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EventThe Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor
… Transvaal University College (TUKS) was founded in 1908, and recently celebrated its centenary year in 2008. The University of Cape Town Act (Act 14 of 1916)…
ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… idea that there were negotiations going on for my release and I had some sense that somehow my daughter was involved. … up the armed struggle. That was an…
64. Congress addresses the Union Parliament, 1946
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai M. D. Barmania, one of the secretaries of … on behalf of the Congress about the…
ArchiveThe preliminary nature of the Constitutional document
… Paper covering rights and duties attached to property and rights to education, power-sharing and rights of minorities, reconciling freedom of speech, …
Address by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the 48th General Assembly of the World Medical Association (WMA) 25 October 1996
… Minister Zuma Dr Moulin, President of the WMA Ladies and Gentlemen It gives me great pleasure to address this important gathering and to welcome all of you…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 8 - The Impracticality of Realism
… Richard Turner The Christian human model is one of freedom and openness. To love means to be free and open to other peep Certain kinds of social institutions…
PlaceCampanile, Port Elizabeth
… erected to commemorate the landing of the 1820 Settlers and is situated at the entrance to the railway station and docks in Strand Street, the spot where it…
PlaceCoffee Bay, Wild Coast
… Coffee Bay and the Hole in the Wall are virtually synonymous - mention the one and you picture the other - and one cannot describe the full extent of the…
PlaceMontagu Pass
… in 1972, it is the oldest unaltered Pass in South Africa , and links George with the Village of Herold . Until the … the Outeniqua Pass it was the main route…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note
… until, at the height of the repression in the 1960's, she and her family were forced to flee the country. England … in the background she helped to found the…
PlaceCastle of Good Hope, Castle Street- Cape Town
… of sods on a site in the Table Valley, near the Beach and East of what is today Adderley Street . The structure was … abandoned in 1665 when construction…
28. The Dealers’ Licenses Act is an attempt to weed out small traders
… passed by the Natal Legislature, empowered town councils and town boards to decide licence applications. In terms of the Law, their decision was final, and…
The values of David Goldblatt by Zachary Rosen,13 June 2017
… ways absorbed as the social information of a photograph, and in others reflected back at the viewer. Goldblatt, whose imagework blurs the lines between…
PlaceSophiatown
… the Area, White people did not want to live there anymore, and they moved. Later, Blacks and Coloureds were given permission to settle there by the owner,…
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the departure of former president Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… would come, nothing can diminish our sense of a profound and enduring loss. His tireless struggle for freedom earned … the respect of the world. His humility…
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on Receiving an Honorary LLD Degree at the University of Fort Hare 9 May 1992
… Mr. Chancellor, Comrade OR Tambo, revered and long-standing leader of our people, Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Rector, Professor S.M.E. Bengu, Chairperson of the …
The diary of Maria Tholo - February 16 by Carol Hermer
… change. On Sunday a week ago we heard the happy chant and mock stick fighting of an initiation group. We'd got used … for them after their return. You must…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 8
… Avalon Theatre was the first cinema established by Kajee and his partner Mr. A. B. Moosa. It is a modern building … situated in the centre of the Indian…
PlaceBotswana
… border with South Africa in the South, Namibia in the West and North, Zimbabwe in the East, and Zambia in the North. Botswana is inhabited by people of ……
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… chances of a speedy resolution to South Africa's conflict and of substantive negotiation towards democracy. By now, almost all political role-play and…
PlaceLovedale Missionary School
… school where so many Black intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th century—from Tiyo Soga to Thabo Mbeki to Steve … educated. Lovedale was established in…
EventF.W. de Klerk, former state president of South Africa, is born in Johannesburg.
… Klerk grew up in a political family. He later studied law and practiced as a lawyer in Vereeninging, south of … of President P.W. Botha, including Minister…
PlacePhansi Museum
… telephone wire baskets, clay pots, ceremonial attire and medicinal items dating back to the mid-19th Century. We have a particular love and interest for all…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… Africa (ACOA) to support freedom struggles all over Africa and to press the United States Government to support such … direct action in the United States…
EventEgypt is placed under martial law in response to widespread riots against the British
… From 1951 to 1952 Egypt was ravaged by violence and anti-British protest. In October 1951 the Egyptian … cancellation of the Anglo-Egyptian Alliance Treaty…
’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’
… them all on the grounds that he rejected the bantustans and all who collaborated in their establishment and maintenance. Mandela's response to the latest…
ArchiveMemories of Trafalgar High, District Six by Warren Ludski
… forced the residents out onto the grassless Cape Flats and razed their homes. What remained, ultimately, were the churches, mosques, the schools and the odd…
PlaceCircle of Kramat's, Cape Town
… it is this circle that protects Cape Town from earthquakes and National disasters. Kramats or Mazaars, the holy shrines … in the outlying districts of Faure,…
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s press statement on the Bisho Massacre King William’s Town - 8 September 1992
… Africa is a country traumatised by centuries of violence and the most brutal exploitation. It requires immense courage, tempered by patience and sensitivity…
Pravin Gordhan on a leash by Daniel Silke (Politics Web), 16 May 2016
… intrigue befitting more authoritarian regimes like China and Russia where state (and governing political party) linkages into business and crony capitalism…