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ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… The identity of the Afrikaner Jew - what personifies the Boerejood ? A … itself from South African English Jews in a number of ways; their geographical…
Robben Island
… 1999. Robben Island is located in Table Bay, some 6km west of Bloubergstrand, and stands some 30m above sea level. … outpost. Initially the island was…
PlaceBergvliet Farmstead, Bergvliet
… This farm complex consists of a Cape Dutch house built in 1769, and a ring wall and … which were erected towards the mid-19th Century. The land originally…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Ming Dynasty
… a single empire in 221 BC. [1] China was ruled by a series of dynasties until 1911 and from 1368 to 1644, the Ming Dynasty ruled over China. This was the…
ArchiveLow-cost removals: The continuing process: Paper presented at National Conference 1984
… forced removals, resettlement, housing, apartheid, land ownership, tenant's rights, rentals. …
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
… 22 June 1971 a Pretoria court ruled that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, … of his sentence, Parliament passed…
ArchiveConstituent assembly now!
… Red poster with title and statements: "Share the wealth!, Land to the people!, Jobs for all!, Forward to socialism!" …
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… South Africa,” in October 1963, ten leading opponents of apartheid went on trial for their lives on charges of … of our new constitution. The Suppression of…
PlaceRooigrond
… Rooigrond was a Rural Community 16km of Mafikeng and 25km South-West of Ottoshoop, in the former … battle to remain on what they considered their traditional…
PlaceBoom van Sameswering, Onze Rust, Bloemfontein
… The so-called Tree of Conspiracy stands on the farm Onze Rust, and once belonged to Marthinus Steyn, the last President of the Free State, who bought the…
PlaceTylden, Eastern Cape
… Tylden in the region of Eastern Cape is a town in South Africa. Serving as landing site and home of settlers in the 1820's . The Eastern Cape also remains…
EventAfrican leaders issue a call for African unity
… apartheid and its dangers to African education, freedom of movement, land and residential rights, and employment opportunities. … proposed solution to their…
EventGert Maritz (41), Voortrekker leader, dies.
… trekked (moved) into the interior by ox wagon, in search of land where they would be free and beyond British control. Gert Maritz, along with Piet Retief was…
ArchiveThe Durban Unrest: Paper Presented at National Conference 1986
… and COSATU, foreign aid, crisis offices, tribalism, land ownership, schools boycotts, homelands. …
ArchiveFingo Village Developments: Fact Paper presented by Albany Region at the Black Sash National Conference 1977
… Conference on 15 March 1977 discussing Forced Removals, Land Ownership by Blacks, housing, health and sanitation. …
49. The certificates are burned
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … of these certificates and submission to the Asiatic Act or to…
To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa. Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, 15 October 1976
… Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa." Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto … Soweto and all Black townships are…
PlaceKeerom Street 14, Cape Town
… This town house was erected on land, granted to Hermanus Smuts, in 1751 and once belonged to …
EventPiet Retief's Great Trek manifesto is completed
… on 2 February 1937. To understand the mass emigration of the Afrikaans frontier farmers out of the Cape Colony it … conflict on the frontier was an…
Turning Points Books 1-6
… A textbook series commissioned by the Department of Education , produced by the Institute for Justice and … and Global Trade commissioned by The Department…
Apdusa Views
… issue it was stated: "Apdusa Views sees as its task to act as a watchdog of the oppressed people. We intend to comment to warn and to expose all those who…
PlaceElgin
… Originally called Koffee Kraal, the village of Elgin is a lush land circled with mountains, in the Overberg region . This … who were friends with Dr. Viljoen…
ArchiveThe mid 1986 Crossroads/KTC Squatter Camp Demolitions in Wider Context: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1987
… social conditions, political context, housing, townships, land ownership, violence and vigilantism, forced removals. …
ArchiveSome Factors Relating to Squatter Settlements in Durban: Paper presented at National Conference 1979
… two squatter areas, forced removals, urban settlement, land ownership, demographics and statistics. …
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… South Africa History Online has embarked, with the support of the NIHSS, on researching the role of the arts under apartheid. We hope that our work will ……
PlaceEcho Caves, Limpopo
… On the border of Limpopo and Mpumalanga , South Africa . The caves, today … as a tourist attraction in 1959. The Echo Caves made up of some of the oldest…
PlaceIbeka, Simonstown
… This land was one of the original erven granted in Simons Town . Built in 1816 by PJ Truter Jnr, Collector of Customs who owned it until 1842. In 1840 it was…
EventSimon Hendrik Freykenius and Sebastiaan Cornelis Nederburgh arrive at the Cape to assist dissatisfied burghers
… Both Freykenius and Nederburgh were Commissioner-Generals of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and were sent to … dissatisfied free burghers, or farmers…
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the world, including the Security Council of … masses, exploited workers,…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… , which in the following years inspires the establishment of Namibian resistance movements. 1957 On the initiative of Andimba Toivo ya Toivo a small group of…