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Document 53 - Remarks of Comrade Dubois”, Internal Bulletin of the International Communist League (B-L), no. 2, May 1935
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … point of the question: that in the First place, it is a…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… in South Africa, South West of Johannesburg , with a population of approximately 1.3 Million (2008, Joburg … from Whites . Blacks were moved away from…
PlaceSeychelles
… Seychelles is a comparatively young Nation which can trace its first Settlement back to 1770. It is made up of 115 small Islands. They were first settled on…
PlaceSomerset Road, Green Point
… before June 1846, and in 1870 its name was changed to Somerset Road, presumably to differentiate it from another … Green Point Stadium was built in 2010,…
PlaceCasa Labia,198 Main Road, Muizenberg
… in 1901, and subsequently built his residence upon it, a large dwelling designed in a neo-Renaissance style with features reminiscent of a … Italian Envoy…
PlaceBo-Kaap Museum
… as the Malay Quarter , the Bo-Kaap’s origins date back to the 1760s when numerous “huurhuisjes” (rental houses) were … place to discover the real history of…
PlaceSouth African National Museum of Military History
… The Museum of Military History offers adults a fascinating look at all forms of war vehicles and weapons. … with the visual spectacle of its displays, from…
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929 A…
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… Indian Organisation (NIO) was founded on May 4 1947 by A. I. Kajee and others who had left the Natal Indian Congress … (NIC). The NIC had grown more radical…
EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… Service Amendment Act of 1969. This Act did not give a full brief for the agency, but in 1972 the State Security … (1972) laid out the purpose of BOSS. The…
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… the Benrose massacre on 13 September 1990. He also named a Zimbabwean who had allegedly been involved in train … both stated that they saw themselves as…
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… in Durban on 8 January 1991 for the first time as a legal organisation. At the time of the celebrations the ANC … was imprisoned while others skipped the…
EventLouis Trichardt, Voortrekker leader, is born near Oudtshoorn 225 years ago
… the interior of South Africa. The Voortrekkers decided to leave the Cape Colony for various contested and … British rule) and "pull" factors (including the…
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… railway lines running through the township. The damage to the railway lines was estimated at approximately R2 … could not go to work. One of the explosions…
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… Mwalimu Nyerere died of leukaemia aged 77. Nyerere became a symbol of the struggle against colonialism in Tanzania and to other African countries including…
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… A labour shortage at the gold mines on the Rand resulted in … of the Gold mining industry was also one of Milner's plans to further development in South…
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… light sandstone and is over 275 m long. It is built in a semi-circle design with two wings at either side. The wings represented the union of a formally…
ANC National Working Committee statement following its meeting held on the 20th January 2014, 21 January 2014
… the Headquarters of the ANC. The meeting received a briefing from Comrade Aaron Motsoaledi, the Minister of … of the exorbitant cost of medicine in our…
Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa
… International political processes leading to the " Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive … and Government on the question of Southern Africa' as a…
PlaceJunction Avenue Theatre
… formed in 1976, and it was organised and conceptualised by a group of White students from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in a bid to…
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
… with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove most decisive in…
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
… with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove most decisive in…
PlaceDoornfontein, Johannesburg
… Doornfontein is a Suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is located just to the East of the City Centre. The Area of Doornfontein, … means thorn fountain,…
PlaceSt James, Cape Town
… Village of St. James, lies just past Muizenberg on route to Kalk Bay . Set against the Mountain with incredible Sea … one of the prettiest little Beaches. St…
PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
… Goldfields provided in 1886, the funds necessary to construct this building that was able to house the first … of the Volksraad where the decision was taken…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… death in 1979. His major contribution as an activist was to the development of the political strategy of … an instrumental role in founding between 1943 and…
David Goldblatt: “Particulars” (1975) by The ASX Team, 16 May 2013
… “I seem to have an innate propensity which has been fed by life … sometimes enables and demands…” “My first awareness of a bodily particular that I can…
PlaceRehoboth
… Rehoboth is a Town in Central Namibia and lies on a high elevated plateau with several hot springs. Khoikhoi … of the Cape Colony in 1868. They were granted…
PlaceOriental Plaza, Fordsburg, Johannesburg
… Indoor bazaar with shops selling bargains from clothing to home-ware to spices, plus food stalls. Established in the … newly built Oriental Plaza. Today,…
PlaceOnderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute
… was associated with Sir Arnold Theiler, Nobel Laureate and a pioneer in the field of veterinary research. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC…