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A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
… to the 1980s, identifying the "non-European" presence and what the nature of this presence was. It focuses on the micro … Junction Precinct which has become…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… country, namely the Black community, from exercising their right to participate in the political affairs of their …
EventThe Prime Minister announces the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the reporting of defence matters, to be headed by Justice M.T. Steyn
… the line between the rights of the media to inform and the right of the public to be informed, on the one hand, and the …
PlaceRosemount
… the extraordinary wildness and unspoilt surrounds is what is most attractive. This stretch of coastline is … still are the frequent sightings of the Southern…
PlaceCamp’s Bay, Cape Town
… a piece of land between Table Mountain and Lions Head , right down to the sea, which later became known as Camps Bay. …
Chapter 11 - Negotiating the final constitution
… list' of issues. This sparked off an important debate: what issues should be dealt with in the constitution and … 5.1 When it is debated whether a particular…
PlaceLand Claims Court of South Africa, Randburg
100 years ago, the Natives Land Act of 1913 created socio-economic injustice in terms of poverty and dispossession of land from Black South Africans. The main…
PlaceLamu, Kenya
Lamu Island is a Port, City, an Island just off the shore of Kenya in the Indian Ocean approximately, 150 miles from Mombasa. Lamu Old Town is the oldest and…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… are poverty, inequality and unemployment. Who remembers what To explore the patterns of collective memory in the …
45. Mass meeting at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1906
… of acquisition of land in the British Empire. We have a right to ask how such speeches of Lord Selborne can be … that the Liberal Government will approve…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… other organisations - in Africa, no less - asserted its right to provide the leadership in the coming struggle for … and programmes and their own conceptions…
"If I were Prime Minister": Article by Albert Luthuli, 2 December 1961
… areas and service; the question of tribalism and to what degree tribal traditions should be maintained; relations … circumstances which may arise. But,…
88. Gandhi’s legacy
… the wrong. But every nation and every individual has the right, and it is their duty, to rise against an intolerable … and benumbed by decades of propaganda…
ArchiveUnited Nations General Assembly Resolution 1375 (XIV): Question of race conflict in South Africa resulting from the policies of apartheid of the Government of the Union of South Africa
Official United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted at the 838th plenary meeting expressing opposition to South Africa's apartheid policies, calling on…
ANC National Conference, 13 July 1991
… religious and business leaders, we reasserted the people`s right of self-defence. Conference therefore instructed the … time in their lives. They expressed…
Under the influence of Dumile Feni’s 'African Guernica' by Sharlene Khan (The Conversation), 07 September 2016
… series, “Under the influence”, we ask experts to share what they believe are the most influential works of art in … as devoid of human thinking and feeling…
Address to the Swedish Parliament Stockholm, 13 March 1990
… and universal issues of human rights for all people, the right and possibility of every individual to full and unfettered development, the right of every…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the XIV Summit Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, Havana, Cuba 14 September 2006
… to our own countries, be assured that we have taken the right decisions - decisions that will work towards the … responses from us. These include the ongoing…
Chaskalson was a pillar of strength in my battle against HIV/Aids by Justice Edwin Cameron - Constitutional Court, 9 December 2012
… You have no need of me.” I felt devastated. But Arthur was right. My fears did not stem from the legal principles, or … before the JSC. It was breathtakingly…
ArchiveHistory for the Future by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
It is 20 years since the first Truth and Reconciliation hearing took place... The TRC was a unique political compromise forged during the years of…
EventAfrican's Claim is presented at the conference
At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Bloemfontein, the document the African's Claim in South Africa, presented by the…
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
… that is was a conflict between black and white. Taylor: Right. Sachs: It’s a conflict that had a very powerful racial … whole - the non-racial philosophy, if…
PlaceZimbabwe
… former self. The reason for the decline was that, much as what had happened to Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe had lost … encompassing most of the lands…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… involvement in countries such as Vietnam and Algeria. 1 What is surprising is that the history of youth in South … Education to take action in both these…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… with the former becoming increasingly resentful at what they perceived as administrative interference. Soon the … in an electorate). Eligibility to vote was…
PlaceCeres, Western Cape Winelands
… as Carl Boplaas, was his nephew and a poet in his own right. Embedded within the rich heritage of Boplaas is the …
PlaceKommetjie, Cape Town
… hospitable, but at the same time, fiercely defend their right to determine the pace and nature of their village. This …
PlaceRondebosch Common, Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch.
… Rector of St Paul's Church, Rondebosch, was granted the right to graze his cattle on the land. At the same time two … Monument under old NMC legislation on…
PlaceOpera House, Port Elizabeth
… Hemisphere. This special piece of World History is right here in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape …
58. Congress has sold our rights
… that Indians are willing to repatriate themselves. What right have they to do this? We farmers have had a meeting, …