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ArchiveThe Black Sash Johannesburg Advice Office: Annual Report 1973
… Conference on 15 October 1973, discussing: Urban Areas Act, Pass Laws, forced removals, Apartheid, separation of husbands and wives, housing, wages, legal…
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Conference Port Elizabeth 1965 Opening Address
… Sash origins, Apartheid, legislation, Native Urban Areas Act, banning of coloured political leaders, Beyers Naude, propaganda. …
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… South African statesman and the last prime minister of the Cape Colony before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, John Xavier Merriman, … a…
ArchiveThe Childrens Emergency (with particular ref
… 1986 discussing children's rights, police brutality, state of emergency, juvenile detentions, taking of substitute siblings into custody, violence by police …
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 20th April 1992
… Reading from the "Lamentations of Jeremiah", Chapter 5 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon … our wood is sold unto us, Our necks are under the yoke of…
Claremont Histories Photographic Exhibition
… Histories will host a photo exhibit showcasing some of the stories and photographs of people forcibly removed from Claremont and Harfield under the Group…
40. 1903 reviewed by Indian Opinion
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … this time, the British Indians in the Transvaal were full of…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… James Njongweni, William Nkomo and Dan Tloome. The aim of the Youth League was to galvanise the youth to step up the … in World War II. Four years after the…
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… People as historical sources People can be great sources of information. By speaking to people we can learn about the past. Learners are also sources of…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… Introduction In 1948 with the election of the National Party and the enforcement of an Apartheid State, it took time for the world to take … 1927 the Pact…
EventCommission on Native Education is appointed
… The government appointed the Eiselen Commission whose terms of reference were to inquire into and to report on all aspects of native education. The…
Mission Stations - I-L
… Niven, who was residing alone, in a stone house consisting of a few plain rooms, one of which was used for a school. There were a few (Xhosa) huts … Poles…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 108th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril Ramaphosa, 8 January 2020
… its formation. We mark this occasion in the historic city of Kimberley in the Northern Cape, a place of resistance and … the skills that our people and…
EventLouis Botha becomes Union’s first Prime Minister
… A former member of the Volksraad of the South African Republic (Transvaal), representing the … to constitute a government in terms of the South Africa's Act…
ArchiveStatement made by Senator O P F Horwood in Senate on June 4, 1971
… 4 June 1971, suggesting that university authorities should act strongly to stop the activities of the National Union of South African Students and that, if…
EventDefence minister Mosioua Lekota born
… The second Black minister of defence, Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota is born in … served six years on Robben Island after being found guilty of sabotage under…
Address at the 8th Asean Summit, 5 November 2002
… Your Royal Highness, Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Your Excellencies, Ministers and Ambassadors, Distinguished Secretary General of ASEAN…
PlaceHeilbron, Free State
… complained that nearby Viljoen’s Drift was ‘Just a lot of tin houses on both sides of the Railway the whole in the midst of a sandy desert’ - … one, he…
ArticleThe missionaries
… arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku , the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan … The missionaries were first given land in the…
ArticleInfecting the City Public Arts Festival
… an annual arts festival that takes place in communal areas of Cape Town and Mbombela, Mpumalanga, South Africa. The … into unconventional spaces around the…
EventThe SA government grants ‘Independent’ status to Venda
… Following South Africa's policies of racial segregation and the promulgation of the Promotion Bantu Self-Government Act,46 of 1959, the South African…
EventAbram Fischer fails to arrive in court
… Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail and … trial for conspiring to commit…
EventWalter Sisulu’s appeal is dismissed
… The Transvaal section of the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the African … Walter Sisulu against a six years sentence of imprisonment. Sisulu was…
ArticleSS Mendi
… The sinking of the SS Mendi was caused by the reckless action of the captain of the SS Darro. It remains the greatest … Gribble Collection Image source Their…
PlaceVereeniging, a City in Gauteng
… Vereeniging is a City, in Gauteng Province of South Africa. It has a population of more than 350,000 people. It is located on the banks of the Northern loop…
PlaceLoeriesfontein, Northern Cape
… which is perfect for Wind Turbines! Wind energy is one of the cleanest and safest methods of generating electricity. 61 Turbines have been installed … by May…
ArchiveRace relations survey: 1987/88
… A survey of race relations in South Africa in 1987/88 and includes … Business; Economy; Welfare; Urbanisation; Group Areas Act; Security; Labour relations;…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 1980s were the culmination of the mass popular uprising, which had received its initial … both delegates and CC members, but…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… Development of Langa location In the course of the Inter War Years the regulations of the 1902 Location Act were expanded to create a more formal structure…
ArchiveNkosi Sikelele I-Afrika
… a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the hymn "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" and the former anthem "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika/The Call of…