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Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… the end of the 1970s. They had both dedicated their lives to the struggle for freedom, "sparing nothing of their strength or courage . . ." Mary Moodley, a…
PlaceBonnievale, Langeberg Municipality-Cape Town
… Bonnievale is a quiet Town in the Breede Valley of the Western Cape . … cheese, wine and river scenery all in one! Bonnievale has a lovely History of how one…
PlacePinelands
… city centre . It originally was an unsuccessful attempt at a pine tree plantation called: ' Uitvlugt '. Rows of pine … best kept secrets hidden away beside…
PlaceMasiphumelele Township, Cape Town
… are still an expression of their hope of better times to come. In the early 1980’s a group of 400-500 black people started the first informal … back to their…
PlaceVaal River and Dam, Gauteng, Free State, Northern Cape and Mpumalanga
… of drinking water , it lies on the Vaal River close to Vereeniging , midway between the N1 and the N3, and … Free State's Northern Provincial boundary. The…
BiographyHerschelle Herman Gibbs
… position in the national team. He established himself as a hard hitting and quick scoring righthand batsman. Gibbs' timing is exceptional and he is a highly…
BiographyThys Dullaart
… in Journalism at Pretoria Technikon and did two years of a fine arts degree at UNISA and two years of his National … Diploma in Photography at Pretoria…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… and camps. In addition, the apartheid government sought to complement its use force by negotiating with neighboring states for a settlement which would see…
PlaceHermanus
… that skirt past the coast every Year in Spring and Summer! A Seaside Town, South East of Cape Town , in South Africa’s Western Cape Province . It's known as…
BiographyJohn Hodgkiss
… always the minimally producing, thoroughly genius artist, a magnificent talent, mostly suppressed. John let himself be … on several of his theatre…
BiographyCyprian Mpho Shilakoe
… station at Buchbeesreich in the Transvaal. From 1968 to 1970 he was a pupil at Rorke's Drift and studied under Azaria Mbatha . In 1970 he settled at a…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the National Assembly 20 June 1996
… and in the decisive manner in which it intervened on many a matter of national importance. And so tomorrow Honourable … observed with confidence that South…
PlacePotchefstroom
… the word: 'Potscherf'- (meaning broken pot). This was due to the cracks that appear in the soil of the Mooi River Valley during a drought. Potchefstroom, or …
PlaceHuguenot Monument, Franschoek
… was founded in 1953. The original aim of the Society was to maintain and develop the traditions, virtues and ideals of … Many of them took refuge in the…
PlaceQunu, Wild Coast of Eastern Cape- Where Mandela Spent His Childhood
… in the Eastern Cape on the rolling green Hills, of a cluster of Villages; their is one known as Qunu. It has recently been added to the map in South Africa…
Archive2001 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2001
… its painful past. We, its citizens, who are very close to the coalface of change may not easily see the steady … past of which I speak is well known to all…
PlacePort Alfred
… faced by the 1820 Settlers , was accessibility to the outside World. In 1821, the first ship entered the … commercial street in Port Alfred dating back to…
PlaceTsolo, Eastern Cape
… (prior to 1910) St Augustine's was established in 1865 by the Reverend Bransby Key as a station of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel on … in the…
BiographyChauke Family
… on sales for survival and that they were following a local trend. Albert Chauke is the best known and the oldest … two pieces by him in the Campbell Smith…
BiographyMichael Gagashe Zondi
… in Msinga in Greytown, Natal. Zondi spent his childhood at a Swedish Lutheran mission station at Mtulwa, Natal. He … school) in Natal he began sculpting…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - 'Defendre of the Hottentots'
… of the London Missionary Society (L.M.S.), who was sent to the Cape in 1819 to put the affairs of the Society in order. Cory and others present him as a…
ArticleThe ANC’s MK Special Ops Unit Material - Yunus Carrim Collection - 6 November 2025
… is this about? The material in this collection was used to put together a book, Attacking the Heart of Apartheid: The ANC’s MK … Sasol operation. The 1981…
BiographyNerine Constantia Desmond Fial
… the 1940s, when this circus, owned by William Pagel, was a familiar sight in SA. In 1949 she painted extensively in … did the same along the east coast of…
BiographyGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor
… at Gaborone Secondary School in Botswana. She obtained a BA in History and English at the University of Botswana in … leaving for overseas where she…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… decades. The “Treason”, “Fischer” and “Rivonia” trials, to mention the most prominent of these, were among the most destructive assaults on the movement…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires
… of Colonialism commissioned by The Department of Education To understand the complexities of modern South Africa and, … and (usually) exploiting it…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… The reaction of the outside world to the development of apartheid was widespread, and by the 1980s posed a sustained challenge to the South African regime,…
PlaceNigeria
… B.C. most of Nigeria was thinly occupied by people who had a basic knowledge of raising domesticated food plants and of … Century, Portuguese navigators…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… It is hard these days - twenty-five years on - to recapture the feeling of the time of Rivonia - of the … 'Rivonia' becomes some sort of milestone, or the…
PlacePietermaritzburg, Umgungundlovu District Municipality
… in 1837. The Village was later taken over and made into a British military garrison, as a defence in case of attacks. Many German and British … English and…