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Address by President Mandela on Heritage Day Robben Island, 24 September 1997
… Within the context of our fight for a democratic South Africa and the entrenchment of Human Rights, can we afford … and gentlemen; Robben Island is a vital…
Preface
… This study of "protest art" in South Africa for the period 1968 to 1976 presented me with several … of "rewriting" many aspects of art history in South…
PlaceWits Art Museum
… and historical art from South, West and Central Africa. The Wits Arts Museum hosts an array of events and art …
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… Johannesburg in 1908. Her father had immigrated to South Africa from Germany in 1894. She studied Social Anthropology …
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two … the White from Europe and indigenous people of South Africa. The first of these…
PlaceDutch Reformed Mission Institute, Cape Town
… is a landmark in the history of mission work in South Africa. It is still used by the people of Bovlei The Bovlei …
EventZola Budd of SA and Mary Decker of the USA collide accidentally during the 3000m in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
… under British citizenship due to apartheid laws in South Africa, and Decker,was representing the US. Both athletes …
EventZola Skweyiya is born
… Minister of Social Development of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999, Dr Zola Sidney Themba Skweyiya, …
EventLadysmith Black Mambazo win a Grammy
… group that has sold over 6 million copies in South Africa and internationally. Ladysmith Black Mambazo has … South Africa.Info Grammy for Black Mambazo …
EventThe TRC is set up by parliament
… Tutu. The Commission held public hearings throughout South Africa at which former victims of human rights abuses told …
EventSkipper Bertie Reed passes away
… he received the Wolraad Woltemade Decoration, then South Africa's highest civilian award for bravery. During his …
EventStandard Bank becomes the first bank to opens its doors on the Witwatersrand
… in 1862, then known as The Standard Bank of British South Africa. It started doing business in a tent in Johannesburg, …
EventCecil Edwin Frans Skotnes is born in East London, Eastern Cape
… the South African forces in Italy. On his return to South Africa he joined the Polly Street Art Centre in Johannesburg …
EventAfrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed
… and fined £20. Monneypenny, who had only been in South Africa for two months, had written a highly derogatory … Walkerville South Africa, ‘Danie Theron in…
EventIgnatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell, SA satirical poet, is born in Durban.
… was born in Durban, Natal, and was considered one of South Africa’s most esteemed English poets. The son of Dr Samuel … Potgieter, D.J. et al. Standard…
EventMiss Namibia, Michelle Mclean, model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand
… of Ceremonies in several events, including the Miss South Africa 2010 and Miss World 2009. Mclean has one son with ex …
EventBantu Holomisa deposes Stella Sigcau as President of the Transkei
… suspended the civilian constitution and refused South Africa's repeated demands for a return to civilian rule. He … Country-data.com (2011). South Africa…
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
… sects in Natal to socialism and communism in Southern Africa. How did Gumede respond to all these developments? How … new heights before the establishment of…
Address to the Congress of the People - Libya Tripoli, 19 March 1999
… outside our immediate region of Southern and Eastern Africa that we have visited as often since our release from … we see, at the end of this century, that…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… 20,000 women of all races to the Prime Minister of South Africa. Nor were these ordinary women. They represented the oppressed people of South Africa, coming…
ArticleSita’s story
… people were our family. When my Grandfather left South Africa all the settlers also left to pursue a life of … second son, Manilal who resided in Phoenix,…
PlaceGarden Route, Cape Town
… Mossel Bay and Plettenberg Bay, and is one of South Africa’s most popular holiday destinations. Mountains crowd … holiday experience when visiting the Garden…
PlaceKatlehong
… Soweto. Katlehong is home and birthplace to some of South Africa’s celebrated personalities and sports players. … other community art centres that were…
PlaceTable Mountain, Cape Town
… Lee-Ann Steyn One of the most elusive wild cats in South Africa, the caracal, roams surprisingly close to Cape Town. … Table Mountain National Park in Cape…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… One of South Africa’s oldest Towns and Naval base is Simon's Town which is … Saturday 20 July. Naval Base- Simon’s Town is also South Africa's largest …
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. … was a significant year for Cape Town (and South Africa generally)…
PlaceCameroon
… European population into supporting military actions in Africa. This reinforced the insidious and often misunderstood idea in Europe that European conquest…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
… The crisis facing South Africa and the world today has its roots in: (1) the … that in the context of all the wars and violence in Africa and the world peace…
ArticleUniversity of Witwatersrand Student Protests 2015 Timeline
… event marked a symbolic shift in the discourse of South Africa, to one more decolonial in character. RMF, other … (TUT), have been protesting in post…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… outcasts to be viewed with contempt. Gangs in South Africa Crime and violence were an important reality of urban …