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Message to the People of South Africa by O.R. Tambo, 26 June 1968
… of Sekhukhuniland, Zeerust, Zululand, Transkei and other places. It is reflected in the police raids, arrests, court …
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… to Egypt, the Congo, and Madagascar, and wrote about those places, bringing to her work a sensuous feel for landscape …
PlaceFunda Community College
… doors in the early 1980s, Funda was one of the very few places for Black students who had a desire to study and …
PlaceNelson Mandela Bridge, Johannesburg
… two Districts on foot or by car! (Some of the trendiest places to visit in Johannesburg, can be found in Newtown and …
The Khoikhoi carry out a series of raids on the free burghers’ herds
… deprive them of their valuable pastures and watering places. Into this increasingly volatile situation stepped a …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… social class and societal roles. Xhosa traditional music places a strong emphasis on group singing and handclapping as …
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… Vocabulary Definition Isolated far away from other places Lifestyles and stories of Trek Boers The Trek Boers …
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta was born Kamau to parents Moigoi and Wamboi ”” his father was the chief of a small agricultural village in Gatundu Division, Kiambu District ””…
ArticleTransport in the air
Ancient stories tell of people's desire to fly like a bird. The Greek myth about Icarus and Daedalus is one of the most famous stories. According to the story,…
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
… traders to Cape Town, Africa, Mauritius and many other places between the late 1600’s and early 1800’s. Cochin was a … were invariably given Christian Dutch…
Congress of the People - I was there
… under the Suppression of Communism Act, so in many places it was left to the second string to fill the gaps, and … South Africa - from Natal, East Cape, West…
BiographyRonnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)
Sathieseelan Gurulingam Govender (more popularly known as Ronnie Govender) was born on 16 May 1934 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His…
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
Thoko Phillip Mamagobo, popularly known as ‘Thoko’, was born on 6 May 1933 and raised in a village situated about 110km from Polokwane, Northern Transvaal (now…
BiographyFrancois Pienaar
Francois Pienaar was born on 1st January 1969 in Vereeniging into a working class Afrikaner family. Although he participated in various sporting activities as…
BiographyJane Gool
Jainub Jane Gool – Tabata was born in Cape Town on 19 March 1902 to Yusuf and Wageda Gool, the sixth of nine children. Her father, an immigrant from India,…
BiographyAdvocate Abram "Bram" Fischer
Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer was born on 23 April 1908 in the Orange Free State. He was born into a prominent Afrikaans family, son of Percy Ulrich Fischer,…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… New Age, 3 May 1956 People picketed at terminuses in places such as Mowbray, Claremont and Wynberg and bus routes …
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 3 - It’s a Mystery. Or is it? by Amanda Esterhuysen
… Arab records mention routes and trade posts at various places between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers. By the 1500s … place because it stimulates memories of…
The National Flag
The national flag was designed by a former South African State Herald, Mr Fred Brownell, and was first used on 27 April 1994. The design and colours are a…
Insurrections: The Storming
… power. And what we share too is a dream of now-forbidden places, of hope that we will not, cannot let go of, even if …
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… power. And what we share too is a dream of now-forbidden places, of hope that we will not, cannot let go of, even if …
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
John Xavier Merriman was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provinces became the Union of South Africa…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
Walter Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor …
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam was born on 27 July 1935 in Sea View, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He had 12 siblings. He grew up in very dire…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… Gates have been provided and fixed at suitable places. The whole work was executed for the sum of £622. The …
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… while Europeans were prohibited from owning land in these places. The Act also included a provision in the law that …
Chapter 5
… In his tour round the country he would find that in some places there were no organisations at all in existence. Here … of a number of organisations already…
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… we have made. But the history of the union movement places this in perspective. Developments in the workplace …
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
… World Heritage Site and Order of Mapungubwe This unit places its focus on the order of Mapungbwe today and it being …