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Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Search for a United Front against racism
… Mr. Naidoo if that this conviction has grown deeper and deeper during the time he had spent in jail. The people … but is a deliberate move to limit the…
ArchiveArt Fair forced to reinstate Mabulu painting after Goldblatt threat by Matthew Krouse (Mail & Gurdian), 28 September 2013
… at the FNB Jo'burg Art Fair 2013 by the event organiser and director of Artlogic Ross Douglas who claimed that he had … the art fair sponsors that include…
PlaceAnton van Wouw House, Museum- Pretoria
… from 1938 was built for the famous sculptor Anton van Wouw and is an example of Norman Eaton’s romantic, organic … of the materials that Eaton liked to use…
PlaceOld Pretoria Iron Mines Ltd Buildings, Iscor, Pretoria
… The simple brick structure and its adjacent chimney contained the boiler and blower house of a blast furnace and formed part of the iron works established by…
PlaceChurch Square, Pretoria
… Pretorius declared the square to be used as a church yard and market place! The square was surrounded with various … buildings that stood from 1856 to 1905…
PlaceKing Edward VII High School, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
… practice. Lord Milner introcuced a strongly centralised and state controlled system of education. He divided the Transvaal into provinces and districts. Each…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Acknowledgements
… in 1984 at A. P. Mda's law office in Mafeteng, Lesotho, and we began a running conversation on South African society … in Anton Lembede, so we decided to…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 15 September 1970 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… Republic's policy in respect of the Black states in Africa and the arms sales to the Republic. In a particularly effective manner, clearly and unambiguously…
David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of their Crimes by Max Campbell, 6 October 2016
… bed in a bare-bones room. Her hands are folded in her lap, and her large, deep-set eyes gaze directly into the camera. A … 2007, Ellen Pakkies strangled her…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the tombstone of Helen Joseph Avalon Cemetery, Johannesburg, 30 March 1996
… Mayors of Greater Johannesburg; Members of the National and Provincial legislatures; Dear Friends and Comrades; Ladies and Gentlemen. Whenever I have to…
Document 39 - Statement by S. P. Bunting, October 1931
… PARTY , No doubt you have heard of the recent expulsions, and perhaps you have wondered what is the reason for them. … case only, I believe the great…
PlaceKwaMashu
… of KwaMashu Township, in the KwaZulu-Natal province and located some 19km north of Durban , resulted from the … to Sir Marshall Campbell (1848-1917) the…
Document 77 - Yu Chi Chan Club , Pamphlet No. II: The Conquest of Power in South Africa [1963]
… the Non-Whites. The petty bourgeoisie, the intelligentsia and the merchant class among the Non-Whites form a small but powerful and potentially dangerous…
EventMarks Maponyane, former Bafana Bafana striker, is born in Meadowlands, Soweto
… Marks Maponyane is a former football player and businessman born in Meadowlands, Soweto on 16 February … 1962. Maponyane played professional football for 17…
Testimony of the Delegation of the South African Native National Congress, Ermelo, before the Eastern Transvaal Land Committee,January 8, 1918
… After the magistrate and the Chairman had addressed the gathering [about 200 … point with us is this proposed segregation between black and white. We ask…
Chapter 5
… them as a group. The political exigencies of the time and the crisis of the Hertzog Bills had compelled them to … independently of the others. There were…
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
… it. Therefore, please forgive us if we appear too clumsy and unprepared; because we are ill prepared. Juda, I am sad and shocked to hear of the news of your…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… 18 Rhodes scholars; several Government Ministers and Members of Parliament; 8 Judges of the Supreme Court of … South Africa; as well as numerous prominent…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… the Rev. Pacalt to Hooge Kraal, visited there in 1819 and reported that: "In no part of the colony did I observe a … Soon after (March 1813) Mr Pacalt, a…
Document 41 - Letter from the Communist League of America to T.W. Thibedi, 30 May 1932
… very first information which we have had about your group and naturally we are not yet well acquainted. We are … from you in order to be able to learn about…
South African cricketers walk out in protest against apartheid after just one ball is bowled by Arunabha Sengupta, 3 April 2013
… when the Pollock brothers, Mike Procter, Barry Richards and a host of other great Protean cricketers stood up against … a sense of tranquillity, but an…
Archaeology - A way of discovering the past
… To know about events earlier than this, elderly relatives and friends may be able to recall their experiences of that time. Books and films also inform about…
Address by President T Mbeki at Press Conference following Meeting with President Kikwete of Tanzania, held on 7 April 2006, at Presidential Guesthouse
… Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the press. First of all let me say I'm very … see he is a working man, he came to work not for ceremony. And one of…
PlacePort St. Johns
… of the Coast of the Eastern Cape, with its deep Gorges and impenetrable Forests, mangrove Swamps and the primitive force of freak waves that have caused many…
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
… consist of 219 items covering the period 1868 - 1940 and include diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, … personal documents, press clippings, maps, printed…
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
… Five people were killed and many others injured at the University of Zululand … between an estimated 500 Inkatha Freedom Party supporters and a group of UDF…
EventThe apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko
… Steve Biko was born in King Williams Town and began his political career as the co-founder of the … was to address the psychological impact of apartheid, and…
EventDue to insufficient evidence South African police are cleared of charges with regards to the death of Steve Biko
… up studying medicine to devote himself to the "struggle", and founded the Black Consciousness Movement in 1969. Steve … with alarm by the South African…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
… Sanford Methuen (b. 1845 d.1932) was the 3rd Baron Methuen and a soldier all his life. Before arriving in South Africa … campaigns in present day Ghana as…
PlaceRosemount
… was established at about the same time as East London, and was located immediately south of the town. By the early … it had been overtaken by suburban…