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PlaceLady Frere, Eastern Cape
Originally named after the wife of; Sir Henry Bartle Frere, the then Governor of the Cape, Lady Frere serves as the centre for the Glen Grey farming district…
PlaceKing Williams Town, Amatola
… are the Rooikrans and Maden Dams , which serve as great places to fish and pursue water sports and, should you be …
PlaceYMCA-Cape Town and later Athlone, as well
… is the oldest in Africa and has been based in a couple of places in the City over the years. Namely: Hout Street; 44 …
PlaceHuguenot Memorial Museum, Franschhoek
The story of the Huguenot Memorial Museum is quite fascinating, and lends the Building and its contents a certain charm and intrigue. In the 1700’s, the…
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… a special task team to deal with gangsterism and drugs in places such as the Cape Flats in Cape Town, 17. The EFF … the goals and needs of the economy with…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… from the grenades and keep the two parts in separate places. We also had to keep ensuring that there were no …
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
YearDateNameAffiliationPlace of deathDescription198415 JulyNgalo, Johannes (26) ParysFound dead in cell due to serious internal injuries. 29 September …
ArticlePan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is the belief that people of African descent have common interests and should be unified. Historically, Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape…
22. Natal sirdars regarded in India as pariah
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai By 1911, the public outcry in India against the…
BiographyRick Turner
Rick Turner [Richard Albert David Turner] was a charismatic political philosopher and theorist who was also an activist and educationist. He was highly…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VII - “The Missionary Charter”
From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke Treaty or no Treaty, the control was in the hands of the military and at this stage…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… What is it all about? Simply about the mere fact that in places it is not clear exactly where the borders lie because … past the border between Lesotho and…
ArchiveAfrican languages should be at the center of educational and cultural achievement by Abdi Latif Dahir (Quartz Africa)
At his farewell speech as the chairman of the African Union in 2004, Mozambique’s then-president Joaquim Chissano surprised African leaders by delivering his…
English Settlement in South Africa
British presence in the Cape between the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined to the shores of the Cape and Table Bay as a halfway stop by the East India…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
On October 25 1991, ninety-two organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The Front…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
'Laws do not make a better society, people do ... it is crucial that the people of South Africa unite around a common respect for the Constitution…
PlaceHeilbron, Free State
Although it was a small camp, Heilbron was unusual in several respects. This area in the northern Free State might appear flat and uninteresting but, the…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
The South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) was formed in 1953 at a Coloured People's Convention in Cape Town. The organisation aimed to unite…
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
While looking at the background information on the Russian revolution and the change to a Communist state in Russia, we have already touched on many of the…
PlaceCalvinia
Calvinia was founded on the Farm-'Hoogekraal', in 1845. This property was purchased by the Dutch Reformed Church in order to establish a parish for the Town-…
PlaceLoeriesfontein, Northern Cape
Loeriesfontein is situated in the Northern Cape. This little Town is situated in the Hantam Municipality, 120 kilometres from Brandvlei. Other nearby towns…
PlaceKoingnaas Diamond Minning Town, Northern Cape
Koingnaas is a Town in Namakwa District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Established in 1970, Koingnaas was once a flourishing…
PlaceWeenan
Weenen stands as a testament to the turbulent History of South Africa! Located on the serene Banks of the Bushman River in KwaZulu-Natal, it remains as the…
PlaceBloubergstrand, Tableview -Cape Town
Bloubergstrand is a Suburb of Cape Town, 25Km North of the City! The beach at Bloubergstrand is a popular location for a classic view of Table Mountain across…
PlaceEmalahleni Municipality, Mpumalanga
Emalahleni Municipality is a Local Municipality within the Nkangala District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. Emalahleni is a Nguni…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 12 January 2019
… end to a blockade that lacks any reasonable basis. The ANC places the success of Africa’s efforts at attaining inclusive …
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… assignment of white rather than black agents to particular places in the division of labour", while it also created … labour, white workers tried to exclude…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… to serious dangers while travelling to and from their places of work by train, bus or taxi. Train commuters: Year 1 …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the European Parliament, Strasbourg: 17 November 2004
… The Government and people of Rwanda have left some of the places where the slaughter occurred as they were when the …
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… disturbing was the type of violence engendered in places such as Zeerust, Sekhukhuniland, and Pondoland amongst … not born there. Africans want to be allowed…