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EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… has become an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This day is also commemorated at the United Nations … initiated a sexual strike against men…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Millennium Debate of the Joint Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 19 November 1999
… by the which they drink with an oaten straw...In a part of Africa be people called Pteomphane, for their king they have … was short lived, as the new rulers…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… between 1779 and 1878. This time is known as the 100-year war. The conflict started in 1778 when the Dutch governor of … as they are now known, left the Cape…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
… a military camp of the regime and on its personnel inside South Africa. Does this, Comrade President, herald a new … involvement of the South African racists…
EventProf. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg
… Dart travelled to England to serve in the medical corps in World War I. Dart left England for South Africa in 1922, where he became professor of Anatomy at …
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela on Women’s Day, Pretoria, 9 August 1996
… Guests; Friends and compatriots. When the women of South Africa converged on these Union Buildings forty years … and elsewhere. Our participation in the…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… includes 748 stands in two consolidated areas north and south of the mining claims. By 8 December this number had … This is an important contributor to the…
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… after 10,053 days of incarceration, people all over the world watched the event with excitement and curiosity - … and curiosity as his photographs had been…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… years old, a septuagenarian born troublesome in a troubled world. He would be someone’s grandfather and just possibly an … quest, I’d probably be raking in…
PlaceUniversity of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN)
… Institution, after having been extended to Durban after World War 1 . The distinctive Howard College Building was opened in … with five Campuses , in the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… that if he were able to speak to us today, observing the world we live in, he would ask to live his life over again. … were shot down in Katatura and…
PlaceKimberley, Northern Cape
… quality diamonds , the largest man-made excavation in the World and various other impressive tourists attractions! It … City of the Northern Cape and…
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… Cape Town (one of his father's parishioners) he sailed for South Africa to work in the leper colony of which the … a parish-church congregation, travelling…
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… 10 November 1939, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War (WW2), Proclamation 276 of Government Gazette 2699 was published. This proclamation…
EventB.J Vorster steps down as Prime Minster
… Johannes Vorster stepped down as Prime Minster of South Africa after the holding office since 1966. John … African group that supported pro-Nazi activities…
PlaceCameroon
… the Mandara Mountains, has just been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Located in the Far North Region of … the area became a German colony and…
Opening Speech at the International Solidarity Conference, on the Theme "From Apartheid to Peace, Democracy and Development" by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… Distinguished delegates and special guests from the world anti-apartheid movement, Leaders and activists of the South African democratic movement, Comrades…
Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Few people, including most English-speaking South Africans, know anything at all about the Afrikaner … of which any nation might be justly proud. That the…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… the Indians for their permits to enter the Transvaal. The war somehow altered that procedure and the police were … Seaman Chetty, Kid Sathamoney, and Young…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Ming Dynasty
… Dynasty had the most effective central bureaucracy in the world. Emperors were autocratic rulers who had absolute power … Song dynasty, and led the practice…
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
… “The NILC is worried by the degeneration of morality in South Africa. “This is a programme of action. “We will tackle …
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… from their parents and expelled from Portugal, in the world war ) and African slaves. This country was the world’s … and Príncipe—and several rocky islets,…
Chapter 3. The Poor White Problem - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… the "Poor White" problem, one of the major tragedies of South Africa. People abroad believe that all Europeans in … of living, but not their incomes. Then…
BiographyMartha Helena Cillie
… contribution to the development of fruit cultivation in South Africa. Cillié grew up on the farm Rhebokskloof and initially … became one of the most…
Say It out Loud - The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
… which permitted the exploitation of the Coloured races of South Africa. I said that " the Orange River Colony and the … just as they fought side by side with…
BiographyLutchmee Marie
… older sister, Poomony Moodley , an active member of the South African Communist Party and an organiser in the …
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
… indeed, it is who in your view was the conflict between in South Africa between 1976 and 1990, I read from your book ( … left out. But it’s not to say there…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… of colour Answer: As a woman, sir, yes”¦ but as a South African born person, I feel that it would be wiser if … boundaries of white privilege. In black…
ANC Press Statement presented by Oliver Tambo, 16 August 1985, Lusaka
… Last night, the people of South Africa and the rest of the world were treated to an … whom the Botha-Malan regime has declared an all-out war must and will…
ANC Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 16 August 1985
… Last night, the people of South Africa and the rest of the world were treated to an … whom the Botha-Malan regime has declared an all-out war must and will…