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Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… that all knowledge which is worthwhile is acquired from books or from “educated people”, and that it "takes out of …
The Pioneers
… 1930s and 1940s are best known for their illustrations of books, many of which were commissioned in the 1960s and …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… things he Malcolm X said about education: "My teacher was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life …
Gandhiji’s vision of a free South Africa: A collection of articles by E.S. Reddy
"If we look into the future [of South Africa], is it not a heritage we have to leave to posterity, that all the different races commingle and produce a…
PlaceJock of the Bushveld, Monument in Barberton
This is a statue of Jock of the Bushveld. It is located in Barberton in front of the Town Hall. Jock of the Bushveld was born in 1885 along the Voortrekker…
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
Theophilus Shepston was born near Bristol in 1817, the son of the Reverend J William Shepstone, who became an 1820 settler, and his wife Elizabeth Brooks, a…
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
Theophilus Shepston was born near Bristol in 1817, the son of the Reverend J William Shepstone, who became an 1820 settler, and his wife Elizabeth Brooks, a…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 - Introduction
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris Private enterprise is one of the million illegitimate…
EventSouth African police close the investigation into the death of Steve Biko
When Steve Biko was found dead on a cold cement floor in a Pretoria prison, police claimed that he died of hunger strike. The following investigation failed to…
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
Read more on Slavery at the Cape After the establishment of a refreshment station at the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck was to ensure a constant supply of fresh…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
Conference: THE POLITICS OF ARMED STRUGGLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Conference Date: 23-25 November 2016 Venue: University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) …
Nelson Mandela University presenting AEE REP qualification programme
The Nelson Mandela University will be hosting the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) qualification programme the Certified Renewable Energy Professional …
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
… no reading matter, no writing materiel, no newspapers, no books, nothing whatsoever. For a few weeks after my … requests. On each occasion he was informed…
ArticleNational symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem
National Symbols since 1994In South Africa, we have a perse number of people and cultures, but we are all South African. National symbols such as a national…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… publications included newsletters, journals, pamphlets and books. There is no shortage of information on the origins and …
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… More people from outside were coming into the country, books were coming from outside. There was a dearth of … it as if it was gold. We even had a ‘mobile…
ArchiveThe Basotho Origin of Mathematics - A Public Lecture By Zulumathabo Zulu
The popular myth in South Africa is that the African natives were devoid of mathematical knowledge until the advent of the Europeans. Nothing could be further…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.6 No.1 Oct-Dec 1961
CONTENTS a Valediction Forbidding Mourning, Ronald Segal. Cartoon. The Great Smear: Communism and Congress in South Africa, Duma Nokwe. Out of the Strike,…
EventThe New English Bible is published.
In 1935, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press who were the copyright holders of the English Revised Version Bible felt that a modern version…
EventNigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road
Ben Okri is a Nigerian author born in Minna, Western Nigeria. He received critical acclaim after the publishing of his first novel Flowers and Shadows. His…
Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town
We meet here today to commemorate the death of an outstanding young South African patriot, Stephen Bantu Biko. The bloody decade of the 1970s in our country,…
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… I ever be raided by them. My bookshelf was filled with law books as I was studying to qualify as an attorney – I hoped … that they would be intimidated by my…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… the complete version. In this essay I qualify people and books as 'white' and 'black' to design a visible grid of …
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade unionist, political activist and a women's leader both in the Eastern…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
IntroductionAfrikaans, one of the official languages, together with English, during South Africa’s Apartheid era, often occupies a politicised space as the …
Graveside tribute to Robert Shell by Joline Young, 3 February 2015
I could speak about all the things that you already know about Robert: That he was a brilliant man, that his was the biggest contribution to Cape slave history…
PlaceMpumalanga
Mpumalanga means ‘Place of the Rising Sun’ and is the name given to the new Province in Eastern Transvaal in 1993. It includes part of the old Transvaal and…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.2 Jan-Mar 1961
Contents: The Single Standard. Cartoon, Papas. The Referendum and After. Cartoon, Gask. The Same Boat, an anon. correspondent. Diary of a Detainee, ‘Tandi’…
EventSalman Rushdie’s visit is still on
Despite an increasing outcry against Salman Rushdie's public lecture from the Islamic Council of Southern Africa, the Weekly Mail (now Mail and Guardian)…
EventMcBride is conditionally released from prison
Former Umkhonto We Sizwe member and Senior Foreign Affairs Ministry official, Robert McBride, who had been held in Mozambique for six months on charges of gun…