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Message by Albert Luthuli to the National Conference of the African National Congress Women`s League, 1 August 1959
… Here I am, caged in, in the Lower Tugela District, by the oppressor`s ban on me. … apartheid laws deny us freedom of movement. Feudal days in Europe could…
PlaceNaval Hill
… the Hill. Several types of big and small game can be seen in their natural habitat. Bloemfontein could well be the only City in the World that has a game…
PlaceGazebo, Civic Square
… The elegant gazebo in the Civic Square was built in 1924. It was the home of a coach magnate, Doel … service between Pietersburg (now Polokwane) and…
EventDeath of Maria Koopmans-De Wet
… Marie Koopmans-De Wet followed in her father’s footsteps as she established herself in the social and cultural life of Cape Town. In 1864, she married Johan…
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… In 1969 Somalian president Abd-i-rashid Ali Shermarke was assassinated in a military Coup. Major General Mohammad Siyad Barre took … strong ties with the…
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… Hansi Pauline Pollak was born in Johannesburg in 1905. She served as an officer in command of the Women Army Auxiliary Services during the …
Address by President Mandela on Heritage Day Robben Island, 24 September 1997
… joint heritage as a nation, to acknowledge this heritage in the context of our commitment to Democracy, Tolerance and Human Rights. In affirming a joint…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Women’s Day Celebrations, Atlantic Park Stadium, Witbank, Mpumalanga, 9 August 2004
… occasion of our National Women's Day being celebrated here in Witbank and across the country. In this year of the First Decade of Freedom, we also … the true…
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In a Notice published in the Staats Courant of 26 April 1899, the Transvaal … with the demarcation of…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… 10:30 on 16 June 1976, thousands of students had gathered in Orlando West to begin a protest march against the … of the Afrikaans language as the medium of…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… 10:30 on 16 June 1976, thousands of students had gathered in Orlando West to begin a protest march against the … of the Afrikaans language as the medium of…
Address by President at the official opening of the new bridge over the Limpopo River at Beit Bridge Beit Bridge, 24 November 1995
… share a long history going back centuries and cemented in the struggle to liberate our countries and our continent. Happily, with the attainment of democracy…
EventThe New Zealand Mounted Rifles leave Wellington for the South African War
… 1899. As the war drew became an inevitable reality, in September 1899 New Zealand offered British forces in South Africa a contingent of its mounted rifles…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - ‘Locations’ For Labour
… how altered conditions gave rise to a new kind worker. In turn, these new workers developed new unions. As the … shown how the inner city areas became…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… of Education Thedevelopment of an industrialised society in South Africa took place over a period of time. It was a … interests of the state and capital,…
Court Verdict Docket, 11 February 1978
… 5.1. INTRODUCTION Madressa education does not exist in isolation but is part of the practice of the religion and … to a better understanding of it. The…
Chapter five: A Historical Overview of Madressa Education
… 5.1. INTRODUCTION Madressa education does not exist in isolation but is part of the practice of the religion and … to a better understanding of it. The…
An historical overview of madressa education - Chapter 5 by A. Akhalwaya, I. Waja, A.H. Gabru, A.K. Dockrat, S. Pandor and E. Garda
… 5.1. INTRODUCTION Madressa education does not exist in isolation but is part of the practice of the religion and … to a better understanding of it. The…
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
… me this unique opportunity to participate so prominently in the remembrance of his memory. Let me at the outset thank … physical handicap - for years he…
Paper prepared at the request of the Special Committee against Apartheid, June 1968
… Present stage of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa June 1968 Twenty years ago last month, a minority of the white minority in South Africa,…
Say It out Loud - The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
… Cape Town, 29th March, 1921 1 Seventeen years ago, in my first presidential address, which was delivered in Cape Town, I exposed and denounced the policy,…
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… Village, which date back to roaming Bantu civilisation in the period from 400 A.D. The site of a later iron-age village of the Lala people can be visited in…
Chapter 4 - THE PARTY AND THE “SOLDIERS OF LUTHULI”
… A few months after the first formal ANC-SACP meeting in exile, in June 1970, the Party organised its first augmented CC meeting in Moscow, along the lines…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1946
… of India has given notice to the Union Government that, in consequence of the refusal to hold a Round Table … off between the two countries. Commenting on…
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… attention from the Comintern (the Communist International) in the early years. From its inception in March 1919, the Congress of the Third International paid…
"United Nations must take Action to Destroy Apartheid": Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. T. Tambo, New York, 29 October, 1963
… thank you and this Committee for this opportunity. In South Africa, since the earliest days of white rule, our … nature and character of the lives we…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
PlaceDe Waal Park, Camp Street, Oranjezicht
… The land was originally part of the van 'Breda Estate'' in Oranjezicht, and was purchased by the Town Council of Cape Town in 1877 for the building of the…
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… Abe Bailey was born in Cradock, Cape Colony, in 1864. His father, a wagon maker and wool merchant, later … with Dutch friends who lived nearby. He attended…
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, was born into a wealthy family in Cuba. He attended Catholic schools before pursuing a law … of Havanna, where he also began his…