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ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… the first sound film of Black traditional life, In the Land of the Zulus was screened. It was produced by African … 1934 The first tourist film, a serial…
BiographyMtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana
Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana was a renowned saxophonist born on 18 July 1938 in Walmer Township in Port Elizabeth. The young Pukwana grew up studying the piano at…
BiographyHotep Idris Galeta
‘Cecil Galeta’ was born on 7 June 1941 and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. However, he was more commonly known as Cecil Barnard; Barnard was his father's…
Bitter Battles to Come - Message to the Meeting of the Council of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation by O. R. Tambo, Tripoli, January 1971
… eyes to the east of Tripoli, to the west, to the African land mass in the south, and even to the north across the …
ArchiveSpeech at the Unveiling of the Samora Machel Memorial, Mbuzini, Tuesday 19 January 1999
… should also thank Nkosi Mahlalela for the donation of the land upon which the monument could be built. It is our …
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… new chiefdoms. Later, they annexed the area and gave the land to white farmers. In 1906, in the reign of Dinizulu … 1946, over 2,000 Indians went to jail,…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Cape Town Cape Town, 27 November 1997
… In such projects Cape Town joins communities across our land as they work together with provincial and national …
ArticleTswana
… continued throughout the 1980s, as successive small land areas outside Bophuthatswana were incorporated into the …
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
… weather became colder and drier and reduced the grazing land making cattle farming difficult. Others think there was …
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… 15 February, The estate of Aboobaker Amod Jhaveri buys land adjacent to the Juma Masjid to enable its expansion. … of the Grey Street Mosque, purchases more…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… of the last 25 years, during which the youth of our land sacrificed themselves for the cause of liberation, …
Archive2007 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2007
… happiness that can come to men and women if they live in a land that is free”. We must today renew our pledge, to speak … the Adult Basic Education programme…
ArticleThe Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State (The Zondo Commission)
In 2016, former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela released a report, State of Capture, after an investigation into influence over organs of the state. The…
Appendix 1: Freedom Fighters On The March: A Message From Dr. Y. M. Dadoo To The Indian People
… the sound of their gunswill be heard throughout the land. All Vorster's arms and all Vorster's men will not be …
BiographyProfessor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
Phillip Valentine Tobias was born on October 14, 1925. He went to St Andrew School and later moved to Durban High School in 1939 where he matriculating in 1942…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
… exception to this appalling capture rate is provided by land mines. For every two of the 33 land mines laid by guerillas and subsquently detonated about ……
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
… exception to this appalling capture rate is provided by land mines. For every two of the 33 land mines laid by guerillas and subsquently detonated about ……
BiographyJohannes (Jan) de Klerk
Johannes de Klerk was born on 22 July 1903 in Burgersdorp. He was the eldest son of Reverend Willem de Klerk and Aletta Johannes van Rooy. De Klerk went to…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 4 - Participatory Democracy
… It would be the committee's job to propose where in the land available these different crops should be planted, and … the times and the organization of joint…
PlaceSomalia
… Era. [i] The ancient civilisation, known as the Land of Punt, is believed to have been located in modern-day … 1500 BCE. Egyptian documents from the time…
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… we are in quest for a South Africa where everyone in the land, according to individual ability and inclination, shall … laws such as the industrial laws of…
PlacePanorama Route, Mpumalanga
… raging Rivers and one of the largest Areas of converted (land) into Forest, especially for Commercial exploitation in …
PlaceHangberg, Hout Bay
… “labourers’ cottages” ) just above the settlement. The land was sold off to a foreign investor. After some … as a sign that the Area was no longer National…
Chapter X - Final word
… If white South Africa persists in its refusal to share the land, the wealth and the power, if it continues to use force … and their fears and stand with the…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a jazz concert at the then University of…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… the eventual reclamation by black South Africans of their land. Burger’s Daughter, published in 1979, focused on the …
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
… premises.In 1917, Girls’ High was granted a piece of land adjacent to the school for their playing fields and by …
BiographyHelen Zille
Helen Zille attended school at St. Mary's Waverley in Johannesburg. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Witwatersrand. A…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
The contribution of Pravin Gordhan may never be truly understood and appreciated by millions of South Africans. For those of us who have had the privilege to…
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… Every time I land at Durban Airport, I am haunted by the memory of Fatima …