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ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and hate, who enjoy…
ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
… the young Paul Kruger becomes witness to the battle of Vegkop against Mzilikazi. 1838 Paul Kruger's parents cross … Kruger collects signatures to object to…
PlaceAliwal South, Alternative Name for Mossel Bay
… to search for a trading route to India, by King John II of Portugal. Without realizing it he had actually rounded the Cape of Good Hope. Dias' excursion…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
… on 8 February 1936.[i] He was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa. Moosa was a former human rights lawyer who … detainees during the Apartheid…
Accuser insulted as Zuma hailed at court (IOL), 14 February 2006
… While Jacob Zuma was being hailed as a king who could do no wrong by thousands … be named, has been in hiding for three months, for fear of intimidation…
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…
PlaceKimberley Airport
… in South Africa. The Airport boasts two asphalt Runways of 46 meters in width and 3 km's in length. Annually the … Airport is located approximately 10 km's…
PlaceSarah Baartman Centre for Women and Children, Manenberg
… This centre was established in memory of Sarah Baartman who was transported in 1810 from South … (SBCWC) was opened in 1999 in response to the high rates of…
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…
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…
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… wrote to me in 1980/81/87. But first I give a snapshot of his life, achievement and involvement in the struggle for … dedicated to the struggle for the…
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…
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…
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 ……
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…
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…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… policies began to pose a direct threat to all people of colour, and there was a surge of mass political action by blacks in defiant response. The … Ray…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… 1893 Alfred Bitini Xuma is born, the seventh child born of Abraham and Elizabeth Xuma, an aristocratic Xhosa family living in Manzana Village in the Engcobo…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… that’s how I got arrested. [1] That was Fikile Bam, being interviewed by John Carlin, telling him that on arrival … article is about the circumstances that…
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…
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…
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…