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Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… replenishing posts. Oriental silks, satins and spices, and African ivory and gold brought wealth to the Crown and led to …
The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners/Fellowship of True Afrikaners
… the next two decades which had an immense impact on South African politics and history. (See the dedicated article on …
EventSouth Africa's first democratic elections
… atmosphere, contrary to fears of political violence. The African National Congress (ANC) won the election with 62.65 % … (DP) 1.7 %, Pan Africanist Congress …
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal's first ministry as Prime Minister
… to the Legislative Council in 1863, and attended the South African federation conference in 1876. He also attended the …
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 17 June 2014 (after National Elections)
… involved in the Energy Sector, such as Eskom, South African Nuclear Energy Corporation and the Central Energy … having the state buy 75% of goods and…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1970 - 1978 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Muslim population statistics 103 According to the South African Government statistics, the Muslim population of South … projects, namely: Lajnatul Atibba,…
Speech on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Twenty-First Anniversary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 21 April 1979
… SWAPO of Namibia, the Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe and the African National Congress of South Africa. We thank Professor … a necessary rather than an…
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
… schools and the development of education on South African lines, with English or Afrikaans as the medium of … school and a teacher training college, to which…
Address by Mandela to the CBI conference London, 10 July 1996
… In the two years after our democratic elections, the South African economy has shown robust renewal. With growth at an … visit is made easier by the presence…
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… been given a big impetus by Chief Albert Luthuli and other African National Congress leaders publicly burning their own … Norman said that Ross Francis had…
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… on the impact which its Alumni had on the Southern African sub continent. Kilnerton opened its doors in 1886, … Countries all over the World. As Kilnerton is…
PlaceWindhoek, Capital City of Namibia
… for the respite it offers from the rigours of life on the African road facing off against those who find it a little too 'Western' for their African tastes…
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
… land mines were laid only a few kilometres inside South African territory and were thus not long, if at all, at the … they originate from one of the…
Chapter 13 - The public participation process
… it to address these realities. Ms B. Mbete-Kgositsile, MP, African National Congress, Constitutional Assembly, 15 August … hostels, factories, towns and…
Chapter VII - Democracy?
… received very encouraging reports from these gatherings of African. Indian and coloured women, even a few whites. The … finest demonstrations. On the day…
EventPope John Paul II celebrates a papal mass in South Africa
… it." Four orphans representing different South African ethnic groups presented the Pope with a basket of … of apartheid," The main objective of his visit to…
EventAnti-Apartheid demonstration is held outside SA embassy in Washington
… by Randall Robinson, began to further isolate the South African regime. On 27 November 1984, 250 people demonstrated outside the South African embassy in…
Message to the People of South Africa by O.R. Tambo, 26 June 1968
… rule served on our people, the ANC, supported by the South African Indian Congress, called on the masses to action. And … ZAPU and the ANC are inflicting…
Luthuli House to be auctioned over R25m debt?, 20 August 2017
… Limited. “We are instructed that during August 2013, the African National Congress Elections Secretariat issued a … one of the defendants, resigned as…
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… of Democrats, the Coloured People’s Congress and the African Native Congress. They were very active in forming an … that finally gave birth to our present…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… political world; the deeper texts and subtexts of South African life: these and more became her topics, her roving … but her post-apartheid novels continued…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.3 and No.4 1988
… Revolution of the Aged by Njabulo S. Ndebele; Am I a South African Poet? by Allan Kolski Horwitz; Song of the Falling … Michael Vaughan; Turkish Tales and…
PlaceSierra Leone
… mammals (19 globally threatened), and key species like the African Forest Elephant and Pygmy Hippopotamus. It also … Observer Group (ECOMOG) of the Economic…
Address On World Aids Day, 1 December 1999
… care to those who are infected. There can be no talk of an African renaissance, if AIDS is at the door of our continent. … strengthen our efforts in shaping…
Democracy - The only solution by Nelson Mandela, President of the ANC 1 July 1992
… occasions when whites amongst themselves adopted South African Constitutions by Referendum, the National Party has … to make sure that it happens. Time has…
PlaceRooigrond
… the farm land from President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic in return for its services during the first … while many were moved to Rooigrond…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1946-Press Reports on the Campaign
… Resolution No.2 of the Seventh Session of the South African Indian Congress, Cape Town, 12 February 1946 … waited on the Prime Minister This Conference of…
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… to the efforts that were being made to unify all South African’s under one banner. In 1993, South Africa experienced … uncertainty. The country faced violent…
Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
… capitalism. A consequence of the leftist turn in South African sociology in the 1970s, this scholarship positioned South African sociology as a pre-eminent…
“Human beings with Souls”: Reconsidering The Durban Strikes Pamphlet by Alex Lichtenstein
… the process by which the multiple decisions made by African and Indian workers to down tools, the IIE activists … what would become the ‘workerism’ of the…