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EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
… Tatamkhulu Africa was born in As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a … on 7 December 1920. His parents relocated to South Africa in…
2003 New Year Message, 30 December 2002
… a close. The last month of this year will be remembered in the Southern hemisphere for the total solar eclipse in some parts that for six seemingly long…
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… Text of the Nobel Lecture delivered by Chief Albert Lutuli in the Oslo University, on December 11, 1961 In years gone by, some of the greatest men of our…
Towards Simon’s Town – The life of Peter Clarke by Joline Young
… and melodic, that I could not help but quote him verbatim in many parts of this text. Being a well known man in his community, his house was easy to find. …
PlaceGeorge, Garden Route- Western Province
… to be proclaimed at the Cape; after the British occupation in 1806. It then embraced the present Districts of: "Mossel … Site, John Campbell of the London…
PlaceClarkson, Eastern Cape
… A Moravian Mission Village in the former Humansdorp District, 26 km South-East of Assegaaibos Railroad Station, located in Cacadu District Municipality. It…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 4
… to encourage co-operation between town councils in matters of common interest. The body was composed of … of town councils and performed some useful work in…
PlaceThe Simon's Town Mosque
… looks down majestically from Thomas Street, Simon’s Town in the Western Cape. Passers-by, especially Tourists, gaze up in wonder at its fine Architecture,…
Presidential Address to the Extended Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, April 1975
… Events across the globe in the past twelve months have moved at a new speed, in some instances, a dazzling pace. The period from the … coup to the…
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… became a symbol of the struggle against colonialism in Tanzania and to other African countries including South … allowing several liberation movements to…
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church rejoins the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
… with the WARC persuaded the church to renounce apartheid in its theological teachings. The DRC was suspended from the WARC at the 21st General Council…
EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… the evening of 16 December 1961 five bombs were detonated in Port Elizabeth. The MK High Command selected targets for … buildings. For instance, an…
PlaceSt George’s Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town
… the Martyr stands at the bottom of Parliament Street in Cape Town and was erected to provide a place of worship for English settlers of the Anglican…
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… Cynthia Lindenberg Letty was born in Standerton, in the old Transvaal Province in 1895. She was the eldest of five children. At the outbreak …
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… at Lowfield Heath Sussex, the youngest of three brothers. In 1911 his father, an Anglican priest, was transferred to a slum parish in the port of…
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… In 1959, Hugh Lewin, who has died aged 79, joined the South … it became the only legal non-racial political party in the country, with the banning in 1960 of…
PlaceSt Thomas’ Church, Ridge Road, Berea, Durban
… In 1835, Captain Allan Gardiner retired from the navy and … the Zulus as a whole were singularly disinterested in both his and most other Missionary…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… This thesis examines the ways in which the Liberal Party - the Natal Division in particular attempted to become an effective political force in South Africa…
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… Sir Patrick Duncan was born on 21 December 1870 in Fortrie, Banffshire, Scotland as the second son of a crofter. He received a Master of Arts in Classics…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Hertzogian Segregation VERSUS The Cape Native Policy
… of Segregation as a solution of the 'Native question in South Africa has for fifteen years been associated with … the name of General Hertzog. He became the…
76. The Indian people are an integral and permanent part of South Africa
… African Institute of Race Relations sponsored a symposium in 1956, the theme of which was 'The Indian as a South … and Dr. A. D. Lazarus. Cross-references…
“What I Owe To Mahatma Gandhi”: An Article, September 16, 1948
… word among the Indian community. I faintly realised in those early days the powers of the simple man who was to achieve in the fullness of time such miracles…
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… and social emancipation of the oppressed black majority in South Africa, and indeed southern Africa as a whole. This … together with their political…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… Transport routes into Johannesburg. The three main Areas in Diepkloof are each characterised by Settlement type and … the City. These are basic Houses that…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
… Jabavu A great lover of the Bantu was once asked what, in his opinion, were the three greatest needs of the South … if the Bantu are to be made self…
The melody of freedom
… because, he told the judge, the people 'were singing in their language and this causes riots'. Mngcini died in hospital. Fear seems to reign among the…
PlaceZimbabwe
… 100 000 Years. Bambandyanalo is an Archaeological site in present-day Zimbabwe, just North of the Limpopo River. … include the Mapungubwe , Mutapa , Rozvi…
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… “literary foremother” - was born on [1] January 13, 1931 in Oguta, located in eastern Nigeria. She was the eldest of six children born … teacher. Growing up,…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… New Church at Dam Square, the very heart of Amsterdam, in the building where Dutch kings and queens are crowned, … The Hidden Camera, at the final event of…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… of the South African Communist Party, October 1973 Events in the last nine months have confirmed the broad lines of the … by the last Plenary Session of our…