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PlaceAliwal North, Eastern Cape
… Orange River, some 195 km from Bloemfontein, on the road to to East London. It was founded in 1849 and named by the … The Settlement of the Area and its…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… beginning of the South African slave trade . It was Home to perhaps the World’s most famous political prisoner— Nelson … ago, during the Karoo Ice Age ,…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… self-help and vocational and technical training inspired a generation of black and white educators responsible for … Black American Educational Component in…
"Form united front now": Interview with Albert Luthuli, 5 May 1962
… implicit in the Sabotage Bill may, I fear, ultimately lead to bloodshed and even open revolt by the oppressed people - a situation which we have worked so…
PlaceFourteen Streams
… Cape Government, powers of construction were transferred to the British South Africa Company, who undertook to build … to Bulawayo and Salisbury in Rhodesia…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
… Boer), the British had whittled down the Boer resistance to such an extent that the only resistance they could offer … camps. On the eve of defeat, General…
Document 31 - The Negotiating Forum: resolution on the transition process
… of that year, of which much history has been written, and to which I have made brief reference in former pages, Sidney … the Johannesburg branch and myself…
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
… people were killed and five people seriously wounded when a light truck set off a land mine close to the border with Zimbabwe. An army spokesman in Pretoria …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… and of many fine and definitive photographs, testifies to a narrow regionalism of which I had not suspected myself. … Memory Against Forgetting have opened…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… using the social system of their old American masters as a basis for their new society). These descendants are known … indigenous Liberians and the Americo…
Address during the 90th Birthday Celebration of Mr Walter Sisulu 18 May 2002 Mr President, Ladies and Gentleman, Comrades and Friends
… We are highly privileged to be able to celebrate the 90th birthday of such a giant and a cornerstone of our movement. Our movement has … was such that the…
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
… about 11km North-West of King William’s Town (on the road to Alice) and Fort Beaufort! Dimbaza is a symbol of the 'surplus people', those that were discarded…
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… gray, when I take the 1044 train from Newlands station on a Saturday afternoon to meet the photographer Omar Badsha at his house in … through one of his…
EventThe Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 is passed
… Act, Act No 19 of 1954 empowered the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the … district of Johannesburg . Subsequently, less than…
EventBoxing legend, Dingaan Thobela thwarts a hijacking at his home in Johannesburg
… Dingaan Thobela 'The Rose of Soweto' arrived home only to be greeted by hijackers as he was about to enter his Kelvin home. One of the hijackers attempted to…
EventBlack pupils arrive at school escorted by police officers
… A few days after the ruling by the Supreme Court to force Potgietersrus Primary School in Limpopo Province to … by police officers to register. They were…
EventEritrea becomes a member of the United Nations.
… Several attempts were made by Eritrea to gain recognition from the United Nations (UN). Habte … UN argued that the UN’s resolutions on decolonisation were…
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… A couple of days back I had a dream where I visited the renovated premises of my once … Rip van Winkle waking up in a shell of a building trying to find what…
ArchiveThe New South African Revolution by Prithiraj Dullay, 03 April 2017
… South Africa is poised on a knife edge. Anything can happen. Last week Pravin Gordhan … plus his deputy were recalled from London in the midst of a…
ArchiveA History of Botsotso by Allan Horwitz
… mos botsotsos back pocket front pocket nog 'n maal talk to me die is mos botsotsos pull high stretch on a high way ons pedetry moet doves 2 no…
PlaceNorthern Cape
… of the Cape Province (under old Provinces ). "With only a million people inhabiting its 373,000 sq km, the Northern … you are traveling North from South…
PlaceKwaZulu-Natal Literary Trails (under Heritage Routes)
… Kwa-Zulu Natal has a diverse literary heritage, from the legacy of prominent … writers and political figures in Grey Street in Durban, to the writers of the…
PlaceShree Ambalavaanar Alayam Temple Complex, Cato Manor, Durban
… building is the first recorded public Hindu temple to have been erected on the African continent. Built in 1875, . It was declared a National Monument under…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism
… The Durban Declaration was a statement signed by over 5 000 people in the scientific … AIDS. The declaration was signed and published in response to then…
Entering Namibia without visas
… was no question of anyone entering the territory without a visa from South African authorities. [A delegation from the UN Ad Hoc Committee on South West ……
PlaceSterkfontein Caves, Krugersdorp (within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site)
… Krugersdorp , on the Farm- 'Swartkrans'. They are believed to have been discovered in about 1896 or 1897, and were … thereafter on the neighbouring Farm of; …
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
… First of all 22 percent of the whites did not even bother to vote which is approximately 700,000 voters, i.e. about … move to draw all the whites together is…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin
… on the quay at Durban in July 1929, when I stepped off a British India steamer at the end of a long journey. Fresh from the rural life of northern India, ……
PlaceIsipingo, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Durban City Central, lies Isipingo, an Area blessed with a fascinating mix of Cultures and a unique History. This vibrant Town is conveniently located ……
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… of South Africa, in 1946. After matriculating he went to Natal University to study medicine in 1966. Initially he … he was not permitted to leave the…