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A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… turned from his opponents, the Europeans, to is opponents in his own community. He was faced with a rising storm of … from he anti-segregationalists led by…
Chapter 3 - Exploring the feasibility of negotiation
… By 1985 the struggle for democracy in South Africa had intensified, and the country found itself … threatened the very fabric of society, for the economy was…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… Art Gallery was first commissioned to be built in 1910, and was initially housed on the campus of … District. The Johannesburg Art Gallery was constructed…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving the Congressional Gold Medal Washington, 23 September 1998
… without hatred or discrimination. I am conscious that in bestowing the Congressional Gold Medal upon me, you are … to the whole South African nation for its…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… both black and white activists have actively opposed it is in the struggle for justice that the gulf between artists, … from two generations of documentary…
Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
… to non-violence, and so it looks at - particularly in the 1980s - organizations like Idasa, the End Conscription … talk with H.W. van der Merwe not too long…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
… a distinguished leader of our people and a close comrade in arms with whom I have shared many a historic trench. … on the soil of our country as one of the…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… Born on 21 March 1936, Roseinnes Phahle grew up in Alexandra Township. From 1950 to 1952 he boarded at St Peter’s School (now St. Martin’s) in Rosettenville,…
PlaceAdams Mission, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Settlement West of Amanzimtoti and South of Durban, in the Umlazi district. Established in 1836, it was destroyed by Dingaan, but rebuilt in 1839. Named…
EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
… In 1916, the South African government agreed to recruit Black people to assist the British in World War 1 by providing labour. There were to be 10 000 people…
EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… African author Herman Charles Bosman visited his parents in Johannesburg during the June school holidays, his visit ended in tragedy in the house of his…
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
… Haile Selassi was born as Lij Tafari Makonnen in the village of Ejersa Gor, in the Harar province of Ethiopia. Heir to a 13th century dynasty, he ascended to…
EventSir Percy Fitzpatrick, author of ‘Jock of the Bushveld’, is born
… On 24 July 1862, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick was born in King Williams Town. He was the eldest son of James Coleman … Ireland. James Fitzpatrick served as a…
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… stage of history. Until the 1960s, the number of Africans in schools remained relatively low. But the urban African … So there was a rapid expansion of…
44. Gandhi explains ‘satyagraha’
… and Bridglal Pachai M K. Gandhi introduced a new weapon in the Indians' campaign for justice. That weapon, satyagraha , was the culmination of a profound…
PlaceRooipoort Nature Reserve, Kimberley
… roughly 70 kilometers West of the town of Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa prime plains … frontage. Over 10,000 animals of over 20…
EventJapanese attack American Naval Forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
… Japanese planes eliminated much of the American air force in the Philippines, and a Japanese Army was ashore in Malaya. In so doing the Japanese attempted…
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… Jomo Kenyatta was born in Kamau, Kenya, on 20 October 1891 and grew up in Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya. Kenyatta ran away from … he studied English,…
PlaceElukhanyweni
… Elukhanyweni is a small settler village in the foothills of the Amatola Mountains, located some 50km … as a sheltered and fertile spot and, despite being…
Memorandum To The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, April 1964
… theory and practice of the racial regime which holds power in South Africa. My people - the 600,000 Indians - have a … the principal unit of my organization,…
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… Africa. It is also a careful examination of capitalism in the light of Christian ethics, and it is a proposal for a … But it is indisputably a book about…
National OR Tambo Memorial Lecture series inaugural address by his excellency Dr Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, OR Tambo International Airport, 24 October 2011
… and his dear wife, Comrade Adelaide Tambo, our mother, in this inaugural National O R Tambo Memorial Lecture Series. … When Oliver Reginald Tambo was born on…
79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
… Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1977 the Government proposed a new constitutional … here the transcript of a speech by Advocate…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… black South Africans and the African American community in the United States played an important part in the development of the South African intelligentia…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 2 by US Department of State
… organized and won a flawed presidential election in July 1996. Baré's party, Union Nationale des Indépendants … for Democratic Renewal), won 90% of…
ArchiveThe world's only privately owned Catholic Church
… is the smallest, most charming-world renowned church in the Southern hemisphere. The Llandaff Oratory, as it is … It is considered the only privately-owned…
PlaceMossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
… It was named Aguada de Sao Bras, by Vasco de Gama in 1497, when He set off with 170 men on an expedition to find a sea Route to India. This was in order to…
PlaceHamilton Primary School, Visagie Street, Pretoria
… trees is the home of Hamilton School. This school in the heart of Pretoria has a diverse and proud history … Mr W J Berg (Headmaster 1969 – 1975) was…
PlaceZambia
… Northern Rhodesia becoming the Republic of Zambia. Sunset in Zambia In the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Zambia, only one site made the list: Mosi…
Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
… I am writing this letter on the instructions of the All-in African National Action Council which was established in terms of a resolution passed by the All…