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ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
Review of The Reb and the Rebel Jewish Narratives in South Africa 1892-1913. Edited by Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire. Published by UCT Press and the Kaplan…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
Sol T Plaatje’s ground-breaking work Native Life in South Africa was published 100 years ago in 1916. Janet Remmington, Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson…
ArchiveSubbiah Moodley - "Voices Of Resistance" - University Of Durban Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project , 2002
… there were such lovely libraries; donated by others ‑ the books in the library. There was a set of Encyclopedia … May I ask you where you were able to lay…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… Douzinas, Costas and Zizek. “The idea of communism”. Verso Books, 2010. p. 145. [2] Marx, Engels and Moore. Manifesto of … [7] Trotsky. History of the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
Introduction In the previous section, we have learnt about the origins of capitalism, however, we paid cursory attention to the racial character of that…
ArchiveAn Analysis of the Imprisonment and Detainment Treatment of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Monica McCausland
… prisoner, Winnie was not treated as such. All of her books were taken and the food her family brought for her was …
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
After the South African general election in 1948, the National Party, an Afrikaner political party that supported increased racial segregation and apartheid…
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
The United Nations referred to apartheid as “a crime against humanity” (United Nations, edited 2018). In 1956, Trevor Huddleston, an Anglican priest, wrote the…
IV - The Death of Steve Biko
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Biko was arrested for the last time on 18 August 1977 and Section 6 of the Terrorism…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
… [church council] minutes, but also of formal history books. If I get to publishing the work I'm doing now on …
EventNelson Mandela celebrates 88 th birthday
Former South African president Nelson Mandela's 88th birthday celebrations have kicked off with a new round of honours for this anti-apartheid icon, including…
Extraordinary Life: Zapiro
Political cartoonist Zapiro's work is as important as ever following the Charlie Hebdo killings. His life and role in society is discussed. Cartoonist…
First National Consultative Conference: The Freedom Charter revolutionary programme of the ANC, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… education committees as arbiters of African languages and books without consultation with the people concerned. The … of mankind shall be open to all by free…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
… the host of repressive laws on the South African statute books are repealed. The processes leading up to this final … of patriots and the presence of…
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… extensive experience of bereavement. In many books and films, the prewar years appear as an age of … literature on the war, literally tens of thousands of…
EventSomaliland is granted independence by British government
25 June 1960 marked the end of 73 years of British regime in Somaliland. Fireworks and singing crowds marked the Independence of Somaliland and celebrations…
PlaceBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town
The History of the Mount Nelson Hotel is intertwined with the early History of the Cape. The estate on which the Hotel is built was named: 'The Garden of van…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 1: The world around 1600
… [Accessed: 17 January 2015] Books Hamblin, W. J. (2006), Warfare in the Ancient Near … at the Dawn of History, [online] available at https://books.google…
South African and World leaders
… to expose the horrors of apartheid through their films, books, newspapers and photos. Two writers from South Africa …
A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen)
Pierre Simond, a Huguenot minister, was born in 1651 in Nion (Dauphine). After studying theology he became a minister at Montjoux and then at Embrun. After the…
EventUS Secretary of State Colin Powell is heckled by activists on the closing day of the World Summit.
Secretary of State Colin Powell was heckled by activists on the closing day of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in, South Africa. The Summit took…
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but…
Albert Luthuli`s foreword to pamphlet published by the South African Congress of Democrats, 8 August 1960
"Face the future" 8 August 1960 The white minority rule policy of segregation and more so its virulent form, apartheid, have screened off from each other…
The Final Prize - Select Bibliography
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy
The Final Prize - Chapter 20
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy
The Final Prize - Chapter 18
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy
The Final Prize - Chapter 17
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy
The Final Prize - Chapter 16
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy
The Final Prize - Chapter 15
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy
The Final Prize - Chapter 14
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy