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"Peace and Development in our Region" Speech at "War on Want" Conference by O. R. Tambo, London, June 1988
… this opportunity to pay homage to the farsighted leaders of our region who, eight years ago, decided to establish the … legs so thin you wonder how they ever…
EventSA's Fifa membership reinstated
… Thirty-one years after being expelled, South Africa had its membership of the Football International Federation Association (Fifa) … South Africa was…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a period of the male Xhosa … each country may only submit…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 4: Transformations in southern Africa after 1750
… occurred at this time. Shaka was regarded as being the major cause of conflict during this period. However, historians are moving away from the idea of the…
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… Matthews , was born in Kimberley in 1901, the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana … a Cape voter and his cousin, Sol Plaatje, a…
ArticleAfrican Traditional Religion
… Religion is an important part of millions of people's lives across the world. Thousands of African … Nigeria about 20 new religious sects or groups come into…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
… interviewed by Rupert Taylor Taylor: What is the nature of the conflict? Ramphele: I’ll take issue with the … struggle between 1976 and to the democratic…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Bloemfontein
… an important role in the Province during the early years of the 19th century as it became the meeting place for … South Africa for many years to come. After…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Congress Youth League Activities
… league manifesto," Issued by the Provisional Committee of the Congress Youth League, March 1944. Preamble WHEREAS … a host of individual little entities…
EventAnton Hammerl, South African photographer, is killed in Libya
… South Africa was doing its best to find him and bring his body back home so that his family could give him a decent … frontline “brother”, Unai Aranzadi,…
President Julius Malema`s address to the KZN Provincial Congress, 22 May 2010
… We send you greetings on behalf of the National Executive Committee of the ANC Youth League, … we will be headed towards the same direction of being…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
… Since the rising of the sun of democracy upon the magnificent Drakensberg, … in all probability, will have run dry. Worse, after being renamed after 21st…
David Goldblatt: “Particulars” (1975) by The ASX Team, 16 May 2013
… been fed by life experiences and heightened by the kind of hyper-awareness that photography sometimes enables and demands…” “My first awareness of a bodily…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… The reaction of the outside world to the development of apartheid was … these challenges to the apartheid state, the UK’s perhaps being the most effective of…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… This article was written by Jarvis Pruitt and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … went by her middle name, Noel, and died…
EventAmy Johnson, a female aviator, lands in Cape Town in record time
… record by over ten hours. After breaking a number of solo and duo records, Johnson and her aviator husband Jim … from Wales to the United States. The…
EventCharles Swart, a student ranger from Mangosuthu Technical College, is killed by a leopard
… and shot the animal while it was still feeding on Swart's body.The attacks by bigs cats on humans were largely blamed … Krugerpark.co.za, n.d. “Images of a…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to Conference on Unemployment, Low Wages and Poverty, 21 October 1961, Durban
… and vital conference called to consider the means and ways of meeting the acute situation of the growing number of … come to exercise an effective political…
Yesterday’s Poems and the Poets of Yesterday’s South Africa, and towards New Poems and Poets for the Unfinished and Continuing Struggle for a new South Africa by Saleem Badat
… Yesterday’s Poems and the Poets of Yesterday’s South Africa, and towards New Poems and Poets …
Tribute by Oliver Tambo to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Statement at the meeting of the special committee on its tenth anniversary, New York, 2 April 1973
… Committee against Apartheid, Statement at the meeting of the special committee on its tenth anniversary, New York, …
Book Launch: The Nightwatchman, Hlonipha Mokoena
… We're so looking forward to the launch of Hlonipha Mokoena's new book, THE NIGHTWATCHMAN at Love … Hlonipha and historian Khumisho Moguerane on the portrayal…
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
… Your death has come way too soon; none of us could say, with a straight face, that we were prepared … journalists, particularly in the foreign media, were…
A growing urban African population
… African labour. After the First World War, a large number of factories were being established and were growing in size. More and more … African working class…
The Cape Northern Frontier
… more land to cultivate in order to meet the requirements of the service post set up by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) at the Cape of Good Hope. Expansion…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… 1961 and the Rivonia arrests in July 1963 was a period of preparation for both sides, revealing nothing of the … proposal to resort to armed struggle and…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 2
… Africa between 2 000 and 1 700 years ago. The study of Iron Age archaeology provides a history for the majority of present-day southern African and South…
EventSA wins top awards from the International Rugby Board
… South Africa enjoyed a clean sweep of the International Rugby Board (IRB) awards in 2004. The … African flanker, Schalk Burger, was named IRB 'Player of the…
47. The assault on Gandhi
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … decided that I should not, as I had declared earlier, mind…
EventVerney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa
… navy in 1857, taking part in the Abyssinian campaign of 1868 and in the suppression of the East African slave trade. In 1872 the Royal … the expedition met…
EventForces loyal to Zambian president Frederick Chiluba quash a coup by a handful of disgruntled military officers, arresting nine men including the captain who said an angel told him to overthrow the government
… informed his countrymen that he was dismissing the chiefs of the army and the police, and would give President … "Operation Born Again" and said he would…