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PlaceOyster Bay
Oyster Bay or “Oesterbaai” in Afrikaans, is a small coastal hamlet and resort located about 22.5 kilometres (14.0 mi) west of St Francis Bay on the Eastern…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 1 - State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa by Yonah Seleti
… fluid categories that are constructed through social and historical interactions. They are not given and static but … perspectives on the causes of the…
PlaceHalvey Hotel, Bloemfontein
This was intended to be a Boarding House for the late-night Theatre Attendees in 1893. However this Building is now a Four Star Heritage Hotel. (The innuendo…
Message to the People of South Africa by O.R. Tambo, 26 June 1968
… We have come a long way from the day 18 years ago when the Nationalist Government police shot down and killed in cold …
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… also promoted these views in the leftwing of the African nationalist South African Native National Congress (SANNC). …
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
… Karoo . It’s a town steeped in its past, with at least 200 historical buildings, restored pre-Victorian homes in almost … Karoo. It’s a town steeped in its…
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… of the congress movement - the deep and unambiguous historical ties that exist amongst the Tripartite Alliance … past, providing us with the blueprint on…
PlaceDe Doorns, Cape Winelands
… Town. In 1822 De Doorns was proclaimed a full Drostdy- (In Historical Contexts this means: During the 17th, 18th, and … Industry . This is a Valley of…
PlaceSiyathemba, Local Municipality
Siyathemba Municipality incorporates the previous municipal areas of Prieska, Marydale and Niekerkshoop. Located in Siyathemba Municipality is the The Koppie…
PlaceTouring the Northern Cape
… were lost at sea. In-between the wrecks are a series of historical, archaeological and geological sights as well as …
PlaceBotshabelo Mission Station, near Middleburg
… an active Mission Station, there are two Churches of Historical value. Two young German missionaries, named … can be visited! The Botshabelo Mission Station…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
South Africans went to the polls on 8 May 2019 in a general election considered the most important since the dawn of democracy in 1994. The ruling African…
PlaceSteynsrus, Free State Province
The Town was established in 1910. Directly translated from Afrikaans; it would mean Steyn's Rest! The beautiful sand stone Church was well placed at the end…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… what they hoped to achieve and they shared the same historical landscape. They may even have met, or at least … where Alice Stopford Green, an activist in…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… gave the illusion of shrinking isolation. South Africa had historical relations with Mozambique and continued to focus … the evil policy of apartheid to join…
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
… say, the Second World War, they do not know how to define historical characters such as Badoglio or Churchill or … the arrival of winter?—?and if Bush had…
Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS…
PlaceBiedow Valley, Western Province
The beautiful, fertile Biedouw Valley that lies hemmed in by the Biedouw Mountains to the North and to the South, by the Tra-Tra Mountains, just 32 kilometers…
Place!Khwa Nature Reserve, Yzerfontein
… Africa . The Heritage of the San and its restitution, conservation and responsible tourism practice creates a …
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… matter seems base, the work, which has political and historical presence, takes you through different stages of …
PlaceDriekopseiland: Rock engravings
… Driekopseiland South Africa has a large number of historical rock-engraving sites, where South Africa’s …
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee
… foregoing, you will clearly see the determination of the Nationalist Government to keep the oppressed people down by … received a report of the existence of…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… South African Parliament for so kindly supplying valuable historical images for this article. Endnotes: [i] Arthur … the needs of the Royal Navy in Simon’s…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… that either. I think the world must simply accept it. The Nationalist Party came to power in 1948 and it said it would … by the ANC and its allies. This…
Presidential address by Alberth Luthuli to the Annual Provincial Conference of the Natal Branch of the African National Congress, 5 July 1956
… Africa was passing through dark days in the hands of the Nationalist Government with its strong leaning towards …
EventSwaziland welcomes SA's offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu
The Swaziland government welcomed South Africa's offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu to Swaziland, since, it claims the territory is historically…
Chapter 29. Policy and Tactics of The Union
… became increasingly convinced that the leaders of the Nationalist Party were their enemies. Today South African … it was disastrous and played right into the…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… in the 1950s. The initial aim of the UDF was to oppose the nationalist government's tricameral parliamentary proposals … Janus moment: The schizophrenic…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… however, nothing came of the 1843 claim. Despite the historical precedent thus set, the suffrage movement that … women's public role in the Afrikaner…