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EventPower Struggle in Zulu hierarchy
… A heated dispute between Mangosutho Buthelezi, Minister of Home Affairs and leader of Inkatha Freedom Party, and his nephew King Goodwill … Zulu, a member of…
ArchiveThe boundless energy of Paul Grendon; artist, painter, activist and documentary photographer by Chris Ledochowski
… a friend so recently deceased and who was so much part of my life for over forty years. He was a man of impeccable integrity and gentleness. Paul was a…
PlaceCape Town City Hall, Darling Street
… The mayor of Cape Town, Thomas Ball, laid the cornerstone of the City Hall on 29 August 1900, but the Hall was only … The bass notes have been said to …
PlaceAmandelboom, Town in Northern Cape
… Original name being 'Willston', Afrikaans name for 'Almond tree'. These … stroll around Amandelboom, the so-called coloured township of Williston Village in…
Event5 Children Murdered in SADF Umtata Raid on Alleged APLA Arms Storage Facility
… at the house. According to General George Meiring, Chief of the Defence Force at the time, " There were actually only … twenty-six projectiles were found in…
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army’
… Frere who was appointed in 1877 wanted to pursue the idea of creating a Confederation of all Southern African territories, with a view to being appointed…
PlaceHazyview
… A Village that is inundated with History and very quicky being modernized but will always keep it's charm! The name … describes the hazy, lazy days during…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… struggle, January 1974 - June 1976 A struggle is made up of failures essentially. It’s true. You only win once, and … in Morogoro in 1969 had established a…
PlaceSoweto Theatre
… would be held in community halls. [i] The City of Johannesburg commissioned Afritects to design the Soweto Theatre with the intent of being a modern facility…
PlaceLodge de Goede Hoop, Stal Square, Cape Town
… under a warrant obtained from the Grand Lodge National of the Netherlands. Initially meetings were held in new … 1794 they moved to a building which stood on…
EventTelkom to roll
… in an effort to fight AIDS, which has infected some 13% of the adult population. According to the announcement Telkom … The supplier will provide some 42000 …
PlaceWanderers Cricket Stadium, Johannesburg
… was formerly known as Kent Park. It has a Seating Capacity of 28 000. Gauteng and Transvaal Cricket Teams both use it as … Home Grounds. Fondly known as the…
PlaceAmatikulu, a Nature Reserve in Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Town some 130 km North-East of Durban, near Gingindlovu. Where the first sugar factory in … drive from Durban, the Amatikulu Nature Reserve is one of those…
PlaceAlbert Jackson School, Port Elizabeth
… first opened its doors on 26 January 1942 on the corner of Pearson Street and Belmont Terrace overlooking the Donkin … held on 8 September each year to…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… Side by Side by Helen Joseph The 1950s had been a decade of protest, from the Defiance Campaign at the beginning to the Treason Trial victory and the…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… time Pass documents were used to restrict the movement of non-European South Africans was in the early 1800’s. … to carry Passes since 1709. Farmers at the…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… Perspective on Ideas and the Arts TERKEL: Here in a suburb of Durban, South Africa, we are sitting with Albert John Lutuli, winner of the 1960 Nobel Peace…
Statement at the International Labour Conference (extract) by O. R. Tambo, Geneva, 19 June 1986
… struggle has entered a phase which marks the final days of the apartheid system of colonial and racist domination. The extraordinary … we have it in our…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the International Labour Conference,19 June 1986
… Our struggle has entered a phase which marks the final days of the apartheid system of colonial and racist domination. The extraordinary … we have it in our…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 3 April 1994
… Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, 4.Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be … are the peacemakers: for they shall…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the snap debate on the Shell House incident National Assembly, Cape Town, 7 June 1995
… is rare that there should be such a passionate divergence of views on any matter. That the death of eight citizens outside Shell House on 28 March 1994…
EventLouis Raymond, an Olympic tennis singles gold medalist is born
… Japan’s Ichiya Kumagai in the men’s final[iii] despite not being the South African champion at the time.[iv] Raymond … retained the title six times.[v] He…
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… On 25 June 1993, hundreds of armed white separatists together with the Afrikaner … transition towards democracy in South Africa were being held. The group…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
… African National Congress invites friends and supporters of our liberation struggle to join with the South African people in commemorating the 70th…
Address On World Aids Day, 1 December 1999
… People of South Africa, Today we mark World AIDS Day. As South … we participate in the World AIDS Day events as part of our ongoing support for the…
ANC statement on more lies inside the Cape Town story, 14 May 2011
… and unlawful conduct displayed by the DA since the start of this election campaign as well as the many revelations, … so-called the Cape Town Story`, bear…
PlaceDelmas
… Delmas became famous in the latter part of 2010 for its proximity to the missing tiger known as … but Delmas, the small farming town remains just east of…
Article on the pass law deputation in July 25, 1889
… Pirie was, on Thursday last, the scene of a large representative and important gathering of Natives of the district of King William's Town to hear the … had…
PlaceSouth End Museum, Port Elizabeth
… South End Museum Trust was started in 1999 when a group of people from the disadvantaged communities of Port Elizabeth and who had been affected by the…
PlaceRooigrond
… Rooigrond was a Rural Community 16km of Mafikeng and 25km South-West of Ottoshoop, in the former fomeland of Bophuthatswana, (now … eviction to Rooigrond,…