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Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… Year Date Name Affiliation Place of death Description 1984 15 July Ngalo, Johannes (26) … where he was allegedly escorting police to identify the place where…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… contemporaries of Delany, thought that Africa was the best place for that new nation. Motivated by Christian missionary … of ideas about Africa and peoples…
EventSouth African Air Force bombs ANC in Maputo
… ANC bases in a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique's capital city, were bombed in retaliation on 23 May 1983. This action …
Doing Oral History
… times and places where pre- or actual interviews took place, questions to be put to the interviewee, brief … be asked of the interviewee(s)? Introductory…
PlaceChurch Square, Dickson street, Woodstock
… and Nurses, aswell as students! Being so close to the City, this is also suitable for Businessmen! Years ago there … place …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 24 November 1976, Volume 61
… Sydney Anthony East, an attorney and a Councillor of the City of Cape Town; Sanna Elizabeth Fourie, senior Principal …
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… Pretoria is thirty-five miles from Johannesburg city and almost fifty miles from Soweto where almost all the … Johannesburg Drill Hall, in a military setting…
PlaceThe Space Theatre
… of its’ Founding Members and supported by the Cape Town City Council, Inner City Development Programme. Currently, The Space Theatre has … place …
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… in detail. Not only was Ibrahim living in New York City, the center of the movement for much of the era, but … abroad, Ibrahim was able to “transmit remnants…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… explore and analyse the socio-political events that take place throughout J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and how these … in his changing identity as he moves away…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… in which a finely Grafted Bill of Rights enjoys pride of place. It divides government into national, provincial, and …
PlaceIziko Museum's, Cape Town
… given to the group of National Museums located near the City centre, otherwise referred to as the 'City’s Museum Mile.' Visit the natural History collections…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… of between 2 000 and 5 000 supporters into the city, where they were confronted by a force of the South … Cape Town's history, when 30 000 Blacks marched…
New Khoisan name for Cape Town, 25 June 2012
… have difficulty getting their tongue around the Mother City’s new name: //Hui !Gaeb. This Khoisan word means “where …
EventThe Star Condemns Forced Removals In Sophiatown
… Johannesburg, to Soweto, located on the outskirts of the city. This forced removal was part of the government's …
ArchiveBolt: magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.2 No.1 1971
… Twiggy, Peter Strauss. Cato Manor 1955, Colin Shum. Surf City, Fiona Morphet. Gulliver’s Day, Mike Kirkwood. Ballad of …
PlaceAmsterdam, Mkhondo Local Municipality
… changed on the 5 July 1882 to Amsterdam, after the Dutch city where the State Secratary, Eduard Bok was born and out … New Dictionary of South African Place…
Speech by Deputy Minister Gwendoline Mahlangu-Nkabinde, South African Deputy Minister of Economic Development at a Business Conference held in conjunction with the Wuhan Government, Wuhan, China 11 August 2010
… prime bank overdraft rate. South Africa has incentives in place to motivate its foreign investors. I want to highlight … ensure economic policy and policy…
PlaceWoolsack House, Rondebosch
… Woolsack Drive is next to Rosebank and is located in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Woolsack Drive … Woolsack Drive is next to Rosebank and…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… onslaught against anti-apartheid activists was taking place and a general heightening of oppressive measures such … surrounded the area and Mahlangu came out…
PlaceCenturion, Gauteng
… to the relocation of businesses, which has resulted in the City limits expanding. Its location makes it the perfect … community and Centurion functions as…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… Swahili people and coastal towns. These coastal towns or city-states were independent from each other and they … the history of the Swahili from these…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… a few days, a public protest meeting was held on the City Hall steps, the Hyde Park Corner of Johannesburg's … my first daylight procession from the Trades…
EventTshwane Metro’s 5th anniversary celebrations held at Church Square
… celebrations. Held in Church Square in Pretoria's city centre, the celebrations began with marches through the …
EventPretoria’s first Black mayor
… of Pretoria. He was instrumental in integrating the old city council of Pretoria with the local municipalities of …
EventScientists identify Green Monkey disease as responsible for more than 300 deaths in Northern Zaire and the Sudan
… identified in green monkeys. It gets its namefrom the city of Marburg, Germany, where it caused small epidemics. In …
EventThe iconic Athlone cooling towers are demolished
… during a "surprise" implosion on 22 August 2010 by the City of Cape Town. The power station towers were detonated at …
PlaceAbangani Art Centre, Durban
… of Black students who wanted an art education in the city centre of Durban. Its premise was very similar to that … place …
PlaceADAMS CALENDAR also known as: 'Blaauwboschkraal Stone Ruins'
… as Blaauwboschkraal Stone Ruins. Mpumalanga means 'the place where the sun rises' in isiZulu . Adam’s Calendar was … a whole have been claimed to be…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… authorities was that students have to be put in their place. There was no representation at all. They hardly knew … and its philosophy. A similar process was…