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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…
EventAnna Tempo is born
… Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique. She was born in the late 1870s…
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…
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,…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… The position of South Africa in international affairs remained important … and economic. During the Cold War, South Africa was of strategic importance in the…
INDIAN SOUTH AFRICANS - A brief history
… that had been brought to the Cape in the second half of the seventeenth century, it was only after the 1860s that … Africa had a relatively large Indian…
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…
15. My son Gyapershad was decoyed
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Gopinath Pandey, a headmaster of the village…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 ……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The Detention Weapon
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman A number of observers and students of repression…
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…