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Speech by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr. Blade Nzimande at SAHO Graduate Internship Programme launch, 30 October, 2012
… to enhance their skills and insights as historians and go on to become teachers of history in our universities, … and schools. I hope also that many of you…
PlaceEastern Cape Province
… informal seaside escape, an encounter with the "Big Five" on safari, or a choice of scintillating City diversions, … that the great outdoors is always in…
Document 23 - S. P. Bunting, Statement presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 23 July 1928
… I cannot say much about most of it, but I want to speak on the proletarian character of the subject races of South … for the present of being an armed…
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
… unite and rally the African people into one national front on the basis of African nationalism, and to fight for the … Throughout the year the imperialist…
Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner
… journalist called Jacques Pauw had blown the lid on a place called Vlakplaas, South Africa's Death Squad HQ. … in town the very next week. We had dinner in a…
New Year Message to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 December, 1964
… We wish, Sir, to place on record that the United Nations has this year shown a new … of the unequivocal stand of the United Nations on many issues…
PlaceEritrea
… Eritrea is a country in the Horn of Africa located on the Red Sea. A fact reflected in its name, which is an … and Italy hoped to dominate by seizing control…
PlaceJoubertina
… lyrical names, like: Musgund, Louterwater and Kareedouw, on Route 62 , Joubertina is a little town in the Eastern Cape … the R62' (this is an allusion to the…
PlaceWynberg Park, Southern Suburbs
… Mormon, who negotiated a grant for an extensive tract on Wynberg Hill. Granted, once it was landscaped with … fountain commemorating the coronation of King…
EventJack Parow, the Afrikaans rap artist is born
… Tyler, stage name Jack Parow was born in Parow, Cape Town on 22 February 1982.[i] He is one of the most popular … Love” in 2016. Theunis Engelbrecht also…
PlaceSalt River
… The Railway Line from Cape Town, reached Salt River on 13 February 1862. Salt River is a charming Suburb that … and a story to tell. " The Apartheid Regime…
PlaceLodge de Goede Hoop, Stal Square, Cape Town
… but after 1794 they moved to a building which stood on the site of the former Union Hotel in Plein Street … elsewhere in the building. The temple was…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… Resource in 1999. [SAHRIS] Construction also began in 1895 on two other important station buildings of the Rand Tram, … commenced at Krugersdorp, and…
EventSouth African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide
… of a Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture in 1993. On 18 April, 1994, only 6 days after Carter won the Pulitzer, … pipe, and rolled up the window of…
EventMandela smuggled out the country and appears in Addis Ababa
… Motsamayi, which allowed him to travel the region. On 11 January made a surprise appearance at the Pan-African … parties. He returned to South Africa in July…
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… The South African Football Association (SAFA) was founded on 8 December 1991 after a long period of racial segregation. … as the sole governing body of…
EventCharles Darwin and the HMS Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands
… Galapagos would be the principle inspiration for his work, On The Origin of Species, one of those rare scientific works … the people think about the world in…
EventSlavery is abolished at the Cape
… On 1 December 1834, slavery came to an end in the Cape … the Bill was passed in August 1833 it came into effect on 1 August 1834. On that date slavery was…
EventTelkom to roll
… chain became erratic as result of increasing pressure on government resources. By paying for the condoms itself, … Telkom hoped to partly relieve the…
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… during the Nigerian Civil War and wrote a novel based on his experiences. In 1973, after having served as the … and although he had been denied entry into…
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… South Africa (CPSA) took an active role in the uprising. On 15 March 1992, the South African government's artillery … to the 'Reds' (Communists). Several…
PlaceFort Wiltshire
… commanded the British troops during this campaign. Work on the stone tower, which stood on a hill overlooking the confluence of the Keiskamma and … Lord…
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… activist Professor William Tilden McClain passed away on Sunday the 02nd of October 2011. We at Bush Radio mourn … to give Oliver Tambo his sunglasses. …
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… "we all chickened out" until Tovey told him, "Come on, I know you can do it." He converted, and became a … tour: they won the second game 2-1 in Cape Town on…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at funeral in Maseru, 05 December 1982
… the people of South Africa, and the peoples of the world. On behalf of the African National Congress, and of all its leaders in South Africa and its jails,…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… activist, feminist and educationist from early on in her life.As with so many left-wing personalities, … present-day Daan Viljoen in 1955 made a lasting…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… the illicit dealers who were opposed to the JCCs monopoly on the sale of Kaffir beer. Within the JCC there was considerable opposition to municipal monopoly…
Testimony of the Delegation of the South African Native National Congress, Ermelo, before the Eastern Transvaal Land Committee,January 8, 1918
… is that there has been no land set apart for natives on the highveld. Joseph Hlubi. I am a Swazi and … What we object to is that a native and his family…
63. Colonisation scheme: the colonial-born Indians respond - From the book "A Documentary History of Indian South Africans" edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… forces in this country which we fear will, as times go on, make our position worse than it is. You know that for … has been in existence and like its…
36. The fault of Indian immigrants is their poverty and their skin
… Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Indian Opinion reflected on the way in which the 1903 Immigration Restriction Act … or newspaper style. Speaking of the complaints…