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24. Muslim traders petition against Free State law of 1884
… A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1885 thirteen … the Legislature respecting the disabilities…
PlaceCastle of Good Hope, Castle Street- Cape Town
… Fort was entrusted to engineer Pieter Dombaer , assisted by carpenter Adriaan van Braeckel , and master mason Douwe … and in time the Castle, as it became…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Millennium Debate of the Joint Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 19 November 1999
… in Tokyo, Japan, last year, we quoted from a tract written by Pliny the Roman, during the first century of this … no upper lip, they are without tongues, and…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… of being part of a 'country-wide conspiracy' inspired by international communism to overthrow the state by violence." The campaign for the Congress of the…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
… recording studios with the assistance of a talent scout. By 1949, Mbube had sold over 100,000 copies, making Linda a … against the oppression and the harsh…
EventSmallpox Epidemic Strikes at the Cape
… White colonists were also beginning to be affected. By May 1713 the smallpox disease had reached pandemic … in coffins, as there was a shortage of wood at…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… Roads, sewers, water and drainage systems were completed by December in the same year. The Cape Town City Council … African National Congress (ANC), were…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic So far, this feature has described … they coped with riding poverty in…
Luthuli House to be auctioned over R25m debt?, 20 August 2017
… show. Sources say an attachment letter will be delivered by the sheriff of the court to Luthuli House tomorrow, an … legal battle with Resurgent Risk…
In the enduring spirit of President O.R. Tambo: Good luck to all matriculants, 22 October 2012
… us to muster the art rising above our own weaknesses by learning to take ownership for our own errors against the … communities to the very real daily…
ANC ‘Military High Command’ Leader Interviewed
… factor is used including the last war, including action by the allies. White - You say it is impossible to avoid, … amongst civilians. White - So, how much…
ArchiveHow the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018
… of Muslim books and libraries in Bosnia in the 1990s by Serbian nationalist forces. In 2013 there was the burning by Islamist insurgents of the Timbuktu…
Address On World Aids Day, 1 December 1999
… at an early age and their loved ones against this disease by abstaining from sexualactivity as much as possible by being faithful to their partners or by…
Document 10 - Letter from Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party
… to state that this intention has never been endorsed by the non-white majority of this country. The decision has been taken by little over half of the White…
4. Conclusion
… The decisions made by the Party executive at the end of 1938 proved to be a … Laws, and higher bus fares. Their work paid dividends. By the war's end, CPSA…
PlaceAlice, a Town near East London
… It was named in 1847, according to some authorities, by the Governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland, after Princess … daughter of Queen Victoria; and according to…
ArchiveThe road to Oslo and beyond
… Nobel Peace Prize award with extracts from the speech by Mr Gunnar Jahn, President of the Nobel Institute on the … University, 10 December 1961 and the…
EventBafana Bafana wins against Botswana
… to international games. The game, which was attended by approximately 20 000 spectators, was played at Botswana … national stadium in Gaborone. Bafana Bafana…
EventChairman of the IEC resigns
… of elections as reasons. He was temporarily replaced by his deputy, Dr Brigalia Bam, until she was appointed permanently to the position by President Nelson…
EventPrime Minister of Transkei George Matanzima is born
… The government of the Transkei homeland was toppled by its military forces and Matanzima was forced to flee from the Transkei after a bloodless coup led by…
ArchiveBolt: magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.2 No.1 1971
… George Brendon. Panturn in Translation, Roy Keech. Cover by Cliff Bestall. Design by M. Courtney-Clarke. …
EventInternational Day of Families.
… The International Day of Families was proclaimed by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1993, as a day … day is celebrated on 15 May every year.It is…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… with the American: his life and music were marked by constant reinvention. As Davis reportedly said: I don’t … in the Huddleston Jazz Band in the 1950s on a…
Address to Beijing University Beijing, 6 May 1999
… Distinguished guests. I was honoured indeed in 1992 by your award to me of an honorary degree. It is an … sure how many universities will then want to be…
54. South African Indian Congress: first annual report, 1924
… A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The South African … central body for the whole Union, and this…
35. Colour legislation in the Orange River Colony
… A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The draft Ordinance of … of the Orange River Colony is not to be…
Fourthly, as to the NATIVE QUESTION
… civil liberties, which shall be provided for and protected by entrenched and justiciable provisions in the Constitution, … X Formal legislative procedures…
Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
… But they hardly refer to the slave trade in and from India by the Portuguese, British, Dutch, French and the Danes. … known as Habshis, were imported for a…
Address at the French National Assembly Paris, 18 November 2003
… That France, once illustrious among enslaved nations, may, by eclipsing the glory of all free countries that ever … to the oppressed, an ornament of the…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… The patterns of power and privilege in SA have been shaped by the historical dispossession of the majority of people of …