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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…
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…
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…
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
… mid-1870s by entrepreneurs from Gujarat on the west coast of India. Roughly 10,000 to 15,000 of indentured workers were … consequence was that the extensions…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… European ‘Discovery’ of the Americas Where and what is America? 'America' has more … a single group or culture is like talking about 'Africans' being all the…
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 ……
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…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… central to ANC strategy, armed propaganda and the boycott of state-approved institutions, would serve the ANC well over … quality. It would be a problem to…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
… Manenberg is a Township of Cape Town , South Africa, that was created by the … Cape Flats and District Six, in 1966. This was a result of the forced removal…
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…
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…
Address by President Mandela on Heritage Day Robben Island, 24 September 1997
… Minister of Arts &Culture, Science &Technology; Distinguished Guests; … and gentlemen, Few occasions could awaken such a mixture of emotions as today's, or…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at funeral in Maseru, 05 December 1982
… more than 10,000 people who attended the funeral service of members of the ANC massacred by raiders from the South African … strengthened by this. [Pointing…
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The new and competitive presence of Indians in…
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… Seipei. Stompie Seipei was a child activist and member of the infamous Mandela Football Club established by Winnie Mandela as a front for the political…
ArchiveThe Tay Bridge Disaster by Peter Ball (The Heritage Portal), 24 September 2016
… pride, as in pride before a fall, has been the ruin of many a man, no more so than Thomas Bouch, a Victorian … engineer, whose life and career were blighted…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… Communist Party. Robben Island prisoner, 1963-1973. Member of Parliament, 1994-1999. Author: Island In Chains By … began playing an influential role in the…
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
… Thirty-four year old Nomsa Mapongwana, wife of chairperson Michael Mapongwana of the United Democratic Front (UDF) affiliated Western Cape … Mapongwana and…
EventAlleged Mk members are killed
… received about a planned infiltration, via Botswana, of a group of six heavily armed MK guerrillas. When the minibus carrying … to meet the group at the…
EventThe first rugby match that is played in SA
… On 23 August 1862, the first rugby match heralded the start of what would become a hugely popular sport among White … place in Green Point, Cape Town between…
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… In the worst mine disaster in South Africa, a large section of the Clydesdale Colliery, at the Coalbrook mine near … miners were in the mine at the time and…
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… the 1962 Paarl Riots. The report analysed the main causes of the riots, and included information on Poqo, an armed offshoot of the Pan Africanist Congress …
EventThe first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa
… from America. This aircraft has remained in the service of the South African Air Force (SAAF) up until today. The … apartheid, particularly with regard to…
PlaceBeaufort West, Cape Town
… on the Farm: ''Hooyvlakte'' . It is currently the name of one of the Suburbs in which a section of Beaufort West's … in an effort to prevent the Northbound…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… to urge with constant seriousness the segregation of the Bantu in the Union of South Africa as a solution of what is called the Native … allotted. Even the…
Place'Agoada de Saldanha', Saldanha
… Early Portuguese name in 1503, of Table Bay . Meaning 'watering place of Saldanha', it was given in honour of Admiral Antonio da … were Simons Town, Bay and…
EventThe Blue Bulls rugby team wins the South African Currie Cup at Loftus
… On 31 October 1998 the Blue Bulls of Pretoria beat Western Province 24-20 at Loftus Stadium in … in 1892. The trophy had been donated by the owner of Castle…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… Ottilie Abrahams was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable personalities of contemporary Namibia. She led through example as a … student organization called…
Chapter VIII - The Mandela’s – family extraordinary
… 360 miles from Johannesburg; a few shops, a bank, a couple of filling stations and a hotel line the street. There are … impression of enormous strength of…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… began implementing apartheid by passing a series of racist laws, notably the Population Registration Act, the Groups Areas Act, the Reservation of Separate…