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PlaceWindermere
… Situated beside Kensington, Windermere was a settlement situated on the N1 highway in Cape Town near the … of whom were Black, were forcibly removed and…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk promises repeal of apartheid laws
… The circumstances that led to the repealing and ultimate dismantling of the Apartheid … led to the earlier proclamation made by then President F.W. de Klerk…
EventZulu King Dingane orders the execution of Piet Retief’s men
… Retief's treaty, Piet Retief and his party were treated to a farewell dance by the Zulu impis at Ungungundlovu. They … the royal kraal. Suddenly, when the…
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… era Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, applied to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for amnesty for his role in the bombing of a trade…
The Storming: Insurrections Ensemble by Dilip Menon, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, June 2017
… The idea of a storm condenses the anxieties of past sorrow, present distress, and future devastation. To call a production The Storming locates a predicament…
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… in 1866. On 6 November 1886 the Victoria College, a new college building, was unveiled and expanded into … University Act of the Union of South Africa , and…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… A restless sense of documentation drives David Goldblatt. … adventurer-explorer-writers of Southern Africa, wide-eyed to the differences of the worlds they…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… Area of approximately 2,50218 square kilometres and houses a Population of approximately 104 098 persons (2001 Census). … It is located on the Eastern Border…
PlacePosthuys
… False Bay Coastline and was built in the late 1600's as a lookout post for enemy ships entering False Bay. Posthuys … material on the Battle of Muizenberg…
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … came into being as an answer by the Native People to the…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
… Manenberg is a Township of Cape Town , South Africa, that was created by … in the Cape Flats and District Six, in 1966. This was a result of the forced…
ANC statement on the Heritage Day, 24 September 2014
… cultural backgrounds, beliefs and historic experiences to celebrate our collective heritage that defines us as … us do so with high regard of the…
EventPolitical activists seek refuge in the British Consulate in Durban
… consulate in Durban and asked the British government to intervene on their behalf. This left the British government in a difficult position. It could not…
EventThe UN ends SA mandate over South West Africa
… 18 July 1966 the International Court of Justice ruled in a split vote that they had no power to decide the dispute. That decision did not deter the … SWA…
EventThe ANC Youth League is re-established at Orlando stadium in Soweto
… and the National Youth Secretariat (PNYS) were set up to spearhead the rebuilding process of the Youth League … to the rebuilding of the Youth League and…
EventAngola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty
… On 7 August 1988; Angola, Cuba and South Africa agreed to a formal ceasefire. Under the terms of the ceasefire and … of Namibia. The battle of Cuito…
EventCosatu and TAC table a National HIV/AIDS plan
… (Cosatu) and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) tabled a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, … Development and Labour Council (Nedlac…
EventRashaad Staggie shot dead
… A march organised by the Cape Town-based Muslim organisation, … Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), resulted in the killing of a highly suspected drug dealer,…
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… after the end of the Second Anglo Boer War increased to over twice it's the area to what existed before the war. … nations and were readily available for…
EventM.T. Steyn is sworn in as president of the Orange Free State
… The Republic of the Orange Free State went to elections after the resignation of President F.W. Reitz in 1895 for reasons of health. Marthinus Theunis Steyn,…
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… I’ve been trying to understand what’s happening at my alma mater and employer … what is his legacy. Who was he? To BCM colleagues, he was a national…
Address by President Mandela on Heritage Day Robben Island, 24 September 1997
… Ladies and gentlemen, Few occasions could awaken such a mixture of emotions as today's, or illuminate so sharply … the changes of recent years. Fewer still…
Action Kommandant film review by Kabelo Kemp (www.kathradafoundation.org)
… Action Kommandant is a story about a young activist from the dusty and drug ridden streets of … need for change at a very early age and were determined to do…
PlaceTokai Arboretum, Tokai Forest
… of the Cape Colony, thus marking the beginnings of a Forestry Industry in South Africa. The Arboretum is well … variety of Indigenous Trees grown here. It…
PlaceNxuba (formerly known as Cradock)
… Cradock is a Historic Town that has retained much of its 19th-Century … History of the Anglo-Boer War and early settlers, make it a fascinating place to…
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … more with commercial than industrial capital. From 1652…
EventAdolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
… Hitler's Olympics after he used the event for propaganda to promote his National Socialist German Workers' Party … For Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph…
PlaceMohodi
… The area of Mohodi ga Manthatha or Mohodi in short was a settlement in the former homeland of Lebowa about 75 km … the Bantu Authorities Act, it placed Chief…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1903 - 1923 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Kassiem Gamieldin as Secretary. The Association was formed to work in the interest of the Muslim community at the … have much opposition from many of the…
Cataloguing the archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
… process will be complete and the archive available to researchers by the spring of 2002. The earliest papers in … The activities of the intervening 36 years…