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BiographyWalter Battiss
… Walter Battiss was born in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of … archaeology and primitive art as a young boy after…
BiographyRosa Hope
… in Natal, she painted in the Drakensberg and travelled to the Transkei. Loyal to the examples of tradition and technical precedent in …
BiographyAndré Philippus Brink
… early writing is mostly in Afrikaans, but by 1964 he began to write in English as well. His reflections on justice and human rights issues led to the banning…
PlaceWestern Cape Province
… Europe settled . The Europeans brought slaves from Malay to serve them, and the Malay culture became part of South … French, German and Malay were spoken,…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Apartheid, Reflected in an Inventory of Simple Objects by Sarah Boxer (The New York Times), 24 July 1998
… sold his family's menswear business in South Africa to become a photographer in 1962. But the pictures he made of … that there was one thing in the rag trade…
Place'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay
… of February 1488, but Mossel Bay's History can be traced back, with the help of Archaeological deposits, to more than 164 000 years. They have since built a …
PlaceTsolo
… (prior to 1910) St Augustine's was established in 1865 by the … amaMpondo. In 1874 the British Colonial Government offered to extend its "protection" in the…
Our Souls dwelt in the House of Tomorrow: The student Committee of 81 by Nicky van Driel
… Cape embarked on a class boycott. This became a precursor to a massive popular revolt in the province. The Committee of 81 led and co-ordinated the student…
Mission Stations - M
… MAASDORP , Stockenstrom, Cape: UC. Believed to have acted as an outstation only. MABAALSTAD , also known … The roof of our cabin consisted of a thin layer of…
ArchiveNamibia prayer year
… and white poster. Artwork of a woman with a baby on her back and a girl walking with sacks on their heads. Bible …
ArchiveEen Azania : Een Natie : Een Volk
… and white. African woman with fist raised and a gun on her back. Head of African man shouting. …
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… – or the Anglo-Boer War – the events of that period are back in the headlines. The camps were established by the … because they were riddled with…
Namibia
… and black poster. Artwork of a woman, with a baby on her back, carrying a rifle on her shoulder. Issued by the Namibia …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.4 Nov-Dec 1979
… B YAJULA, Kwa Thema Columns/Specials SOWETO SPEAKING TO MIRIAM TLALI No. 9: Sergeant Moloi, CALEDON STREET AND … THE WISDOM OF AFRICA by Es'kia Mphahlele …
Chapter V - Acts of conscience
… This brought some old friends of the Congress of Democrats back into contact with me. Ilse, Bram Fischer's youngest … died suddenly in Cape Town. He had…
ArchiveMessage of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the occasion of 8th January, 1985
… 1985, marking the organisation's 73rd anniversary. Looks back at events of 1984. …
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… Back in 2000, musicians interviewed for my book on music and … But I’m not a politician: I couldn’t compare myself to somebody like Mandela. In the past 10…
ArchiveWomen say justice before reconciliation
… artwork of two women, one naked with a scar down her back, dead people on the floor. City skyline in the …
ArchiveMass meeting
… on Tuesday 18th May. UCT SRC. Steering Committee report back. Black border containing wording 'Presentation of …
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… Strike a woman, strike a rock, as we all know. Yet some rocks … of some 20 000 women on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country’s…
ArchiveMessage of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the occasion of 8th January, 1986
… January, 1986, the organisation's 74th anniversary. Looks back at the events of 1985. …
ArchiveEducation Crisis
… Universities and Schools under siege; Info Meeting: report back from fact-finding mission. Speakers from: Turfloop, …
ArchiveBoycott all Simba products
… of workers holding placard stating - we want our jobs back. . …
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… 'America' has more than one meaning. It is usually taken to mean the United States of America (USA), one of the … American continent. Americas the plural…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… the South African photographer ponders how it is possible to be decent and normal in a world that is mad, even evil. For him, at least, one answer is to bear…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… Introduction Tomorrow awaits you, lo ng way to walk. It’s no use talking, to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948 … not simply passive…
Mbongeni Clement Khanyi
… Khanyi Mbongeni C. was sent to prison on Robben Island. He was given prison number 0/0071 …
ArchiveNar vi oppnar stigarna mot en battre varld
… and white poster. Artwork of a woman with a baby on her back and a sack on her head. Flowers around the border. "Chie …
Address at the Opening of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, 31 August 2001
… people of South Africa and our government, I am privileged to join in welcoming you all to South Africa and to this historic world conference that … are…
PlaceRondebosch Common, Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch.
… an outbreak of dysentery among the troop, they were moved to higher ground at Wynberg. It continued to be used as a camp for British forces for a number of ……