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EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki’s most stirring speeches
… "I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the … it possible to trade…
PlaceGriqualand East
… South of the Colony of Natal , between the Drakensberg and Pondoland . Despite being well watered, fertile and richly grassed, by the 1850's it was largely…
The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
… his return from long years of study in the United States and Britain, issued the call to Africans to meet in … At the meeting itself, he was the keynote…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… people are concentrated in the Free State, Gauteng and Eastern Cape Provinces, with small groups in Namibia and Zambia. While the Sotho people’s history is…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… Trump are committed to exclusive notions of citizenship and command the support of vast populations. Image Source … In the previous section, we have covered…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Glossary
… to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved. [1] Capitalism : Capitalism is an … in which the government pays a secondary…
PlaceLand Claims Court of South Africa, Randburg
… 1913 created socio-economic injustice in terms of poverty and dispossession of land from Black South Africans. The main … whatever legal issues are contained…
ArchiveThoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy
… Winnie Mandela and Fatima Meer were in prison together and became close friends. Winnie wrote an introduction to the … human rights, she was a sociologist…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… 27 Sep 2023 4 Dr Brij Maharaj is an academic and civil society activist. THERE HAVE BEEN SPORADIC DISCUSSIONS IN GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY ABOUT A…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… coined during the 19th century, as the mineral revolution and development of mines forced smaller farmers off their … land. [1] This led to an increase in…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… chemistry student of UCT, working as a voluntary social worker among the squatters in Cape Town. His banning order … 1978 28/2/1983 Restricted to…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… The origins of Enoch Sontonga and the song he wrote, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika are humble and rather obscure. Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan, of … Mandela…
PlaceLekwa Local Municipality, Standerton
The Lekwa Local Municipality is Category B municipality situated within the Gert Sibande District in the Mpumalanga Province. Lately residents of cash-strapped…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… The Pan African Congress is held in Paris, France and is headed by William Edward Durghardt Du Bois. A firm … Charter at Kliptown. 1957 6 March, Ghana …
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… public on 19 April 1895 in Herwoods Arcade on Pritchard and President Streets in Johannesburg - then a small town … - Taxi, The Men from the Ministry, Flying…
ArchiveObituary: Eddie Webster’s influence over generations of students extended to the country and beyond its borders by Andries Bezuidenhout (Mail and Guardian), 6 March 2024
… Webster — or Eddie, as he was known to his family, friends and colleagues — unexpectedly died of a heart attack on … part of his 80th birthday celebrations…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… dropping the charges against him. The book, called Khwezi and written by journalist and radio personality Redi Tlhabi, contains allegations about … boomslang…
FW de Klerk’s speech to Parliament, 2 February 1990
… peace. The alternative is growing violence, tension and conflict. That is unacceptable and in nobody’s interest. … South Africa was protected temporarily by…
Archive1990 - President De Klerk: State of the Nation Address, 2 February 1990
… peace. The alternative is growing violence, tension and conflict. That is unacceptable and in nobody's interest. … South Africa was protected temporarily by…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions
… changes that would alter the course of Russian society and politics for the rest of the 20th century. The communist … Stalin was supposed to radically break…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… for financial reasons. January 6, Rev. Charles Phillips and J C. Gibson had an interview with Gandhi following their … in Indian Opinion on notice served on…
EventUnions protest against the circumstances of Aggett's death
… was supported by virtually all-independent Black unions, and tens of thousands of workers. Outrage at the circumstances of his death cut across racial lines…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… Art Gallery was first commissioned to be built in 1910, and was initially housed on the campus of Witwatersrand. The … another open space (formerly known as…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
… with the South African photographer about the newly edited and designed release of his long out-of-print collaboration … 1973, On the Mines. Jeffrey Ladd:…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
… South Africa, dating back to the Great Trek , between 1835 and the early 1840's. The Great Trek was in rebellion against the policies of the British…
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
… where people meet across the colour line not as masters and servants but as fellow compatriot to communicate. This is … it is, therefore, not strange to find…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… This article was written by Cait Chapman and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Women’s … benefits, education,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… 1913 Land Act, the formation of the Bantu Women’s League and the formation and growth of working class consciousness as evidenced by the … takes place at…
NANNA’S LIFE STORY
… Without Trial From retirement to parliament Unions, Then and Now In conclusion Early Days ↵ she's going to travel very far I was born in 1925 and grew up…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 7 - Participatory Democracy for South Africa
… model, a model incompatible with Christianity. Political and economic power is concentrated in white hands. The result … in which merely removing the…