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Address at the 8th Asean Summit, 5 November 2002
… Your Royal Highness, Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Your Excellencies, Ministers and … that we meet in Cambodia, whose King and Head of…
Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade Unionism in South Africa, 28 July 1928
… The first trade unions in the country were white unions of skilled workers. Most of their members were immigrants … members are allowed in the Transvaal and…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… 1992 As adopted by the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress - 25 November 1992. The … crime. However: · the regime still commands…
ArchiveNothing groundbreaking in Mandela debate by Steven Friedman, 09 December 2015
… our past teaches about the present. The second anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s passing has coincided with a heated … he saved or sold out the country. His…
PlaceLenasia, Soweto
… Hundreds of people braved the cold weather to attend the Eidgah . The … at the Nirvana Drive, open field. The event marked the end of the fasting Month of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving the Congressional Gold Medal Washington, 23 September 1998
… Maxine Waters Delivers Remarks at Presentation of Congressional Gold Medal to South African President, … relationship between our countries. The highly…
EventThe Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, received a report of a police investigation into Steve Biko's death
… The Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, received a report of a police investigation into Steve Biko's death as well as … of the Transvaal,…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern … 'free and independent people' in a 'free and independent state'…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… 1939 Govan Mbeki publishes "Transkei in the Making" a work of political analysis which is deeply critical of the system … to 42 South Africans. 2004 6…
GANDHI THE PRISONER
… A comparison of prison experiences and conditions of Mahatma Gandhi and … him - there were no charges of conspiracy to overthrow the state, of promoting the…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thembinkosi Khumalo
… Thembinkosi Khumalo is a student activist at the University of Pretoria. He is an active PASMA member. PASMA is a student division of PAC. Khumalo is also…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… Potenza An industrial revolution was affecting the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa. By the 1920s, one or … the previous republics (the Transvaal…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… This article was written by Jerry Saena and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … torture instrument, but a piece of bait. I…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in the small town of Withuis in Worcester, Cape Province. While his date of … his career as an artist, professed him an…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… The Mfecane roughly starts at this time. 1818 Dingiswayo of the Mthethwa leads all his forces against Zwide of the Ndwandwe and is seized in an ambush and…
ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
… artistic exchange and dialogue after the Cultural Boycotts of the Isolation Years, the first Johannesburg Biennale … from 28 February – 30 April 1995,…
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
… In the 1870s a series of farming associations emerged in the Cape, both in the west … vereenigingen (Afrikaner farming associations) were one of the first…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… Africa (and again in 1903 and 1906). 1898 The Orange Free State Bantu Football Club tours England, becoming the first … are captained by Joseph Twayi who…
PlaceRondebosch Common, Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch.
… by Batavian forces during the first British invasion of the Cape. However, following an outbreak of dysentery among the troop, they were moved to higher ……
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer and linguist, dies
… Jordan Xhosa writer and linguist died in the United State of America in Madison Wisconsin. Jordan was born on 30 … at the Mbokothwana mission station in the…
PlacePretoria Art Museum
… The Pretoria City Council started a permanent collection of paintings from artists such as the German Baroque painter … van Goyen (1596 – 1656) for its…
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
… Bathurst in the Eastern Cape, is one of the smallest but most interesting Municipalities in South … in 1820, this peaceful little Village on the left bank of…
58. Congress has sold our rights
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … charged that the South African Indian Congress consisted of a…
PlaceBram Fischer International Airport, Bloemfontein
… International Airport is an important Gateway to the Free State , a land-locked Province. The Airport was opened in … so that the South African Airforce…
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… on 20 October 1891 and grew up in Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya. Kenyatta ran away from home to become a pupil at the Church of Scotland Mission, where…
PlaceVan Reenen's Pass, KwaZulu Natal
… Named after the little Town of Van Reenen, which seems to stand guard at the top of this … towards Ladysmith in the KZN Midlands from the Free State. Durban …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Christian Missions and the Bantu
… old order changeth; and so we behold today in the drama of the life of the South African Bantu a slow but sure … The repealing of what is now the EastÂern…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… Calls were made by the Indian Congress to reject the plans of the newly elected Nationalist government, but the drastic … The South African Indian Council…
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… with Comrade Devadas Paul David in 1977, soon after a few of us established the Tongaat Youth Club. We were struck by … not surprising that he became a…
ArchiveWhy The EFF Is A Fascist Political Party by Gareth van Onselen, 26 March 2018
… recent comment, that he intended to "cut the throat of whiteness", by removing DA mayor Athol Trollip in Nelson … Rights. To this end, he seeks to take the…