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ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… home. In Johannesburg people take to the streets. Pass books are burnt in countless bonfires. March 29, Dr Yusuf …
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… Memories of a freedom fighter. Harare: African Books Collective.|Muzondidya, J. (2009). From buoyancy to … J. (2001). Nkomo: the story of my life. Harare:…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
History may soon be a compulsory school subject until Grade 12 in South Africa. A task team established by the country’s minister of basic education made this…
Chapter III - The world outside
… some valuable material on the banished people and a few books. All these were removed by the police and I never saw … day. When I chose Tomorrow's Sun as the…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - “Defender of the Hottentots”
… in conquest by Nosipho Majeke Herrenvolk history books present two pictures of Dr. John Philip, Superintendent …
ArticleKora
The Korana or Kora were a nomadic Khoikhoi group that probably derived their name from a chief called Kora (or Gora), who was originally a leader of the…
EventDr. Jan Bouws, Dutch composer, is born
On 28 July 1902 Jan Bouws was born in Purmerend, Holland. He trained in Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and on completion of his studies became a…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way the experience of apartheid would be…
Justice Arthur Chaskalson: President of Constitutional Court interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 2 February 2000, The Braamfontein, Johannesburg
… know if you’ve had the opportunity of reading the two books by Forsyth and by Corder, dealing with the Appellate … interesting. I mean, in Govan Mbeki’s book…
Passage to Natal - The Journey
Travelling conditions on the ships transporting workers from India were deplorable. The voyages were long, with the danger of disease breaking out, ever…
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
In 1887 Zululand was annexed by the colony of Natal and the Zulu were gradually stripped of most of their arable land. There was widespread poverty, made worse…
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
Following the 1973, Durban strikes, TUCSA seemed unwilling to hold to book employers. TUCSA had long paid lip service to the ideal of African unions registered…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… raising the resources to tackle world poverty. London: Zed Books Ltd., p. 103. ↵ [cxiv] Cheru, F. & Bradford, C. (eds.). … raising the resources to tackle…
PlaceNewcastle
… O nce the dwelling place of author Rider Haggard whose books included: King Solomon's Mines; She and Jess. Rider …
PlaceFernkloof Nature Reserve, Caledon
Early in the nineteenth Century, Hermanus Pieters, used to walk ‘over the mountain’ from Caledon, year after year, to camp at the coast and enjoy the abundant…
EventSouth African poet Vincent Oliphant is born
Vincent Oliphant, acclaimed South African poet, mathematician and educationist was born in 1954 in Alicedale, a small town near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… trade union movement to Labour Briefing and reviewed books on South Africa for Race & Class. In 1988 Baruch Hirson …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the Freedom Day Celebrations at the ABSA Stadium, Durban 27 April 2005
… efforts to promote our languages and cultures through books, poetry, songs, theatre and other forms of …
Nelson Mandela Letter to Mrs. Manorama Bhalla, secretary of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, 3 August 1980
… man. In the forties, I for the first time read one of his books, The Unity of India. It made an indelible impression on …
ArchiveFrom eNcome over Bloedrivier to eNcome and Beyond by Ben Khumalo-Seegelken
… with the result of it presently being treated in text-books and research as the only valid account of the iMpi … the standardised version as might and do…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad Award, something like a Nobel for…
Nelson Mandela Sending Photographs
Introduction To someone cut off from friends and relatives, restricted to seeing only a selected few people and even these not as frequently as in normal…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1980 - 1989 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… its centres; * provides bursaries, school fees and school books to indigent students. Officials of the IDM [1992] are: … of Islamic syllabi; * publishing and…
The diary of Maria Tholo - August 16 - 24 by Carol Hermer
… playing cards with the kids. I sent her home with some books to read. Commentary Throughout the country things were …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Source-based Questions
… payment of salaries to teachers and free lunches and books for school children Right to vote for all unemployed …
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
… confiscating correspondence, address plates, financial books, subscription lists and 2,000 copies of the latest …
Letter to Farzanah
Omar Badsha's first book of photographs, Letter to Farzanah was published in 1979 in commemoration of the United Nations declared International Year of the…
PlaceMorgan Bay-Gxarha
The Eastern Cape Wild Coast runs along a rugged coast of untouched shorelines, Shipwrecks and traditional Xhosa Culture. From marine safari activities to local…
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… movement in the country and required them to carry pass books when outside their designated area. One such …
The First Slaves at the Cape
… Marias who are often conflated into one person in history books. …