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PlaceJohn Vorster Square Police Station or Johannesburg Central Police Station
… abuse of the Apartheid resistance fighters by the South African Security Police. (Where many people were held and …
EventUnited Party MP for Benoni, D.G. Ross, dies in England after a long illness
… It came into being as a fusion between Jan Smut’s South African Party (SAP) and J.B.M. Hertzog’s National Party (NP) …
EventThe International Labour Organisation calls for South Africa's withdrawal at the Geneva Conference
… a resolution condemning the racial policies of the South African government and calling for South Africa's withdrawal …
EventANC's economic plans
… African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson …
EventPAC leader, David Sibeko shot dead in Dar-es-Salaam
… Former Pan African Congress (PAC) director of Foreign Affairs and …
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… church, the manse and the school. In 1931 the freehold African township of Clermont was founded as a private …
ICA launches 2017 Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series with Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o
… English to Literature to reflect world literature with African and third world literatures at the centre. He …
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis
… Documentation Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, who in 2011 awarded us …
ANC Statement on the 40th anniversary of Chief Albert Luthuli`s death, 20 July 2007
… a means of reinforcing the legacy of an outstanding South African leader. Writing in the foreword, President Thabo …
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… this was the second major uprising since 1960. In 1960 African people lost the fear of prisons and in 1976 they lost …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
… Braude Staffrider is published by the Congress of South African Writers, P.O. Box 421007, Fordsburg 2033. Copyright …
PlaceLinden, Johannesburg
… Cafe, a delicatessen with an enticing selection of South African farmhouse cheeses. For cafe culture there is plenty …
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… as Gqeberha. The name change was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language … The Control and Administration of Port…
PlaceSenegal
… (Cap Vert) Peninsula is the western most point of the African continent. The Gambia consists of a narrow strip of …
Document 55 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Workers’ Party of South Africa and the Communist League of South Africa, 12 October 1935
… of freedom of a hitherto virtually independent black African people and country, and the English working class …
EventHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, warns the League of Nations that he is going to mobilise his forces after threats of invasion by Italy
… Mussolini over what they considered an unimportant African state. French and British attempts to ease the …
EventThe birth of the Treatment Action Campaign
… TAC has grown into a powerful independent force in South African politics. In just two years the organisation has …
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the departure of former president Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… of a lifetime of struggle. Our thoughts are with the South African people who today mourn the loss of the one person …
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… the same way as the Native Affairs Department controls the African people. The Anti-C.A.D Movement is calling upon all …
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Glossary
… process of colonisation was ongoing, and was resisted by African peoples. co-opt - to divert to a role different from …
PlaceCrossroads Township
… 1990 by a former ‘witdoeke’ member and new convert to the African National Congress (ANC), Jeffrey Nongwe . In 1993 the … pp.185 & 215 Raper E.P (2004), New…
PlaceDurbanville
… coffee shop, a clay museum, with works by prominent South African ceramists, and a gallery that exhibits contemporary …
PlaceElgin
… decidous orchard in the area. In 1903 an Italian South African family named Molteno began farming in the area . … New Dictionary of South African Place Names…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… also known as the Difaqane or Lifaqane in Sesotho), is an African expression which means something like "the crushing" …
ArticleMaps of Africa through the centuries
… these two maps was probably the most productive period for African exploration in the history of the continent. The …
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
… eventually merged with it to become a major force in South African politics. …
Colonial history of Polokwane
… could be reached, and war became inevitable. The South African War broke out in October 1899. The capitulation of …
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… are in the Free State camps and 55 969 in the ZAR (South African Republic/Transvaal). 523 deaths are recorded for the …
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… the Cape all the way to India. The mapping of the coast of African coast by explorers and the establishment of an …
PlaceCape Town's Art Museum of Illusions-Kloof Street, Cape Town
… and Human Rights , in an extraordinary way! The South African Cultural Observatory and Museum Explorer SA have both … this number. They highlighted the…