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OR Tambo Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 25 October 2015, Port Elizabeth
… some leaders and ill-advised eagerness to go back to South Africa to fight surfaced. The leadership that he provided to … Council decided on the first…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the SA-USA Business and Finance Forum, Roosevelt Hotel, New York, 23 September 1999
… sustainable social development and economic growth. South Africa has successfully entered its second term of democratic … significantly to our growth…
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… was a significant year for Cape Town (and South Africa generally). The influenza epidemic with many thousands … TRUST The story of show business in Cape Town…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 20th April 1992
… blessings of reconciliation among all the people of South Africa! Khotso e be le lena! May peace be with you! When … our political programme, the Freedom…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
… group Ladysmith Black Mambazo and one of South Africa’s best boxers – Thulani“Sugarboy” Malinga. Nelson … group called Imbumba which performed all over South…
PlaceNamaqualand
… as to distinguish it from Great Namaqualand in South-West Africa. 'Namaqua' is the plural form of Nama, the name of the … tribe who lived here when the first…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… colonialization and empire building) especially in Africa in the late 19th century. These were built on … had the ‘burdern’ to ‘civilise’ the peoples of …
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… of the NNC. Alfred Milner, High Commissioner to South Africa, justified the ostponement of political rights to … and having exhausted all means at their…
Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town
… birth to the reality of todays free and democratic South Africa. Like Shaka and many others that came before him, … After the banning of the black political…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… and 26 June 1955 some 3000 delegates from all over South Africa gathered at Kliptown in Johannesburg. On the second … influence on the Constitution of the…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… One of the godfathers of the fight for equality in South Africa, he has fought long and hard against racism and … incorporation of the four colonies into the…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to Conference on Unemployment, Low Wages and Poverty, 21 October 1961, Durban
… potential. The overall picture of the Republic of South Africa is one of colossal material development and … rule, have greatly undermined world confidence…
ANC National Conference, 13 July 1991
… conference was the first of its kind held inside South Africa for over 30 years. It brought together leading … of 450 foreign guests from 57 countries in…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… walls include indigenous cultural material from southern Africa, artefacts from the colonial period of the Cape, … 2000 years ago, woven grass baskets, masks…
Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … (1934) [....] The position of the Trade Unions in South Africa reflects the…
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… with the Communist Party. He would return to South Africa with the message that the ANC should play a more … have seen, some of the most pragmatic navigators…
“I want to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness by Hannah Dawson
… market volatility, and the place of wage labour in South Africa’s policy debates and politics. Hannah J. Dawson is a … and new forms of social welfare, with…
National Arts Festival 2017
… and the Office of the Premier, and Standard Bank of South Africa. Media partners include M-Net and City Press …
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… of the founding in 1961 of the (white) Republic of South Africa. The federation also took up grassroots issues, …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… Upon his release, he was given 30 days to leave South Africa. He returned to Lesotho in 1961 and continued his …
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… to the struggle for human rights and democracy in South Africa". On 24 May 1994, in his State of the Nation Address …
EventNelson Mandela meets President P.W. Botha to begin negotiating the end of apartheid
… in 1988-1990. The unfavourable economic situation of South Africa, due to sanctions and lack of foreign investment, as …
EventAn international measure is adopted in Antwerp to block rebel groups from trading conflict diamonds
… of African rebel groups, which have in turn funded some of Africa's most vicious civil wars. These rebel groups include …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… Second Anglo-Boer War and before the unification of South Africa mining companies suffered from a shortage of unskilled … Reader's Digest. (1988)…
EventBattle of Vaalkrans begins
… of diamonds in Kimberley and gold on the Rand. Also, South Africa was a British colony at the time, and thus the Empire … Evans.M.M, (1999) The Boer War:…
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
… 000 world-wide. The largest Rastafari community in South Africa is situated in Knysna and comprises of 30 families. …
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
… convictions, and to reassess their understanding of South Africa, past, present and future. …
Document 16 - Letter from Clements Kadalie to E. R. Roux, 10 October 1928
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … October 1928 INDUSTRIAL and COMMERCIAL Workers Union of Africa (I.C.U.) …
De Klerk pays tribute to Mandela’s ‘unique contribution’
… Former president FW de Klerk says South Africa has lost one of its founding fathers and "greatest sons". Former president FW De Klerk said South Africa lost…
PlaceDurban Natural Science Museum
… and life on Earth, both past and present. One of South Africa’s smallest but busiest natural science museums, it is …