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David Goldblatt: Intersections; Asbestos; Particulars by Sue Williamson, 1 - 25 October 2003
… in the 60's, where the artist would select a New York city block and walk around it once, picking up objects to use … to victims of asbestos related…
PlaceOld Post Office, Fleming Street, Port Elizabeth
… (formerly the Parade ground). It lies directly behind the City Hall. The Post Office/Courthouse/Police station were … been demolished. I first witnessed…
PlacePiketberg
… , Piketberg is just over an hour’s drive from the Mother City, and only 30 minutes from the Cape West Coast region. … kerkplaats (church farm), the sale of…
ArticleThe Empire of Mali (1230-1600)
… [x] . The development of the empire began in its capital city of Niani, which was also coincidentally the birthplace … trade of Western Sahara [xiv] . Mali,…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… the lives of these men. Modernity is represented by the city and the effect it has on people who leave the rural … Kwanda’s behaviour is constantly blamed on…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… wide variety of political arrangements including kingdoms, city-states and other organisations, each with their own … the other planned rebellions before any…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… Subsequently, six trials involving 75 people took place. Of these, 21 were accused of sabotage and given … was unable to revive the PAC’s armed struggle, and…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… 8 December, The Conference For A Democratic Future takes place with a meeting of 6000 representatives of the Mass … Mandela warns of an urgent need for…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… the focus of literary activity moved to the cities - city issues handled by city-bred writers. The first western-style drama developed in …
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… - which gave details of the holder's identity, employment, place of legal residence, payment of taxes, and, if … By 1953 there were still sporadic…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… other members. 20 August, National Launch of the UDF takes place at the Rocklands Community Centre, in Mitchells Plain, … Weekend’, a consumer boycott and…
PlaceSouthern Suburbs of Cape Town
… The group of Suburbs lying South East of the City Bowl and Table Mountain , in Cape Town are collectively … Nature Reserve and the Sea. That is the reason…
PlaceHondeklipbaai, Namaqualand
… lifestyles of our cities." Hondeklipbaai is the perfect place to visit for travellers that enjoy minimalism and … place …
BiographyLouis Botha
… Britain to attend the Imperial Conference and to take his place on the War Cabinet. Try as he might, Botha could not …
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… capital of South Africa , Pretoria, or the ' Jacaranda City' is best known for its annual display of purple flowers … of Andries Pretorius , (the Boer…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… Shepstone and J.M. Harris as representatives of the Durban City Council; and six representatives of the Natal Indian … African Convention (AAC) of Western…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… History Online's timeline, which documents the laws put in place to enforce segregation along racial lines in South … However, until 1950no comprehensive…
PlaceKuGompo was called East London, Eastern Cape
… East London, (Afrikaans-'Oos-Londen'), is a Port City is situated in the Eastern Cape Province of South … for the East London district, connecting to the…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… Boer War (South African War) in front of the East London City was defaced as white paint was poured over it. The … white privilege’ say students who defaced…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… 23 , Women protests led by Charlotte Maxeke take place in the Orange Free State, resisting government attempts … women. 1921 November, Mary Fitzgerald is…
Indian Community
… They contribute to the multicultural atmosphere of the city and many Indian rituals and traditions can still be … conditions and to facilitate ‘slum…
ArchiveChapter 18 New Life Number 9 2002- 2009 by Denis Goldberg
… in South Africa even though I knew Pretoria only as the city of my imprisonment. But we both liked it. The sky was so … of what we were trying to achieve…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… Bantu Education Act (1953) , conceived it: “There is no place for [the African] in the European community above the … Education. In the 1980s very little…
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… his action. As chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into City Conditions (1945-'47), he wrote a published report entitled: "Church and City', which…
PlaceAthenaeum building, Belmont Terrace, Port Elizabeth
… on 17 October 1980. The Grand Old Lady of the city, the Athenaeum, is the community hub for the emerging … the right of the Athenaeum to occupy a part of…
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
… gather wild plants to survive. They also move around from place to place, following a nomadic way of life. The invention of the … The time needed to sedate…
ArticleGrade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
… British appeal to turn Cape Town into a convict colony or place for prisoners to be sent. On 13 October 1881, Adderley … first electric lights . Today the…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… the expense of their subjects. The Pondoland revolt took place in the Eastern Transkei in the late 1950s and early … in the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951,…
Adapted from De Rietfonteyn: Founding of Grahamstown By Elron Kleinhans
… Q: How did we get a place called Grahamstown? A: Before there was a town, the place was called Egume by the local people. Then the British … which well…
Opening Address to the Conference on "Whites in A Changing South Africa", Convened by the Five Freedoms Forum and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 1 July 1989
… welcome to those who have come directly from home to the city of Lusaka; a city that will surely be remembered in the … conviction when I say that this…