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PlaceClarens, Eastern Free State
… Free State which was established in 1912. The Village of Clarens, was a result of two Farms being sold: 'Leliehoek' and 'Naauwpoort'. The two Farms were ……
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… celebrates 47 years since his coronation as Isilo (King) of the Zulus of South Africa. Zwelithini (literally, “What … security in both his position and his…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… was shaped by many forces, both in the general context of the political struggle to end ‘big and petty apartheid’ … and with regard to the organizational…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… A strike teaches workers to understand what the strength of the employers and what the strength of the workers consist … workers and the provisions of the…
Doing Oral History
… Dr Johan Wassermann (2002) This publication is a product of an Oral History workshop organised by the Department of Education and the facilitator was Dr…
PlaceKing Edward VII High School, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
… In 1902, the end of the Second Anglo-Boer War was in sight. Plans were being made to reorganize the educational facilities in the … . These had virtually…
PlaceWinterton, Kwa Zulu-Natal
… Winterton is a little Town found on the banks of the Tugela River in the foothills of the Drakensberg. Close to the Second Boer War battle sites … of the…
PlaceKwaNojoli, formerly Somerset East
… On the fringes of South Africa’s Karoo in the malaria-free Eastern Cape lies … Port Elizabeth and South Africa's interior as well as being on one of the main…
Exhibition: Durban, 1973: Strike against cheap labour by David Hemson
… Conference My existing exhibition on the Durban strikes is being refocused and upgraded to reflect on the resistance of African workers to the cheap labour…
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
… for a stage career. After attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, he joined the Shakespeare Company of Sir Donald Wolfit, one of the last great 'actor…
PlaceGrey Street now Yusuf Dadoo Street, Durban-City Centre
… people are aware that Durban has the largest concentration of Indian people outside of India! Originally brought in during the 1860’s by the … extended over…
International Council for Traditional Music
… Call for Proposals: 2nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on African Musics (Updated on 29 June … The symposium will be hosted by the Department of Music,…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… schools in Langa. Moya is currently a full member of PAC provincially, and is still an activist in his community in Langa. He is also an executive member of…
PlaceSiyathemba, Local Municipality
… Municipality incorporates the previous municipal areas of Prieska, Marydale and Niekerkshoop. Located in Siyathemba … on Prieska Koppie, in the Prieska…
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… Text of the Nobel Lecture delivered by Chief Albert Lutuli in the … University, on December 11, 1961 In years gone by, some of the greatest men of our…
Address at the National War College Abuja, Nigeria 8 December 2003
… you at this prestigious college that has trained many of our senior African military officers. Institutions such as … and peacekeepers, as envisaged in the…
ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… said I could not myself beg for my freedom alone, nor that of all my comrades. Her personal memorandum to the Minister of Justice, Kobie Coetzee, follows:…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… made this now well-known Heilbron speech. As a result of disturbances in South African politics the Prime Minister … necessary on this occasion to state his…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… In the late afternoon of Wednesday, 21 September 1966, I took part in a small … second from the University of Warwick in the UK, before being appointed…
Covert operations
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman Up to this point … This is a process of selective…
59. The South African Federation challenges Congress over the settlement
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Congress's leadership: the 1927 settlement was one of the…
PlaceSibongile Township
… The coal mining town of Dundee is situated in a Valley of the Biggarsberg Mountains. The adjacent Township is named … is; Endumeni Local Municipality. This…
EventFather Frans Claerhout, acclaimed South African painter of Belgian descent, dies in his sleep
… Father Frans Claerhout, acclaimed South African painter of Belgian descent, dies in his sleep at a Bloemfontein hospital after being admitted with pneumonia…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… me and inspires me to write this to you now, with the hour of your death still a fresh wound in our peoples’ hearts. We … other ‘Madala’ – old man – it…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… This essay discusses my experiences and recollections of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra, the township in which I … whom they venerated as their forbears…
No Arms for South Africa: Albert Luthuli, 8 May 1963
… (An appeal sent to the people of the United Kingdom in May 1963 through the Anti-Apartheid Movement) I greet all lovers of freedom, wherever they may be…
Document 8 - S. P. Bunting, The “Colonial” Labour Front, 23 October 1922
… The "Colonial" Labour Front, 23 October 1922 "The policy of the Communist International on national and colonial questions must be chiefly to bring about a…
PlaceMasjiengebou (Machine Building), Defense Headquarters, Pretoria
… Building, "Staatsartillerie" Stables and Western portion of the Main Building. all situated at Defence Headquarters, … and they were Erected in the 1890 by…
Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
… Mr. Chairman, Members of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, Comrades and friends, Compatriots, I came on … for all these, as we mourn for the…
New year message to the ANC external mission by Oliver Tambo, 01 January 1971
… Dear friends and fellow countrymen, The opening of a new year is the occasion for the exchange of greetings. From this southern part of the world of … which…