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Dr. Nelson Mandela’s acceptance address at the Clark University Investiture Atlanta, Georgia, 10 July 1993
… members of the faculty, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a singular honour for me to stand before you today to receive this degree, I accept it … of democracy and…
I - Introduction
… died on 12 September 1977. It was as though he had been a pebble flung into a pool; the circles spread out and out, until ripples touched … shores. He was…
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… under its first president Charlotte Maxeke, undertook a passive resistance on 7 January 1919 against the application of pass laws to women. What precipitated…
PlaceSastri College, 1 Winterton Walk, Durban
… , who was appointed as Agent of the Indian Government , to South Africa in 1927. Designed by the Architect Hermann Kallenbach , a close friend of Mahatma…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… it looks at the new historiography from the 1960s to the present, particularly the use of archaeological and oral evidence to make a strong case that Africa…
ArchiveWinnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018
… Winnie Madikizela-Mandela does in South African politics. A stalwart of the African National Congress (ANC), she … by tragedies and dramas, and by the…
EventEmperor Haile Selassie reclaims his Ethiopian throne
… years in exile in Britain, Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Ethiopia to reclaim his throne with the help of the … Ethiopians continued to resist the…
A Brief Commentary on the Question of HIV and AIDS by Thabo Mbeki, 7 March 2016
… Towards the end of 2015 I sent the communication below to a fellow African to respond to some comments he had made … on various aspects on the ‘Mbeki…
Remarks by President Jacob Zuma, the Grand Patron of the National Orders, on the occasion of the awarding of the National Orders Awards, on Freedom Day, Presidential Guest House, 27 April 2012
… The story of our journey from an apartheid South Africa, to a free, non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa is … that memory cannot reach or touch…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… which is sometimes spelled: 'Simonstown'. Simon’s Town is a very picturesque and Historical Town just 35 km outside Cape Town. From the Toy and Navy Museums…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… on her 70th birthday in October. Albertina continues to be an inspiration to the younger generation of today in … in the face of cruel persecution. Among…
XI - The Verdict
… 1978, South Africa The Deputy Attorney General also made a closing submission, in which he stated that no one could be … at this inquest centres on whether…
Statement in Court by Dr G. M. Naicker and Dr Y. M. Dadoo, When Charged With Aiding and Abetting Under the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913, February 26, 1948
… the said persons were prohibited in terms of Section 4 (a) read with the Minister's Minutes of the 1st August, 1913, from so entering. We would like to deal…
PlaceStutterheim, Amatola- Eastern Cape
… situated about 70 km from East London on the N6 Highway to the north. Stutterheim is a town with a population of 46,730 in South Africa, situated in the ……
PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
… of Missionaries, Chief Manzini asked the Missionaries to work with the Community, to teach them to Read and Write. In 1882 Father Franz Pfanner bought…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE SA FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS Upington, 27 April 1997
… Africa proclaimed their freedom;three years since we made a pledge to work together as a nation to bring a better life for all. On that day, too, by …
PlaceAmaLinde, West of King Williams Town
… of Xhosaland, Ngqika, and his uncle, Ndlambe, erupted in a battle of epic proportions that was to go down in Xhosa tradition as the battle of Amalinde. This …
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… When the VoC granted land in Rondebosch to the first free Burghers, Governor Jan van Riebeeck reserved a piece of this Land to be used as an Orchard by the…
PlaceDistrict Six Museum
… Six Museum came into being. This museum was established to commemorate and remember the District Six community that … scattered when the Apartheid Government…
Document 30 - Letter from S. P. Bunting fo E. R. Roux, 9 January 1929
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … P. Bunting fo E. R. Roux, 9 January 1929 I presume you…
VIII - The Pathologists
… three brain lesions occasioned by the application of force to his head; the injury was suffered between the night of 6 September and 7.30 a. m. on the 7…
A short history of Port Elizabeth's famous Campanile
… the Heritage Association of South Africa). Thank you to the University of Pretoria (copyright holders) for giving … which is an adaptation of Florentine…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… the two bays that first attracted European seafarers to the peninsula over centuries. “The fairest Cape”, Sir … that first the Dutch, and then the English,…
PlaceGhana
… Ghana was called the Gold Coast. The Portuguese who came to Ghana in the 15th century found so much gold between the … the Dutch withdrew in 1874, Britain…
South Africa’s armed struggle: where the ANC’s ineptitude was a virtue by Howard Barrell (The Conversation), 10 July 2016, University of Pretoria
… National Congress (ANC) – we are assured it still has a few – it was never any good at armed struggle. And no more … in Syria. Instead, the ANC had the…
Document 51 - Leon Trotsky, Remarks on the Draft Theses of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 20 April 1935
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … 1935 The theses are written without doubt on the basis…
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has sent his condolences to the family and friends of legendary poet and short story … to testify through literature defined…
PlaceWoodstock
… lay some 2 km East of Cape Town , on the Main Road to Stellenbosch , later to become known as, Albert Road. The … Cape in 1781-84 , was registered in 1788 as…
PlacePilrig House, 1 Rockridge Road, Parktown, Johannesburg
… Pilrig House is situated at; no.1 Rockridge Road. A classic Baker House built in the arts and crafts style, with a stone and mortar base up to first level,…
Document 95 - “Welcome The All-African National Convention! African National Convention Must Mark Beginning of National Liberation Movement”, South African Worker, 27 June 1936
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … the beginnings of National Liberation. It is the answer…