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A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-19451 by Heather Hughes
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker Founded in 1869 by American Board Missionaries, Inanda Seminary was the…
Document 49 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: Introduction (Minority) (1934)
… more than four-fifths of the whole population, not as in the Thesis of the Majority Group, even because they form almost the entire producing element in…
PlaceJunction Avenue Theatre
… The Junction Avenue theatre was formed in 1976, and it was organised and conceptualised by a group … from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits…
PlaceSuggested Gandhi Trail, Through Durban
… Gandhi arrived in Durban , Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1893 to serve as legal counsel to a merchant Dada Abdulla! In June, Dada Abdulla asked him to…
Presidential Address to the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, November 21, 1958
… a time when our people are facing the most critical period in their history. The steps taken to implement the Group Areas Act have caused grave concern in…
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… and economic progress by the people of the whole world. We in South Africa are part of the zone in which national liberation is the chief content of the ……
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
… (Extracts from an exclusive article published in Ebony. Reproduced with permission.) ...The solution to the … of a really revolutionary nature. The basic…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… disagreed with this apÂproach”¦" Throughout the 1950s, in fact, on the question of force and violence there was a … which the ruling class could be…
A reply by Albert Luthuli to Mr. Jordan K. Ngubane`s attacks on the African National Congress, 5 June 1956
… Mr. Ngubane has written most voluminously in several issues of the Indian Opinion making scathing and … African National Congress to be its protector and…
EventSir Thomas Cullinan, digger and founder of the Premier diamond company, is born
… Sir Thomas Cullinan was born in the The Cape Colony in 1862. He settled in Barberton, before moving to Johannesburg in 1887. He began …
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, in which students were to find themselves at the cutting edge … protest, calling for an end to…
PlaceNiger
… name Niger derives it meaning from; “river among rivers,” in the Tamashek language.) One of the central themes of the … the main ethnic groups are the…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 67th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1979
… National Congress and of the struggle for liberation in our country, Cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe inside South Africa and outside, Comrades-in-arms in…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 67th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1979
… National Congress and of the struggle for liberation in our country, Cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe inside South Africa and outside, Comrades-in-Arms in…
Say It out Loud - The 1919 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 22nd April, 1919
… events have happened meanwhile events that transcend in importance all that hitherto have happened in the history of mankind. A devastating war, marked by …
Olof Palme and the liberation of Southern Africa by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1988
… the poor, the oppressed, the exploited, and the brutalised in southern Africa. When he died, a beacon of hope was … Seven days before he was murdered, Olof…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… stretching from Delagoa Bay to the North, to Algoa Bay in the South. A last group, the Sotho, originally occupied … and Sotho were economically more advanced…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… 18:00 on Tuesday, 22 August, at the New Lecture Theatre. In this lecture Professor Mamdani will consider the question: … university, an authorised centre of…
PlaceGrey Street now Yusuf Dadoo Street, Durban-City Centre
… of Indian people outside of India! Originally brought in during the 1860’s by the British as indentured workers for … Some of the oldest remaining Indian…
PlaceSouth Sudan
… Southern Sudan by establishing the Province of Equatoria in the 1870s. Islamic Mahdist revolutionaries overran the region in 1885. In 1898, a British force…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church Hall, Uitenhage
… of Uitenhage, the 10th oldest Dutch Reformed congregation in South Africa and the second oldest in the Eastern Cape is the distinction of being the first and…
EventUgandan premier Apollo Milton Obote is shot
… twice. He led Uganda to Independence from Britain in 1962, becoming Prime Minister. Traditionally, the Bugandan … to be only ceremonial. He was deposed by…
PlaceCypress Tea Gardens, Hermanus
… Mystery and romance surround the original building. In those days it consisted of two stone and clay fisherman's cottages built in 1875 in the vernacular…
EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah, first prime and later president of Ghana
… In 1949 Kwame Nkrumah formed the Convention People's party … After his 'positive action' campaign created disturbances in 1950, Nkrumah was jailed, but when…
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… Karel Schoeman was born on 26 October 1939 in Trompsburg, Orange Free State. He matriculated from the HoÁƒÂƒÂ«r Jongenskool in Paarl in 1956, obtained a BA…
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… South African artist and musician Gerard Sekoto (80) died in Paris. Often cited as the pioneer of urban black art and … studied to be a teacher and his art…
EventDr Robert Broom is born
… This day in history, Robert Broom, known for having discovered “Mrs Ples”, was born in Paisley, Scotland. Though Broom was educated as a doctor, specializing…
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… Muafangejo died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Katutura Township, Windhoek. He was 44 years old. Muafangejo was born on 5 October 1943 in Etunda…
Presidential Address to the Twenty-Third Conference of the South African Indian Congress, Durban, September 3, 1961
… South Africa have completed a hundred years of their stay in this country. It is meeting at a time when we as the smallest minority group in our country are…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… The South African Congress of Trade Unions, founded in March 1955, thus held enormous promise for the working … trade union movement was dominated by a…