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PlaceKing’s Blockhouse, Devil’s Peak, Cape Town.
… the Prince of Wales, above present-day De Waal Drive, and the King's Blockhouse further up the mountainside. The … as a signal station for communication…
EventThe Boipotong massacre takes place
… During the period of transition and negotiation in South Africa, the core area of the … area where battles between Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the…
EventZeph Mothopeng, President of the PAC dies
… had relocated. After passing standard six at St Bedes and St Chads Colleges in Ladysmith, he completed his high … school education at St Peters secondary…
PlaceRobert Sobukwe Town, was called Graaf-Reinet
… in the Eastern Cape, the fourth oldest in South Africa and certainly one of the most atmospheric, Graaff-Reinet lies … With over 200 buildings claimed as…
EventTshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody
… were killed in the attack. The Homeland was seized by fear and panic, with the government expecting follow up attacks on … there were activists inside the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the man and his work. That I was ignorant of his more than 60 years … in KwaZulu-Natal, some 30 of them in…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… The social inequalities between indigenous Liberians and the Americo-Liberians has lead to much of the political and social strife in the country, as…
ArchiveThe background of segregation: address delivered to the National Anti-C.A.D. Conference
… which the British Empire is founded is that of "divide and rule" and plainly named as segregation. And in South Africa, the people have been divided into…
ArchiveSeparate Representation of Voters Act, Act No 46 of 1951
… provision for the separate representation in Parliament and in the provincial council of the province of the Cape of Good Hope of Europeans and non-Europeans…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a stern, resilient, and unapologetic reformist-feminist. With her feminist … discriminatory barriers. Her life experiences, the…
ANC statement on the state of readiness for celebrations of 101 year celebration of the ANC, 9 January 2013
… context, we send our congratulatory messages to members and supporters of our glorious movement for this greatest … life remains at the heart of the movement…
Africa South
… published quarterly while funds were available. The last and final publication was issued in 1961. Ronald M. Segal claimed to be a socialist, and was an anti…
EventShaun Thomson*, world surfing title winner, is born in Durban
… on 21 August 1955. He attended Clifton Preparatory School and Carmel College, and began surfing at the age of ten. In 1973, after serving … Gunston 500…
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
… William Stewart (Bill) Ainslie, South African artist and founder of several art training projects, was born in … who had arrived in the Cape Colony in 1833…
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… African National Congress (ANC) lawyer, Bheki Mlangeni, and former Vlakplaas colleague and Askari, Brian Ngqulunga. His trial started in February 1995 and he…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… important development in the struggle against apartheid and white domination in South Africa. But it had a great … place in South Africa soon. As believers…
Dr. Pallo Jordan’s speech at the 20th anniversary of the Bisho massacre, 07 September, 2012
… mark a happy occasion. It was day on which the political and social forces striving to give birth to a democratic … by the tin-pot military strongman,…
Statement of the Alliance Political Council, 13 October 2009
… the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO), … the implementation of the Alliance Programme…
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
… of the SACP, he was no lesser degree a highly esteemed and completely devoted leader of the African National … underground political work in defiance of…
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
… of the SACP, he was no lesser degree a highly esteemed and completely devoted leader of the African National … underground political work in defiance of…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… This complex dates from 1892 and includes the church building, Cornelia House, and the William Frederick School. It was built by the Tafelberg Congregation…
PlaceNieu-Bethesda
… by a determined group of people who lived in the area and who wanted a Church closer than the one in Graaff-Reinet … on the Farm were always on the lookout…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Tributes to Lembede After His Death
… Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 41. WALTER NHLAPO,"He Sang and Soared Away," Barlow's Weekly, 16 August 1947 Walter … (d. 1967) was a Journalist employed by…
87. Today’s lessons are tomorrow’s weapons for students
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai University students on black campuses … two documents that illustrate the…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
… the Art Fair? Goldblatt: I've chosen 30 pictures, both old and new. It's a rather disparate collection of work that I've … favourites. The older ones were…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… photographer ponders how it is possible to be decent and normal in a world that is mad, even evil. For him, at … the everyday, insidious manifestations of…
PlaceStanger, now officially known as KwaDukuza
… Stanger was founded in 1872 and was named after the first Surveyor-General of the then … Stanger. KwaDukuza which incorporates the Town of Stanger and…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… black students increasingly began to feel the frustration and disillusionment similar to that which had led to the Fort … of Natal Medical School (UNMS)…
PlaceNelson Mandela Bridge, Johannesburg
… which spans the railway tracks which separate the Newtown and Braamfontein neighbourhoods in the Johannesburg City Centre took 18 months to build and was…
The Khoikhoi carry out a series of raids on the free burghers’ herds
… faced a stronger demand for their cattle. Trade disputes and charges of theft caused great tension between colonists and the Khoikhoi who feared that the…