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PlaceAuwal Masjid, Cape Town
The Auwal Masjid, is the first and oldest Mosque built in South Africa. This is evident according to very strong oral tradition which also confirms that Imam…
PlacePringle Bay, Cape Overberg
The little seaside village of Pringle Bay is one of the towns set within the natural beauty of the Kogelberg Biosphere, the only reserve in South Africa to be…
EventSA painter Frederick Timpson I'Ons (85) dies
Frederick Timpson l'Ons (85), SA painter of the early life in the Eastern Cape, died in Grahamstown. He was born in Islington, Middlesex, England on 15…
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
The Transvaal, is one of the former Province of South Africa. It occupied the North Eastern part of the Country. The Limpopo River marked its border with…
Book Launch: The Nightwatchman, Hlonipha Mokoena
… Khumisho Moguerane on the portrayal of African men in colonial South Africa and how the Black male body and their …
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… pro bono work on everything from resurrecting the Italian colonial railway and locomotives, to planting Neem trees … Mau Mau, when the Kikuyu guerrillas were…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… name Pieterson to pass off as “Coloureds.” Under apartheid colonial regime Coloureds were treated a little better than … in court on crutches had been…
38. The Natal Franchise Bill, 1894: Do not make our sons pariahs
… the right to vote because, presumably, according to the colonial view, he is unfit for the privilege. The honourable … take the following from Mr. Saunders'…
PlaceSwakopmund, Namibia
… From sandboarding down towering dunes to exploring German colonial architecture, there’s something for every Historian … Swakopmund is a beach resort and an…
PlacePort Alfred
One of the many difficulties faced by the 1820 Settlers, was accessibility to the outside World. In 1821, the first ship entered the Kowie River and the…
PlaceTsolo, Eastern Cape
… of Chief Mhlonthlo of the amaMpondo. In 1874 the British Colonial Government offered to extend its "protection" in the …
PlaceHermannsburg School and Mission Museum, (Greytown)
The "Deutsche Schule Hermannsburg" (or Hermannsburg School) is located in the hamlet of Hermannsburg on the North Eastern fringe of the Natal Midlands between…
PlaceThe Simon's Town Mosque
… to the Muslim community of Simon’s Town by the British colonial officer Christopher Bird on 19 September in 1823. …
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Military Veterans Medals Parade Waterkloof Airforce Base, 27 October 2012
… we shall win and liberate our country from apartheid and colonial subjugation." Many of them did so having full …
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… more step forward in the inexorable crumbling of racist-colonial domination in southern Africa. Tanzania started in …
Opening address by President Jacob Zuma to the 2nd Biennial Summit on substance abuse, 15 March 2011, Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, Durban
… even in rural areas. During the apartheid and colonial periods, these centres were accessible to a select …
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New Times, 05 January 1980, Moscow
… continues. It is directed against the last remaining colonial, racist and apartheid power, the South African …
O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New Times, Moscow, January 1980
… continues. It is directed against the last remaining colonial, racist and apartheid power, the South African …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the inauguration of the National Council of Traditional Leaders Cape Town, 18 April 1997
… work, are freeing our understanding of the past from the colonial account of our country and region. They point with …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Heritage Day, Cape Town
… the vision of liberty and democracy for all. In a post-colonial and post-apartheid, democratic South Africa, which …
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… of Kgosi Mampuru, a 19th-century local chief who resisted colonial rule and was subsequently hanged in 1883. As part of … are (i) occasional settlement…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… The rural African population changed from their pre-colonial status as pastoralist-cultivators to their current …
PlaceOudekraal Beach, Bakoven
… it was a refuge for slaves who had escaped from the colonial authorities and their masters. Among them were … it was a refuge for slaves who had escaped from…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… of Congo was formerly the Belgian Congo. The capital under colonial rule was Leopoldville (now Kinshasa). The area was …
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… services' and military support to neighbouring white colonial governments in then Rhodesia, Mozambique and Angola. …
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… expansion in the region. Click here to read a lesson about colonial rule and African responses. The tomb of Askia …
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… more about other experiences of wars of liberation against colonial powers. During this period he underwent military …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Social Transformation, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… such as the need to change offensive names representing colonial conquest and apartheid statehood , the need to … such as the need to change offensive names…
Canon Collins Memorial Lecture by Oliver Tambo, 28 May 1987, London
… side of this alternative power and the rest of the anti-colonial and anti-racist forces of the continent of Africa … which has struggled for survival and…
Statement at the 25th Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 24 – 26 July 1989
… always sought peaceful ways of ending the system of colonial and racial domination. Consistently the oppressed … itself has, at various times, made serious…