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A Future Free of Exploitation - Address to the First Congress of MPLA by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, December 1977
… the country shall be restored to the people and where the land shall be shared among those who work it. We aim to … equal advantage. Those who monopolise…
BiographyBiddy Partridge
Bridget June Partridge was born in 1950 in Kenya and raised in South Africa. Biddy Partridge first began work as a freelance photographer for the South…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1946
… Indians reached its climax in recent enactment of Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act, which is designed … of segregation was, however, again…
BiographyDr. Leander Starr Jameson
Leander Starr Jameson was the son of Robert William Jameson and Christian Pringle. After his parents moved to London, he went to school at Goldolphin in…
PlaceWindermere
… migrants who were less entitled to lay claim upon the land which they called home. Policies instituted by the …
BiographyKerr Alexander
Early Life: Alexander Kerr was the first of six children born to William and Elizabeth Findlay Kerr. When he was six years old the Kerr family moved to…
BiographyJohanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers
Trade union leader and organizer Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers was one of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his wife, Johanna Hendrina…
Message to the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party by O. R. Tambo, April 1989
… salute too, the great country which hosts this Congress. A land of true giants in revolutionary outlook, …
Address by President Nelson Mandela on being awarded an honorary doctorate University of Zululand, 30 May 1998
… episodes of the political violence that plagued our land at one time. The way in which political violence …
BiographyBlanche la Guma
Blance la Guma (nee Blanche Herman) was born on 30 November 1927 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape, the youngest of five children. Her parents were actively…
PlaceMountain Zebra National Park, Karoo Region of Cradock
Mountain Zebra National Park is one of the most beautiful parks in the country, and it lies in the heart of the Karoo, which means it’s easily absorbed into a…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… ideologies and even its imagination. 'The country or land of Kaffraria', according to an 'early Dutch account of … being condemned in moral terms. O. Dapper…
BiographyJosie Palmer
Josephine ‘Josie’ Palmer (Mpama) was born in 1903 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West Province), to Georgina Garson and Stephen Bonny Mpama, an…
BiographyDouglas Chadwick Thompson
Douglas Chadwick Thompson was born on 8 August 1905 to David Chadwick Thompson and Kitty Brettle in Manchester, England. In 1907 the family left Manchester and…
22. Natal sirdars regarded in India as pariah
… without halting at any place, I directly went to my dear land, the village of Nandavanam. The villagers do not know …
PlaceMitchell's Plain, Cape Flats
It was laid-out as an Area for Coloureds and erected to house the middle income group, about 30 years ago! Parts of it quickly deteriorated into little more…
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born in 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a…
BiographySara “Saartjie” Baartman
Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub group…
BiographyFholisani Sydney Mufamadi
Sydney Mufamadi was born on 28 February 1959 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Mufamadi is the eldest of the four children of Masindi and Reuben, who are…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… and its main concern was also to protest against unjust “land apportionment” or rather the expropriation of ancestral African land by the European settlers…
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… so long as you actively support the tyranny in our land. The test is your stand on the principle: No arms for …
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… poverty, malnutrition, broken families and privations of land and cattle."4 The Rand Daily Mail (July 23rd, 1970) … Black women have participated in the…
PlaceGrahamstown, now known as Makhanda
… the height of the roof. Baron Knobel, the government land-surveyor who laid out the town in that month, took the … the height of the roof. Baron Knobel, the…
Notes from Books
… burgher husband, Armour Willemsz. It included a plot of land in Table Valley, a farm in Drakenstein, four male and … company; all benefits which he had…
BiographyRoger Meintjes
Roger Meintjes was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) in 1963. Meintjes was very interested in photography and bought a second-hand…
PlaceYellowwood Park, Durban
The first thing that strikes you about the leafy garden suburb of Yellowwood Park, just 14 kilometers from Durban, is that the majority of the roads are named…
PlaceDutywa, Eastern Cape
The Town was founded in 1858 as a Military Fort after a dispute between a Natal Colony raiding party and local people. It is named after the Dutywa River, a…
BiographyJames la Guma
James Arnold la Guma (Jimmy) was born on 23 August 1894 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). A trade unionist and political activist,…
Janet Burnside Soga
Janet Burnside Soga was born on 18 March 1827 in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. She was the eldest daughter of Alan Burnside and Isabelle Kirkland. The 1851 Scots…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
Many of the obituaries of F.W. de Klerk were rather bad-tempered and some were downright spiteful. It seemed to stick in the throat of many people to have to…