand team. In an iconic moment known…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… and the post-1980's. They share the common thread of all documentary photography to record the truth, but are … which had made their way down to the southern…
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
… one of the fourteen detainees arrested on 10 May in South Africa. I was kept in indefinite detention for ninety days, … other detainees were brought to…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… or possible enemy agents we enjoy the full support of all our people in South Africa. And that is all there is in it. In dealing with any individual in our …
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … he prefers to write to you asking you to publish it after all. We have no idea…
EventIFP agrees to participate in 1994 elections
… The transition in South Africa from Apartheid regime to democratic dispensation was … been a walkout and threats of further withdrawal by IFP, all during a…
EventUDF men takes refuge in the US consulate
… and Vusi Khanyile (National Education Crisis Committee) all of them senior members of the United Democratic Front … which had been in force since 1986, the…
PlaceNgcobo
… 1 November 1859, a day known in the Christian calender as All Saints Day, Chief Fubu of the amaQwathi met with … of land in the Xuka valley, and soon…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… their mythical 17th-century journey from Europe to South Africa, which they claim as their divinely promised land. And … standing, impeccably dressed, in…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… (Homo erectus and Homo habilis) have their origin in East Africa more than 2 million years ago. Several human remains … Lands Ordinance Act further reduces…
Local Government
… “the supervision of the town or village. "In order that all matters may be conducted in an orderly manner”, but did … a Pound Master and a Water Bailiff,…
EventANC denies responsibilities for the unrest in homelands
… The unrest broke out after a demand by the ANC that all homelands should be reintegrated into South Africa, as part of the dismantling of Apartheid…
EventJan Carel Juta (52), father of the publishing industry in SA, dies in Chiswick, London
… born in Holland in 1824. He sailed to the Cape in South Africa in 1853 where he soon established the company that has come to be known as the father of all…