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EventBambatha Rebellion
The Bambatha Rebellion took place near Greytown in KwaZulu-Natal. The first signs of discontent started at the end of 1905, when government introduced a new £1…
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
On 11 July 1988, Duma Khumalo, Oupa "Scotch" Diniso, Ja-ja Sefatsa, Theresa Ramashamola, Francis Mokhesi and Reid Mokoena, better known as the "Sharpeville Six…
ArchiveSocialist vanstern
White, brown and black poster. Artwork of a worker trying to lever a huge man in a top hat.
A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen)
Pierre Simond, a Huguenot minister, was born in 1651 in Nion (Dauphine). After studying theology he became a minister at Montjoux and then at Embrun. After the…
A New Era for Africa in a Globalizing World, Unesco, Paris, 19 November 2003
Director of Ceremonies, Your Excellency, the Acting Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Marcio Barbosa, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: Commenting on…
Covert operations
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman Up to this point attention has been focussed on those…
ArchiveAddress at 6th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, by Nelson Mandela, 12 July 2008, Kliptown Soweto
President Johnson-Sirleaf, distinguished guests, friends, ladies and gentlemen, We have for years remarked about people coming to such events primarily to see…
PlaceSchanskop Fort, Pretoria
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 29 June 1938. After the Jameson Raid in 1896, President Paul Kruger of the "Zuid-Afrikaansche…
Stay-away!
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1950 there was a big protest against this law called the Suppression of…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer
From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, Sunday, August 29 Things are hotting up again. We haven't seen much happening here…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaBetween 1921 and 1936, the number of Africans in the cities increased from about half a million to over one…
Statement by Albert Luthuli on the "Sabotage Act", 6 June 1962
The new assault on civil liberties and democracy generally made by the General Law Amendment Bill "the Sabotage Bill" about to become law in the Republic of…
ArchiveHow do we close the wage gap?
Multicoloured cartoon poster showing salaries from top of company to the bottom. 1995 campaign by NUMSA. NUMSA logo.
ArchiveChurches in solidarity with women 1989
Multicoloured calendar. White dove in top left corner. 1988 ecumenical decade of women. Lists of dates to remember.
The Storming: Insurrections Ensemble by Dilip Menon, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, June 2017
The idea of a storm condenses the anxieties of past sorrow, present distress, and future devastation. To call a production The Storming locates a predicament…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the academic year at the University of Stellenbosch on 22 February 1971
On this occasion. Adv. Vorster expounded in a most original way the responsibility of being a student. Discovering life is a personal responsibility as also…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
The colonisation of Africa was part of a global European process reaching all the continents of the world. European colonisation and domination changed the…
PlacePump House, corner Prince and Sir George Grey Streets, Oranjezicht.
From the 17th century onwards, water for Cape Town's domestic use was fetched by slaves from public fountains. The Pump House was named as such because it is…
EventThe Citizen reveals housing irregularities in Transkei
The Citizen reported on details of Justice Tom van Reenen's report on alleged irregularities in the awarding of housing contracts in the Transkei. The report…
EventSA eldest person celebrates her birthday
The eldest person in South Africa and allegedly eldest in the world, Granny Moloko Temo, of Mogodi Village between Dendron and Bochum in Limpopo Province,…
PlaceVan Riebeeck’s Hedge, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town.
These trees are a remnant of the hedge planted in 1660 by Jan van Riebeeck as a Boundary to the newly established Settlement at the Cape. Jan van Riebeeck, an…
’Asinamali’
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1957 a message came through from SACTU that we must organize this campaign…
PlaceKlapperkop Fort, Pretoria
Klapperkop offers visitors panoramic views of Pretoria in all directions. Not only is it fast becoming a popular jogging, cycling and mountain biking…
EventANC leader, James Arthur Calata, dies
African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman, James Arthur Calata, dies in Cradock, Eastern Cape. He joined the ANC in 1930 and rose to become…
EventHestrie Cloete, world champion high jumper, is born
Hestrie Cloete was born in Germiston, East of Johannesburg on 26 August 1978. She began participating in sports at an early age. Her long-time coach, Martin…
Document 35 - Constitutional principles Schedule 4 of the Interim Constitution
COSATU is in a no-win situation: We are damned if we do and we are damned if we don't! In preparing for this article, I was reminded of a Se-Sotho saying: Ke…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
Britain, Diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansion Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the late nineteenth…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
Key Words: Can Themba, Apartheid, Writer in Exile, Drum Magazine Born: 1924 Marabastad, Pretoria Died: 1968 Swaziland Education: High School, Polokwane …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day Celebrations: Landsdown Stadium, Cape Town, April 27, 2008
Programme Director, Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr. Pallo Jordan, Premier of the Western Cape, Mr. Ebrahim Rasool, Deputy Mayor of Cape Town, Councillor…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who Escaped from Prison in South Africa, Lusaka, 2 January 1980
The African National Congress has in its ranks people who are fighting together across the race and colour line, and who sacrifice together in that struggle…