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EventBritish Parliament passes the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
… all the slaves in the British Empire. This affected South Africa , which was a British colony at the time, as many … lives of untold millions and shaped the…
PlaceOudtshoorn, Western Cape
… Baron Pieter van Rheede van Oudtshoorn who came to South Africa in 1741 and was appointed Governor of the Cape in … heart of the Little Karoo region ,…
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 …
39. Second report of the Natal Indian Congress, 1899
… of the British Parliament. He was touring through South Africa. Some persons in Johannesburg took him to the Indian … franchise right in India and that if…
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…
PlaceGuinea
… Guinea is the traditional name of coastal Western Africa . The historical colonies of French Guinea, Spanish … Guinea is the traditional name of coastal…
PlaceMossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
… Da Gama and is the earliest navigational marker in South Africa . Mission accomplished , Da Gama returned to Portugal … Place Names by Peter E. Raper…
ArchiveAddress at Commemoration of the lives of Yusuf Cachalia and Bram Fischer, by Nelson Mandela, 5 June 2005,
… multiply as we all join to build and develop the South Africa that belongs to all who live in it. Yusuf and Bram, my …
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… was designed by Louis Thibault a Frenchman, who was South Africa’s first architect and who designed many of our finest … https://www.enca.com/south-africa…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the mural celebrating the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
… As they have done so often before, the people of South Africa have confounded the experts. The people seized the …
PlacePeddie
… Amathole district of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Peddie is a historic little town which lies 50 km … Prepared by Franco Frescura. https://www…
PlaceWooden Bridge over Lagoon, Milnerton, Cape Town
… Island, was the only Bridge of its kind in South Africa. “It is a provincial Heritage Site and this status is …
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…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Bantu and the Gospel
… constitute the basic philosophy of most Europeans in South Africa when they dogmatise upon the Native question. The very … the hard fact of the rigid social…
ArchiveThe road to Oslo and beyond
… Lutuli. Also includes the text of his Nobel lecture on "Africa and Freedom", delivered on 11 December 1961. …
PlaceElliot, Thembuland
… of Transkie , which is just 1 of the Homelands in South Africa. Thembuland is a natural Region of the Eastern Cape. …
EventAbram Fischer fails to arrive in court
… of the banned organisation, the Communist Party of South Africa. He was served with life imprisonment. Click here to …
EventMohammed Valli Moosa is born in Johannesburg
… as Minister of Environmental and Tourism Affairs in South Africa. He became actively involved in politics while … & Rousseau.|who'swho, Valli Moosa , from…
EventA Day of Prayer Called by the NIC
… "Jesus was an Asiatic; if he was reborn and went to South Africa today, he would have to live in a ghetto" were put on …
EventJustice Coetzee refuses to lift banishment on four Black newspapers
… the Black journalists' trade union Media Workers of South Africa with three-year banning orders. A storm of protest …