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The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter X - Triumph of disunity (2)
… nation. The missionaries, however, must needs draw up a document, on the strength of which they were to claim that … in his History "The Basutos," describes…
Launch of the Luthuli Volunteer Corps, 12 June 2013
The African National Congress in the Northern Cape will be launching the Luthuli Volunteer Corps; thousands of volunteers of the ANC dressed in gold overalls…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Bibliography
From the book: The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - by Riashnee Pather Bibliography Primary Sources Interviews …
PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
This structure probably dates from the 1890's and was built in sandstone in a predominantly neo-Gothic manner. It forms an integral part of the Porter…
ArchiveChapter 14 Out of prison: 28 February 1985 as a free person by Denis Goldberg
… the papers were tucked away in a little zipped up leather document case. When I got back to Esmé’s house, now our … chocolates. On boarding the plane I…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 106th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 13 January 2018
… since the adoption of the Africans’ Claims in South Africa document, which set out the demands of black South Africans … for equal rights and self…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… campaign was more than just a campaign for a programmatic document, as has been presented in the literature on the … shared the view that if any National…
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The months of legal argument on the indictment were over at last and thirty "high traitors" pleaded not guilty to…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… that Deplete the Ozone Layer. 25 January, Extracts of a document written by Nelson Mandela in anticipation of a …
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
Often referred to as "the trial that changed South Africa,” in October 1963, ten leading opponents of apartheid went on trial for their lives on charges of…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
1950 In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Mandela trained at the Donaldson Orlando Community Centre. He excelled at boxing and shared his love of the sport…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
Immorality Amendment Act, Act No 21 of 1950 This Act was one of the most controversial pieces of Apartheid legislation. It prohibited adultery, attempted…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
It is hard these days - twenty-five years on - to recapture the feeling of the time of Rivonia - of the sudden arrest of some of the leading liberation…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… 12 August, South Africa added three signatures to the document authorizing the Global Fund to release a …
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
A sensational prison interview with M&G reporters uncovers new evidence linking Madikizela-Mandela to the murder of Dr Abu Baker Asvat. One of the two men…
Call for Participants: Academy for African Urban Diversity
DEADLINE: 14 MAY 2017 The African continent is rapidly urbanizing. If this point is agreed upon by a wide variety of actors—from media, to governments, UN…
'States of Emergence', at Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art by Sean O'Toole, November 2002
'States of Emergence' is Johannesburg gallerist Warren Siebrits' coming of age. A former curator at the influential Everard Read Contemporary, circa State of…
PlaceStevenson Gallery, Woodstock-Cape Town
The gallery, Stevenson, was founded in 2003 after two of its founding directors Michael Stevenson and Andrew da Conceicao, visited Documenta 11, and felt that…
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PlacePeelton
(prior to 1910) Umxelo was established in 1839 by the Reverend Richard Birt as a station of the London Missionary Society. At that stage it was popularly…
PlaceDoornkop/Doornsluiten
Doornkop/Doornsluiten farm was located in Utrecht, a town in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). To the west lay Annandale farm which was acquired by the South African…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… Its author was Harmel. Turok recalls: Harmel wrote a document...[T]he message [was] that peaceful methods of … nor its feasibility. Indeed, in its newly…
ArchiveChief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021
… gave ourselves time to study and respond to the Discussion Document, "Towards the Centenary of the ANC: A Strategic Agenda for Organisational Renewal." "The…
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… needs to rescue from historical obscurity, to remember and document, the women who contributed significantly to the …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of the 90th birthday of former President Nelson Mandela, 2 August 2008
… fact negotiated for the release of other prisoners. In the document you gave to F W De Klerk on 12 December 1989, …
Reply by President Jacob Zuma to the debate of the Presidency budget vote, 13 May 2010
… we seek to build and admire. It is this profound policy document and law that defines who we are, where we come from …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Conclusion - By Riashnee Pather
… the Executive Committee of the Council. 3 In fact the last document that PR produced was an article detailing the work …
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
… Eastern Cape leaders were murdered. In May this year a document, whose authenticity has not been challenged, a …
ArchiveAddress on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the ANC by Cyril Ramaphosa, Ohlange Institute, Ethkwini, 8 January 2019
… best articulated by the drafters of our lodestar policy document, The Freedom Charter when they said: “Let those who …
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… African Embassy refused to renew it. An emergency travel document could indeed be issued, he was told – but only to …