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PlaceHershel Memorial Obelisk, Claremont-Cape Town
… The most significant memorial [to Sir John Herschel] is the Herschel obelisk. On 28 November … over a public meeting at which a committee was elected to…
Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi fo Leon Trotsky, 10 August 1932
… by Allison Drew Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to Leon Trotsky, 10 August 1932 … this letter from me you shall have seen a letter I send to the…
African National Congress Women's League Constitution
… Whereas : The Women's League of the ANC, founded in 1913 to resist national oppression was banned in 1960; Rising : To the occasion of the unbanning of the…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis Introduction Background to the project This book had its origins in an extraordinary … the old language of the Korana…
AAM and UN: partners in the international campaign against apartheid
… growing number of governments, which in the 1960s was able to secure the active involvement of the United Nations, the … It developed a broad range of…
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
… Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland. The meeting was convened to discuss the conditions caused by the Native Land Act of 1913 and to chart a way forward. Also…
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… The Natives Land Act (No. 27 of 1913) was passed to allocate only about 7% of arable land to Africans and leave the more fertile land for whites. This ……
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to Kwa Mashu, a newly established black township on the …
PlaceBoschhoek Farm, uMzinyathi,-a District in kwaZulu-Natal
… related the history of his people and their struggle to find land security in an interview conducted by the … remained in Paulpietersberg when Inkosi Sigweje…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving the Congressional Gold Medal Washington, 23 September 1998
… Remarks at Presentation of Congressional Gold Medal to South African President, Nelson Mandela President Clinton; … House; Ladies and Gentlemen It has been…
88. Gandhi’s legacy
… Sunday Tribune , 11 October 1981. Mahatma Gandhi (link to bio on site), the father of the Congress of Indian South Africans, was a leader who was alert to…
Address on Behalf of the Graduating Class at Fort Hare College, delivered at the “Completers’ Social,” by M. R. Sobukwe, October 21, 1949
… Prof. Dent, Ladies and Gentlemen, I intend to follow in my opening remarks the conventional pattern. And … students and whereby also certain powers were…
Robert Sobukwe Speech at the University of Fort Hare as President of the Students’ Representative Council, 21 October 1949
… Prof. Dent, Ladies and Gentlemen, I intend to follow in my opening remarks the conventional pattern. And … students and whereby also certain powers were…
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
… the 1962 programme and adopted a new programme, Path to Power. The decision of the CC meeting of November/December … 1988 was also confirmed; Dan Thloome…
Court Verdict Docket, 11 February 1978
… spread with the religion. Its primary objective has been to transmit knowledge of religious requirements so that Muslims are able to fulfil religious duties…
Chapter five: A Historical Overview of Madressa Education
… spread with the religion. Its primary objective has been to transmit knowledge of religious requirements so that Muslims are able to fulfil religious duties…
An historical overview of madressa education - Chapter 5 by A. Akhalwaya, I. Waja, A.H. Gabru, A.K. Dockrat, S. Pandor and E. Garda
… spread with the religion. Its primary objective has been to transmit knowledge of religious requirements so that Muslims are able to fulfil religious duties…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - “Defender of the Hottentots”
… of the London Missionary Society (L.M.S.), who was sent to the Cape in 1819 to put the affairs of the Society in order. Cory and others … emancipationist,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela opening the morals summit called by the National Religious Leaders’Forum Johannesburg, 22 October 1998
… leaders of our nation When we issued a call last year to the leaders of our religious communities to lend the full weight of their influence to the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… the Grand Parade in February 1990, we knew that our march to freedom was irreversible, that nothing could stop our … we knew that it would not be long before…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… the Grand Parade in February 1990, we knew that our march to freedom was irreversible, that nothing could stop our … we knew that it would not be long before…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Strategy and Tactics, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… ANC as the leader? 2. Some of the Commissions were able to deal with other issues in the S&T document, and have made … pricing and other forms of rent…
EventAnti-SAIC political rally ends in Lenasia
… On 19 and 20 August 1981, in response to the National Party (NP) government’s attempts to co opt Indians and Coloured communities into puppet state … south…
EventHouse of Representatives impeaches American President Bill Clinton
… year, which was publicly revealed in 1998 and was referred to as the Lewinsky scandal. Clinton and Lewinsky's … lasted for a year and a half, in which…
EventGerman Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha lands in Swakopmund, South West Africa
… the Germans by Samuel Maharero was initially successful to such an extent that the colonial Germans urgently requested reinforcements in order to defeat the…
EventWorld Teachers Day - “Build the future: invest in teachers now!”
… on Education in Geneva in 1994, with the primary intention to focus public attention on the work of the teachers. UNESCO proceeded to announce that 5 October…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… Background information Trekker (Boer) parties went to the Transvaal as part of the Great Trek in the late 1830s. With guns, they managed to conquer the…
Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… attacks on the union continued. Schoeman refused to gazette the agreement for the clothing industry, which … the employers' association that we had no…
EventKaunda announces nationalisation of Copper mines
… announces nationalisation of copper mining companies, key to Zambia's economy contributing over 50 percent of … This policy gave the Zambian government the…
Address by President Mandela at ECOWAS Abuja, 30 October 1998
… It is indeed an honour for me as the Chair of SADC, to have been invited to address African leaders at this meeting of Heads of state … Community of West…