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… Given the turmoil in Europe and the importance of the Cape sea-route to India the British … Elphinstone to secure the Cape as a refreshment station and as their gateway to the East. That fleet arrived off … hand over the Cape to the British . This was rejected and the British delegation returned to Simon’s Town. The site …

… as a residence/base of operations of Mahatma Gandhi, and as birthplace of the syncretic Nazareth Baptist Church. … HIV rates this leads to not many reaching old age.  Gandhi and the Phoenix Settlement In 1904, Mohandas Gandhi, who had … of Inanda. Boasting residences, a clinic, a school, and a printing press, Phoenix served for a time as an …

… contested by the Boer republics of the;  Orange Free State and the Transvaal ,. As well as various other groups like the KhoiKhoi , Koranas under Andries Waterboer , and the Batlhaping under Chief Mankuroane . In 1870, … fields as Boer property. Immigrant miners were enraged and a former British sailor called Stafford Parker organised …

… for full democratic rights, was made by Dr. Yusuf Dadoo and Dr. G. M. Naicker, respectively Presidents of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian Congress, at a function in Cape Town in … Passive Resistance Movement had been temporarily suspended and a new Government was in power. Both he and Dr. Naicker …

… 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, as it was to the NP and other minority political parties. These principles … process of arriving at a final constitutional dispensation and to make a break with the conflict of the past. To provide …

… orders soon after this speech.) Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, someone has said a man really has only one … it in different ways, but it is a gospel of democracy and freedom. If we are true to South Africa that must be our … only about a third of her people enjoy democratic rights, and the rest - notwithstanding the fact that they constitute …

… orders soon after this speech.) Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, someone has said a man really has only one … it in different ways, but it is a gospel of democracy and freedom. If we are true to South Africa that must be our … only about a third of her people enjoy democratic rights, and the rest - notwithstanding the fact that they constitute …

… 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 customs and rituals of the black peoples (Jabavu, 1922). Writers, Mr. … Literature thence provided social commentary during 1910 and 1988 (Moropa, 1991): The popularity of the Xhosa language …

… 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 so that we can go home and enjoy ourselves. And of course the other problem is that …

… Mandela, representatives of government, business, labour and other community and development organisations meet at the Presidential Job … most economically deprived areas, St Lucia, the Wild Coast and Algoa Bay. It further announced a R2, 5-billion housing … Yearbook 2001/02, Pretoria: Government Communication and Information System, p. 174.| sahistory,' Nelson Mandela's …

…  Moses Mayekiso was the General Secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) and became a member of the South African Communist … Party (SACP). Mayekiso was first detained in February 1986 and was released on 7 March about the same year. This was … 4, Ravan: Johannesburg, pp.175-176.| International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (1986), Southern Africa News …

… Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell was born in Durban, Natal, and was considered one of South Africa’s most esteemed … (now Durban Boys' High), where he counted literature and outdoor life among his first loves. Campbell founded the … years earlier. Campbell was an accomplished horse rider and fisherman and also fluent in isiZulu. His international …

… of Plymouth, was born in South Africa to a British mother and Jewish father on 16 October 1943. His father was born in the Lethuania/Poland area and had fled to South Africa to escape Nazi persecution. … After his father’s death, Levinsky , his siblings and mother, emigrated to England. He was 13 years old at the …

… South African poet, writer and BCM member Mafika Gwala was born today in the town of … South African Students Organisation. Sometime during 1966 and 1967 Gwala began to write his first poetry and “The Classic” – a Black literary magazine – published his … (1992).  Bounds of Possibility: The Legacy of Steve Biko and Black Consciousness , Claremont: Zed Books| Chapman, …

… for 8 years, Nadine Gordimer is the author of 16 novels and short story collections, Richard Luyt was a principal and vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Prema … Johannesburg attorney who represents Nelson Mandela and defended many important treason trials, Achat Danger is a …

… In 1851, the British controlled the area between the Orange and Vaal Rivers (the Orange River Sovereignty). Due to border … This line divided territory between British territory and the Basotho under Moshoeshoe, and stretched from Cornetspruit and the Orange River through …

… Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite, Alfred B. Nobel, established the … will. This bequeathment allegedly shocked his relatives and the countries where he had once lived, such as France and Russia. The first prizes were awarded five years after …

… family in 1906. He became one of South Africa's first and most important abstract painters. He first became interested in archaeology and primitive art as a young boy after moving to Koffiefontein in 1917, and drew and painted since childhood. His formal art studies …

… the workers' struggle for national liberation, democracy and socialism. Issues discussed include wage negotiations, … working conditions, campaigns for a national minimum wage and exploitation of workers. Trade union action in the … at length. Strikes by mineworkers, factory workers and transport workers are discussed in the context of …

… 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 hear such news. I must say that I still … down  hoping that someone from the Municipality would come and tell me about the procedure to use my name for this …

… by Christoph Danelzik-Bruggemann, Michael Stevenson, and an interview with the photographer by Mark Haworth-Booth. … has spent more than three decades chronicling the soul and soil of his troubled native land, resulting not only in … live here. This is a land made for insects who eat sand and lay eggs in each other's corpses and have no voices with …

… 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 Johannesburg in 1949 and two years later his family moved to Roodepoort, where … praised him for being one of the brightest in his class and it came as no surprise that his parents wanted him to …

… The former structures were shabby, with unpaved roads and no electricity supply.  The  Township was completed and officially opened in 1927. Langa is located on the Cape … Town in the Western Cape Province. The name Langa is Xhosa and literally means ‘sun’. The name is also partly derived …

… 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 over its members and that, if the agreement were not gazetted, the workers … stating that those who wished to resign could do so and no action would be taken against them under the closed …

… 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 caused enormous death and destruction in Mozambique. They had incited massacres in the Transvaal, irrespective of tribal origins and political affiliations. Death squads were prowling around …

… INTER-IMPERIAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT, PROCEEDINGS AND MEMORANDA E (I.R./26) Series (WITH SUBJECT INDEX) [This … ________ I. ¾ INTRODUCTION 1 II. ¾ STATUS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE DOMINIONS 1 III. ¾ SPECIAL POSITION OF INDIA 2 IV. ¾ … 9 Channel of Communication between Dominion Governments and Foreign Governments 10 VI. ¾ SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATION AND …

… is a unique museum that reveals much about the life and the spirit of this great statesman. Soldier, scholar, statesman and philosopher, General Jan Christiaan Smuts was one of South Africa's most remarkable leaders, an enigmatic and multifaceted person who was never fully understood by his …

… time. England won at Newlands in 1889, 1892, 1896, 1899 and 1906. South Africa finally turned the tables in the … cricket memories, it was also blemished by Colonial and Apartheid mentalities, which meant that for many Years, … cricket was ushered in with the collapse of apartheid and the birth of a new South African democracy in the early …

… Oudtshoorn was originally part of the District of George, and was proclaimed a separate division in about 1858. The local economy was based primarily upon tobacco and ostrich farming, although fruit and grain were also produced in large quantities. The …

… relatively few links to their former rural tribal economy and, at a relatively early stage, came under the guidance of … they began, on their own initiative, to collect funds and to lay down the groundwork for the establishment of a … as the seat of the new Government Agent to the amaMfengu and the High School was opened in 1877 on a site located a …