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EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… ‘Sophiatown: recalling the loss’ , South Africa Info , 10 February, [online], Available at www.southafrica.info …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the Freedom Day Celebrations at the ABSA Stadium, Durban 27 April 2005
Director of Ceremonies, Mike Mabuyakhulu, Your Majesty, King Goodwill Zwelithini, Honourable Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, Honourable…
Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic: Answers to Questions by May 1961
Demonstrations Against Proclamation Of Republic Answers To Questions By drum, May 196173 [Drum asked several non-European leaders for answers to three…
EventInternational Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa is launched
The United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid (originally called the Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid of the Government of the Republic…
ArchiveDemocracy
Democracy 25 years of freedom 1994 to 2019 Democracy Ubuntu One rainbow nation A rising sun An African Sunset Democracy The elegance of the Blue…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the official opening of the National House of Traditional Leaders, 23 February 2010, Old Assembly, Parliament, Cape Town
… can guide us as we grapple with the challenges of today. Chapter 12 of the Constitution of our Republic recognises the …
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… memoirs offer the reader an insight into an important chapter in the history of our struggle from a different …
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… elsewhere across our country to remember this epoch-making chapter in the history of our struggle for freedom. Indeed, …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Bantu and the Gospel
… in fulfilment of the command of our master in the last chapter of St. Matthew. …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
The 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria, South Africa constitutes an especially noteworthy moment in women’s history. On 9 August 1956, thousands of South Africa…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
The global pervasiveness of racism and segregation in the 1920s and 1930s During the 1920s and 1930s, there were discriminatory policies in different parts…
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
On June 9, 1964, just two days before the final verdict was reached, the UN Security Council passed a resolution urging the South African government to end the…
EventDetectives testify against members of the ANC and the Congress Alliance in the infamous Treason Trial
On 18 February 1960, South African Police (SAP) detectives continue to give evidence at the Treason trial against the accused. The 156 accused in the trial…
EventThe UN decides not to support the request of the Union of South Africa concerning the treatment of Indians in SA
During the second part of the first session of the United Nations General Assembly, the General Committee decided not to support the request of the Union of…
EventThe AA is formed to coordinate motoring clubs
The Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) was formed at a meeting in Port Elizabeth attended by several provincial and other motoring clubs, in order to…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
1925 4 May, Ruth Herloise First is born in Johannesburg to Julius and Matilda First, Jewish immigrants (from Latvia and Lithuania, respectively) who helped…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
1905 9 August, Moses Kotane is born in Tamposstad, to Samuel Segogwane, a lay preacher and traditional healer, and Siporah Mmadira Kotane, a seasonal…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of the Dutch colonial settlement established by Jan van…
EventCongress of the People starts in Kliptown
The historic multi-racial convention called The Congress of the People started in Kliptown, near Johannesburg. The proposition for this form of gathering came…
EventHilda Bernstein passes away
South Africa reacted with shock at the passing away of veteran political activist, artist and writer Hilda Bernstein. She passes away on the 9th September 2006…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… page < 3. Formation of the NIA | 5. Convulsions in Natal > CHAPTER IV The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the …
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… KwaNdebele had become a footnote in South Africa's unhappy chapter of Apartheid government. Social and economic changes …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… History in Africa, 6 (1979): 155-175) and Brian WiUan's chapter "Language and Literature: Preserving a Culture" in … (Berkeley: University of California,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the workshop for Human Rights Education Durban, 21 September 1994
Mr. Chairman, Members of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, Judges of the Supreme Court, Vice-Chancellors, Delegates to this Workshop on…
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
ABSTRACT OF THESES This thesis highlights the ebbs and flows of the Indian minority's struggles against the systematic and unjust segregation of mankind…
The United Nations adopts resolution 1375 (XIV) on Apartheid
On this day in 1959, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 1375 (XIV) condemning South Africa's Apartheid policies at its 838th plenary…
PlaceMendi Memorial, Eastern Cape
The actual wreck lies off The Isle of Wight, in the English Channel. In Britain the story of the SS Mendi is almost unknown. In South Africa she is famous; as…
PlaceHogsback, Eastern Cape
… https://roadtravel1.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/hogsback-in-the-mist-with-berries/ …
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… The decision taken so far by the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter is very important indeed, but it …
Address at a Banquet at the Guildhall London, 13 June 2001
Your Royal Highness The Lord Mayor and Mayoress My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen Esteemed guests: We feel privileged that we have the possibility to attend…