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South Africa’s armed struggle: where the ANC’s ineptitude was a virtue by Howard Barrell (The Conversation), 10 July 2016, University of Pretoria
Whatever the virtues of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) – we are assured it still has a few – it was never any good at armed struggle…
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
Pretoria — Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has sent his condolences to the family and friends of legendary poet and short story writer, Pascal Mafika…
PlaceWoodstock
The Village of Papendorp lay some 2 km East of Cape Town, on the Main Road to Stellenbosch, later to become known as, Albert Road. The Area was named after…
Document 95 - “Welcome The All-African National Convention! African National Convention Must Mark Beginning of National Liberation Movement”, South African Worker, 27 June 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The African National Convention must receive the whole…
ArchiveIndia’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael
From the hypnotic effects of the circular motions of the spiritual dancing of whirling dervishes to the mesmerising qawwali [1]performances of the likes of the…
PlaceAkkedisberg Mountain Pass
The Akkedisberg Pass translates from Afrikaans into Lizard Mountain Pass. It's an easy drive along this tarred coastal pass on the R 326 links the small…
Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo's Statement In Court In Trial For Passive Resistance, June 1946
(Dr. Dadoo was sentenced in June 1946, at the beginning of the passive resistance campaign, to three months` imprisonment with hard labour. He had been charged…
Statement by Nelson R. Mandela on his relationship with his wife 13 April 1992
The relationship between myself and my wife, Comrade Nomzamo Winnie Mandela, has become the subject of much media speculation. I am issuing this statement to…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
Babanango is located about 58 km North-West of Melmoth in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. Initially the Town was part of land granted to White farmers, in 1885,…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was born 140 years ago in what is today South Africa’s Free State province. When he was 40 years old, he published Native Life in…
Biko’s legacy lives on in our nation’s history and culture by Nkosinathi Biko, 12 September 2012, South Africa
TODAY marks the 35th anniversary of the murder of black consciousness leader, Bantu Stephen Biko. Arrested a healthy man on August 18 1977, he died three…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
Adv Jeremy Gauntlett on the life and work of the late former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson's last public address was just weeks ago. It expressed two…
African farmers in Southern Africa
The first farmers For a period of time that is almost impossible to imagine, all the inhabitants of Southern Africa were Stone Age hunter-gatherers. Then about…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
A reflection on photography I intended this book as a documentary to show what life is really like for Africans. The government will probably ban this book…
Accredited Events
The National Centenary Task Team (NCTT), has established a sub committee referred to as the Content and Copyright Sub Committee whose primary function is to…
Event’Purple rain’ used on women protesters
The police in Adderley street, Cape Town used their new water cannons to suppress a Cape riot that had, for the third time, spread to White areas. The rioting…
EventBlack empowerment makes headway
In South Africa's largest Black economic empowerment deal, Anglo American and the National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) signed an agreement for Anglo to sell…
ANC`s urgent court application in view of DA march, 12 February 2014
The African National Congress will submit its protection order application to afford its staff, members, its assets and the public at large protection against…
A Dialogue in Partnership with Kaya FM - MyConstitution Exhibition
South Africa’s Constitution - admired and respected around the world for its pioneering approach to human rights - is the symbol of a remarkable negotiated…
PlaceNelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, formerly the King George VI Art Gallery. It was opened on 22 June 1956 and renamed in December 2002. The…
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
African National Congress (ANC) launches mass boycott of Ba ntu Education. Bantu education referred to the administration of education for blacks under the…
EventSA signs diplomatic relations with Vietnam
With the processes of the dismantling of the apartheid system and preparations for democratic rule under way, the Republic of South Africa opened itself to the…
EventStudents at Durban
During ongoing unrest at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) owing to political activism and a continuing struggle between the Azanian Students' Movement …
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
The Africa Women's Peace Train was launched in Kampala, Uganda, on 15 August in a ceremony in which a Peace Torch was received. It was destined to run through…
EventThomas Pringle, journalist and editor of Cape newspaper Commercial Advertiser, dies in London
Thomas Pringle was born in Scotland on 5 January 1789. Pringle sustained an injury to his hip as a result of being accidentally dropped by his nanny when he…
Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
The "Ghetto Act" was designed to curtail Indian property ownership in White areas in Natal. Natal was divided into controlled and uncontrolled areas. The…
Address at the Opening Session of The South Africa-Algeria Bi-National Commission, Algiers, 22 September 2000.
Your Excellency, President Bouteflika, Your Excellencies Ministers, Honourable Members of Parliament, Your Worships the Mayors here present, Business…
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
Vasco da Gama's Voyage of "Discovery" The reason for putting "discovery" in inverted commas is because the land was not, as so many explorers argue,…
PlaceCape Agulhas, Western Cape
Cape Agulhas is some 32 km South of Bredarsdorp. The name is Portuguese for 'needle' and is said to have been given because the compass needle was seen to…
EventThe first detainees are held under the apartheid regime’s 90-day Law
When the apartheid government introduced the General Law Amendment Act, the South African Security Police, or Special Branch, were given the authority to…