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New Year Message to the ANC External Mission by O. R. Tambo, 1 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…
50. The campaign resumed in 1913
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … settlement was reached in 1911. But in the letter of 12…
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…
13. Wife lays bigamy charge
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Correspondence 102, 1895, Natal Archives. I am the wife of…
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…
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
… Jacob van der Heiden, a political prisoner, spent part of his confinement in April-May 1706 in a dungeon in the … took a liking to his brown companion and…
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…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last legal conference in … July, Dadoo issues a statement from the dock…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… July, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa (ICU) is established as national Black trade … and non- prescribed areas, movement between the…
PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
… The discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields provided in 1886, the funds … 1980 while still under construction. It is at this session of the Volksraad…
PlaceEgypt
… many, year old Monuments here: Including: the Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx; the Karnak temple, with its infamous hieroglyphics and the Valley of…
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… been in South Africa now for 85 years, and in the measure of their possibilities, they have contributed to the prosperity and development of the Union. As…
PlaceSudwala Caves, Nelspruit
… Escarpment, which separates the Highveld from the lowlands of Mpumalanga. The renowned as the discovery site of some of the first pieces of evidence of…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… 1943 (Including 'The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa' and 'Bill of Rights,' adopted by the ANC … the Right…
PlaceNieu-Bethesda
… other Karoo Villages. It was started by a determined group of people who lived in the area and who wanted a Church … – these days it takes just over half an…
Message sent to Canon Collins by ALbert Luthuli, 1 March 1956
… Canon Collins. I have just been making a tape-recording of a message that I am sending to your Group. I was told by a … I have quite a little audience here…
PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
… predominantly neo-Gothic manner. It forms an integral part of the Porter Reformatory, established there in 1880. It was … 1985. Although fortifications were…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… and domestic service.’ Van Onselen’s two-volume history of ‘everyday life in the Witwatersrand’, a long ridge on the … explores the period from the mid-1880s…
EventThe Dutch Indiaman, the Nieuwe Haerlem, is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay
… 1488 in an attempt to find a sea route to the spice lands of East Asia, numerous Dutch ships, called Indiamen, dared … navigational instruments that could…
PlaceOld Presidency
… This building served as the official residence of the presidents of the former Republic of the Orange Free State, it was … submitted by Canning was too…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Zimbabwe Television (ZTV), 05 August 1983, Harare
… into police stations guarding its borders, the President of the ANC, Comrade Oliver Tambo, has said. He said it was an act of bullying which showed that…
Statement by Nelson R. Mandela on his relationship with his wife 13 April 1992
… Comrade Nomzamo Winnie Mandela, has become the subject of much media speculation. I am issuing this statement to … for liberation in our country. Owing to…
Address At The Commerce Faculty Graduation Ceremony by Saleem Badat, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… Dr Sizwe Mabizela The Chairperson and members of the Rhodes University Council Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Dr … And, not least, new graduates, and families and…
Document 71 - Spartacus Club October Revolution Celebrations Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Street, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
… the Native Land Act has been passed, which drove thousands of Natives off European-owned farms where they had lived as … and Anna, make up their minds to go…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… Front was not the ANC's, whatever the prescience of the 1978-1979 strategic review, the ANC wasted no time in bringing the front under its suzerainty. The…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… in technology, but also changes in the social structures of societies, manufacturing, transport and agriculture. This … the Industrial Revolution in Britain,…
PlaceWeenan
… Weenen stands as a testament to the turbulent History of South Africa! Located on the serene Banks of the Bushman River in KwaZulu-Natal , it remains as the …
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… and musical items were provided, to celebrate the building of their new factory in Plein Street; 2 the social evenings … unique climate led many tobacco…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances since … were forced to carry "permission"…