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Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… South Africa’s first blockbuster theatrical success. Not long after gaining some recognition in his hometown from … moved in with Makeba into her New York…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the launch of the Siyakha Project, Groutville, 17 June 1995
… will benefit over 187 000 people. It has moved a long way from the relief assistance scheme it was five years … industries. The Siyakha project is the…
PlaceDefence Force HQ, Pretoria- Artillery Barracks
… The corridors through which you pass remind a person of long narrow rooms about 12ft by 100 yards. On mounting up the … sheds, which are about 50 yards wide…
PlaceArtillery Road Barracks at the H.Q. of South African Defence
… The corridors through which you pass remind a person of long narrow rooms about 12ft by 100 yards. On mounting up the … sheds, which are about 50 yards wide…
ArchiveChapter 14 Out of prison: 28 February 1985 as a free person by Denis Goldberg
… womb of the prison. By my calculation it had been a long gestation of 7904 days. I felt some trepidation. It is … I once felt tipsy on a little marmalade…
EventWhite entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the 'homelands'
… J Vorster announces that White entrepreneurs will be given long-standing contracts in the 'homelands' to speed up …
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… slaves. The Atlantic slave trade stands at the centre of a long history of European contact with Africa. This was the … is because the Khoikhoi were a…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on South African Raid on Matola, 05 February 1981
… Mozambique will never grow, Zimbabwe will never - for as long as there is oppression and racist domination in South …
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… for some editor or corporation (I first met Goldblatt—a long-time friend and collaborator—in 1965 when I was a …
EventJoyce Mashamba passed away
… passed away at the age of 67 after battling with a long illness, the details of which have not yet been …
PlaceJoubertina
… Cape that, until the establishment of the famous and very long wine route, suffered little notoriety and languished as …
EventRiaad Moosa, the South African comedian is born
… Kathrada in the Golden Globe nominated film, “Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom”.[iv] He also featured in the …
PlaceHaarlem
… Cape through the Karoo and up to the Soutpansberg . The Long Kloof is all about apples today, and Haarlem is the …
PlaceHugh Eksteen Photographic Museum, Polokwane-Limpopo
… by Paul Kruger- (3rd president of South Africa) and has long been a center of Afrikaans culture. He photographed a …
PlaceGod’s Window
… destinations. God's Window is a small part of a 250km long earthwork of sheer cliffs and extravagant beauty. One …
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… their case against the bill. The apartheid government had long viewed an independent press as a threat to its …
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… Association (SAFA) was founded on 8 December 1991 after a long period of racial segregation. Mluleki George was elected …
EventInauguration ceremony of the South African College School (SACS) takes place
… collegiate work. The school was located at the Weeshuis on Long Street and later moved to the Egyptian Building near …
EventThe Directors of the Dutch East India Company propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possible area to settle some Dutch families
… station for the Dutch East India Company. It wasn't long before the company looked into the feasibility of …
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… what we believed in - the Cause'. Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded by subsequent labour histories as one of South …
PlaceRaadsaal, 95 St George’s Street, Bloemfontein
… establishment. It is a relatively humble structure with long whitewashed walls and a thatch roof terminated by end …
Document 9 - First letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… Such an eventuality would be an expression of the long standing preference of the majority of the people of …
Document 13 - Declaration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ad hoc committee on southern Africa on the question of South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe (The Harare Declaration) Sections 14-24
… Such an eventuality would be an expression of the long standing preference of the majority of the people of …
Stay-away!
… could send communists and people like that to jail for a long time. The police broke up that protest and they shot …
’Asinamali’
… one-pound-a-day campaign was one, which must go on for a long time so that the workers must understand what it is for, …
Reclaiming Radical Traditions of Workers' Education by Linda Cooper and Sheri Hamilton
… 50 Years Conference South African trade unions have a long and rich history of inventing creative approaches to … she lectured in adult education for many…
PlaceTrafalgar High School
… through our famous portals. “The school also nurtured a long line of political and trade union activists such as … their children to the School, even if it…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
… the role played by the late Ms Helen Suzman. She was for a long time, a lone voice in Parliament, calling for change. We … forward, and for growth that gives…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… remained too, the scars of the banning of the ANC. the long years of the treason trial, the scar of Sharpeville. The … cut off from the mainstream of…
Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… Johannes Vorster, who, when Minister of Justice, initiated long-term detention without trial. It saw the deaths of … about our conditions, the prospects of…