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Looking After Freedom - ending 16 June
… Looking After Freedom is curated by Raél Jero Salley and Nkule Mabaso, this exhibition displays contemporary, … “decolonizing” art practices by African…
ArchiveLocal economic rsponses to industrial migration in small towns.
… This thesis examines how globalization poses immediate and long-term challenges and opportunities for small towns and, as a consequence, for local economic…
EventMary Elizabeth Barber, pioneer naturalist, dies
… On 4 September 1899, an 1820 Settler and early South African naturalist, Mary Elizabeth Barber … extensive knowledge of natural history, especially botany…
Chapter 12 - Certification of the final constitution
… It was also concerned about the enormous caseload it had and wanted to ensure that the process of testing the adopted … proposed it in the Harare Declaration…
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… Theatre for Drama for Life’s Mvuso Festival in 2014, and then at the Wits University Nunnery Theatre. The play … white supremacy that was antagonistic to the…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the Celebration of Workers Day, Swellendam, Western Cape, 1 May 2006
… Today is Workers Day. It is a day when workers should relax and enjoy themselves; and not spend too many hours in public meetings. I am not going to be long…
PlaceBotshabelo
… Missionaries Alexander Merensky and Heinrich Grützner started work in the north eastern part … were unsuccessful early attempts to evangelise the Swazi and…
PlaceCoornhoop Dovecot, Dixton Road, Mowbray
… as Fort Coornhoop. This was abandoned as early as 1661, and on 2 March 1664 the farm was granted to M Coninck, who … By this stage an H-plan farmhouse as…
PlaceBo-Kaap Museum
… the foot of Signal Hill, on the fringe of the city centre, and formerly known as the Malay Quarter , the Bo-Kaap’s … when numerous “huurhuisjes” (rental…
PlaceGreat Brak Rivier
… an English paper-mill hand who, together with his wife and four children, emigrated to the Cape in 1859. They landed … of a toll- house, a small boarding…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Mandela, to the International Solidarity Conference Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… Dear Friends and Colleagues. There are certain moments that capture the … You took the plight of our people, our hopes, our dreams and our struggle, to your…
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
… of the African National Congress, I.C.U. Communist Party and other bodies espousing native interests filled the … title the object of which was stated to be:…
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… exchange student, are granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). They appealed to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty…
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… the site of conflict between Colonial Administrators and autonomous African chiefdoms. The death of Cetshwayo in … to the hut tax. This led to first a stand…
EventPallo Jordan opens the Mbuzini Samora Machel Public Library
… On 6 October 2006, the Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, opened a community library at … carrying the Mozambican president Samora Machel, his staff…
The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994
… Centre, Oxford University Venues in Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town (Videoconferencing facilities: see below) Date: … in the ANC’s own archives, other…
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… Oliewenhuis Art Museum is committed to collect, conserve and exhibit works of art which represent the heritage of South African art on behalf of and to the…
PlaceColesberg, Northern Cape
… of an abandoned station of the London Missionary Society, and was named in honour of Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, Governor … most remote outposts of European…
PlaceSt George’s Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town
… stands at the bottom of Parliament Street in Cape Town and was erected to provide a place of worship for English … in the City. Construction on the Cathedral…
ArchiveGroup Areas Development Act, Act No 69 of 1955
… The Act was to provide for the control of the disposal and for the acquisition of immovable property in group areas and other areas defined under the Group…
Briefing to organisation of African Unity Kampala, September 8, 1990
… Mandela dealt with the wave of violence in South Africa, and said that certain elements in South Africa were behind … similar to that of Renamo which had…
40. 1903 reviewed by Indian Opinion
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai M. K. Gandhi founded Indian Opinion in … informed about all matters that…
Salim Essop takes centre stage during first day of Ahmed Timol inquest by Amanda Khoza (News24.com), 27 June 2017
… in the hands of the apartheid security police after he and his friend were held in custody. Timol’s death was ruled … told the court that he was born in…
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
… the news to you Gogo? LD: My grandson Sobantu, came to me and told me that the street that is opposite our house has been named after me and I was shocked to…
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
… by Christoph Danelzik-Bruggemann, Michael Stevenson, and an interview with the photographer by Mark Haworth-Booth. … has spent more than three decades…
Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… provision. The agreement was a matter solely for the union and the employers, but Schoeman had hoped that the … closed shop would break the union's-power…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… The former structures were shabby, with unpaved roads and no electricity supply. The Township was completed and officially opened in 1927. Langa is located…
Political Report by Limpopo ANC Chairperson Cde Cassel Mathale during the Limpopo ANC Provincial General Council, 10 June 2012
… Alliance partners The Veterans League The ANC Youth League and the Women`s League All members of this meeting Comrades … compelling task to concentrate on…
EventThe First Gay Pride March is Held in South Africa
… On 13 October 1990, South Africa’s first Lesbian and Gay Pride march was held in Johannesburg . It was the first Pride March on the African continent and…
PlaceGanesha Temple, Mt Edgecombe
… to be the oldest surviving ‘solid’ temple in Africa and one of the finest examples of temple architecture in … Temple ', was built in 1898 by indentured…