SAHO global search

… Nelson Mandela was incarcerated here. Mandela also took his steps to freedom through these gates in 1990. The prison has a huge bronze statue of Mandela with his fist held high to commemorate that day of freedom and as …

… left-side spinner. Though he began as a bowler, over time his batting became better than his bowling leading him to become a dependable middle-order …

… war office meant to rehabilitate African soldiers. During his time there, Kaggia studied political science, journalism … Kenya with a mission to Africanise religions. He started his own church, which included African customs and …

… he had suffered some kind of head trauma. An inquest into his death was held two months later in Pretoria. The inquest … police officers had in fact assaulted him which led to his death. …

… to ill health. The speech was read out to the public by his aide. In his speech Steyn emphasised that the memorial has not been …

… February to form a coalition after Smuts had surrendered his principles on the issue of the African vote in the Cape … to the golden calf, scoffed Hertzog's critics in his own ranks. …

… heart of Africa to Christian missionaries. The king and his officials relied on forced labour and his reign resulted in the deaths of millions of Congolese. …

… of Rhodes wearing a three-piece suit, standing with his left hand raised and pointing North. The Monument is … top of Adderley Street because of the scale of the Statue. His concern was that the Statue could have a dwarfing effect …

… and pushed them into servitude where they began to work alongside slaves in farms. In 1713 a smallpox epidemic …

… slept, cooked and made tools. Sometimes it is possible to work out what people ate, how they adapted to their …

… was for a wage increase and to address the poor living and work conditions of miners and their families in Marikana. …

… foreign White expatriates opposed to any relaxing of apartheid principles, claimed responsibility for the bomb …

… the best creators dating back to the creation of cultural work in the 70s in Durban, then at Dunlop, the Culture and … its networks between 2003-6. This is a rejoinder to my work that produced the Flight of the Gwala-Gwala Bird to …

… order. Nationally, we must address such issues as changing apartheid property relations through the mobilization of … to spatial development that will fundamentally change the apartheid geography of our towns, cities and rural areas; the … the crisis faced by the economy we inherited in 1994, and work since then to restructure the economy to meet the needs …

… South African Indian Congress: (a) Provincial barriers (b) Apartheid laws such as segregation in trains, post offices, … when possible. The Franchise Action Council (a) General apartheid segregation in post offices, railway stations, … It is also apparent that no body of men can sit down and work out a budget estimate for such a vast national …

… the then, South African Prime Minister. With the fall of Apartheid in the early 1990's, the Airport came under the … Town International Airport. Rapid growth ensued as post-Apartheid Trade and Tourism flourished peaking at 8.4 million …

… of: “education under protest” . This sought to transform Apartheid Institutions into: 'Sites of struggle'. Student … The College Campus in Westville was a site of major anti-Apartheid struggle. UDW became an autonomous institution in …

… who will submit to "traditional Bantu Principles" in all his professional and commercial dealings. In other words a … rather than starve to death the people will go out to seek work and will accept a mere pittance for wages in order to … the 10-Point Programme from many angles. Basically his criticism is that "The existing programme of the N.E. …

… husband for a divorce. When he refused, Groesbeek laced his food with arsenic. Ten weeks after murdering her husband, … murdering her husband, stating that she wanted revenge for his refusal to grant her a divorce. After being sentenced to …

… In 1901, Andries Brink sold a portion of his farm: 'Kruispad', to George Henry Walton. He was a … who then renamed the farm: 'Brackenfell', in honour of his homeland. In 1903 Walton sold the property to the- …

… died of heart failure at the age of 83 in Stellenbosch. His political career started in 1948, when he stood for the … later tourism and Coloured affairs as well. He wound up his exciting political career as ambassador to the United …

… A red haired man who stood over 6 feet tall, he spent his long adult life working to abolish the Transatlantic … in London, in the Lake District and then moved, with his wife Catherine, to Bury St Edmunds in 1803. Finally, in …

… prisoners, Nyanda received news that he had 'won' his case on appeal and that his sentence was shortened. He was removed from Robben …

… to the Supreme Court of South Africa. At the time of his appointment the South African government and liberation … Mahomed was born in Pretoria in July 1931 and completed his schooling there, where he qualified as a lawyer. He was, …

… Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). When Nkosi was three years old his family moved to Dukathole near Germiston in the Transvaal … He attended school in Germiston where he attained his Junior Certificate. He also studied sculpture as a …

… the Labour Party Youth in 1969 at the encouragement of his father. In 1983, he became one of the founding members of … secretary. In 1985, Manuel was arrested for a month for his activities in the UDF and was banned from attending …

… the Free State, Sojane moved to Johannesburg to stay with his sister in Orlando East. He got a job at a clothing … a car. He operated the car as a taxi and thus began his career in the industry. Sojane joined Orlando Pirates as …

… Vorster confirms that there was no prior consultation with his government over Rhodesia's closure of its border with Zambia, but that his government will assist in fighting against terrorism. The …

… Bhambatha succeeded to the throne after the death of his father and uncle, at the age of 25. He quickly … focus on Dube's attitude to Dinizulu as indicated in his reportage on the treason trial of Dinizulu, unpublished …

… no other Whites had ever been. Many people, as well as his relatives, assert that it was on one of these trips that … Falls. During the civil war in the Transvaal in 1863-64, his people's army was defeated by Paul Kruger's government …