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ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… myriad of ways. In terms of applying the Group Areas Act, colonial identity contructions became more entrenched. …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… The issuing of passes was one of the cornerstones of the colonial and later racial capitalism in South Africa. Passes …
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… so that they could be transferred elsewhere. The colonial secretary, Lord Harcourt, readily accepted Botha’s …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… The brighter day did not rise. The darkest night of colonial oppression and exploitation continued to envelop … of government had to be destroyed, to be…
PlaceKathu
… Keetmanshoop and named after Maria, the wife of the first colonial who settled in the area, Hermann Brandt. It is home …
PlaceCalvinia
Calvinia was founded on the Farm-'Hoogekraal', in 1845. This property was purchased by the Dutch Reformed Church in order to establish a parish for the Town-…
PlaceMount Currie Nature Reserve, KZN-Kokstad
… was formed in 1947 and whose antecedents go back into colonial times; and the former KwaZulu Directorate of Nature …
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
… Executive has interested itself in developments throughout colonial Africa. CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION . The early part … until Africans have been freed from…
PlaceFramesby, Port Elizabeth
Framesby is one of Port Elizabeth’s well-known residential suburbs. It is flanked by Cape Road (which is part of the N2 motorway, extending from Durban in…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… which the struggle - fought for many generations against colonial conquest, dispossession, exÂploitation and national … the Russian bureaucracy, as the…
PlaceDutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)
… from internal and external enemy forces. During the pre-colonial period the Table Bay valley and its environs was … local government. The second British…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… activism in 2015 and beyond. Looking to South Africa’s colonial past, as well as to the phenomenon of apartheid, the … Plaatje has been invoked in revisiting…
PlaceWestern Cape Province
… in 1679, the Castle of Good Hope is the oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa and one of the most … of continuity, a living link between the…
Address At The Commerce Faculty Graduation Ceremony by Saleem Badat, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… at South African universities. He warns that colonial and racial discourses (and we can add patriarchy) … traditions, customs, and norms associated with…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… transform the countryside. It followed a long history of colonial conquest and dispossession; it codified and ratified … They remained largely intact,…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the Brickfields Housing Development, at the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, on 12 August 2005.
… the dream of a non-racial community died under the load of colonial and apartheid laws, it seemed as if Brickfields will … No longer shall the spectre of the…
PlaceBotswana
… nationalism and the growing demand for independence. The colonial government responded by creating a legislative … not against the presence of White people…
PlaceJacobsbaai, West Coast
… have evolved from the Frenchman Jacques Titius. He was a Colonial Trader in the West Coast. Tietiesbaai is also named … have evolved from the Frenchman…
PlaceVryheid, Northern KwaZulu-Natal
Founded in 1884, the Town was formed within an Area granted to early Voortrekker settlers, by the Zulu King Dinizulu. After Boers; Local farmers, had helped…
PlaceVarsche River, Table Mountain
… was vital for the survival of the city's early burgeoning colonial settlement. The bay at the foot of the mountain, …
Support our People until Power is Restored to Them - Statement at the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 26 October 1976
… for the total and final elimination of the evil system of colonial domination in Africa has entered its decisive, … People Inasmuch as the apartheid regime…
Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 26 June 1969
… to liberate themselves from the terror of the Portuguese colonial rule and Portugal is taking severe blows from the …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… documentation drives David Goldblatt. Like those earliest colonial adventurer-explorer-writers of Southern Africa, …
A Call to Action. Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1969
… to liberate themselves from the terror of the Portuguese colonial rule and Portugal is taking severe blows from the …
PlacePosthuys
… worth a visit for those interested in South Africa’s early colonial history. It is one of the notable structures along …
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… congregation. The Khoisan laws of 1808 instituted by the Colonial Government only served to boost the Mission Station. …
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
… the Second World War in signalling the breakup of the colonial system - and that after an epoch-making struggle - … As a direct consequence of the…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… should be considered moral. There is evidence that pre-colonial African societies accepted homosexuality on a … scarce information concerning lesbian…
PlaceKroonstad
… the Provincial Chair of the ANC from 1998 to 2008. The colonial powers used incarceration as a way of subjugating …
PlaceHarrismith, Free State
The town of Harrismith is situated in the Thabo Mofutsanyana region of the Free State Province, South Africa. Harrismith is a small, charming country Town…