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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
… stature and influence. His work was read well beyond South Africa’s borders and even used as an example of how theory … studies as an interdisciplinary field…
ArticleCelebrating Freedom and Democracy
… that were brought by the Dutch when they arrived in South Africa). The courts used these laws and developed them when …
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union
… Union of Motor Assembly and Rubber Workers of South Africa (NUMARWOSA) and its parallel the United Automobile, …
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… leader of the Liberal opposition, says the war in South Africa is carried on by methods of barbarism. 17 June, David … inflicted on women and children in the…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
… town of Graaff-Reinet is one of the oldest towns in South Africa, dating back to the Great Trek , between 1835 and the … formation in 1786, this town has…
“No Room for Racialism at Natal University”: Statement, June 1956
… to New Age .] While in the herrenvolk climate of South Africa Dr Malherebe’s pronouncements can be understood, and …
The Treason Trial: Foreword by Chief Albert Luthuli to a book by Helen Joseph, 1963
… to the literature of the liberatory movement in South Africa. The treason trial must occupy a special place in … a decade ago. The dictatorial minority which…
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
… his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague insisted we walk from our … images, perhaps in the light of…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… By Sara We salute one of our best known heroines of South Africa, Albertina Nontsikelelo (Blessings) Sisulu, on her … an inspiration to the younger…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… we enjoy the full support of all our people in South Africa. And that is all there is in it. In dealing with any …
EventUDF men takes refuge in the US consulate
… The government offered the three free passage out of South Africa and it also accepted that the government did not have …
Constitution of the AAC, December 1937
… by the Government and Parliament of the Union of South Africa that the African races of South Africa as a national entity and unit should henceforth speak …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… [email protected] Abstract The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) was virtually outlawed in 1950 by the … within the extra-parliamentary opposition…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Cape Town Cape Town, 27 November 1997
… is a great honour to be given the freedom of one of South Africa's leading cities. I must confess, that when I learnt … you conferred the Freedom of Cape…
Part 2: Ahmed Kathy Kathrada Addresses Gandhi Satyagraha Tour Delegates
… during the inaugural Gandhi Satyagraha Tour of South Africa, documenting the tour delegation led by Arun Gandhi in …
EventNelson Mandela announces he will not stand for re-election in 1999
… the first democratic president of the Republic of South Africa in April 1994. His announcement would mean stepping … 2012]| Tandfonline.com , (2011), ‘A…
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… been prescribed for learners in various schools in South Africa. Her untimely death in 1986 cut her career short. Some …
EventBoris Becker of West Germany beats Kevin Curren of SA at Wimbledon.
… (17) of West Germany beat Kevin Curren (27) of South Africa at Wimbledon to become the youngest ever tennis …
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… In addition, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983 had been tabled and approved by …
EventThe existing ban on marriages between White and Black people (Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) is extended to White and Coloured people
… the country, the marriage would not be recognized in South Africa. One year after the original Prohibition of Mixed … Every step of the way, the journey to…
EventPrime Minister opens SA’s first atomic reactor
… Dr. H.F. Verwoerd opened South Africa's first atomic reactor, SAFARI-1 (South African … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape…
EventPhotographer, Abdul Shariff, is murdered in Katlehong
… continues to appear in major news publications in South Africa, Europe, Canada and the United States of America (USA). … South Africa Report Archive, (1994) …
EventDick King returns home after securing help for Port Natal
… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 6, p. 396. Kruger, D.W. …
EventClarence Mlokoti is shot dead by hijackers
… died. Mlokoti's death, which came at the time when South Africa was bidding to host the 2006 World Cup, was used to …
EventThree cases of Buboinic plague are reported in Cape Town
… cases of Bubonic plague were reported in Cape Town, South Africa. The first cases of Bubonic plague in Cape Town …
Event5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops
… an influence over the Suez Canal created a climate in Africa which both encouraged and escalated the struggle for …
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… weSizwe(MK) cadres mysteriously returned to South Africa. … L. (1990). ‘Resignation from the ANC’ in Searchlight South Africa, Vol 2. No 1, July 1990 [online…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
… and a soldier all his life. Before arriving in South Africa in 1899, he had served in the Ango-Ashante campaigns … Bechuanaland (Botswana). At the outbreak…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… ‘boererate’, and anybody was allowed to use them. South Africa is very rich in oral traditions. In the next unit … there are some examples of stories from…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… It was through this informal trade that most of South Africa’s very first slaves reached her shores. Most of the … marked the first documented mixed marriage…