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ArchiveRobert Shell: A tribute By Martin Plaut, 05 February 2015
… writes on the passing of the foremost scholar of slavery in the Cape Robert Shell: my friend Today I learnt the news I … Rob Shell had died. Sandy, his…
PlaceFederated Union of Black Artists Arts Centre
… Union of Black Artists Arts Centre was established in 1978 by Benjy Francis, Sipho Sepamla and other artists, writers, actors and musicians in Johannesburg …
PlaceAlbaster Klip, Northern Cape
… of Marydale, site of the present Pypklip. Located in the Siyanda Municipality of the Northern Cape. It was … after Trechardt who was the only Voortrekker…
PlacePondoland
… Libode, Ngqeleni, Port St John's, Tabankulu, and Umsikaba. In 1899 provisions of Proclamation 314 allowed for Umsikaba … . Although the amaMpondo were never…
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… This imposing Victorian dwelling was erected in 1888 by EF Bourke, who later became the first mayor of … entrance, is a main feature of the design. The ivy…
Document 2 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton
… Standards Statute. Although this announcement is in line with the department of Labour's five year plan, it … of giving rights to workers has been given a…
ArchiveThe All-African Convention: The Awakening of The People by I.B. Tabata
… When The Awakening of A People was first published in 1950, it was intended for the clarification of the real … of South Africa and serve as a guide to…
PlaceDoornkop/Doornsluiten
… Doornkop/Doornsluiten farm was located in Utrecht , a town in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). To the west lay Annandale farm … was acquired by the South African…
Remembering the Artistry of Photojournalist Ranjith Kally by Kalim Rajab (Daily Maverick) 21 June 2017
… wealth or celebrity. If one wants to impact people, even in small ways, it’s best done through showing one’s humanity, one’s generosity and one’s friendship…
PlaceForts Around Pretoria
… better arrangements for the defence of the Transvaal and, in particular, Pretoria . The raiders had penetrated to … . Even though General Piet Cronje had…
PlaceRandjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg
… on 26 February 1965. When Johannesburg was proclaimed in 1886 on the triangular site Randjeslaagte, the area of the … base running along Commissioner Street,…
Address at the Opening Session of The South Africa-Algeria Bi-National Commission, Algiers, 22 September 2000.
… and people of South Africa, I am indeed happy to be in this historic city to re-affirm and reconfirm a … This colonial rule which used the same logic whether…
Address at a Public Rally Dar Es Salaam Dar Es Salaam, 17 November 1998
… I thank you sincerely for it. Three years ago we joined in celebrating the achievement of freedom in South Africa. It was a victory that was as much yours as…
Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 18 November 1930
… it will mean an extcnsion of Party activity particularly in the country districts. We have reached a stage now where, … thanks to the paper, the Party has…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… own slaves. Canadian professor Wallace Mills noted this in his course on the Great Trek & the Encyclopedia Britannica … one century & a half earlier. The…
ArchiveInterview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo
… Oral interview, conducted in Nairoi, with P. K. Leballo (1924-1986) a leader in the Africanist movement and later in the Pan Africanist Congress, serving as…
Speech, on Behalf of the National Liberation Movements, at the Opening Session of the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Havana, Cuba, 3 September 1979
… entrusting this task to the people of South Africa - and, in their name, in the name of the peoples of South Africa and Namibia, … people. Today we have…
Address to the International Labour Conference Geneva, 8 June 1990
… rapidly towards our emancipation. We must, however, in the first instance express our deepest appreciation to you … remaining political prisoners will be…
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
… meet this friendly and tolerant spirit' of the Government. In the following document, S.A.I.C. deputy-president J. W. … to emerge. The agreement created the…
84. The South African Indian Council: A. Rajbansi’s opening speech, 1982
… Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Despite the low percentage poll in the election, the Minister of Internal Affairs declared … level that would serve the interests…
Address to the World Council of Churches Harare 12 December 1998
… have come to celebrate with you fifty years of achievement in activating the conscience of the world for peace and on … that human rights are the rights of…
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
… seem to be turning up everywhere lately. Rendered loosely in modern English, they mean, “You can drive out nature with … have always been ciphers for Truth…
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… area offers a smorgasbord of adrenalin-pumping adventures in a tranquil environment of natural perennial beauty. … is home to the highest density of Great…
Document 6 - M. Lopes, “Socialism and the Labour Party”, The Bolshevik, April 1920
… and the Labour Party", The Bolshevik, April 1920 In a recent issue of our esteemed contemporary, the … conducted under the protection of a large Labour Party…
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… wing of the African National Congress (ANC). It was formed in co-operation with the South African Communist Party (SACP) … on 16 December 1961. The…
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… Rev. John Dube was elected as its first president in absentia. The organisation developed out of a situation of … new Union of South Africa. SANNC aspired to…
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… the leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), confirmed in Maseru, Basutoland (now Lesotho), that Poqo and the PAC … the timing and manner of an uprising…
EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe leads the Congelese Province of Katanga into secession
… Following the independence of Congo in June 1960 from Belgium, MoÁ¯se Kapenda Tshombe led the … into secession on 23 December 1961. Tshombe was born in 1919…
The coup that set Ghana and Africa 50 years back by Charles Quist-Adade (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
… government of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s pioneer president, in a bloody coup d’état on February 24, 1966, our primary … town, chanting the newly-minted and…
Hlaudi manifesto gives Jimi Matthews and his SABC comrades no option but to vote #Hlexit by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail & Guardian), 27 June 2016
… bye Felicia. But what impact do these shifts really have? In case you missed it, SABC acting group CEO Jimi Matthews … and I can no longer be a part of it,”…