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ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… for this is that there are very few written accounts of the mfecane, which makes it very difficult to determine … new oral traditions were born to suit the…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… revolution in Cuba, culminating in Fidel Castro’s seizure of power on 1 January 1959, was from the beginning based on a … ethos, and revolutionary Cuba was…
PlaceAlgeria
… Situated north of the Sahara desert . Algeria shares a common border with … the Sahara Desert . Algiers is the capital and main port of Algeria. This city…
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
… by iKongo to reject tribal authorities and self-government of Transkei, initiated by the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951. During a protest gathering in the…
Indian Community
… 2010 marks 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Indian indentured workers and the birth of this … of Indian property. One of the main ideas behind this…
Upcoming events at the Book Lounge
… and fun to be around. Today we’ll read about all kinds of friends, and talk about what being a friend means to you. More here . Monday 14 th March, 6 for 6…
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… free Burghers, Governor Jan van Riebeeck reserved a piece of this Land to be used as an Orchard by the Company. In February of that year the first bricks…
PlaceKimberley, Northern Cape
… impressive tourists attractions! It is the Capital City of the Northern Cape and surrounded by five of South Africa's big rivers, two of them being the…
EventSADF officers dismissed
… State President F.W. de Klerk announced that 23 members of the South African Defence Force (SADF), including two generals and four brigadiers, were being…
Artist. Activist. Historian. This man is preserving the past to protect the future (beautifulnews.co.za)
… Art is an act of resistance. It asserts our agency. Omar Badsha has … identified not only as an artist, but an activist for most of his life. Born in 1945,…
EventPeter Mokaba is born
… He was born under the cruel injustices and violence of the Apartheid system. His parents, Albert and Priscilla, … Hwiti High School in Mankweng, he became a…
An open letter from Desmond Tutu to Aung San Su Kyi, 7 September 2017
… but breaking my vow to remain silent on public affairs out of profound sadness about the plight of the Muslim minority in your country, the Rohingya. In my ……
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… by D.D.T Jabavu Introductory. The aboriginal black people of South Africa have not remained unaffected by the general world movement of awakening race…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… President F. W. de Klerk makes a speech at the opening of Parliament, announcing the lifting of a 30-year ban on the … to discuss constitutional principles,…
PlaceImizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
… The Township of Imizamo Yethu is situated in the picturesque seaside Suburb of Hout Bay in Cape Town . Hout Bay is like a microcosm of … regarded as a…
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… Guinea is a West African nation bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon and Gabon . The earliest indigenous population of this country were the…
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… Both England and the U.S.A. are still facing the problems of institutional poverty, rising unemployment and discrimination against large sections of the…
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… Bill proposed to give the vote to all Whites at the age of twenty-one years, whilst Non-White men had to meet … adult suffrage for the Coloured man, both…
EventBrig. Ramushwana in NPKF admission
… In a telephonic interview Brigadier Gabriel Ramushwana of the National Peacekeeping Force (NPKF), says that the way … elections in April. However, he refused…
PlaceOld Morley
… by Shaka and his Zulu armies in the Mfecane wars. Most of them fled westwards and settled amongst the Xhosa . After some years of oppression by the Gcaleka…
Liberation organisations
… United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial alliance of about 400 national, regional and local organisations. It … African Defense Force (SADF) claimed…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the SA freedom day celebrations Pretoria, 27 April 1996
… Master of Ceremonies; Distinguished Heads of State and Dignitaries from abroad; Ministers; Honourable … South Africans together made their mark to bring into…
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… alma mater and employer for over 40 years, the University of Cape Town (UCT). Part of this endeavour involved exploring the history of … “thus in the…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… asserted the the Great Trek was motivated over the issue of the abolition of slavery but the fact of the matter is that historians have … the Council when…
PlaceSahlumbe
… the Tugela River, about 23km from Weenen and on the edge of Msinga which was a District, established in the former Homeland of; KwaZulu. It is situated on…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… are captained by Joseph Twayi who becomes the Treasurer of the South African Native National Congress in 1915. They … Association joins FIFA, the first…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The Congress of the People was over. We had come down from the mountain, … start, interminably delayed by the…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, the third son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom came to South Africa as children with their parents, …
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
… a two year old guerilla war against South African control of the region. That struggle was directed by the Southwest … felt from the very time of our arrest…