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… Indian women. Hendrick Brouwer, Governor-General, wrote to the directors of the Dutch East India Company in 1632, … to purchase his bride`s freedom and…
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), "The Colour…
Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
… The "Ghetto Act" was designed to curtail Indian property ownership in White areas in Natal. … as its own citizens, the Natal Indian Congress embarked on a…
Address at the Opening Session of The South Africa-Algeria Bi-National Commission, Algiers, 22 September 2000.
… government and people of South Africa, I am indeed happy to be in this historic city to re-affirm and reconfirm a relationship born, many years ago, out of…
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
… groups often state their arrival on some foreign land as a "discovery" is because, according to the primitive 'finders keepers' rule, this lends support ……
PlaceCape Agulhas, Western Cape
… The name is Portuguese for 'needle' and is said to have been given because the compass needle was seen to … Agulhas' was given. The Agulhas Bank extends for…
EventThe first detainees are held under the apartheid regime’s 90-day Law
… Police, or Special Branch, were given the authority to arrest anyone they suspected of involvement in an act … the State, and to hold them incommunicado for…
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
… A delegation of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) … and the emergency regulations in the country. The decision to meet the President came after a…
EventANC rejects National Party proposal for a new constitution
… In a strongly worded statement, the African National Congress … Party calling it a 'recipe for disaster'. President F. W. de Klerk had presented the…
EventThe Angolan-Namibian peace plan is accepted
… Africa entered the civil war by providing SADF troops to fight alongside UNITA. This was in an attempt to counter … of Communism in southern Africa, as it…
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by … anti-trader sentiments evident in the previous section had a natural concomitant…
South Africa: The Structure of Things Then by David Goldblatt, reviewed by Robyn Sassen (H-SAfrica), February 2000
… about 200 years ago and was viewed with suspicion as a creative outlet for much of that time. Yet it has developed a reputation and a body of approaches that…
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
… 1950s, not from an academic point of view, but in order to make a critical balance sheet, learn the lessons and arm the … and its relationship with the…
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
… Bertrams is named after Robertson Fuller Bertram, a property Developer who bought the area in 1889; the Suburb … Oldest in Johannesburg. Bertrams…
PlaceKruger House Museum
… not have an official residence for the President. Declared a museum in 1936, it was restored to its original form. It was one of the first houses to use ……
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
… significance of this moment. South Africa has reached a watershed in the democratisation of our society. In a matter of weeks, we expect the final…
”Joint Declaration of Cooperation.” Statement by Dr. A. B. Xuma of the ANC, Dr. G. M. Naicker of the Natal Indian Congress, and Dr. Y. M. Dadoo of the Transvaal Indian Congress, March 9, 1947
… sections of the South African people, has resolved that a Joint Declaration of co-operation is imperative for the working out of a practical basis of co…
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
… The Suez Canal was opened in 1869. As the easiest link to both the Mediterranean and the Indian Oceans, the canal … Egypt under full British control, which…
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
… Thami Mazwai was jailed for two years after refusing to present facts against a former fellow student-leader charged under the Terrorism Act. At the time…
EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
… magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape, and his staff to Sulenkama where they were massacred, during a revolt against the British. Hope was lured to…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around property and land
… Introduction Nelson's attachment to property is sentimental rather than material and this is … have suggested that we take the ninety-nine year lease and a…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Durban 82 The Jamiatul Ulama Natal was founded in 1950 to cater for the religious and spiritual needs of the … The Jamiat employs several 'ulama' [Islamic…
A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
… A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter The first … on the assumption that in the current period there can be a purely national development of capitalism…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the official opening of the expanded OR Tambo International Airport, 20 April 2010
… our country, the OR Tambo International Airport. It is not a coincidence that this airport is named after an illustrious … Tambo. We can therefore only feel…
Search for a United Front against racism
… The salvation of the Indian people in this country lay in a united front of non-Europeans. They could only aspire to be free by their own internal strength,…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Search for a United Front against racism
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer … The salvation of the Indian people in this country…
Photographer Juda Ngwenya was the face of Reuters in Africa and a special friend by Siphiwe Sibeko (Mail and Guardian), 25 Oct 2016
… There is a saying that goes: “Show me your friends and I will tell you … inspired, motivated and mentored by Juda Ngwenya. He was a friend, a brother and a…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… Joseph is one of the most well-known South African women to campaign against apartheid. Her autobiography is being published on her 81st birthday and is a…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… By the late 1960s many black students increasingly began to feel the frustration and disillusionment similar to that … (UCM) conference in 1968 came…
PlaceCarmel, George
… In 1721 the farm Langverwacht was allocated to Jean le Roux, a Huguenot settler. After a post office was opened on the site during the latter half …