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The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note
… Taylor. She worked in the liberatory movement in South Africa until, at the height of the repression in the 1960's, … with themes drawn from the history of…
Bitter Battles to Come - Message to the Meeting of the Council of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation by O. R. Tambo, Tripoli, January 1971
… Twelve years ago, the peoples of Africa and Asia met in the revolutionary capital of the … map out a strategy for the eviction of colonialists from Africa…
Domestic work
… who identify yourselves with the broad aim of a new South Africa, and that is the overwhelming majority: § Let us put … politics have created new…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… of a prohibited organisation (The Communist Party of South Africa and the ANC). As Walter Sisulu and his co-accused left … Father Trevor Huddleston on the…
EventLouis Botha becomes Union’s first Prime Minister
… Gladstone to constitute a government in terms of the South Africa's Act. He then became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, which was to…
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… one of the most significant events in the history of South Africa, described by many as tension-driven and known as the Convention for a Democratic South…
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… the first Black head of the Anglican Church in South Africa. Tutu was ordained as a deacon in 1960, and became a … Masters Degree in the Arts in 1966. On his…
PlaceStevenson Gallery, Woodstock-Cape Town
… new was afoot that had yet to find a home in South Africa, which at the time had only one serious contemporary … African gallery to exhibit artists from…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Congress Youth League Activities
… of the said Youth League. Statement of policy South Africa has a complex problem. Stated briefly it is: The … and outlooks on life which seriously hamper…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
… well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid , and as a political prisoner of the … was born on 16 September 1939 in…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template … followed the photographer’s flight, aged 25,…
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
… Council for agreeing to convene on the question of South Africa. We would also like to thank you most sincerely for … United Nations has been seized with the…
Extract from a speech during a political meeting held on 17 June 1971 at Naboomspruit in the Waterberg constituency
… for the HNP could have on political thinking in South Africa. Adv. Vorster made use of this opportunity to refute … Africans to ensure the survival of the…
Message to the Special Committee against Apartheid on its 20th anniversary from O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 April 1983
… for all round support for the liberation struggle in South Africa. The fact that the Chairman of the Special Committee … by Washington, which aids and abets…
Message from Oliver Tambo to the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid on its 20th anniversary, 02 April 1983
… for all round support for the liberation struggle in South Africa. The fact that the Chairman of the Special Committee … by Washington, which aids and abets…
EventReported arrest of London bomb mastermind, Rashid Aswat
… of the bomb attacks in London on July 7 hid in South Africa for several weeks before being arrested in Zambia last … of Investigation (FBI) wanted to arrest…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Bibliography
… . Cape Town, Shuter & Shooter, 1994. Davidson, Basil. Africa in History . London, Phoenix, 1996. Delius, Peter. The … Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth…
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… racial discrimination that segregated the people of South Africa based on their skin color and treated them according … of apartheid “otherwise.” While the…
Address on the Occasion of the Budget Vote of the Presidency, 18 June 2002
… is proceeding under the leadership of Statistics South Africa, to develop integrated performance indicators to … used to propel our economy to even greater…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… along the Gariep River in the central parts of southern Africa. The Kora kept close contact with the Cape Colony. … there was much conflict among the peoples…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… Like the rest of you, I am dazzled to be in South Africa House - and to know it's yours. All the 34years I was … relatively small band of people inside and…
EventThe SA government grants ‘Independent’ status to Venda
… Following South Africa's policies of racial segregation and the promulgation … remained politically and economically dependent on South Africa. …
EventPik Botha is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs
… in the United States of America (USA), returns to South Africa and is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Botha … after completing his law studies. He…
EventSt. John Broderick claims concentration camps are improving
… made to improve conditions in concentration camps in South Africa. The camps were set up during one of the toughest and bleakest phases in the history of…
ArchiveTowards racial justice: will there be a change of heart?
… portrays the social and political injustices in South Africa. Further discussion is emphasised on questioning … will be a change of heart by the white…
PlaceKitson the Steam Train, Krugersdorp
… was, in 1983, the oldest running steam engine in South Africa. She was doing so for more than 105 years! Kitson is … firm of Kitson and Co, of Leeds, and was…
EventJoyce Barker, SA soprano, is born in Mooi River, Natal.
… a significant contribution to the growth of opera in South Africa. She won the Ernest Whitcutt Memorial Cup three years … After an absence of ten years, she…
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… United Democratic Front (UDF) supporters in Natal, South Africa, following the release of Mandela on 11 February … on 27 April 1994 eventually ushering in a…
EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… 134 plane crashed into the Lebombo Mountains, South Africa, after allegedly following a false beacon. Machel was … in Zambia. His death sent shockwaves…
EventCollen Chauke, infamous escapee, is captured
… Collen Chauke, South Africa's most wanted fugitive, was captured in Nelspruit. He was arrested at a roadblock in Nelspruit near South Africa's border with…