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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 …
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… At the age of ten, Nkobi followed his father who was a migrant labourer in the South African mines to South Africa. In 1941 he went to Adams College in Natal…
INDIAN SLAVES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A little-known aspect of Indian-South African relations by E. S. Reddy
… The visit of Nelson Mandela to India may be an appropriate occasion to recall a little known but significant aspect of relations between … because of the…
PlaceOld Fort and Cemetery, Durban
… of the Bay of Port Natal took place in 1824, when a small trading party made their base here. By the beginning … Dutch farmers , emigrating from the Cape ,…
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by … Pachai The first set of documents in Part II relates to the legacy bequeathed by…
PlaceCape Province- 'Province of Good Hope' or previously the- Cape Colony
… known as the Cape Colony. The Cape Colony , started off as a small trading post run by the Dutch East India Company … (VOC) from the Netherlands. Sailing…
PlaceBerg River
… The Great Berg river used to be navigable for a distance of about 45 km from its mouth and, during the 1880's, it was accessible to a variety of Schooners…
Down with Afrikaans - Oakes, D. (ed)(1988). Illustrated history of South Africa – The real story, Reader’s Digest story: Cape Town.
… The Government and the ANC have again committed themselves to the Groote Schuur Minute. 2. The final report of the … otherwise, who committed offences on the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Banquet hosted by President Sharma of India India, 25 January 1995
… of South Africa. With an unfaltering belief in justice and a recognition that none could be truly free while others were oppressed, India came to our aid…
Document 47 - “International Communist League Formed in South Africa”, International Bulletin of the International Communist League, New Series, 2, September 1934
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … League of Johannesburg, which held its first meeting as…
PlaceWaaihoek Farm
… Waaihoek is a remote Farm situated near Ladysmith in Natal (now KwaZulu … (AFRA) in June 1985 it was found that there was a substantial increase in the…
Cosatu march: For Who, for What? by Simelane and Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 8 October 2015
… At 9:00 on Wednesday morning, only a few people in union T-shirts sat in the shade in … guys, the march is actually starting in Pieter Roos Park,” a unionist…
PlaceMpumalanga
… means ‘Place of the Rising Sun’ and is the name given to the new Province in Eastern Transvaal in 1993. It includes … well as parts of Gazankulu and Lebowa …
PlaceCircle of Kramat's, Cape Town
… The circle of Kramats in Cape Town is a shrine to Muslim holy men buried in Cape Town. Legend goes that it … resistance. He was eventually persuaded to…
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… 5 from land, sea and air, the greater Gansbaai area offers a smorgasbord of adrenalin-pumping adventures in a tranquil environment of natural perennial…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… ghettos, with their own experiences, histories and issues to be confronted. This chapter describes some of the … the Western Cape were highly politicised…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… ghettos, with their own experiences, histories and issues to be confronted. This chapter describes some of the … the Western Cape were highly politicised…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by RIXAKA, January 1985
… Executive Committee this year, prominent mention is given to the cultural field. How would you briefly define culture … Culture could be said to be the…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Rixaka, 05 January 1985
… Executive Committee this year, prominent mention is given to the cultural field. How would you briefly define culture … : Culture could be said to be the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinning, St. Georges Hotel, City of Tshwane, 27 September 2005
… Thank you very much for your presence here today to support an important project - the South Africa-Mali … cities of Timbuktu, Gao, and Djénné, helping to…
Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction
… advised me at 5am one morning that the patient had to externalise his/ her trauma. Until some of us could be … to Lesotho and demanded our exit, I had…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… shot dead on 16 June 1976 was Hector Pieterson. According to the late Rev. Benjamin Rajuili who was a minister of religion in the African Methodist Episcopal…
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… of the United Nations (UN), arrived in the Congo to try to end the civil war. Hammerskjöld became involved in … by soldiers against the government. He…
EventSAIC Executive meets in Cape Town
… (SAIC) Executive met in Cape Town and pledged full support to the Passive Resistance launched by the Passive Resistance … (PRC) of Natal and the Transvaal…
EventWorld Refugee Day
… worldwide in several countries in different ways. It is a special day for the world to make time for the resilience of forcibly displayed people ……
PlaceThe Simon's Town Mosque
… where yachts sail serenely by. The Mosque is situated in a quaint Area of Simon’s Town, steeped in the History of a bygone ere, when it was known as the…
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… which you deserve" Johannesburg, South Africa. May 1918. A group of African workers, and a handful of white radicals, meet in a small room behind a … workers…