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Nelspruit the Segregated city
… transport of agricultural goods from the surrounding areas to the larger cities inland. Demands for segregation early in … alliance of Afrikaner Nationalists…
PlaceElephant House, Ridge Road, Durban
… Thomas, as a weekend hunting lodge. The house became known to the people of Durban as the Elephant House after surviving … Road, was the path the elephants…
PlaceOost-Eind Primary School, 70 Meintjes Street, Trevenna, Pretoria
… 139 Grade R learners. However, Parents expressed shock to Rekord about how schools in Sunnyside Pretoria were giving … School are being accused of giving…
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… in the negotiations for the dismantling of apartheid to usher in a democratic South Africa. Twenty-six groups assembled at Kempton Park to draft a…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… zealous evangelism and fundraising provided a critical back-up and growth point for local congregations, but and … supervisors, such organisations had a…
PlaceBezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
… Braamfontein, Doornfontein, Diepkloof and Turffontein to name just a few. These farms date back to around 1851 and this was around the time various boer …
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… Ghat was the first site chosen by the British government to take part in the "Great Experiment", where indentured … workers passed through Port Louis from…
Maggie Smith
… Maggie, in her trademark flowing kaftans, was not someone to be trifled with and led by example. A highly political … people and its great beauty. Her ashes…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… The outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Cape Town appears to have given a measure of warning to other coastal cities in the Cape, and a number of … piece of ground…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… the historical record but few can have raised repression to the level of an art form in the way that the apartheid regime managed to do. The breadth and…
Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
… of the great pan-Africanist leader. His radical dedication to the total freedom, unity and prosperity of Africa ought to stir up the present generation to…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… people with different mother-tongues. [4] Fanakalo spread to the diamond and gold mines in the South African interior (and subsequently to other African…
PlaceSao Bento Shipwreck, Coffee Bay
… A local even has found a gold bar. "He refused to show me the gold bar, but showed me what looks like a lid … small container, which was definitely gold."…
PlaceFort Schanskop
… Paul Kruger of the “Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek” decided to protect Pretoria by constructing forts in strategic places. Eight forts were to be built…
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). They appealed to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty in … Biehl in the Cape Town High Court in…
Acceptance speech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony Oslo, Norway, 10 December 1993
… Friends, ladies and gentlemen: I am indeed truly humbled to be standing here today to receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize. I extend my … when he said that…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 5
… scrutiny. No man's private life should be called upon to bear it. In these days we expect all our leaders to be … by jowl with a few coloured people. Kajee's…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… do Natal ”. It is not known whether sailors landed here to take on fresh water, but this seems improbable as they … under the leadership of Capt John Adams,…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
… policy pursued by General Smuts is 100 percent similar to the Nazi doctrine." "What the future is going to be in South Africa I cannot say," he added, "but I…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 16 June 1989
… inside South Africa, I should like most sincerely to thank the Committee for affording us this opportunity to … was starving to death if need be - that is, a…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… Leuing Quinn and Thambi Naidoo, wrote from prison to the Transvaal Colonial Secretary, J. C. Smuts, agreeing to a compromise proposal brought by Albert…
PlaceSeychelles
… young Nation which can trace its first Settlement back to 1770. It is made up of 115 small Islands. They were … of Napoleon at Waterloo. Evolving from humble…
PlaceBo-Kaap Museum
… known as the Malay Quarter , the Bo-Kaap’s origins date back to the 1760s when numerous “huurhuisjes” (rental houses) were built and leased to slaves. These…
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… symbol of the struggle against colonialism in Tanzania and to other African countries including South Africa. His commitment to the liberation of Africa…
ArchiveA story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018
… 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 to…
The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… Back for the 17th year in a row! Magnet Theatre in patnership … some 700 learners in the Western Cape town of Clanwilliam to resurrect the Clanwilliam Arts…
EventBevil Rudd, the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist
… in Grahamstown.[iii] He became the first South African to win a full set of Olympic medals, for which he received a … After completing his studies abroad, he…
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… strikes of 1973; they began a process which shifted power to working people and played an important role in defeating … of unions which fought long battles…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… photographs have borne witness since the late 1940's to life in his native South Africa. More than 150 of his pictures are in a retrospective of the years…
Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker To Protector of Indian … as 'free' Indians or were entitled to a free…