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PlaceGazebo, Civic Square
The elegant gazebo in the Civic Square was built in 1924. It was the home of a coach magnate, Doel Zeederberg, who established the first passenger stage-coach…
Freedom In Our Life Time - List of Photographs
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede Anton Lembede's primary school class, Umbumbulu, 192.7 (Bemadette Sibeko) Inset of…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
Thami Mnyele and Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective During the past few years the Johannesburg Art Gallery has focused attention on black artists who were…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
1905 9 August, Moses Kotane is born in Tamposstad, to Samuel Segogwane, a lay preacher and traditional healer, and Siporah Mmadira Kotane, a seasonal…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Address at the SANEF Conference on the Media, the AU, NEPAD and Democracy ,12 April 2003
… in Mali, as an ancient centre of learning which still has books published as early as the 13th century, that cover such …
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… – Statements from the Harare Conference. London: Kliptown Books. Coetzee, Ampie, and James Polley (Eds.) (1990) …
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
… to forgive and forget the past. Let us close the old books. Let us search ourselves. Let us find out who the real …
ArchiveBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
… to portray these effects, and clearly intended for her books to be read not only in her own Senegalese culture, but …
Pretoria Socialist Society
… influx of new legislation there are already in the Statute Books of the Union of South Africa a large number of laws …
Introduction
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The new and competitive presence of Indians in the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.2 Jun 1980
Contents and Contributors Stories: Orphaned Before Birth by John Gambanya, November ’76 by Paul Hotz, Home Territory by Chris Chapman, The Pest of Love by…
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
This book and exhibition are an attempt to construct a clear picture of Ernest Cole, a complex man whose work is little known, especially in his own country,…
16. Advice to a son about coming to Natal
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Madline Alexander Pillai wrote on 22 January…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
This is a book about forgotten pages of South Africa's rich worker history from 1903 to 1921. It includes socio-historical analysis of the Cape Town 'answer"…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… journal Koers, Inspan and were published in books by Burger Boekhandel publishing house. [28] Much of the … Reflections on the origin and spread of…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
"South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, Billy Monk," which opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last weekend, will…
PlaceSao Bento Shipwreck, Coffee Bay
The earliest known wreck is the Portuguese carrack, Sao Bento. A carrack is a sailing sailing ship of the 14th–17th centuries that was usually built with three…
PlaceGreat Brak Rivier
The village of Great Brak Rivier was founded by Charles Searle, an English paper-mill hand who, together with his wife and four children, emigrated to the Cape…
ArchiveThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
… Relations project, and appealed for alumni to donate books for a library he proposed to establish for Black South …
PlaceDrakensberg Mountain Range, Lesotho
"Kahlamba" is an alternative name for the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg mountain range in South Africa.The range is more than 200 kilometres long and combines rugged…
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
… and possessions, letters, photographs of my family and books were taken away. In no time at all I met up with Jock, …
EventJacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist and his daughter Augusta leave on an exploration of the interior
On 9 October 1803, Jacob Abraham de Mist, Commissioner General, left Cape Town on a 167 day journey into the interior, accompanied by his daughter, Augusta, a…
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
The Afrikaans language has its origins in Dutch. It developed amongst Dutch-speaking settlers and slaves in South Africa in the 17th century, and has many…
ArchiveThe Final Prize: Family - chapter 1
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy I literally fell into politics at the age of fourteen, a happening that set my life on a path to prison, exile…
18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Narayanan, who worked for a Port Shepstone sugar…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
In 1975, Peter Johnson, joined the ranks of the uMkhonto we Sizwe and disappeared into exile. Nearly a decade later, on the 26 October 1984, Johnson, now known…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed…
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
Published 2005 by Prestel. Essays by Christoph Danelzik-Bruggemann, Michael Stevenson, and an interview with the photographer by Mark Haworth-Booth. 124 pages;…
69. ‘Moderate Indians’ form the Natal Indian Organisation
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Many Indian leaders who had formerly held office…