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EventDeath in detention of Ahmed Timol
Ahmed Timol was born on the 3rd November 1941 in Breyten in current-day Mpumalanga. He grew up in Roodepoort and trained as a teacher. In 1964 he attended the…
EventThe Missing Persons Task Team (MPTT) to Investigate Apartheid Missing Persons Cases
The Missing Persons Task’s Team (MPTT) emerged as a recommendation after the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1996 in its Final…
EventGary Player won the US Open golf tournament and became the fourth winner to earn all four top-pro golf titles
Gary Player won the US Open golf tournament and became the fourth winner to earn all four top-pro golf titles. Player, from South Africa, was the first non…
EventBlack Wednesday, the banning of 19 Black Consciousness Movement Organisations
It was known as Black Wednesday. On October 19, 1977, The World and Weekend World were banned. The editor of The World, Percy Qoboza, who became the editor of…
PlaceWagenaer's Reservoir, Sanlam Golden Acre-Cape Town
In the heart of the 'Mother City', Golden Acre Shopping Centre has been a key part of everyday life in Cape Town since 1979.This shopping-Centre on the site of…
PlaceOld Stables, Oatlands, Simonstown
This building was originally erected in the 18th century as a set of stables on the well-known Oaklands property. Shortly after the second British occupation…
Justice Arthur Chaskalson: President of Constitutional Court interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 2 February 2000, The Braamfontein, Johannesburg
… thing, I mean. I looked at a speech I made in June of 1989, where I was speaking in Europe, and I finished by …
Mission Stations - G-H
Mission Stations - G GABAZI, Libode, Cape: No data available GABERONE, Botswana: SPG 1895 GAGA, Cape: GMS GA LEKALEKALE, Transvaal: Bn GA MATLALE,…
ArchiveA story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018
The death of Sam Nzima, the man who took the photograph that came to symbolise all that was wrong with apartheid and how it would be opposed, offers a moment…
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
Iron Age Shell middens containing early Iron Age pottery fragments have been found at Umhlanga Rocks, Ballito and Shaka's Rock Village, which date back to…
Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Few people, including most English-speaking South Africans, know anything at all about the Afrikaner people, their history and their national aspirations. Yet…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Charley-Ann Pearson Politics and…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
Causes of the War The First Anglo-Boer is also known as the First Transvaal War of Independence because the conflict arose between the British colonizers…
Khoisan Identity
In his State of the Nation address on 9th February 2012, President Zuma uttered a promise that provisions would be made ‘for the recognition of the Khoi-San…
PlaceSteenberg Farmstead, Tokai Road, Constantia
The Steenberg Estate, originally known as the Zwaanswyk, was granted to Catherina Ustings in 1688 and was one of the first farms in the Western Cape. Its Cape…
PlaceSammy Mark’s Residence, Zwartkoppies, Pretoria
The Sammy Marks Museum is a Victorian Mansion called Zwartkoppies Hall, situated about 23km outside Pretoria. The 48-room Mansion with its lush gardens and…
PlaceChurch Square, Pretoria
Church square is in the historic centre of Pretoria! The founder of Pretoria, Marthinus Pretorius declared the square to be used as a church yard and market…
PlaceKing Edward VII High School, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
In 1902, the end of the Second Anglo-Boer War was in sight. Plans were being made to reorganize the educational facilities in the Transvaal. These had…
Freedom Charter and the United Nations by E.S. Reddy
DOCUMENT 37. "Black Power--Students Forced to Leave Meeting." Article in Dome (University of Natal), March 27, 1969 Four students of UND [University of…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Henrique Cardoso of Brazil Pretoria, 26 November 1996
Now, since I couldn't teach any more there, I left Pardieberg and went to Bloemfontein to look for work. I got work there as a domestic worker only. I stayed…
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around birthdays and anniversaries
Introduction: The Mandela family commemorated birthdays whenever possible, and wedding anniversaries almost without exception, in prison during official…
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
10 years ago, you sent into oblivion so much energy, so much youth, so much enthusiasm, and so much love of our country. To impose your world on us, you killed…
Introduction
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai 'The appeasers', declared the report of the Passive…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Acknowledgements
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede We first met each other in 1984 at A. P. Mda's law office in Mafeteng, Lesotho, and we…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
In July 2001, The Landless People's Movement (LPM) was formed by leaders of various landless people of South Africa in response to evictions of farm workers…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively White war. At least 15 000 Blacks were used as combatants by the…
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, argued that the Germans was superior to all other races. Hitler became obsessed with 'racial purity' and used the…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
Introduction The South African War of 1899-1902 was essentially a 'White mans' war, fought to determine which white authority had real power in South Africa…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
Gangsterism is often characterized as anti-social behaviour frowned upon by polite sections of society. There is no doubt that the behaviour of gangsters like…