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Examples of exploration from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and its impact on indigenous people (under construction)
… Examples of exploration from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and its impact on indigenous people …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia Potenza Between 1921 and 1936, the number of Africans in the cities increased from about half a million to over…
Chapter 10 - The Character, Role and Significance of SANSCO
… It is now possible to interpret the character, role and significance of SANSCO. For this purpose, I draw on the previous chapters which discussed SANSCO's…
Freedom Charter and the United Nations by E.S. Reddy
… body meeting at Alan Taylor residence last Thursday. The tension had been apparent from the moment they entered the Students' Common Room. The students,…
EventSouthern Rhodesia rejects joining the Union of South Africa
… Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) rejected joining the South African Union in a referendum. Voters had to choose between establishing self government,…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
… THE GREAT ILLUSION First of all 22 percent of the whites did not even bother to vote which is approximately 700,000 voters, i.e. about half the votes cast in…
Address at the World Food Summit, 10 June 2002
… Your Excellency, Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, Your Excellency, Mr Jacques Diouf, Director General of the Food and Agricultural…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Epilogue by Carol Hermer
… From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer It's two and a half … Things stayed tense but quiet in Cape Town during 1977. The students…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer The riots broke out in Soweto on June 16, 1976 when police … The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing…
Address to the National Health Summit, 19 November 2001
… Health Summit. Thank you very much for affording me the privilege to address this unique and critically important Health Summit. As I understand it, the…
PlaceUniversity of the Orange Free State, Grey's College School
… With origins that can be traced back to 1904, the University of the Free State (UFS) is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in South Africa. ……
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… This history has an uneasy relationship with depictions of the city in tourist publications as an inclusive world of … runs deeper than this. Slavery is a…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… ‘The South African labour market,’ Charles van Onselen writes … Van Onselen’s two-volume history of ‘everyday life in the Witwatersrand’, a long ridge on the…
The Gandhi You May not Know by Rajmohan Gandhi
… In 1942, shortly before Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement, I was present in Sevagram as a … also include a visit with my parents…
EventThe first 1820 British Settlers arrive in South Africa
… After the Napoleonic wars, Britain experienced a serious unemployment problem. Therefore, encouraged by the British government to immigrate to the Cape…
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 5 - "Trade Union Notes", The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract) The action of the Executive of the Mine Workers' Union in…
EventGerman torpedoes sink the SS Mendoza close to Durban
… Torpedoes deployed by the U-178 a German submarine sank the SS Mendoza a ship bound for Durban on the Indian Ocean. The SS Mendoza was an ex-Vichy French…
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… South Africa became a charter member of the United Nations (UN) on 7 November 1945. South Africa was one of the original 51 founding members of the UN from…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… On 19 November 1970 the head of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS) General H. Van Den … overseas were cautiously planned by communists linked to the South…
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… Lord Charles Somerset was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape on 6 April 1814 as Governor with a mandate to … Makana…
31. Cape traders protest against the Hawkers’ Licences Act
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … of 1906, which dealt with hawkers' licences, operated in the Cape in much the same way as…
Address to the Swedish Parliament Stockholm, 13 March 1990
… It is a matter of the greatest joy to me that I have, at last, arrived in … It will come as no surprise to you that for me, this is the first time ever that…
Manifesto of the emigrant farmers By Piet Retief, 1837
… Soon after the close of his correspondence with Lt.-Governor … this document behind when he joined other Afrikaners on the Trek from the Cape. This Manifesto…
PlaceLeeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town
… Proclaimed as a National Monument in 1966. Leeuwenhof, the official residence of the Premier of the Cape Province, stands on the slope of Table Mountain. It …
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… During apartheid, the term "Coloured" was used to refer to group of people … to be of mixed race origin. Coloured people, throughout the course of South…
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
… here today to invite you to join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams. I ask those of you of my generation: let us cast our minds back to the…
EventDiplomatic office of the ANC in Stockholm is bombed
… A bomb exploded in the office of the African National Congress (ANC) on the third floor of a block of offices in Stockholm Sweden. … 1970-1994, (Stockholm),…
EventThe Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Bishop Ambrose Reeves, resigns
… The Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Bishop Ambrose Reeves, … Africa in September 1960 for his strong condemnation of the Government, particularly his…
Storming: The Insurrections Ensemble by Marcus Grossman, September 2015
… others decided to re-interpret and re-interpret. But for the Insurrections ensemble, Prosperus is not about magic but about a sense of the demonic power of…
EventA fishing trawler off the South African Coast catches a coelacanth
… In 1938, thirty two-year-old Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was the curator of a small museum in the port town of East London, northeast of Cape Town, South ……