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The Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa: Summary
… Cape. IMAGE: San figure gaining great power from his main god. MEANING: Power from the god to benefit their …
PlaceSouth African Royal Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town
… Sea, hence the name: 'Cape of Storms'. The Greek Revival Main Building of 1825-8 still dominates the Hill and faces a … is inconspicuously located at the…
EventVerwoerd's grandson joins ANC
… of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National … of the ANC even before he joined the…
PlaceKokstad
… its history encased in its Museum, a National Monument on Main Street, which focuses on the Griqua people ,( AS SEEN IN … Dam is fed by the pure water of…
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… Coloured Convention movement which has the backing of the main bodies of Coloured opinion. A substantial European body … have yet to hear from this most…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… Act proclamations and forced removals continued in the 1970s, for instance Walmer Estate was demarcated as a … relocate coloured people forced out of Cape…
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
… we enter the dynamic, and highly explosive decade of the 1970s. But even as we survey the world scene from this …
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… to die." The "Free Mandela" campaign, launched in the 1970s, caught the imagination of people. A concert on his …
PlaceMamelodi
… future. This is the Mamelodi I know and grew up in the 1970s and 1980s. The spirt of Mamelodi and its dynamism …
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… opened new avenues for resistance– by the end of the 1970s the government extended bargaining rights to unions. …
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… banner of black consciousness in the late 1960s and the 1970s, or with the Durban strikes of 1973, our people never … of the UDF and COSATU, we reached the…
PlaceThe Langman Hospital, Part of the 'The Ramblers Club' in Bloemfontein
… Club and former Military Hospital in the Free State. The main Building was erected in 1896 and later extended in 1903. … and sophisticated venue. (Welcoming…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… Breytenbach, the radical poet who was also one of the main organisers of the meeting. However, the talks began with … Churches in the country had become…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… the value of setting up a ‘group system’ – five or six main ‘groups’ or ‘finance houses’ that exercised control of … to the north of the city. In the late…
PlaceSomerset West, Cape Helderberg
… known for its annual display of Christmas lights along the Main Road. Every year people come from all over the country to drive slowly down the Main Road to…
Document 77 - Yu Chi Chan Club , Pamphlet No. II: The Conquest of Power in South Africa [1963]
… bribed them off for decades. So that today they form the main pillar of the colour-caste, capitalist system. While it … movement. It is from this white…
PlaceWalter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, Krugersdorp/Roodepoort
… Sasol Dam and bird hide as well as the paving of the main walkway. Over the years the following features have been …
PlaceBophuthatswana, was Previously a Homeland
… Defence Force, and Mangope continued his presidency. Its main political parties were the Christian Democratic Party …
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… the forced-absence of other liberation organizations. It main features were That race was the source of continuing …
PlaceAlgeria
… as well as the Sahara Desert . Algiers is the capital and main port of Algeria. This city which has become the …
Appeal For Funds For New Age, January 1956
… together with the Indian community will have to bear the main brunt of the further and more vigorous implementation of …
EventDr Albert Hertzog confirms that television would not be introduced in South Africa
… service, which began experimental broadcasts in the main cities in mid-1975, before the service went nationwide … L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African…
EventThe fall of the fortress town of Tobruk
… the Africa Korps, had bypassed them and linked up with the main body of the Africa Korps in what the Allies considered a …
PlaceThe Free State National Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein
… Brandkop and the Farm Winter Valley, about 10 km from the main Post Office. The last-named site was the most suitable …
PlaceMariammen Temple, Pretoria
… by Parasuraman GOVENDER and Krishna. Besides forming the main entrance to the grounds of the temple, it becomes a … https://www.artefacts.co.za/main…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… the contract for pumping the water out of the three main mines. Rhodes had come to the realisation that the only …
PlaceDannhauser
… coal Mines there are redundant. The Town consists of one main street, and the main shops are the post office, bank, pharmacy and some …
ArticleThe Johanna
The Johanna, or Joanna, was a British East Indiaman vessel sailing from Kent, England, to Surat, India, under the command of Captain Robert Brown. She embarked…
African farmers in Southern Africa
… and floors. Within these societies, cattle were also the main source of wealth and the medium of exchange. Bride … The wooden hoe, later replaced by one of…
PlaceGreat Fish River, Eastern Cape
… of 692 km and a drainage area of 30,800 square km. Its main Northern Tributary, the Great Brak River, rises in … and the Baviaans and Kat Rivers farther…