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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…
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…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… An image of bold, selfless youth in late 1970s South Africa inspired … To what extent were Black South Africans were deprived of their political, economic,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveThe defiance campaign
… laws and go to jail so that the jails would be too full, of people who didn't like the apartheid laws. The Defiance … we will have no rights in the white…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of … the muscular Christian value of …
Interview: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
… and welcome to Podrights, or this week Vodrights, a series of podcasts from the Australian Human Rights Commission. I'm … first woman to start a law practice…
EventJan van Riebeeck visits Robben Island for the first time
… Robben Island is the largest of the nearby coastal islands around the Cape. In the nearly four centuries of European settlement it has been used for numerous…
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…
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,…
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…
PlaceGanyesa
… The massive North West Province of South Africa is home to Ganyesa, which is formally part of the Kagisano / Molopo Municipality. This is a rural ……
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…
PlacePolokwane
… Is a City of 1 30,000 people counted in the census of 2011 . It now has a Population of about about 640,000 … is primarily an Agricultural centre, with many…
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…
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… Chief Albert John Luthuli , President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1952 to 1967 and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1961, was one of South Africa…
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…
EventThe Bethal Treason Trial resumes
… The trial of eighteen suspected Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members, … two main charges under the Terrorism Act, and a number of alternative counts under…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… for Ruth First, after she was assassinated on the streets of Maputo by South African agents, Ronald Segal, another … forceful, efficient and often impatient…