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Nelson Mandela Mandela and Winnie’s studies
… through newspapers left carelessly by warders. After years of protest they graduated to a restricted number of papers and to the radio, and eventually to TV…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Following is a list of abstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes - … push heavy skips”: Examining NUDW and CCAWUSA organising of occupational…
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone is born 23 March 1923
… greatest footballer South Africa has ever produced, often being compared with the world’s all time greats including The inimitable Pele of Brazil. … at: www…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… literature on this brutally violent chapter in the history of the liberation struggle focuses largely on the conflict … movements against each other…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… 2010 19 January: ( Congress of South African Trade Unions ) COSATU affiliate The Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) entered their third week of striking…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Opening Address by President Jacob Zuma, Midrand, 26 June 2012
… Comrade Kgalema Motlanthe, ANC Officials and Members of the National Executive Committee, ANC leadership of all structures, Our Alliance partners and other ……
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… While the South African press readily covered stories of those having committed acts of treason or communism during the apartheid era, little … prison is a…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Asa cultural and political phenomenon, a … into existence. Important in this respect was…
PlaceHilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School
… At the end of a road eight kilometres from the Village of Hilton, on an Escarpment above Pietermaritzburg , are … struck rocks off Danger Point near Cape…
PlaceElandsberg Nature Reserve, Western Cape
… a provincial nature reserve in 2008 in recognition of its importance to conservation. Bartholomeus Klip has … the reserve in perpetuity. At Bartholomeus Klip…
PlaceSouthport, South Coast
… between Sunwich Port and Sea Park, on the South Coast of KwaZulu Natal. Southport and the various little Suburbs, tend to regard themselves as extensions of…
Kaunda to be discharged from hospital, 25 September 2012
… to be discharged from hospital on Tuesday, four days after being admitted with an undisclosed ailment, medical sources …
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… INTRODUCTION In examining the history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) since its establishment in 1961, a number of distinct phases are discernible. Originally a…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated unequal relationships between Europeans and their descendants and local…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… people in South Africa have always associated the history of the United States with the great name of Abraham Lincoln. There was an issue involving human…
PlaceKeilands Catholic Mission Station, Eastern Cape
… Catholic Mission Station- Established 1886 along the banks of the Great Kei in a remote Valley, between Cathcart and … still remain. Accessible through a…
EventGovernment's final consolidation of 'homelands'
… announced its intention to consolidate the total number of separate 'homeland' areas from 113 to 36. The homelands … were officially instituted in the 1950s…
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
… Chief M.G. Buthelezi is the Chief Executive Councillor of the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly. In South Africa, this is one of those rare occasions where people…
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… weakened the party considerably. Towards the end of 1945, it seemed as if South Africa was at last entering a … South Africans had given their lives in the…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… and the woman to three months. There were two children of the marriage. In justifying the sentence imposed the … from present surroundings would "kindle the…
Dr. Nelson Mandela’s acceptance address at the Clark University Investiture Atlanta, Georgia, 10 July 1993
… Mr. President, Distinguished members of the faculty, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a singular honour … to receive this degree, I accept it not as recognition…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
… THE EXTREMITY OF CONFLICT in a revolutionary struggle can create a number of difficulties for someone attempting a serious study of … in the ANC in exile, as…
PlaceSouthern Suburbs of Cape Town
… The group of Suburbs lying South East of the City Bowl and Table Mountain , in Cape Town are … City's Residential Areas as well as Industry and people being…
PlaceNkandla, KZN
… Nkandla, is mainly a Rural Area and is in the top five of the poorest places in KwaZulu-Natal province . Poverty is prevalent, with 44% unemployment. The…
PlacePort Alfred
… One of the many difficulties faced by the 1820 Settlers , was … the first ship entered the Kowie River and the Settlement of Port Alfred was born. The Town…
60. Congress and the Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … and national questions. The following document consists of the…
PlaceLetsemeng Local Municipality, Free State Province
… and in the West by the Northern Cape Province. It is one of three Municipalities in the District, making up almost a third of its Geographical Area…
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
… protect the British subjects from attack during the time of the Frontier Wars . The Town was laid out around a central … to be the Lager, to which the…
PlaceUmdoni Municipality
… Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. It is made up of 10 wards, most of which are rural areas. Umdoni Municipality covers the … can be divided into…
PlaceMariannhill, Pinetown
… leafy Neighborhoods outside Durban, on the outskirts of Pinetown. The Monastery was founded by Trappist Monks in … as a Catholic Mission and now boasts an…