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PlaceKalk Bay, Southern Suburbs- Cape Town
… a small military outpost here, and after 1806 it began to flourish as a fishing Village and Whaling Station. During … Place. Kalk Bay is a fishing village…
EventHerero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
… had possibly migrated earlier from further north in Africa to settle in Namibia. Their freedom and culture became … and Germans who had escaped several farm…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… Special Committee against Apartheid on June 25, 1982, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the "Campaign of … on a nonviolent approach; having judged my…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… I was very pleased to receive the invitation to make statement to the Special … on a nonviolent approach; having judged my people from the strike of 1950,…
Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … importantly, public sociology more generally. A small and, to some…
PlaceCape Town International Convention Centre
… objective behind the formation of the holding company was to deliver a World-class International Convention Centre in … presented numerous challenges from…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… It was a struggle to survive in the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with … bread line. Black workers' wages Black families often had to supplement…
BiographyCaptain Lancelot Andrew Ariba
… artist and the architect in solving the problems peculiar to modern architecture (W.H.K. ed 1933:162). He had worked … on the plans for New Delhi and was…
BiographyNorman Catherine
… into his work, and uses humour with a dark overtone to confront the horrors of apartheid (see figures 1 and 2). … features, from the airbrush paintings of…
12. The pickled money-order receipt
… and Bridglal Pachai Indian immigrants sent money regularly to relatives in India. In the document reproduced below, … and all other relatives and friends are…
PlaceJohannesburg Botanical Garden
… in 1964 as a large rose garden and subsequently expanded to cover an area of around 125 hectares. The Botanical Garden … overlooking the 7,5-hectare…
BiographyJohn A. Mavuso
… National Congress national executive committee from 1955 to 1956 and was active in the Alexandra branch in …
BiographyMilner Langa Kabane
… studied at Healdtown. He was one of the first students to enroll at the University of Fort Hare, earning a … Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977). From…
BiographyMkhuseli Joseph Kettledas
… He was arrested on 8 April 1963 for sabotage and sentenced to ten years in prison. He served his sentence on Robben …
BiographyBarney William Ngakane
… Township, Johannesburg , Barney William Ngakane moved to Springs, where he served as chairman of a Liberal Party …
BiographyNorma Kitson
… Norma Kitson (nee Cranko) was born to Jewish parents in 1933 in Berea, Durban . She was one of …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… the meeting. Dadoo plays an important role in helping to organise the meeting as well as in the preparations of the … National Congress . The meeting…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… of disquiet and rebellion in the air as nature fights back at humanity’s betrayal. The more this was sensed the … The compositional styles range from the…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around birthdays and anniversaries
… nostalgically. In spite of the difficult times, we went to the altar. The treason trial, confined to Johannesburg, the debts that were piling up, the…
13. Wife lays bigamy charge
… Padayachi residing on the Eastern Vlei. I was married to my husband at 'Bourbon' about 17 years ago. I lived with … and deserted me. For several days I made…
BiographyMagdalena Gertruide Sauer
… of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to practice as a qualified architect in South Africa. She …
Chief Vuna Miya
… Chief for seven years, and then banished in September 1954 to “Chloe Native Trust Farm No. 943, Pietersburg District, …
BiographyChristina Jasson
… secretary of the Eastern Cape Action Committee from 1954 to 1955. In 1956 she was a committee member of the South …
The ANC and the Women’s League
… Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner One day when I got up to go to work it was very cold, and it was raining outside. It was … Where must she go?' Then they…
PlaceMatjiesfontein
… A visit to Matjiesfontein is like stepping straight into the … kilometres from Matjiesfontein. His tomb is located next to the grave of George Lohmann, a…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… Educated in a lower primary school in my district. Went up to a secondary school that took me up to high school in the same district of Tsomo in a college ……
BiographyArchibald Mncedisi Sebeko
… 1940s. After obtaining a diploma in Agriculture, he moved to Cape Town where he began working in a laundry. It was here …
Lionel Morrison
… Afro-Asian Journalists' Association. After that he moved to Britain. …
BiographyPious Goodman Mei
… of the African Textile Workers' Union, Goodman was elected to the Natal executive committees of the ANC in 1955 and of …
Stuart Commission Report
… African National Congress established a Special Commission to fully investigate the developments that have taken place … The Terms of Reference of the…