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African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
… the tyrannical measures which the apartheid regime imposes on us daily. More than at any other time before we need to … regime is perpetrating against us. It…
Graveside tribute to Robert Shell by Joline Young, 3 February 2015
… in 2009 and seeing a copy of Children of Bondage displayed on the sideboard in the lounge, duly signed by the author who … and had sat eating a plate of…
PlaceRobertson, Route 62
… It was surveyed by H van Reenen and the first Plots, went on sale on 4 May 1853. The settlement was named after Dr William … activities, accommodation, and…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… against an estate manager 4. Complaint of ill-treatment on an estate 5. Muslims of Durban complain about the … Advice to a son about coming to Natal 17…
PlaceRoodepoort, Johannesburg
… a discernible line over which you cross, other than a sign on the side of the road indicating that you have now entered … examples of Historic Buildings such…
Address at the Third African Renaissance Festival, Durban, 31 March 2001
… urgent challenge of ending poverty and underdevelopment on our Continent. This is a massive task that will take us … we confront in this regard is that we…
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… in consultation with ANC Luthuli House headquarters on funeral arrangements, which will be made public in due … Mama Mhlaba at her home in Summerstrand, Port…
PlaceBoschendal Wine Estate, Cape Town
… and local communities prosper. It has since been resold on October 31, 2003. Set in the Drakenstein Valley surrounded … access to the entire farm where they…
David Goldblatt,The Transported of KwaNdebele by L'oeil De La Photographie, 26 September 2016
… still going, will only be more reverberative as time goes on.” Goldblatt’s photographic essay on homeland transport, The Transported of KwaNdebele, … he…
EventEarthquake shakes up Tulbagh
… At about 10:04pm on 29 September 1969, the Boland farming towns of Tulbagh, … region near Tulbagh. The earthquake measured a sizable 6.3 on the Richter’s…
PlaceMandela Capture Site, Howick in Kwa Zulu Natal
… kilometres outside Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, suddenly took on profound consequence. Armed apartheid police flagged down … was pretending to be the chauffeur…
PlaceCoffee Bay, Wild Coast
… and flipper like hands and feet. A beautiful girl living on the Wild Coast, in a village near a lagoon, cut off from … off the Wild Coast and the beans were…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… On 20 June 2016, the Department of Historical and Heritage … at the University of Pretoria will host a colloquium on South Africa’s ‘long 1970s’, defined as…
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… PWD during which attention has been deliberately focussed on preserving and revitalising culturally significant … Buildings and the restoration of the Palace…
PlaceFranschhoek, Western Cape
… in the Country are found in Franschhoek, there are high on 30 Wine Cellars and over 28 Restaurants from which to … for the more energetic! There are plenty…
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s statement at the dinner hosted by Prime Minister Bildt of Sweden 20 May 1992
… We have not only had the opportunity to brief you on the current political developments and proposals on the way forward, but we have also paid great…
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
… of the city’s heritage, is largely absent in publications on Durban’s history. This dissertation addresses this issue and focuses on an old part of Durban,…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… On 3 September 1984, Members of Parliament convened in Cape … Democratic Front (UDF). The United Nations Commission on Human Rights rejected this 'new…
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
… the outbreak of political violence at the institution on 29 October 1983. Five of those killed were students who … activities of the UDF posed a threat to…
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… vein of celebrating shared culture rather than focusing on cultural divisions, a recent initiative by the … celebrate their common roots by having a braai …
PlaceFlagstaff
… and his partner, a Mr Owen, established a trading store on the site of present-day Flagstaff. The Town owes its name … every Sunday as a signal to…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note
… she continued to contribute to many journals, articles on the history of the Southern African liberation movement. … these writers. Among the student…
PlaceNqamakwe
… economy they were now attempting to enter, they began, on their own initiative, to collect funds and to lay down the … to the amaMfengu and the High School…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
… Drakensberg, none of the other sons of the soil on whom we have bestowed the title of president has come … cars. These youths may not know what Mbeki was on…
Memorandum of the National Committee for Liberation. London, mid-1963
… be a distinct difference in attitude to members of the NCL on the part of ANC members in Dar where several distinct … have had a standard military course. We…
PlaceSea Point
… society house owned by a local men’s club was established on the Sea Point slopes of Signal Hill , and provided a place … Green Point . By 1813, 28 plots…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… and Reggie Vandayar who completed a ten-year sentence on Robben Island last month, were immediately placed under … from anarchy and barbarity towards a world…
Prisoners of Apartheid - Statement at a Press Conference in Addis Ababa by O. R. Tambo, 11 July 1973
… and Reggie Vandayar who completed a ten-year sentence on Robben Island last month, were immediately placed under … from anarchy and barbarity towards a world…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Intelligence Services Day 10th Anniversary Awards Ceremony and Inauguration of the Wall and Garden of Remembrance: Musanda, Tshwane: 24 November 2005
… and members of the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence, Secretary of Defence, January Masilela, … service to our country and people. The…
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
… in response to the apartheid government’s restrictions on creative freedom for Black musicians. Dorkay House became … of King Kong: An African Jazz (1959)…