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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…
EventCecil John Rhodes, South African statesman, is born
… Cecil John Rhodes was born on 5 July 1853 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. … British empire that would rule all of Africa. Rhodes died on 26…
EventIsmael Mahomed became first black judge appointed to the Supreme Court of South Africa
… whites were allowed. In August 1999 he wrote judgement on Patricia de Lille’s case, where the African National … members of Parliament, which a court could…
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… to the Government, he made a particularly strong attack on its racial segregation policy and related matters. His … he stated. In 1988 Cardinal McCann…
EventLaurie Bloomfield takes picture of rioting in Cato Manor, Durban
… On 24 January 1960, Laurie Bloomfield, a photographer for the … worked as a photographer for the Daily News, before moving on to become pictures editor for…
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… against slave-like labour conditions for Black workers on potato farms. In areas like Bethal in Eastern Transvaal … recruited workers were expected to work…
EventZulus attack Indians in Durban
… The attack on Indians by Zulus in January 1949 has generated a great … Indians. Indian businesses, families and communities were on the receiving end of the…
EventA group of White men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters
… At 20:10 on 23 June 1946 a group of White men attacked and assaulted … Resisters. The hooligans launched another attack at 23:15 on the same day in which…
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
… the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, on 23 and 24 June in West Germany to discuss the Rhodesian … events in southern Africa. Kissinger…
EventMaria Groesbeek is hanged for the murder of her husband, Christian Buys
… her a divorce. After being sentenced to death by hanging on November 1969, Groesbeek was executed on 13 November 1970 at the age of 33. …
EventThe father of Rosalind Ballingall joins the search for his missing daughter
… of a Rand Mine's executive, Rosalind left Cape Town on 11 August 1969 to spend the weekend at a popular hippie … as to her whereabouts made the search more…
EventNelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
… headquarters from Zambia to Johannesburg, South Africa. On 11 February 1990, Mandela was released from Victor Vorster … the country to address rallies…
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… On 20 January 1990 General Lothar Neethling sued the Vrye … that Neethling has supplied him with toxin to be used on anti-apartheid activists. Justice Johan…
EventNkuma and Mahlalela sentenced to death
… Mpapne that took place in 1986. The state argued its case on the alleged evidence that the two were the ring-leaders of … courts to hear new evidence, which…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa’s longest wage strike
… Chamber of Mines. Approximately 360 000 Black miners went on strike over wage and working conditions. It lasted for three weeks costing the Chamber of Mines…