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ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 29 November 1976, Volume 65
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Peter Sawyer, a technical official from Cape Town, who had witnessed the use of tear gas to disperse crowds, to…
ArchiveChurch solidarity with the peasants' stru
… White, red and black poster. "For genuine land reform and national industrialization." Artwork of lots of hands trying to catch a piece of land. Rural…
EventRadical politician, journalist, teacher and co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC) branch in Cape Town, James Thaele passes away
James M. Thaele, radical politician, journalist, teacher and co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC) branch in Cape Town, died in Cape Town. He was…
ArchiveMessage of the Honourable R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the Governments of the United States, Angola and Zambia: 6 March 1984
Message from Pik Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Governments of the United States, Angola and Zambia Iinforming them that due to the infilitration of…
EventOldest part of Johannesburg, Marshalltown, is planned
… (ZAR), Johannes Meyer and Johannes Rissik, who worked in land surveying and mappingdid not believe that the gold would … last for long, and mapped out a…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way the experience of apartheid would be…
PlaceDe Waal Park, Camp Street, Oranjezicht
… The land was originally part of the van 'Breda Estate'' in … building of the Molteno Reservoir, below Camp Street. The land below the reservoir formed a…
EventPeter Clarence van Riet Lowe, archaeologist and civil engineer who built 109 bridges in SA, is born in Aliwal North, CC.
Clarence van Riet Lowe was born on 4 November 1894 in Aliwal North, Eastern Cape. A civil engineer by profession, Clarence was in charge of construction of…
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… chiefdoms were small in size and people did not regard land as property. This resulted in fairly harmonious …
Freedom Day Call by Albert Luthuli, 3 June 1956
… Albert Lutuli calls on all lovers of freedom in our land to commemorate the past deeds for freedom and to … who have struggled for the liberation of the…
ArticleThe Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.
… because of the changes in social relations on the land brought about by the growth of capitalist agriculture. …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter X - Triumph of disunity (2)
… of the invaders. He welcomed those tribes who requested land from him, for he reckoned that they would identify … picture of what was happening in the north,…
EventThe soccer match between Lourenco Marques club Desportive and Durban City Football Club is called off because a rule against Coloured players
On 17 February 1962, the soccer match between Lourenco Marques (Mozambique) club Desportive and Durban City Football Club (South Africa) was called off. A…
PlaceNational Botanic Gardens, Pretoria
… for the development of a botanical garden on a piece of land. (This was previously part of the University’s … Experimental Farm.) The main reason for the…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE SA FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS Upington, 27 April 1997
… with you: liberators who helped bring democracy to our land, to this province and to the communities where you … aspirations are enshrined now in the basic…
Chapter 6
… full the bitter fruits of the Compromise. The fraud of the Land Act had become apparent to all. Land hunger was more acute than ever. When the Land and Trust…
PlaceAkkoordskop, a Hill in the Western Cape
… to find a route to India! They exchanged oxen and grazing land for 1 mile of land, for protection against these ‘Fryten’ or unwanted intruders! The land they…
PlaceSt Paul’s Anglican Church, Main Road, Rondebosch
… The land upon which this church was erected was granted by … eminent Citizens had placed the request for the grant of Land before the Governor and they…
71.The Group Areas Act
… of the African people have been severely restricted by the Land Act of 1913 and the Urban Areas Act of 1923, measures … areas. On the Berea we stand to lose…
ArticlePixley ka Isaka Seme Timeline 1881-1951
… with the Swazi king, Sobhuza II to England to appeal a land dispute against South Africa. He represents the King …
PlaceBezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
… Gerrit Bezuidenhout who appears to have owned the original land that included the farms we know as Doornfontein and … which was uninhabited as it was…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… it established became the highest legal authority in the land in all constitutional matters. Why did South Africa need …
ArchiveMemorandum to the Minister of Plural Relations from the Congress of the Ciskei National Independence Party held at Ntabakandoda, Zwelitsha as from 13 - 15 April 1979
… Party condemning the Development Trust and the Land Act, of 1936 and its method of application. The … condemns the unreasonable and disproportionate division…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… is properly grounded on a base of economic democracy." On land, the document proposed "the re-division of land among farmers and peasants of all…
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… furrow irrigation into an otherwise drought-stricken land than upon their Christian teachings (Williams 1959). … hinged upon their ability to provide viable…
Patrick Dakuse (36) is shot dead by police after he allegedly tried to prime a hand grenade from an arms cache that he had take
Press Conference in Maputo: Comments by Oliver Tambo on South African offer of territory to Swaziland, 5 March 1982
… false impressions," said Mr. Tambo. He described the land deal "as a move against our struggle and against the … end its support for the liberation movement…
Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, “Presidential Address to the All-African Convention Conference”, Edendale, 14 to 16 December 1958
… by far the largest private owner of Non-European occupied land; through its labour bureaux the largest recruitment and … instances. It is generally known…
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… description is as follows: (i) Two semi-detached cottages, land in extent 16.364 perches being remainder of subdivision … of Durban, valued by the…
ArchiveA Speech to Displease All Parties by Imraan Coovadia, 11 October 2021
… part of Scotland. What is a promontory? A stick of high land which juts into the sea. And what is a knoll? A small … revenge is to be found in starving the…