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… theatre upon the site. This was opened on 17 November 1800 and by all accounts was considered by citizens of Cape Town … However, it soon proved to be ineffective as a theatre and fell into disuse, and in 1838 Dr Adamson, of the Presbyterian Church, resolved …

… station were built by the Public Works Department and erected by J Kohler & Sons. The architect was H.S Greaves … 3787 was declared a National Monument on 26 October 1984 and is now a Grade 2 structure. The oldest part is the old … Court (1885) onto which the Baakens Street Police Station (and Police barracks) was built (1899) in the same style as …

… Distinguished members of the university council and senate, Members of the university staff and students, Friends. It is a great honour that this university bestows on me and through me on the African National Congress and all …

… The difference between you as representing the Government and the British Indians is very small indeed. I appeal to you … draft Immigrants' Restriction Bill that was shown to me, and to accept the amendments suggested by me, leaving the … study carefully the petition to be presented to the House and to answer to yourself whether the Bill published does not …

… sought political asylum from the regime's racist policies and its total repression of human rights activists, after … of their sentences. On release they were restricted and banned under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950. … tribal areas, discour­aged employers from employing them and further detention and harassment followed them. Despite …

… make it. I explained how I had become politically involved and also my functions in the Congress of Democrats and the Federation of South African Women. I said that I had … the white electorate. I believed that pressure, economic and moral, from outside and within South Africa, could bring …

… settlement in the Cape of Good Hope in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In fact, the period of Dutch settlement in India and South Africa constitutes a serious lacuna in Indian … of Indians were taken into slavery in the Cape.  They  and their descendants played a significant role in South …

… substantial holdings of South African, African and Western European Art. The richness of the Foreign … designed by Clelland & Mullins (Public Works Department) and FK Kendall, was completed in 1930, with funds from the Government, the City Council and the Hyman Liberman Estate. Since then various …

… the Spanish Civil War, the Anschluss (union) of Germany and Austria, Hitler's occupation of the SÁ¼detenland and the invasion of Czechoslovakia - culminated in the German … to be the starting date of World War II in Europe. Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. On …

… were due to expire. I began to count the weeks and then the days, hoping, yet not quite believing, that the … would know what to expect. I stilled my own nagging doubts and planned for my freedom. I even sang to myself when I … but with my own words: "In eighty days I shall be free, and all my friends will come to tea!" Then I sang "seventy …

… CHAIRMAN : I welcome Mr. Oliver Tambo and his friends, Mr. Thabo Mbeki and Mr. Aziz Pahad, and I am glad that they have been able to come... Perhaps I …

… Niger (was a former French colony to the north of Nigeria) and Nigeria (was a former British colony) were both named … by Libya , on the east by Chad , on the south by Nigeria and Benin , and on the west by Burkina Faso and Mali . The capital is …

… closest relations with the ANC - for well over ten years - and together with FRELIMO of the People`s Republic of Mozambique, PAIGC of Guinea-Bissau and MLSTP of Sao Tome and Principe worked closely as part of an alliance of …

… closest relations with the ANC - for well over ten years - and together with FRELIMO of the People's Republic of Mozambique, PAIGC of Guinea-Bissau and MLSTP of Sao Tome and Principe worked closely as part of an alliance of …

… Paper covering rights and duties attached to property and rights to education, power-sharing and rights of minorities, reconciling freedom of speech, …

… of Education , produced by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation and STE Publishers , and simultaneously published on the SA History Online …

… Mohapi Matsoso was born in Pimville, Soweto. Between 1962 and 1970, while still at school, Matsoso studied at the … Art Centre under Cecil Skotnes, Sydney Kumalo, Bill Hart and Ezrom Legae. In 1972 he studied at the Bill Ainslie Studios and traveled to France, England and Italy. He then worked for …

… Ghali, Secretary General of the United Nations, Ministers and Ambassadors, Ladies and Gentlemen, First of all, we would like to express our … United Nations has determined is a crime against humanity and helping to transform our country into a non-racial …

… I saw at last the picture of the spectacle in which you and the children were dumped. I fear that no fire can ever … warm that ramshackle shack. With such an infirm structure and poor workmanship the cold must be seeping through the crevices and rickety walls with ease, keeping temperatures quite low …

… ways of telling the truth, the rugged truth sometimes, and not sugar-coated truths. I thank you very much for having … from my Mother country which has been taken away from me and my people, to this occasion of commemorating and celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the late Martin …

… oeuvre, which is highly regarded both in his own country and the rest of the world.  This suite could be described as … figure does appear in it, but in a way that accompanies and gives complementary information as to the main subject of … transformed the country into the champion of Africa (and therefore of the world too) in the amount of AIDS cases …

… popular spot providing excellent views of the Town and the Franklin Game Reserve forms part of the Hill. Several types of big and small game can be seen in their natural habitat. … Game Reserve, it is known for both its natural beauty and its Historical significance. Franklin Game Reserve on …

… the departure of the British garrison in 1881, the camp and its buildings were taken over by the Transvaalsche … a neo-renaissance style. Construction began in August 1895 and during the next three years stables, buildings for cannon and wagons, magazines, a machine building and a barracks for …

… P. S. Aiyar, Leo R. Gopaul and 45 other Indians in Durban sent a 'manifesto' to the … in the country nor had it affected the 'burdensome and oppressive legislation' that pound down its victims. … Indian Congress, which held their meeting on the 12th and 13th instant at Johannesburg, should not be considered a …

… APLA was formed in the 1960s, after the banning of the PAC and other political organisations such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). APLA supported … the PAC ideology of iZwe ngelethu, "Africa is Ours", and Mayibuye iAfrika, "Bring back Africa". APLA was …

… Johan Coetzee, former hit-squad commander Eugene de Kock and former intelligence agent Craig Williamson, applied for amnesty before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Amnesty Committee for their … in London in 1982 with the knowledge of Minister of Law and Order, Louis le Grange. This was in retaliation for the …

… the town of Potchefstroom after moving away from Natal and heading inland and eventually settling in the northern Free State .  … 1792. He was the second child of Petronella Margaretha and Hermanus Potgieter. He fought in the Fourth and Fifth …

… considered it necessary in the previous chapter to pause and deal in more detail with certain facets of the situation, the political deviations and their interplay. But now we return to the main stream of … Picture once more the situation, with the war at an end and the Herrenvolk going full steam ahead with their plans in …

… area around Empangeni brings to mind sugarcane plantations and hot, sticky, languid days. It is only 15 km away are the … townships of: Esikhawini, Vulindlela, Felixton, Nseleni and Ngwelezane. These make these make up the City of … stream. The town is a centre for sugar, cotton, cattle and timber and despite its development into a modern town, it …