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Dealing with the past and facing the future
… The text that follows is a brief summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. You can read far … In an interview, Nelson Mandela said: "With the…
Address at The Youth Day Rally, Witbank, 16th June 2003
… Premier of Mpumalanga, Ndaweni Mahlangu, Our traditional leaders, … must seize the opportunities arising out of government Land Reform programme, including…
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… Potlako Leballo, the leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), confirmed in Maseru, … were banned in April 1960 under the Unlawful Organisations Act …
ArchiveThe agrarian problem
… An address delivered by I B Tabata to the Society of Young Africa (SOYA); an organisation affiliated to the Unity Movement and consists mainly of young urban…
Chapter III - The world outside
… in house arrest, the 1960s inexorably became a decade of disgrace, of repressive legislation. Sadistic … government's response was another General Laws…
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… Frensch Verwoerd assumed office as the Prime Minister of South Africa after the death of J.G. Strijdom. An ardent … parliament ratified the Promotion of…
ArticleArtist Proof Studio
… Co-founded by the artists Kim Berman and Nhlanhla Xaba who act as mentors and teachers, this community-based arts organisation was built in the spirit of the…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.1 Oct-Dec 1959
… Maurice Pope. The Potato Harvest, Tony O’Dowd. The Reply of Makerere, Bernard de Bunsen. The Treason Trial, E.V. Stone with illustration by David Marais. The…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… The homeland of KwaZulu (or place of the Zulu) was granted self-government … Dingane. Nervous about white encroachment on his land, Dingane had a party of…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… wa Thiong Today, just over a century after the discovery of gold on the Rand, the nature of South Africa’s future is … majority of people in South Africa…
PlaceTulbagh, Western Cape
… On 1 February 1808 the territory North of the Great Berg river was annexed to the new District of … and Theuniskraal originate in the Valley known as: 'Het…
PlaceHangberg, Hout Bay
… between Hout Bay Harbour and The Sentinel Peak and many of the residents are employed in the fishing or other … Bay valley or close to the village. With the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
… confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the world, including the Security Council of … masses, exploited workers,…
EventThe Johannesburg Meteorological Observatory opens
… Innes moved from Cape Town to become the first director of the centre. It was officially opened in 1905 and the first … in 1906. The Observatory sits on a…
PlaceNiger
… Niger (was a former French colony to the north of Nigeria) and Nigeria (was a former British colony) were … them. The Arab legacy on the continent, with the…
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… A couple of days back I had a dream where I visited the renovated … established. In 1657 van Riebeeck granted 14 parcels of land along the Liesbeeck with…
EventAdam Tas is arrested
… Magistrate Starrenburg arrested Adam Tas because of the role he played in drawing up a petition for the Cape … was submitted to the Lords Seventeen, the…
EventLady Diana Spencer is killed in a car accident in Paris
… as Princess Diana was born in 1961. She married the Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of England, Charles, and became the royal Princess of Wales. ……
PlaceThe Mead and Meadway, Pinelands-Cape Town
… The land was granted to the Garden Cities Trust in 1919 and was capitalised in part by a member of the trust, namely Richard Stuttaford of Stuttaford’s fame…
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… single-storey structure with few architectural features of note. However it was spacious and well built, and remains … stood close to the street verandah…
Chapter 5
… The Significance of the All-African Convention Notwithstanding the temporary … scale. The creation of the A.A.C. was a spontaneous act. Without any…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… and Giffard say: ‘The Afrikaner press was a creation of Afrikaner political aspirations, established by the … in growing Dutch newspapers. New newspapers…
News SABC ‘should be hitting the panic button’ over Jimi Matthews’ resignation by Ndileka Lujabe (City Press), 27 June 2016
… at the broadcaster is wrong and I can longer be part of it,” he said in his resignation letter to Professor … for simply doing their jobs and upholding the…
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
… He later joined and sat on the central committee of the Mau Mau. When Kenya gained independence, Kaggia became a member of parliament and served as minister…
88. Gandhi’s legacy
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … in newer and even more terrible forms. The Group Areas Act has…
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… covering the KwaZulu homeland and Natal province as an act of insubordination against the government and African … State and the Transvaal. In 1951, the…
ArticleTrevor Andrew Manuel and Economic Freedom Fighters - High Court of South Africa - Gauteng Local Division - Johannesburg
… REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA IN THE HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA GAUTENG … because section 6 of the South African Revenue Services Act 34 of 1997 (the SARS Act)…
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… Background Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a … celebrate their cultural traditions in the wider context of the…
PlaceGrey Street Complex
… is the teaming business and residential Indian sector of the Durban City Centre , and is also the educational, … government after the passing of the…
The French Revolution
… On 14 July 1789 hundreds of French city workers stormed the Bastille fortress in … were not even allowed to hunt for food – they lived on land owned by…