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PlaceThe AVA Gallery
… in trust and formed a board of trustees. This was done by means of the South African Art Gallery Act. Then in 1924, … focus of AVA. Renovations to the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the General Assembly of the African Ombudsman Association (AOA): Misty Hills Conference Centre, Muldersdrift, Johannesburg: 11 April 2005.
… today, I would like to speak about three stories related by three great writes. The first is by the Russian writer, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Fyodor Dostoevsky ……
First National Consultative Conference: The Freedom Charter revolutionary programme of the ANC, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… and tenacity our people were defeated on the battlefield by the superior arms and organisation of the Europeans. … and Indian people are, like the Africans,…
The Role Of The Indian People In The South African Revolution: An Interview In 1968
… front, contrary to the whitewashing accounts put out by the South African press and radio, indicate that the … duty to ask them to respond unreservedly to…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… introduction, therefore, feeling not a little fettered by their histories and the complex responses they engender, … of [Afrikaner] self-government '. The…
PlaceKwaMashu
… living in KwaMashu. The area was successively administered by the Durban City Council and the Port Natal Administration … during the 1950s. The Group Areas…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… state was mired in a profound crisis. - conceptualised by Saul and Gelb as an 'organic crisis' because of the … Output in almost half of the industrial…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 16 June 1989
… facing our region are among the priorities being addressed by the community of nations. I should like also to take this … liberation is reflective of the…
PlaceDelmas
… getaways, or want to experience similar. Delmas History By Tulani J Ngwenya Delmas is a small farming town largely … Witklip or White Stone in 1907…
Address as Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement at the 9th Session of the Islamic Summit Conferences, Doha, State Of Qatar, 12 November 2000
… affairs. Our comradeship is strengthened and reflected by the fact that we share a common vision through membership … as we gather here today, the world…
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s press statement on the Bisho Massacre King William’s Town - 8 September 1992
… our country. South Africa is a country traumatised by centuries of violence and the most brutal exploitation. It requires immense courage, tempered by…
Document 6 - M. Lopes, “Socialism and the Labour Party”, The Bolshevik, April 1920
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 6 - M. Lopes,13 "Socialism and the … connection it overlooks the…
III - Black Consciousness
… From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa What had Steve Biko done to be so persecuted by the police? Why did they pursue him…
Chapter 4 - In search of Justice; Gumede in England, 1919-21
… deputation to have their grievances heard and addressed by the British Crown. While abroad Gumede addressed several … the Union of African People. Both…
PlaceBo-tuin, Hof Street, Gardens.
… of the Leeuwenhof Estate and was developed in about 1820 by Johannes Zorn. It consisted of a gabled House which, … a high garden wall enclosing its courtyard…
PlaceGrand Parade, Cape Town
… is inseparably associated with the Castle and was used by its garrison as a training ground. Despite this, however, … for many years it remained a grassy…
PlaceGoedverwact
… originally (1838) bequeathed to six of his freed slaves by H. S. Burger. On the death of the last of the heirs in … mission work there since 1844) bought the…
EventDr. Dadoo and Naicker lead Passive Resisters
… Led by Dr G.M. Naicker and Dr. Y.M. Dadoo, Indians observed … 15 000 people at the Red Square in Durban was addressed by Dr Naicker. After the meeting, a…
EventItaly invades Ethiopia
… empire and to avenge Italy's defeat in 1896 at Adwa by the Eritreans invades Eritrea. A border clash at Wewel … against Italy, but they had little effect,…
EventThe four corner stones of the castle (Kasteel de Goede Hoop) at the Cape are laid
… Good Hope (Kasteel van Goede Hoop) at the Cape were laid by Zacharias Wagenaer, Johan van Arckel, Gabbema and Lacus, the structure was completed by 1679. …
EventPresidential Job Summit is held
… In response to a call by President Nelson Mandela, representatives of government, … a R2, 5-billion housing project to be funded jointly by the Government…
EventAuthor of the book, Born Free, Joy Adamson, is killed
… it was reported that she was attacked to death in the bush by a lion, but further details emerged that she was stabbed to death by her employee, Paul Nakware…
EventAlexis Preller, SA visual artist, dies
… he rejected the latter description for his work. Described by one critic as South Africa’s Gauguin, he was also influenced by Van Gogh and later by Piero…
EventThe League of Nations grant Belgium the right to govern Rwanda
… as the territory of Ruanda-Urundi. The resolution taken by the League of Nations followed actions by small European forces as they fought for control of…
Fighting Talk
… edited over a period of several years in the mid-1950's by Ruth First. The focus of the content was largely on resistance by South Africans to the…
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… Inqaba ya basebenzi, published in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National … of workers. Trade union action in the struggle for power…
New tactics in the revolt
… organising vigilante groups. In the court action brought by Winnie Mandela on 15 August, and, it was claimed that the … disputes and a range of misdemeanours…
Gandhiji and the struggle for liberation in South Africa
… Gandhiji found that "passive resistance" was seen even by European friends as a "weapon of the weak." He sought a term which could be understood by Indians…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… other sections of the liberation movement were represented by delegates with full participation and voting rights".1 The … whose analysis of South African…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… describes some of the successes and difficulties faced by political activists working in the coloured communities of … highly politicised during the 1980s, a…