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Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… the continent from the perspective of the majority - the Africans. What are some of the key misconceptions about the … Historians believed, as did almost all…
Address To The Nation On National Women’s Day, 9 August 1999
… Fellow South Africans, Today, August 9th is National Women's Day. On this … subjected to intolerable abuse! I would like all South Africans, individually and…
Dance For All (DFA)
… as the Artistic Director of DFA. Many well-known South Africans became patrons of DFA as they saw the importance of …
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… in negotiating the freedom and equality of all South Africans. He then became South Africa’s first democratically …
ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
… from copper and iron which they obtained by trading with Africans from the North. The San and Khoikhoi had many …
ArticleBlack Sash
… the injustices that were involve in enforcing Pass Laws to Africans. In doing this the women set up advice Offices which …
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
… came representing the hopes and aspirations of all South Africans. We were strengthened by the presence and … the guarantee of the fundamental human rights…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation:Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa, 1979 - 1996 by Kumi Naidoo
… This study deals with political resistance amongst South Africans of Indian descent in the city of Durban. The … during the 1980s, solidarity between Indians…
EventThe birth of the Treatment Action Campaign
… of a growing epidemic and an uninterested public. South Africans were tired of messages of doom and gloom. They were … face of the epidemic in developed…
BiographyEric Magamana Lubisi
Eric Magamana Lubisi was born on 11 October 1946 in Highlands, near Eastwood in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was the only son and had five sisters. At…
Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty
Appiah Saravanan (A.S.) Chetty was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 3 April 1929. He was the second of five children of Appiah and…
Ebrahim Badsha
Ebrahim Badsha was born on 13 March 1931, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). Badsha was one of the pioneer Black artists in Natal. He grew up in a large…
BiographyEudy Simelane
Eudy Simelane was born on 11 March 1977 in KwaThema, Springs, Transvaal (Gauteng). An active LGBTQI+ activist, she was one of the first women to live as openly…
BiographyJudge Erns Jansen
Judge Erns Jansen was born in Pietermaritzburg on 27 June 1918. He was the son of Ernest Jansen, Minister of Native Affairs in the National Party…
BiographyKenneth Mosenyi
Kenneth Mosenyi was jailed for a month during the uprising in Bahurutshe. He was involved in the African National Congress (ANC) prior to his return from…
BiographyCharles Llewellyn
Charles Bennett (Buck) Llewellyn was born in Pietermaritzburg to an English father and black mother. Being of mixed–raced meant that Llewellyn was…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… and to rise above the humble standing of their parents. Africans in the Cape also strove to obtain the non-racial … that the British administration needed a…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… women and black industrial workers. Efforts to organise Africans were crippled by the National Party`s labour … But the women still led strikes, even though…
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
… cent of the country`s land in freehold. On the other hand, Africans, who form three quarters of the population, were … land), only about I per cent or less…
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
… his inaugural address? "Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that … dreams has unfortunately faded for…
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
… as 1880 The Natal Witness disputed the suggestion that Africans had any right to consider Natal as their country: … Africa. Taxation was one of the methods…
Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
… been. There is a lot of flirting going on, of course, some Africans [are] flirting with the Soviet camp, and others with … "there is a growing feeling among…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… been. There is a lot of flirting going on, of course, some Africans [are] flirting with the Soviet camp, and others with … "there is a growing feeling among…
EventThe first ‘Bantustans’ or ‘homelands’ comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… They came to be called 'Native Locations' and Black South Africans were systematically dispossessed of their land … These groups were called nations, and all…
Address on Freedom Day, 27 April 2003
… Guests, People of the North West, Fellow South Africans: Today, we celebrate the 9th anniversary of our … 1994, we have entered into a social contract, as…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the Freedom Day Celebrations at the ABSA Stadium, Durban 27 April 2005
… the Diplomatic Corps, Distinguished guests, Fellow South Africans: I am very pleased to address, you, fellow South Africans, on the occasion of our Freedom…
Eye of the Needle - Notes by Richard Turner
… of color, including Coloureds and Asians as well as Africans. This use of the term has deÂveloped out of the … sense as a substitute for the official "Bantu…
Remarks by President Jacob Zuma, the Grand Patron of the National Orders, on the occasion of the awarding of the National Orders Awards, on Freedom Day, Presidential Guest House, 27 April 2012
… unity, and the restoration of human dignity of all South Africans, in doing so we want to ensure that our people never … attainment of our freedom. We honour…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… This legislation almost completely stripped black South Africans of the right to own land. Plaatje, known as Sol, … what an integrated South Africa might…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… Horrible History and many names of Thaba Tshwane; South Africans just love re-naming things in pursuit of one … deeply scarred, how the British and English…