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EventGerard Moerdijk, SA architect of several church buildings and the Voortrekker monument, dies
… famous work is the Voortreker Monument in Pretoria, died on 29 March 1958, aged 68 years old. Moerdjk matriculated at … he went to further his studies in…
EventThe passive resistance movement begins with a mass meeting of 2000 Africans
… The passive resistance movement began on 30 March 1919 when a mass meeting of two thousand Africans … to ensure this was upheld. However, police used force…
EventTwenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen are sentenced to death for the Lari massacre in Kenya
… situation. The massacre followed the eruption of violence on 20 October 1952, as the Mau Mau protested the arrest of … and comments from those who witnessed…
EventOldest part of Johannesburg, Marshalltown, is planned
… On 27 September 1886, Henry Brown Marshall asked Kidger … the first quarter of the same year Gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. The…
PlaceAlbertskroon, Suburb of Johannesburg
… Greymont and Montgomery Park. Established about 1896 on the Farm Waterval, it was named after the Alberts family, … Spring in Gauteng is tucked away under…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… students that the apartheid colonialist police shot dead on 16 June 1976 was Hector Pieterson. According to the late … Division presided by Judge David…
David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of their Crimes by Max Campbell, 6 October 2016
… David Goldblatt, we see an older woman named Ellen sitting on a slim bed in a bare-bones room. Her hands are folded in … camera. A caption beneath the…
PlaceGoodman Gallery
… On 25 November 1966 Linda Givon (then Goodman) opened the … of Africa in the sixties, and inaugurated a focus on a geopolitical aesthetics of social…
PlaceGardens Shul in Cape Town
… and Eurasia. Beyond these Regions it did not spread until, on the back of the Colonial expansion of Europe overseas, … ideals of the French Revolution,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Tomichi Murayama Tokyo, 5 July 1995
… elevated themselves to ever loftier heights. As we set out on our own path of rebuilding, we shall borrow a few chapters … countries and our peoples. It will…
Constitution, Rules and Bye-Laws, I.C.U. Yase Natal, 1929 [Extracts]
… possible value for its members when spending their wages on the food, clothes or goods they need or when selling the … provisions for mortality allowance and…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… was arrested for treason the first time, he came home on bail to find Evelyn had gone, leaving behind their two … 1969, she was held in solitary confinement…
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
… ANC leaders, among them O. R. Tambo, as follows: "Lutuli”¦on difficult questions on which he wanted adÂvice bypassed his officials and … confidence in…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
… would simply flatten out future individual claims based on liberty and could lead to many totalitarian temptations in … Chaskalson had no problem finding…
Address at a Luncheon in Honour of Zhu Rhongji, Premier of the People’s Republic of China, 5 September 2002
… building strong ties between our two countries, not only on economic and political levels, but also on a social, people-to-people level. Of course, your…
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… though he persisted with influx control. He embarked on negotiations with Crossroads residents aimed at either … the same year to accommodate informal…
Black ViewPoint - Introduction edited by B.S. Biko (1972)
… read of a report of any speech or incident which focuses on blacks, we usually find it accompanied by interpretative … of the story therefore can only be…
PlaceMossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
… by Vasco de Gama in 1497, when He set off with 170 men on an expedition to find a sea Route to India. This was in … sandy shore of the Bay. The Town's…
PlaceSharpeville, Gauteng
… crowd and out of fear and irrational behavior, opened fire on the citizens, injuring 180 and killing 69 of them. This … caused International fury and disgust…
PlaceCity Hall and Francis Farewell Gardens, Durban
… Click on image to enlarge Declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 12 December 1975. Diagonally opposite - in West Street, … structure was…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… people who were classified as ‘non-white’. Kies was born on the 12th December, 1917 to parents of modest means in the … (1993:181) reports that he ‘had…
Interview with Africa Report by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1981, New York
… his supporters. Today, rather than say, "I stand on the kaffir`s neck," he is forced to say that they must be … There is a political crisis within the ruling…
Address at the University of The State of Bahia Brazil, 14 December 2000
… by it and therefore I accept the honour you are bestowing on us, on behalf of all South Africans. Your invitation Madam … Africa, lies buried the remains of…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… Stars Football Club. The focus then shifts to his service on the executive of the Durban and District African Football … (or Ndebele) rebellion in Southern…
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… continuously as guns” sprinkle the scant literature on photography in South Africa. 2 Resistance photography has … censorship. 4 While many authors…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 1 - The Necessity of Utopian Thinking
… system, the existence of nation states, the polity, and so on-as natural entities imposing certain rigidities on our behavior. We see our area of choice in…
"Form united front now": Interview with Albert Luthuli, 5 May 1962
… and others have informed me that they are willing to serve on such a committee," he said. Reiterating his appeal for a … he declared. [Chief Lutuli named the…
Biennale Dak’Art 2018 : Open Call for Submissions - Deadline: 31 Jul 2017
… not earlier than January 2016 (property of the artist) on paper or digital file (photographs, DVD, CD). The credit … 8. Copies of review articles and…
For Richard Turner by Peter Sacks
… You wrote on the back page of my last essay ("Political Education in … the sea. A morning swim, a day of marginalia, lazy ambles on the shore in the late…
Upcoming events at the Book Lounge
… for 6.30pm – Launch of The Sword and the Pen: Six Decades on the Political Frontier by Allister Sparks Veteran … will be available in English and Afrikaans…