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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…
A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
A Marxist critique of the Freedom CharterThe first fundamental flaw of the Freedom Charter is that it is based on the assumption that in the current period…
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 by President Jacob Zuma at the official opening of the expanded OR Tambo International Airport, 20 April 2010
The Minister of Transport; Sbu Ndebele, Gauteng Premier, Nomvula Mokonyane, Chairperson of ACSA, Sindi Zilwa and the CEO, Monhla Hlahla, The CEO of the…
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…
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
A delegation of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) met with President P W Botha and other government leaders, following calls by the church for…
EventANC rejects National Party proposal for a new constitution
In a strongly worded statement, the African National Congress rejected the constitutional proposals by the National Party calling it a 'recipe for disaster'…
EventThe Angolan-Namibian peace plan is accepted
The Angolan Civil War began in 1975, with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. This civil war was raged between two major factions, the Communist MPLA (Popular…
Introduction
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The anti-trader sentiments evident in the previous…
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
Bertrams is named after Robertson Fuller Bertram, a property Developer who bought the area in 1889; the Suburb is the Oldest in Johannesburg. Bertrams…
PlaceKruger House Museum
Situated at 60 Church Street, this was the home of President Paul Kruger. It was his personal property as the ZAR did not have an official residence for the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
Mr. President; Deputy-President Senators; Ladies and Gentlemen. I stand before you fully conscious of the historic significance of this moment. South Africa…
”Joint Declaration of Cooperation.” Statement by Dr. A. B. Xuma of the ANC, Dr. G. M. Naicker of the Natal Indian Congress, and Dr. Y. M. Dadoo of the Transvaal Indian Congress, March 9, 1947
This Joint Meeting between the representatives of the African National Congress and the Natal and Transvaal Indian Congresses, having fully realised the…
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
On 12 February 1982 journalist Thami Mazwai was jailed for two years after refusing to present facts against a former fellow student-leader charged under the…
EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
Paramount Chief of the Mpondomise, Mhlonthlo, lured Hamilton Hope, the third resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape, and his staff to Sulenkama where…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around property and land
Introduction Nelson's attachment to property is sentimental rather than material and this is reflected in his attitude to his Orlando home and to land at his…
Photographer Juda Ngwenya was the face of Reuters in Africa and a special friend by Siphiwe Sibeko (Mail and Guardian), 25 Oct 2016
There is a saying that goes: “Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are.” I am what I am because I was inspired, motivated and mentored by Juda…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
By the late 1960s many black students increasingly began to feel the frustration and disillusionment similar to that which had led to the Fort Hare SRC to…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in Southern Matabeleland. At the age of ten, Nkobi followed his father who was a migrant…
PlaceOld Fort and Cemetery, Durban
The Old Fort and Durban's first cemetery are situated in Umgeni Road, and are now an integral part of the city centre. The first formal European settlement of…
Introduction
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The first set of documents in Part II relates to…
PlaceBerg River
The Great Berg river used to be navigable for a distance of about 45 km from its mouth and, during the 1880's, it was accessible to a variety of Schooners and…
Down with Afrikaans - Oakes, D. (ed)(1988). Illustrated history of South Africa – The real story, Reader’s Digest story: Cape Town.
The government and the ANC have held discussions at the Presidency, Pretoria, today 6 August 1990. 1. The Government and the ANC have again committed…
Document 47 - “International Communist League Formed in South Africa”, International Bulletin of the International Communist League, New Series, 2, September 1934
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 47 - "International Communist League Formed in…
PlaceWaaihoek Farm
Waaihoek is a remote Farm situated near Ladysmith in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). The first rent paying Tenants were 47 families who arrived in November 1984…
Cosatu march: For Who, for What? by Simelane and Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 8 October 2015
At 9:00 on Wednesday morning, only a few people in union T-shirts sat in the shade in Johannesburg's Mary Fitzgerald Square, the listed starting point in the…
PlaceMpumalanga
Mpumalanga means ‘Place of the Rising Sun’ and is the name given to the new Province in Eastern Transvaal in 1993. It includes part of the old Transvaal and…
PlaceCircle of Kramat's, Cape Town
The circle of Kramats in Cape Town is a shrine to Muslim holy men buried in Cape Town. Legend goes that it is this circle that protects Cape Town from…