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Say It out Loud - The 1939 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 11th April, 1939
… Address, Cape Town, 11th April, 1939 1 The age of chivalry, tolerance and kindliness has passed away, and an … thinking is at an awful discount, and mere lip…
Cutting Through The Mountain
… Cutting Through The Mountain is a collection of interviews with South Africans - most of them prominent and all of them Jewish - who fought against … and…
BiographyLouis Botha
… was born near Greytown in Natal in 1862. He was the son of Voortrekker parents and was brought up on a farm in the … school. A Boer general and statesman, he…
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
… 22 June 1971 a Pretoria court ruled that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, … allowed to use his exit permit …
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… on 1 March 1878 on the farm Zaaifontein, in the district of Fraserburg, South Africa. Visser attended the Huguenot … in Scotland to study medicine. In 1918,…
Event15 000 applications for gold mining permits received per week in Johannesburg
… The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) transformed South African from an agrarian society at the edge of world trade into a globally integrated…
EventChina promises to increase imports from Africa
… Due to the rapid development of the Chinese economy in recent years, China has emerged as a potential successor to the West with regard to being the premier…
PlaceSt Paul’s Anglican Church, Main Road, Rondebosch
… was opened on 16 February 1834 and was extended a number of times thereafter. In October 1854 the original church was … 1980. On 5 September 1832 Bishop…
Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows
… which ended in Durban last night, touted the presence of Mafika Gwala as the “exciting re-emergence of the respected Black-consciousness era poet.” “Crap,”…
PlaceSt Stephen’s Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town
… In 1799, during the first British occupation of the Cape, the Governor, Sir George Yonge, appropriated a portion of Riebeeck Square to build a theatre upon…
ArchiveBlack Sash / Sash
… originally published as Black Sash, is a detailed record of the activities of the Black Sash organisation: the petitions, protests, … efforts of these women…
EventThe first mountain zebra foal is born in at the National Mountain Zebra Park
… no two individuals look alike. There are two subspecies of Mountain Zebra, namely, the Cape Mountain Zebra and … Zebra. These two subspecies used to be a…
EventA South African spy is released from jail
… be involved in the amnesty and repatriation process then being negotiated by the ANC and the South African government. The report on the working group of the…
Document 19 - The D. F. Malan Accord
… Introduction The new and competitive presence of Indians in the country created panic among white South Africans. Afrikaners and British alike were afraid of…
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… Minister described and analysed the political dispensation of the day in an exemplary fashion. It was his first public … be anti-everything. And you can get…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… Document 23 26 June 1992 Introduction 1. The Declaration of intent which we adopted at Codesa 1 committed us to the … view that the Constituent Assembly be…
PlaceRainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club, Durban
… 17 December 1981. It was the first such establishment of its kind in KwaZulu Natal , located in a so called “White” … permission from all businesses within a…
ArchiveIntroduction by Howard Barrell
… partner in that search. De Klerk announced at the opening of South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town the unbanning of … - in which the antagonists are usually…
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… campaigns in Burma, Kenya, and Somalia. He was also one of two 'Black' Ugandan soldiers to be promoted to the rank of officer in 1961 just before Uganda…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… slavery flourished in the 18th century, the foundations of modern democracy were also being established. It is important to consider the ideas of liberty,…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's part. For many months the … let the police take me. For a minute, I…
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
… Act, not for treason, so he was imposing a sentence of life imprisonment for each of the charges on which we were … in Southern Africa. Candles were lit for…
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… district. It was loop-holed during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. It bore witness to both the South African Wars and … the two World Wars and then later as a…
PlaceOld Post Office, Fleming Street, Port Elizabeth
… as erf 5645, which includes the parking lot at the bottom of Military Road (formerly the Parade ground). It lies … Plans drawn up in 1897 show the original…
Oldest stone tools pre-date earliest humans by Rebecca Morelle (Science Correspondent, BBC News), 20 May 2015
… anvils Image source They were unearthed from the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya, and date to 3.3 million years ago. … previously," said Dr Nick Taylor, from…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… der Waal’s chapter in “Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory” The term ‘Bantu has gone through various shifts in … “historical moment, social…
Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
… The rounding of the Cape and the establishment of the trade route to the Far East had far reaching … leader. Autshumato was first imprisoned at the fort…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… The NIC (Natal Indian Congress) was the first of the Indian Congresses to be formed. It was established in … to more militant protests, by the 1950s and…
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
… in Manzini, Swaziland. The attacks claimed the lives of Umkhonto we Sizwe member Patrick Makau and seven-year-old Patrick Nkosi, the son of an active ANC…
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… Born in the predominantly Indian community of Cato Manor near Durban, Sipho Gumede started playing music … on a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at…