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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…
ArchiveState of Capture - A Report of the Public Protector, 14 October 2016
… Report on an investigation into alleged improper and unethical conduct by the President and other state functionaries relating to alleged improper…
New Year Message to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 December, 1964
… that the United Nations has this year shown a new firmness and determination in the handling of the South African … our struggle against apartheid. The…
PlaceRosebank, Johannesburg
… is a vibrant multi-cultural district, business node and tourist attraction. Rosebank is one of a kind in that it … commercial node within a pleasant working,…
PlaceAlbert Jackson School, Port Elizabeth
… doors on 26 January 1942 on the corner of Pearson Street and Belmont Terrace overlooking the Donkin Reserve. Our … the years. The School was named GREENWOOD…
EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… white rule in the face of growing international pressure and condemnation. The events of Sharpville massacre of 1960, and the subsequent State of Emergency…
’Asinamali’
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1957 a message came through from … doing. It was a national campaign. There…
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…
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…
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…
47. The assault on Gandhi
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Satyagraha required that the word of the … be trusted. However, the compromise…
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…
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…
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
… in Pretoria. The prosecution wanted the maximum sentence – and we expected it: death. But in a short statement to the … my comrades light up with the most…
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…