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EventThe mayor of Cape Town, Hyman Lieberman, opens the Great Synagogue in the Gardens, Cape Town
… that a new building was needed. The original synagogue, or shul, was built in what is now the Jewish Museum complex. … larger building was needed, and so the…
EventBoers defeat British in the battle of Ingogo (Anglo-Boer War 1)
… War 1- also called Transvaal War of Independence or Anglo-Transvaal War- a Boer force of about 200 (under … This battle is either referred to as the Battle…
EventA UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000
… from a rare pneumonia (Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia or PCP). This strain of pneumonia was found in patients with … HIV/AIDS might have been introduced to…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… ask you questions, questions about what you are doing. Or else they let you tay there so you cannot be organizing … Jail. Some people stayed for less time,…
ArchiveOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
… that one would not be divulging dangerous state secrets or seriously transgressing conventions of confidentiality in … as Human Rights' Day, Freedom Day,…
A message to the African people and their allies in the struggle for freedom in the Union of South Africa, June 1953
… so much from them. For them it is not a day of rejoicing or frivolity but one of commemoration and dedication. It is a … different times in our history have…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African National Congress Activities
… But to-day the A.N.C. is facing a formidable alliance or combination of hostile African organisations which are supported or run by Europeans and which aim…
Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921
… see? A need for organisation. We have been often tempted, or was it mere force of circumstances and of economic … about a solidarity of effort without which…
Closing speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… Pixley ka Isaka Seme, AB Xuma, JS Moroka, AJ Luthuli, OR Tambo, NR Mandela and TM Mbeki. We have come to the end of … the other of the party. There is no…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… – but what coverage did occur was extremely negative or dismissive in tone, reflecting the bias of the white-owned … the media, except in order to imply…
Chapter 1 - Interpreting the Character, Role and Significance of SASO AND SANSCO
… The organisation occurs on the basis of some more or less explicitly theoretical presuppositions - it is an … point. Burawoy defines politics as "struggles…
ArticlePeople involved in Rivonia Trial 1963-1964
… then that it was too dangerous for those still on trial or active in South Africa for me to allow its distribution …
ArticleThe New Group
… This was a group or collective of young South African artists who, upon their …
Petros Mulaudzi of Nthabalala village
… is available but in many instances not affordable or impractical. Water supply, available from communal taps, …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 1
… seldom free from the dust thrown up by the ox-drawn cart or the trail of natives and Indians who used it. There were … they gained from a steady employment…
ArchiveBirth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe
… that Oom Hansie was a coloured oke from the Cape Flats or Eersterust in Pretoria. Some maintained that he was from Bosmont or neighbouring Wesbury in…
EventGermany invades Poland, starting World War II
… to 12 046 dead (including 4 347 who were killed in action or died of wounds), 14 363 wounded and 16 430 captured or missing. More than 7 000 South Africans…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… major historical controversies surrounding Emily Hobhouse or to take note of the work and scholarship of historians. … tactical decision to create…
How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018
… forces at work in order to assess what may change or could lead to change. This requires both firmness on … that tell us little apart from his being a great…
Debate in the House of Assembly during the second reading of the Immorality Amendment Bill on 23 February 1962
… which induces me to adopt the attitude that this Act, or any of its provisions, should be repealed. On the … as far as the 1950 Act went. The 1957 Act added…
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
… Partition was submitted to and approved by both parties, or at any rate fairly widespread and Influential sections of … self-governing States. They do not…
Rethinking the William Fehr Collection
… Collection had been on exhibition at the Castle – more or less unchanged – from the 1950s. The core of the … of Good Hope Enquiries: Esther Esmyol, Tel. 021…
ArchiveRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
… philosopher was shot dead in his Durban home by ‘person or persons unknown’. Richard Turner (known to students, … English South African graduate trajectories…
Archive1994 - President De Klerk, State Of the Nation Address, 28 February 1994 (Before National Elections)
… no party should be able to claim that they are excluded or that their reasonable concerns have not been accommodated … be misused to undermine the scope of…
44. Gandhi explains ‘satyagraha’
… that is to say, the Force which is born of Truth and Love or non-violence, and gave up the use of the phrase 'passive … avoided it and used instead the word …
Jail
… do what you like, because even if I say I didn't do that, or I did that ... I am going to be convicted, ja So I give … know whether they had moved us to…
ArchiveOpening Address of Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Commemoration Project, by Nelson Mandela, 21 September 2004, Johannesburg
… Card might easily have decided to destroy the notebooks, or sell them to a wealthy collector in this country or from some other country. We remind you that…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the state banquet in honour of President Abdou Diouf Pretoria, 30 July 1996
… rights of all citizens, irrespective of race, colour, sex or creed, and shall provide appropriate mechanisms for their … produced by racial discrimination. …
On trial for treason
… fetch you at your house without telling you any reasons or anything, take you to the police station, take your name … send you off to Johannesburg without…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… trade could not have taken place without the cooperation, or complicity, of many Africans. As the number of transported … South African population that came…