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A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 3
… Indian Community by C. H. Calpin Mr. A.B. Moosa, partner of "A.I." in Avalon Associated Cinemas and one of the honorary secretaries of the SAIC in 1940,…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… got its name from having been the Sixth Municipal District of Cape Town in 1867. Its earlier unofficial name was 'Kanaldorp', a name supposedly derived from…
PlaceVoortrekker Monument
… The Voortrekker Monument is located just South of Pretoria, in South Africa. This massive granite Structure … 1835 and 1854. The idea to Build a Monument in…
The Treason Trial: Foreword by Chief Albert Luthuli to a book by Helen Joseph, 1963
… has made an important contribution to the literature of the liberatory movement in South Africa. The treason trial … minds and impress upon the entire nation…
PlaceKwaMashu
… The development of KwaMashu Township, in the KwaZulu-Natal province and located some 19km north of Durban , resulted from the mass resettlement of the slum …
PlaceGardens Shul in Cape Town
… Southern Hemisphere! Until the 17th Century the history of Jewry had been played out in the relatively confined geographical Area of the Middle East, North…
ArchiveAppendix 5 Notes on Palestine and Israel by Denis Goldberg
… anti-apartheid campaigning was an important part of our struggle. The violence of the apartheid regime was as nothing in comparison with the … of people…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 - Introduction
… - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris Private enterprise is one of the million illegitimate children of historical processes which are determined (and at the sme …
PlaceDriekopseiland: Rock engravings
… A site of knowledge: Driekopseiland South Africa has a large number of historical rock-engraving sites, where South Africa’s … (human and animal shapes)…
Address by President Mandela at the Seoul University Seoul, 6 July 1995
… President of the Seoul National University; Distinguished staff and … It is barely three hours since we landed in the Republic of Korea, and already, we can…
85. Charter for Change, 1981
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … the Natal Indian Congress, the Anti-S.A.I.C. committees of the…
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… 1950, by Allison Drew The All-African Convention came into being as an answer by the Native People to the Government's … a united front against the slave…
Address at the World Food Summit, 10 June 2002
… Honourable Chairperson, Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Your Excellency, Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, Your…
Constitution, Rules and Bye-Laws, I.C.U. Yase Natal, 1929 [Extracts]
… Branches as may be formed and established in other parts of Africa. In it alone is vested authority to establish … regulate and determine all matters…
PlacePosthuys
… Posthuys is considered of the earliest buildings along the False Bay Coastline and … entering False Bay. Posthuys features early photographs of the…
EventFirst enslaved people arrive in Cape Town
… had a human cargo: 174 slaves. This was the first shipment of slaves to arrive in South Africa, and marked the beginning of almost 200 years of slave trade…
ArchiveHugh Masekela - what I'm thinking about ... a crisis for African culture (The Guardian)12 March 2013
… It is said that 11 of the world's 20 fastest growing economies are in Africa, … in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… timeline provides some historical background to the role of English in the Namibian public by tracing it within the … us with insights into the production…
ArchiveHighlights on successes and experienced challenges during the 25 years of freedom and democracy.
… successes and experienced challenges within the 25 years of Freedom and Democracy. As I write this letter my heart is filled with joy, because of the…
ArchiveDavid Koloane fought for the right to define himself – and his art by Ruth Simbao, 24 July 2019
… pioneer in the visual arts who fiercely defied any form of categorisation. As an artist, teacher, mentor, curator, … Thabo Mbeki called him a loyal fighter…
PlaceMbaula Village, Phalaborwa
… Located in the Limpopo Province outside of Phalaborwa . This Area of Mbaula stretches over an area of 3.032 squared kilometers. … of dialects spread over:…
PlaceMajuba Power Station, Volksrust-Mpumalanga
… This 4 110 megawatt Station, constructed at a cost of R 11.9 Billion, is one of the five biggest Power Stations in the World and the first … at one year…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… to carve out a living in the big city. She was the cousin of African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Walter Sisulu and met Mandela in Sisulu's home in…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… to make visible what had been invisible; to find ways of articulating through the medium of photography, a reality obscured by government propaganda. ……
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… Contents Early settlement patterns of exclusion Towards racial segregation Segregated city … early settlement were established at the Cape, patterns of…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… The first leader of the National Party (NP) became Prime Minister as part of the PACT government in 1924. The NP was the governing … arguing that such a…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… authorities were indispensable in the application of the provisions in the 1913 Natives Land Act in areas of rural South Africa designated as "Scheduled…
PlaceKaaiman's River, Garden Route
… is a River in the Western Cape , South Africa. The mouth of the River lies near the Wilderness. Further upriver, the … whose wagons had to wait sometimes for…
“I want to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness by Hannah Dawson
… Black South African men refuse low wage jobs in a time of mass joblessness? This paper takes up this question by examining the work histories and decisions…
EventAnti-Apartheid demonstration is held outside SA embassy in Washington
… The Soweto riots of 1976, in which school children protested against being taught in Afrikaans and were subsequently gunned down, … for 'constructive…