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PlaceRed Location Museum
… The Red Location Museum is situated within the Black Township of New Brighton , of Port Elizabeth (now … red colour. These were part of a Boer concentration…
BiographyJ.J.R Jolobe
… of poems, Umyezo (1936). He also played a major role in the compilation and translation of the …
BiographyFlora Mogano
… HIV/AIDS caregivers. She runs a crèche for the poor in a squatter camp area of Tembisa. …
BiographyThembile Benson Ndimba
… Born 1921. Messenger-clerk. Came to active politics in 1937 during the mass removal of the people from the … Active in politics in 1937 during the mass…
BiographyA. B. Nogaya
… 1925. Factory worker. Joined African National Congress in 1949 and during the Defiance Campaign led a batch of 40 …
ArchiveBoycott the Can
… A2 red, yellow, black litho on white; graphic people demonstrating; crossed … Boycott the Can; The management of Metal Box retrenched 22 black workers and…
EventWiseman Khuzwayo, reporter for the Durban Daily News hands himself over to the police
… Eight days later, the security police arrested 28 black journalists and 1 white photographer during demonstrations in protest against the detention without…
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… Africa Two places are of particular heritage interest in the Polokwane area: the BaKoni Malapa Museum south of the stadium and Makapansgat in the mountains…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… 1931 7 October, Desmond Mpilo Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South … Times Magazine UK Desmond Tutu is ordained the first…
BiographyJack Joseph
… Born in 1927 Joseph was a photographer. He served two months' …
BiographyMaria Ndlovu
… with AIDS) fieldworker based at Transnet headquarters in Johannesburg . … with AIDS) fieldworker based at Transnet headquarters in …
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… the government intended to accuse the leading activists in the congresses of treason. After the COP the charge of … of the prison with a row of singularly…
PlaceLamu, Kenya
… is a Port, City, an Island just off the shore of Kenya in the Indian Ocean approximately, 150 miles from Mombasa . … Town is the oldest and best-preserved…
PlaceLiberia
… Joseph Jenkins Roberts , a former slave who was born in America became the first President. The founding of … state of Liberia would become the second (after…
PlaceAlberton, Germiston
… Johannesburg. It was laid out on the Farm, Elandsfontein in 1904. Named after General Hendrick Abraham Alberts, … Industrial Suburb, was established in 1943…
PlaceJunction Avenue Theatre
… The Junction Avenue theatre was formed in 1976, and it was organised and conceptualised by a group … the social injustices, exploitation and racism that…
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
… Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) was formed in Cape Town in 1909 there was much hope for the improvement … that the Durban strikes initiated…
PlaceComrades Marathon- 'House' or Museum
… which is one of only three dedicated road-running Museums in the World, first opened its doors to the public in 1988 in … killed in the World War I. It was…
ArticleThe Constitution
… National flag The national flag of the Republic is black, gold, green, white, red and blue, as described and sketched in Schedule 1. Languages The official…
EventNelson Mandela celebrates 88 th birthday
… Mandela's years as a young lawyer and the emergence of Black resistance before he was jailed for 27 years in 1964 and include photographs of his family. Some…
PlaceGrey Street Complex
… the Natal Indian Community. The significance of the area, in the life of the South African Indian community, can be … governor of the Cape Colony. But…
Undelivered statement by Albert Luthuli at the time of his Trial for burning his pass, 05 July 1960
… of slavery, a weapon used by the authorities to keep us in a position of inferiority. It cannot be very easy for you, … part of this grim picture. The deep…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… 1950s saw the first hints of an armed struggle occurring in certain parts of South Africa. Various types of armed … began to alter – if only incrementally…
BiographyMichael Lapsley
… Born in New Zealand on the 2nd of June, 1949. At the age of seven, …
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… years. This was largely due to colonial expansion which in turn dispossessed Xhosa and Khoikhoi people of their land … between the Fish and the Keiskamma…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… was negotiated between May 1994 and October 1996 in the country's first democratically elected convention, the … and stratified understandings of 'race' in…
The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
… time to settle down under Union, South Africa was fighting in the Great War. After the conquest of both German South … of white racial unity is being solved…
ArchiveSteve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
… The first black South African footballer to play in Europe, was told whenever he scored it would be in the … an explosive and skilful player than with the…
BiographyLouise Latsky
… University College and did research. She died in 1980. …
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… who has died aged 83, was an active opponent of Ian Smith in the 1960s and 70s, and later used her political skills in … school in Salisbury (now Harare) for…