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EventJRR Tolkien born in Bloemfontein
… Arthur Tolkien, were British but worked in a bank in South Africa. He was a sickly child, so he and his mother and …
EventMadikizela Mandela is accused of misuse of funds
… South Africa's deputy minister of arts, culture, science and …
Document 20 - F. Carneson, “The Franchise Action Committee”, Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two …
ArchiveProfile of a Death Row Prisoner: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1989
… Death Penalty, statistics of capital punishment in South Africa. …
PlaceEmalahleni Municipality, Mpumalanga
… Municipality , in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. Emalahleni is a Nguni word meaning; 'place of coal'. … seen as providing migrant labour to the…
BiographyJoseph Mathunjwa
Joseph Mathunjwa was born in Amatikulu in Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 26 May 1965. He is the son of David Mathunjwa, who was a Christian preacher. He…
BiographyNorman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen
Norman Pietersen (also known as Billy Holiday) was born in 1966 in Paarl, Western Cape. In 1982, he was recruited by uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) veterans and became…
EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana's incorporation following major unrest
… nominally independent homeland into the Republic of South Africa and clashed with the police. South African troops in …
Chapter XIV - End of an era
… my whiteness for so many years, ever since I came to South Africa. I had accepted that whites, simply because of the … many thousands of unlicensed firearms…
EventA 13-year-old Welsh school-girl’s letter reaches the wrong hands
… girl, any non-European Secondary School, Cape Town South Africa”. It was unfortunately delivered to the Cape …
PlaceRwanda
… is a land-locked Country located in the Eastern part of Africa . People began settling in the area as early as … Empire as it was officially incorporated…
Doing Oral History
… on the North Coast of KwaZulu-Natal a province of South Africa ( 29°27”²S, 31°14”²E ) it is famous for being the … Hullet. India sponsored indentured…
Forging Solidarity: Southern Perspectives of Popular Education
… educators in the ‘south’, and particularly in South Africa, responding to various, precarious economic, …
ArchiveResolution on the International Communist Movement
… such as US agression in Vietnam, attempts to re-colonise Africa, and the need for unity. Requests the convening of an …
PlaceJewish Pioneers Memorial Synagogue, Raleigh Street, Port Elizabeth
… were mainly Eastern European Jews who hah came to South Africa , after severe pogroms and persecution in Russia, …
PlaceRiebeek West
… General J C Smuts , Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. By Franco Frescura …
EventManilal Gandhi leads a resistance group across the Natal
… and our feature on the History of Indians in South Africa for more. …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed first Black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg
… the Anglican Church with a 1.6 million membership in South Africa. He used this position to intensify his opposition to …
EventPolice pounce on AWB members
… aiming to create an Afrikaner Republic within South Africa. …
EventSiamese twins are separated in Cape Town
… was the first of its kind in the medical history of South Africa. Since that first operation more Siamese twins have …
EventMandela confirms the appointment of first Black Chief Justice
… of the first Black Supreme Court Judge in South Africa. Ismail Mahomed was interviewed for the post by …
EventGeneral Louis Botha dies
… statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, died in Pretoria after a heart attack. The heart … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
EventPresident Nelson Mandela announces his intentions to promote national unity
… South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson …
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… vs Marxism debate around race, class and ethnicity in Africa. Fatima Meer, through untold political hardship … importance of race and the importance of class…
PlaceFranschhoek Motor Museum
… This was done through the initiative of one of South Africa leading entrepreneurs and businessmen: Dr Anton … has been brought together not only from within…
ArchiveReturning to the scene of the crime by Inside Time (Inside Time), 31 May 2017
… Goldblatt, famed particularly for his portrayal of South Africa during the apartheid era, decided after he became a … to focus on people who had been…
PlaceCampanile, Port Elizabeth
… Nelson Mandela's 67 years of service of democracy in South Africa. Route 67 starts at the Campanile and there has since … history leading up to the settlers…
Place'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay
… between the Europeans and the indigenous people of South Africa. In 1501, another Portuguese navigator, Pedro … considered the first place of Christian…
PlaceMontagu Pass
… Monument in 1972, it is the oldest unaltered Pass in South Africa , and links George with the Village of Herold . Until … wagon trail over the Mountain Pass…
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s statement at the dinner hosted by Prime Minister Bildt of Sweden 20 May 1992
… reward will be a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist South Africa that offers a future to millions of people denied … and your selfless support for the people…