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Open Textbooks for Africa Summit
… 5:30pm-8:30pm Experts in open textbooks & Astronomy talk about challenges and opportunities. Cocktail refreshment … The Hewlett Foundation See the program…
PlaceRiversdale, Western Cape
… By 1882, the Village of Riversdale consisted of about 250 dwellings, many of them fine structures. Social and economic life centered about its main street,…
EventTwelve ANC supporters are killed in eSikhawini
… Sixteen people were killed in this incident. Read more about political violence in KwaZulu Natal. Read further information about the eSikhawini attacks in…
EventBotha found Guilty
… another TRC subpoena. The TRC wanted to question Botha about human rights abuses perpetrated by security forces … follow from the amnesty committee. Click…
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… Boddy-Evans A. ‘This Day In African History’, from About African History, 01 June, [online], available at www.africanhistory.about.com(Accessed: 24 May 2012)…
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
… people's feelings, particularly black people's feelings, about this somewhat abrupt transition from one form of … for some time to come was effectively…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
… home and find the boxes out of my house. We were gossiping about her and her avaricious-ness. I told Linda that I hadn't … enjoyed his trip to the Transkei…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
… Africa; where, exactly, were you born? SS Well it was about between 7 and 8km’s west; what, south-west of Durban; … third in all in the family with my…
Towards Simon’s Town – The life of Peter Clarke by Joline Young
… and when your parents read you can’t help being curious about this”. By the time he was four the family moved to a … A comment by his domestic worker sister…
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and hate, who enjoy being cuddled. We…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at the Museum Africa Johannesburg, 15 August 1994
… the exhibition was held, have said much that I concur with about the significance of this exhibition. I will only make a … Africans that the defeat of Nazism…
4. Complaint of ill-treatment on an estate
… assigned with me ran away as they were ill-treated, and about a fortnight ago one of my sons named Augna (25980) about 10 years of age left the estate and…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… prospect of going abroad was exciting. I was vague indeed about what would be required of me as a school teacher, but I … to take practice classes in English…
ArticleRock Art
… and oral history has been used to obtain information about "Bushman" belief systems. Such studies have revealed …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… went ahead and banned 18 organisations (listed below). About 70 activists were arrested, including several members …
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… South Africa goes beyond the classroom. In the end, it is about national priorities or what the report calls "the …
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… statement saying that parliament was incapable of bringing about the reforms necessary to put the country on the path of …
ArchiveBlack Sash / Sash
… which reflect the modus operandi of their desire to bring about change in the legislation which was, in their opinion, … attempt to mount pressure against…
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… 2012) Boddy-Evans A. ‘This Day In African History’, from About Africa History, [online], available at www.afriacanhistory.about.com (Accessed: 24 May 2012) …
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… police informer, Gerard Ludi, leaked the information about the whereabouts of the MK headquarters. In gathering … MK's activities, including notes he made…
EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
… industry at the time were greatly affected, including about 3000 Indians who worked in the brewery trade. On 28 … to buy liquor freely once again. For more…
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… Council convened on 15 and 16 July to examine concerns about violence in South Africa and appropriate actions to end … community to maintain existing…
ArchiveChapter 14 Out of prison: 28 February 1985 as a free person by Denis Goldberg
… prison, four terms of life imprisonment and now I was about to be ejected from the unfriendly womb of the prison. … talk without a prison officer monitoring…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… to have been, nothing normal or seemingly unremarkable about the spread of such places into what was not wasteland … would immediately have recognized what…
African farmers in Southern Africa
… of Southern Africa were Stone Age hunter-gatherers. Then about 2 000 years ago (100 BC), the Khoikhoi herders came … The wheel of change had begun to turn…
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
… while. He attempts to motivate Africans to do something about their lot. He re-defines the challenges facing black … invited experts to write a pamphlet…
ArchiveOpening Address of Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Commemoration Project, by Nelson Mandela, 21 September 2004, Johannesburg
… to paper was a very risky business. We had to be careful about how we did this, and careful about what we kept and where we kept it. (I obviously wasn’t ……
ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
… last year. He tells fellow photographer Jo Ractliffe about his journey. I’d like to start with your 80th … not yet; she’s not married yet. But these…
ArchiveZuma's rape accuser questioned (BBC News), 07 March 2006
… has agreed to the defence's request to admit questions about the complainant's personal history. About 200 of Mr Zuma's supporters have gathered outside the …
PlaceJeffrey's Bay
… There is something about Jeffreys Bay that makes me want to visit the Town. … Provincial Capital, of the Eastern Cape. This is just just about 75 km…