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Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
… of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, Comrades and friends, Compatriots, I came on Thursday, having spent a … accompanied by my wife, my son-in…
PlaceMasjiengebou (Machine Building), Defense Headquarters, Pretoria
… The Historic Machine Building, "Staatsartillerie" Stables and Western portion of the Main Building. all situated at Defence Headquarters, Pretoria. Stables…
PlaceSouth African State Theatre
… the Provincial Council of the Transvaal. [i] Botha, Lötter and Partners as well as Daneel and Smit architects were hired to design and construct the theatre…
Nelson Mandela University presenting AEE REP qualification programme
… of the AEE, the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT at NMU was the ideal choice for the EnTF to expand its … ride in the solar car which is…
Balule Private Game Reserve, Kruger National Park
… the Tsonga word for Buffalo. You can see the ' Big Five ' and many other animals in the Balule Game Reserve. The Balule … are limited". Experienced rangers…
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… the mill in 1796. Dirk's daughter inherited the property and subsequently married a Mostert, the great-grandson of the Cape's first miller, and the mill came…
PlaceOpera House, Port Elizabeth
… of GW Smith, a prominent Port Elizabeth architect, and was built by the firm of Small & Morgan. It was opened on … on 4 January 1980. The Port Elizabeth…
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… Jomo Kenyatta was born in Kamau, Kenya, on 20 October 1891 and grew up in Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya. Kenyatta … Mission, where he studied English,…
Document 3 - National Anti-CAD Conference Agenda, Oddfellows Hall, Hope Street, Cape Town, Saturday, 29 May [1943]
… THE ANTI-C.A.D. MOVEMENT HAS ACHIEVED TO DATE" Questions and Discussion. Resolutions: That this National Anti-C.A.D. … soÂcial, political, sporting, trade…
Siyanqoba Bafana-Bafana Siyanqoba!!! Siyavena Bafana Bafana Siyavena!!!, 3 June 2010
… National Congress joins all soccer loving Africans, and South Africans in particular by hosting the ANC 2010 FIFA … world cup in a weeks time. We do this…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… In unbridled savagery, they extensively mutilated his face and cut off his ears. A member of the African National … he was a student at the University…
Letter from Maryland (http://www.archaeology.org/) by Julie Schablitsky
… Americans, however, haven’t lost touch with this past, and have found success tracing their lineages through manumission records, the wills of slave owners,…
Save South Africa calls ‘People’s Assembly Against State Capture’
… is due to appear with former SARS employees Oupa Magashule and Ivan Pillay – for charges which appear at best spurious … which starts at 8am on November 2,…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local people. … Gqeberha was the original name for the Baakens…
Document 52 - International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract)
… in view of the very weak membership of South Africa and in view of the insufficiently mature conditions of the … on the proposals of a party which is yet to…
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
… after an English master told him it was too foreign and too Jewish for a stage career. After attending the Royal … later draw from this experience in his…
ArchiveThe Soul of a Nation
… On 10 December 1996, the signatures on the country's new and final Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the…
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… showed little intent of holding onto captured territory, and by January 1835 they had begun to retreat, taking herds … cattle with them. The British soon…
38. The Natal Franchise Bill, 1894: Do not make our sons pariahs
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Franchise Law Amendment Bill of 1894 … (vice-president of the newly-formed…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Bosman Street, Pretoria
… Reformed Church sold the square to the town authorities and used the proceeds to build two new churches, the one in Du Toit Street (Herformde Kerk) and the…
PlaceThe AVA Gallery
… The history of the AVA Gallery echoes the social, political and cultural changes that took place in South Africa. … 1850. The Society aimed to form a…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Banquet hosted by President Sharma of India India, 25 January 1995
… Rao; Honourable Ministers; Your excellencies, Ambassadors and members of the diplomatic corps; Distinguished guests; Ladies and Gentlemen. May I express my…
Document 59 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to N. J. Barclay, 21 February 1936
… 1936 N. J. Barclay Dear Comrade, Comrades Grant30 and Frost are in a better position than myself to inform you … (almost exclusively Jewish-speaking) until…
Document 18 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the South African Federation of NativeTrade Unions, 20 September 1930
… meeting of the Party Executive, one for the use of a table and two chairs belonging to the Party, one for financial … to the All-in Trade Union Conference at…
"We have Decided to Liberate Ourselves": Address to the Royal Commonwealth Society by O. R. Tambo, London, 23 June 1986
… Mr. Chairman, Your Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Exactly eight months ago to the day, in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, Heads of State and…
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
… leaders. What is of paramount importance is the programme and principles of the organisation. To put it another way, it … I ask you to use this test. Apply…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… when I was fifteen years my parents died, both of them. And we are a family of five, and I am the second to the eldest. So because of the … one I come after…
Address on disturbances in Bloemfontein location, by I. J. Nthatisi, March 4, 1919
… the location, the Resident Magistrate, Mr. J. Ashburnham, and the Mayor of Bloemfontein Mr. D. A. Thomson, motored out … I. J . Nthatisi read an address to…
Document 16 - F. W. de Klerk’s speech at the opening of Parliament
… COSATU Congress `99 continued labour market transformation and programmes to see to the implementation of new labour … implementation of a comprehensive…
Coloured by History, Shaped by Place - New perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town
… This book examines-and plays with the boundaries of-the disconcerting, … argues that coloured identities are a valid part of black and African experiences,…