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Statement by Olive Tambo at the freedom rally organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 26 January 1979, Dublin
… Convention goes further to say: "The States Parties to the present Convention declare criminal those organisations, … improve the lives of our people but…
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… equitable social order. What then, are the challenges the present generation has to grapple with? What kind of youth … Indeed, what are the characteristics…
“Dockers and solidarity activism: from the Durban Strikes to choke points in today’s global economy” by Peter Cole
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The Durban Strikes were one of the pivotal moments in the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… Congress in London ( John Tengo Jabavu and Walter Rubusana present). Mines and Works Act No 12: Permitted the granting … is the chairman of the meeting and…
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA 23 March 1991
… the University Community I am honoured to be invited to be present at this graduation ceremony, especially as it marks … too late for Medunsa to lay a key…
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… 1928 General Secretary C.P.S.A. Dear Douglas, I am at present attending the science congress here, having just … were not founded on opportunist deviations…
Cape Town Launch of A to Z of Amazing South African Women
… honours the contribution of women to South Africa's past, present and future. Using short, easy to read biographies and …
PlaceGroote Schuur Campus, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
… A part of it, known as Japonica Walk, survives to the present day. A second building known as The Woolsack , is an …
PlaceBurkina Faso
… by the French who rewrote the borders, according to these present borders. The country marched towards independence …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the opening of the African Cup of Nations Tournament Johannesburg, 13 January 1996
… Tournament in South Africa is the best gift Africa could present to our sporting community and, in particular, to the …
Document 62 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 3 April 1936 at 8.20 p.m.
… President Street, Johannesburg, 3 April 1936 at 8.20 p.m. Present: Comrades Phashe, Gosani, Sapire, Freislich, Kahn , …
Document 61 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 25 March (1936) at 8.30 p.m.
… Street, Johannesburg, 25 March (1936) at 8.30 p.m. Present: Freislich. Kahn . Phashe, Gosani, Pompey, Sapire, …
EventJohn Thomas Baines, South African painter, traveller and writer, is born
… South West Africa (Namibia) and then to Victoria Falls in present-day Zimbabwe . Ten years later, Baines led an …
A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen)
… their own church building in 1691, which was near to the present day church building in Simondium. Simon also …
Hendrik Verwoerd’s response to the ‘Winds of Change’ speech
… of Africa who brought civilisation here, who made the present developments of black nationalists possible. By …
Message to the Rally to Relaunch the ANC Women's League by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 9 August 1990
… League is of the utmost importance. Some of you were present at the conference of ANC women held outside South … in South Africa, reemphasised the fact that…
Peace Treaty of Vereeniging - transcript
… of their respective BURGHERS Desirous to terminate the present hostilities, agree on the following Articles. 1. The … and ORANGE RIVER COLONY, and all…
Federation
… of their respective burghers Desirous to terminate the present hostilities, agree on the following Articles. 1. The … and orange river colony, and all…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Introduction
… understood why the herrenvolk should distort history and present a false picture of what actually happened. Having … that they are inferior, wipe out their…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… and of African Affairs, and is currently the Desmond Tutu Professor in the Faculty of the Social Sciences at the … about the ANC from its formation in 1912…
ArticleKey sites
… and vegetables in the Gardener Street area, behind the present Post Office. From around 1900, the market moved to … allow for the freeway to be constructed…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… building the official residency at the top end of the present St George Street. While this was being done, Warden … namely; two in Waaihoek, one in the…
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… [...] the author attempts to explain not only how the present South Africa evolved out of the past, but how the … sees in history the key to the…
PlaceBredasdorp, Overberg
Located on the Northern edge of the Agulhas Plain, about 160 kilometres South-East of Cape Town and 35 kilometres, North of Cape Agulhas. The Town was named…
Balfour Declaration 1926
… of all these great themes have been discussed at the present Conference; excellent results have been thereby … of these forms date back to a time well…
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… World War I and II, the conflict in South West Africa (present-day Namibia) as well as items relating to the armed …
PlaceLodge de Goede Hoop, Stal Square, Cape Town
… this housed the Cape Parliament from 1854 to 1884 when the present House of Assembly was completed. In February 1892 the …
PlaceNapier
… shares were issued but it had a very short existence. At present the town has a population of 2 554 and possesses a …
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… on the floor, but after all even if there were 600 people present what a flea bite that is out of [remainder missing]. …