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PlaceKuboes, Northern Cape
… clans that constantly moved about these dry lands in search of grazing for their flocks of mainly goats. On … Fred Cornell, who could never find a single…
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
… Contingent were recruited and employed to assist Britain in the First World War with labour duties. Black South African men were shipped to France in…
EventSmiso Zwane, South African hip hop artist is born
… Smiso Zwane, stage name Okmalumkoolkat was born in the Umlazi township of Durban on 27 July 1985. [i] Along … [iii]He has released three mixtapes, namely …
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
… a reading and a republishing of my Traditions of Poetry in Natal2 which attempted to situate Mafika Pascal Gwala’s work in the late 1980s would be…
EventUDF leaders are charged with treason
… high treason. These anti-apartheid activists sought refuge in the British consulate in Durban after the South African Government was hot on their heels for…
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… Madagascar came under the colonial French Protectorate in 1890. By the late 1940's, the Malagasy had started to demand independence. A national uprising took…
EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
… South West Africa), established its capitol at Otjimbingwe in 1885, then at Windhuk in 1891. It covered the core of what is today Namibia. Over the next…
Documents, and articles relating to the Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… have informed you that I deeply appreciate your decision in terms of which eight fellow-prisoners were freed on 15 October 1989, and for advising me of the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
… will help all our elected representatives to do everything in their power to intensify the struggle against poverty and … all know, when this Inter…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
… that shaped its activities. These issues are considered in relation to two distinct periods. The first is the years … on the part of the apartheid state and…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… to you today, particularly as this meeting takes place in Arusha, close to the legendary Kilimanjaro mountain. Events in South Africa have moved with…
"We have Decided to Liberate Ourselves": Address to the Royal Commonwealth Society by O. R. Tambo, London, 23 June 1986
… and gentlemen, Exactly eight months ago to the day, in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, Heads of State and … to address the same question that the…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1947
… Table Conference Perturbed by the general trend of events in South Africa subsequent to the UNO decision, the Natal … written to the Crime Minister, General…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… for the interview. He didn't seem at all interested in what I had done already and only talked about the coloured … and held the loyalty of thousands of…
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
… own conceptions of what they feel the conflict was about in South Africa, and who they think the major protagonists … and 1990, and who do you think the…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems by Jan H. Hofmeyr
… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan … of Professor Hoernle at the South African College back in 1908. As…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems
… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan … of Professor Hoernle at the South African College back in 1908. As…
PlaceSacramento Cannon, Cape Recife
… family, also known as the Miracle Cannon , was salvaged in May 1977 from the Shipwreck site of the Portuguese Ship- … ran aground near Schoenmakerskop on…
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. St. Saviours has stood … neo-Gothic church was designed and…
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… African National Congress (ANC) leader and first commander-in-chief of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was marked by a call for his release by China. This was…
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… the first Black head of the Anglican Church in South Africa. Tutu was ordained as a deacon in 1960, and became a priest in 1961. He moved to London in 1962,…
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… ka Isaka Seme was born at the Inanda mission station in Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). Seme was a founding member of the South African Native National Congress …
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… Mazisi Kunene was born on 12 May 1930 in Amahlongwa, Southern KwaZulu Natal to a Swazi mother and a … the organization. He became a representative of the…
ArchiveBiography of Tseko Simon Nkoli
… Biography of Tseko Simon Nkoli. Simon was born in Soweto on Boxing day in 1959 but grew up on a farm in Heilbron in Orange Free State. He began high school…
PlaceCeres, Western Cape Winelands
… and largest Town of the Witzenberg Local Municipality in the Western Cape Province of South Africa . Ceres serves … ; Op-die-Berg and Prince Alfred Hamlet …
“Message to Those Staying At Home”: Joint Statement by Dr G. M. Naicker and Chief Albert J. Luthuli, April 1958
… Luthuli, April 1958 63 Those who will be staying at home in accordance with the decision of the National Workers` … the following instructions and directions…
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… In January 1912, Pixley Seme, Alfred Mangena, Richard Msimang … was renamed the African National Congress (ANC) in 1923, in Bloemfontein. One hundred…
Documentry on the Life and Death of Ahmed Timol Premieres on SABC3, on 1 February 2015.
… fell from the 10th Floor of the security police building in Johannesburg in 1971. The documentary is narrated by Timol's nephew Imtiaz … testimony to the…
PlaceAasvoelberg known as The Eye Of Zastron
… sandstone Mountain is a backdrop for the town of Zastron , in the South-Eastern Free State Province of South Africa. At … m (approx. 7240 imperial feet), it…
2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup is a tribute to Africa - ANC, 21 May 2010
… House, with flags of all African countries participating in the event. We are doing this informed by the belief that … and Africa, led by the ANC. These…