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Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… afoot in the Eastern Cape in preparation for the funeral of African National Congress (ANC) veteran, Mama Dideka Mhlaba (85) - wife of the late Rivonia…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 1
… Indian Community by C. H. Calpin An early photograph of " A.I."with C.F. Andrews The main road south from Durban … the coastlines of Natal were covered with…
ArticleTransport on land
… The first form of transport on land was, of course, WALKING! Content Animals Carts, wagons and coaches … to pull carts and to do heavy work. Today they are…
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
… in a New South Africa , 1990) that you reject a kind of either or interpretation of the conflict, here in the … called an optimist in relation to the future,…
Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
… 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 76 Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? ( … and the Native workers and these taxes…
ArticleKey sites
… Cafes A number of notable restaurants arose in the Grey Street area. These … in the 1890s attempted to close down this market but after being approached by…
Stuart Commission Report
… 1984 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC … between administration and rank-and-file described as being of "master and…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: his ‘obstinacy and stubbornness’ (Part 2) by Raymond Suttner, 11 June 2018
… An unusual, apparently contradictory set of personality traits combined to make Nelson Mandela the leader that he became. One of these was notorious…
EventCricketer Omar Henry born
… in Stellenbosch on 23 January 1952.[i] In 1987, at the age of 34, Henry became the first South African cricketer of colour to be selected to play in an …
PlaceEmgwenya, formally Waterval Boven
… Emgwenya means: 'Place of the Crocodile'. (Ngwenya, is an Nguni surname, meaning the … was formally Waterval Boven and can be found at the top of the…
EventDale Steyn retires from Test cricket
… his Test debut against England in December 2004. In spite of his love and preference for Test cricket, Steyn made the … Test again but what’s more terrifying…
PlaceSodwana Bay National Park
… Coral Reefs and outstanding Climate. Sodwana Bay is one of the World's premier sport diving destinations. This South … features various popular dive sites…
Letter to Farzanah
… Omar Badsha's first book of photographs, Letter to Farzanah was published in 1979 in commemoration of the United Nations declared International Year of the ……
Document 118 - Johannesburg District Communist Party, Call to a Non-European United Front!
… people into locations! It proposes to push them into a set of special areas for residence and trade! It intends to allow … to submit to these inroads. At the…
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… INTRODUCTION. Unomsa, by Guybon Sinxo, is a coming of age story about a gothic heroine, Nomsa Ntobeko, who … from the Eastern Cape to work as a teacher in…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… June 1971 had brought me freedom from all the frustrations of house arrest and the other onerous mutilations of my … in South Africa's laws. In the first…
ArchiveUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
… In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a painting of Yahya Jammeh, the former president of The Gambia, adorns … some 9 500km away, looking…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Zinzi Mandela at Jabulani stadium 10 February … here ”” Nelson Mandela’s statement from…
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
… 40 color plates. ISBN no.: 3-7913-3247-3; Library of Congress control no.: 2005900732. Prestel Publishing, 900 … more than three decades chronicling the soul…
Biographical Introduction
… effort to compile a reasonably accurate and complete set of biographies. In the first instance, no detailed biographical survey of this important group has…
PlaceGoodman Gallery
… instrumental to the development and professionalisation of how commercial galleries are structured within South … Africa and the continent, as well as the…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
… Seminary. 1961 Tshabalala-Msimang receives her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Fort Hare located in the Eastern Cape. 1962 … in response to a…
ANC hard at work despite power failure and strike threat, 27 July 2009
… failure which today (27 July 2009) plunged most floors of Chief Albert Luthuli House - African National Congress headquarters – into darkness, and a threat…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… study in May 2003. Some sources say that the jump of the disease from animals to humans was made even earlier … . Recognizing the dynamic nature of HIV…
A Political Reflection By John Fikile Block
… The measurement of any collective is not when the executive tasks in the normal course of organisational work, but when leadership is confronted … We have…
PlaceGazebo, Civic Square
… in the Civic Square was built in 1924. It was the home of a coach magnate, Doel Zeederberg, who established the … (in Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia) in 1894. It…
New Generation Sculpture
… During the 1980s the work of a number of sculptors working in the northern part of the … black artists during the past twenty or more years. This body of…
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… and will continue to clear up.” [i] - P.W Botha The memory of District Six, also known as Kanaladorp [ii] (kanala is a … word meaning ‘help one another’), is…
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
… A study of missionary settlement and the spread of Christianity in southern Africa during the period 1800 - … when the regions social, economic and political…
EventSouth African Prime Minister, John Vorster resigns
… by announcing his resignation from office, at the request of his colleagues, on the grounds of ill health. Surprisingly, he was available to fill the … that…