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Address at the AGM of the SADC Electoral Commissions Forum Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 27 September, 1999
… Chairperson of the Electoral Commissions of Southern Africa Ministers, Ambassadors and High Commissioners Ladies … foreign rule and the attainment of…
Launch of the Luthuli Volunteer Corps, 12 June 2013
… that the volunteers need to deal with are ensuring that all our people have Identity Documents (which are also … of our country provides. Current generations…
PlacePretoria National Zoological Gardens.
… at 323 Boom Street, the zoo is the largest in South Africa and rated as one of the top zoos in the world and is … Zoo was established in 1899 and is the only…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
… over 100,000 copies, making Linda a musical star in South Africa. Although Mbube is Linda's best known recorded song, … to Gallo Record Company for 10…
Artscape: Legacy Exhibition
… on a daily basis and how the sacrifices of some can make all the difference. Thus began his journey of producing this … caught the attention of the late Alf…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… the policy of land dispossession and segregation in South Africa. In accordance with the Act, many Africans, Coloured … The Native (Urban Areas) Act of 1923…
Behind the Narrative of the Abuse of State Power was a Larger Goal by Thabo Mbeki, 8 February 2016
… the relations between the NPA/NDPP/DSO and the SAPS had to all intents and purposes broken down, with these institutions … as Head of State and Government to…
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… one hundred years of Indian settlement in South Africa. The large number of Indians detained under the … Durban stands in a singular position of fascination…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations of the PRC
… opinion of the injustice of colour bar laws in South Africa, particularly the "Ghetto" Act, and to advise the … They were received as "distinguished guests"…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… in trade and colonies. Britain’s large including South Africa was drawn into the war, too. British manufacturing was … and for a time there was unite black…
PlaceColigny, North West Province
… of the old Transvaal Republic , before the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, General Koos de la Rey , … still the heartbeat of the Town, with lines…
PlaceSouth African College High School
… of it to SACS. SACS is the oldest high school in South Africa, founded in September 1829. It is arguably the most … on offer, the fact that SACS men strive…
PlaceTolstoy Farm, near Johannesburg
… It was in South Africa that Gandhi developed, between 1910 and 1913, his … Johannesburg to start another colony. He suggested that all those who had lost…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… boosted the growth of the manufacturing industry. Women of all racial groups slowly began to gravitate to the towns and … to open up. By 1925, for example,…
ANC National Disciplinary Committee, 29 February 2012, Luthuli House, Johannesburg
… or favour and has not been swayed by any outside party. All its decisions have been made on the evidence before it … with the ANC Constitution. 6. The ANC…
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
… journey. According to M Blumberg [in The Mafekeng Affair. Africa South 4(3) April – June 1960, p 40]: Two policemen and … A documentary History of African…
BiographyHelen Newton Thompson
… “The Black Sash was the conscience of White South Africa.” Newton Thompson’s conscience is seen through her …
BiographyWilliam Henry Beaumont
… Natal in 1909. After the formation of the Union of South Africa, Beaumont became part of the Delimitation Commission …
BiographyFrances Rix Ames
… Prof Ames was conferred the Order of the Star of South Africa by former President Nelson Mandela in 1999 (which was … [online], Available at: https://www…
PlaceSeweweeks Poort, Swartberg
… beautiful 18 km stretch of gravel road anywhere in South Africa. With easy gradients, multiple river crossings, … geology, camping and self catering…
The kanga, womanhood and how Zuma's 2006 rape trial changed the meaning of the fabric by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail and Guardian), 10 Aug 2016
… Khanga I wrap myself around the curvaceous bodies of women all over Africa I am the perfect nightdress on those hot African … agree that the kanga comes from…
Who was Khwezi? Here’s what we learnt during the Zuma rape trial by TMG Digital (Sowetan) ,10 October 2016
… Swaziland‚ Tanzania‚ Britain‚ the Netherlands and South Africa. Her life was a fractured existence punctuated by … According to her court testimony‚ she came…
Place(The) Gambia
… Senegambia confederation (1982–89). It is one of Africa’s most densely populated countries. A few towns are … spoken include Pulaar (a widely spoken…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
… Manenberg is a Township of Cape Town , South Africa, that was created by the Apartheid government, for … on the North and Nyanga on the East. Cape Town has…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the official opening of the Bram Fischer library at the legal resources centre Johannesburg, 27 September 1996
… Centre has promoted the cause of human rights in South Africa. It served the disadvantaged people of our country, by … in our Constitution will become real…
Say It out Loud - Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, 1919
… their assistance in recruiting Coloured soldiers. In all, some 6 000 men joined the 1st Cape Corps and 2 000 … joined the 2nd Cape Corps. They saw service in…
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… affected them and most importantly they aimed to unite all women in the fight against apartheid. UWCO also played an …
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… and from political parties. Worker politics meant above all fostering workers unity. Party ideologies and interests … committee structures into a sweetheart…
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… withdraw labour at first only from those factories where all, or the overwhelming majority, of the workers were loyal. … give financial support to those who…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Religion and Churches
… the Present Day," M.A. Thesis, 1945. University of South Africa. In 1943 Lembede registered for a M.A. thesis in … they learn to fight against the rule of…