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Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
Hastings Banda was one of the more enigmatic “Big Men” of the post-independence era in Africa. He was Malawi’s first President and ruled the country for 30…
PlaceSt James, Cape Town
The Seaside Resort of St. James was located on False Bay, some 26 km South of Cape Town, the Suburb derived its name from the Church of St. James, built there…
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
The dwelling is a low single-storey structure with few architectural features of note. However it was spacious and well built, and remains in its original…
PlaceSudwala Caves, Nelspruit
The Sudwala Caves are the oldest known caves in the World and lie in the Drakensberg Escarpment, which separates the Highveld from the lowlands of Mpumalanga. …
EventApartheid becomes official policy
On 26 May 1948, the Herenigde Nasionale Party (Reunified National Party) took power from Jan Smuts' United Party (UP) by 5 seats. The HNP came to power in…
Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
An appeal to appeal to students and scholars - April 1961 by Nelson Mandela Dear Friends, I am writing this letter on the instructions of the All-in African…
PlaceLadysmith
Ladysmith is one of the most important industrial and commercial centres of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. Furthermore, it is also a town with a…
PlaceGriqualand West
The Khoikhoi was a nation of widely scattered migrant pastoralist clans, whose economy was not conducive to the creation of permanent Settlements. As a result…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
There was no single moment when I began to sense the long shadow that Cecil John Rhodes has cast over my life, or over the university where I am a professor,…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
My paper is about two women who focused on a common ideal, namely, the use of hand labour for social reconstruction after the Second South African War of 1899…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
The Soweto Uprising of June 16, 1976 did not just drop from the sky. The Black students of South Africa did not wake up one day and begin resisting Bantu…
PlaceBoskop Village, Nature Reserve and Dam- near Potchefstroom
Boskop Dam and Nature Reserve is located in the Mooi River Valley 20 km North of the Town of Potchefstroom a short distance from the R501 Carletonville Road…
PlaceGroot Brakrivier, Mossel Bay Local Municipality
Great Brak River (Afrikaans: Groot-Brakrivier) is a Coastal Village which nestles in, the Garden Route. Situated midway between George and Mossel Bay. …
PlaceSchmidtsdrift
Schmidtsdrift is a Town, in Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, in the Northern Cape Province. (Situated 80 km West of Kimberley). It was originally a Fjord,…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
"Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to the familiar 'fall of rock' and who, at deep…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
1885The Asiatic Bazaar Law was passed in the Transvaal, which authorized the creation of separate districts for Indians. Its primary justification was that of…
PlaceNzhelele Nature Reserve
The superior administrative division is Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa. The estimate terrain elevation above seal level is 813 metres. It…
EventZwelethu Mthethwa found guilty of murder
Zwelethu Mthethwa, an internationally known South African artist, was found guilty on 16 March 2017 at the Western Cape High Court of murdering Nokuphila…
PlaceBoschendal Wine Estate, Cape Town
Working with nature, producing real food and a simple farm lifestyle, is at the heart of Boschendal. One of the oldest Farms in South Africa, founded in 1685. …
Introduction
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Indian traders arrived in the wake of indentured…
Introduction
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Indian traders arrived in the wake of indentured…
ArchiveVisualising the web of state capture, November 7, 2016
The State Capture Report is all over the news since its release last week after last ditch attempts by members of our own government (including President Jacob…
PlaceMandela Capture Site, Howick in Kwa Zulu Natal
"To see this sculpture of Mandela!" Visit the Capture Site between Nottingham Road and Howick in KwaZulu-Natal. In 2012, to mark the 50th anniversary…
PlaceUnion Tavern and Stables, Simonstown
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 March 1979. The Union, was a Tavern occupying a plot 80 by 60 feet on Smith Street,…
PlaceBeau Soleil Music Centre, Salisbury Road, Kenilworth
The original portion of this double-storey manor house was built by Dirk Cloete in 1877, and boasts of a number of fine neo-Gothic and Victorian architectural…
PlaceFranschhoek, Western Cape
Originally known as the Valley of the Huguenots, a Community of French Huguenots were granted land in this Valley by the Dutch Government of the Cape, after…
PlaceFort Klapperkop
This was the third fort erected by the German firm Krupp and designed by von Dewitz and Werner. The German forts were of the pentagonal reinforced type, which…
EventBritish Parliament passes the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
On this date, The British Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. The Act outlawed all slave trade within the British Empire, but did not…
PlaceCastle of Good Hope, Castle Street- Cape Town
When the Dutch first landed at the Cape on 6 April 1652, under the leadership of Jan van Riebeeck. They erected a Fort built of sods on a site in the Table…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
Abstract Miriam Makeba was a South African singer, daughter, mother, and an antiapartheid activist. After she was exiled from South Africa in 1960, she used…