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ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… his open-ended visual essay about the things humans put up in nature, and the places around them – specifically those … constructions and configurations…
ArchiveHugh Masekela - what I'm thinking about ... a crisis for African culture (The Guardian)12 March 2013
… that 11 of the world's 20 fastest growing economies are in Africa, but when you talk about the economy, who are you … rich will benefit but the poor will…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the tombstone of Helen Joseph Avalon Cemetery, Johannesburg, 30 March 1996
… demon of racism, our previous rulers chose to keep them in prison, house arrest and exile. Others they decided to … away. But her memory remains vivid in our…
Address to the Summit of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 21 March 2002
… Nations, Distinguished Delegates: This historic meeting in Monterrey is a declaration of hope to the peoples of the … development. The mission which brought…
PlaceMapungubwe Cultural Landscape, Joining South Africa with Zimbabwe and Botswana
… Rivers. Mapungubwe developed into the largest kingdom in the sub-Continent before it was abandoned in the 14th Century. What survives are the almost…
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… member of the Federation of South African Women, died in October 1979. She had been one of the stalwarts of the … But Mary would also weep with those who…
EventEgyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack
… In September 1970 Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasserdied of a heart attack. Nasser had been in power in Egypt since 24 November 1954. He was succeeded by…
EventUnrest breaks out at Naledi High School as Security police confront learners
… local branch of the South Africa Students Movement (SASM). In retaliation students stoned the police and burned their car. The first sign of Black unrest in…
EventDr Joosub Ebrahim is born
… Meritorious Service Class 1: Gold from the state president in 1992, for his contribution as businessman, philanthropist and humanitarian, was born in…
EventXhosa Chief Sandile is killed
… Xhosa Chief Sandile, born in the Ciskei in 1820, was killed in Denge Forest in a skirmish with the Fingos under Captain …
EventMoses Kottler, A leading South African sculptor of his time, is born
… Moses Kottler was born in Joniskis, Lithuania. Sources differ as to the date of his … it as 11 June 1892, others as 1896. Kottler studied art in Jerusalem…
EventThe Cape Times appears for the first time
… first daily newspaper, The Cape Times, was published in Cape Town as an English language morning newspaper with … It sold for the cheap price of a penny and…
EventSudanese-born basketball player and political activist, Manute Bol is born
… Manute Bol was born in Turalei, Sudan on 16 October 1965. He came from a family … metres tall. Bol himself was 2.31 m tall. Like most boys in his community,…
EventGeneral Idi Amin overthrows Ugandan President Milton Obote
… Milton Obote while he was at a Commonwealth meeting in Singapore. Amin was a soldier in the British colonial army and became one of its first … to become the…
First Raymond Mhlaba Annual Memorial Lecture delivered by the President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, 22 August 2008, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
… these people among whom you were born, grew and died! Many in the mass media communicate deeply troubling and … of law and the negation of democratic…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… On 11 July 1963 I was sitting in the living-room of the Liliesleaf farm -house reading … the story of the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August…
Address by President Mandela at the 53rd United Nations General Assembly New York, 21 September 1998
… is a proud member of that Movement, invest great trust in this organisation that it will discharge its … of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Born…
Comments and Observations on Proposals for a United Nations Security Council Resolution on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, 1963
… 7th. [1] (2) The Secretary-General, having reported in terms of that resolution, and in view of the worsening of the South African situation since … of…
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
… When Robert Semple visited Cape Town in 1804 he correctly noted the significance of the naming … ransacked to find the names which are generally bestowed in…
Postscript
… book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph ... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, And that … the road "less travelled by", the…
EventWilhelmina Johanna (Wilma) Stockenström is born
… poetry and fiction. She wrote a few plays and appeared in some theatre productions, but it was only when her first … named because of the use of large font)…
PlaceGrey Institute/School, Port Elizabeth
… Governor of the Cape from 1854-61, played a leading role in the establishment of educational institutes throughout the … Reserve, where it proposed to erect…
Letter to Farzanah
… book of photographs, Letter to Farzanah was published in 1979 in commemoration of the United Nations declared International … documentary approach to…
EventBartholomew Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea
… South African soil was Bartholomew (or Bartolomeu) Dias. In December 1487 Dias sailed down the African coast, landing in among other places present-day…
EventAnglo American announces switching of main listing to London
… Anglo American Corporation, founded in 1917 by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer to exploit the gold fields … Exchange (JSE) to the London Stock Exchange. This move was…
EventKing Leopold II of Belgium hands over the administration of the Congo to the Belgian parliament
… From the beginning of colonialism in the 1880s following the 'scramble for Africa', the Congo … the Congolese. Atrocities committed by colonial officials in…
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). was banned in 1950. On 20 June 1950, only a few days before the … of Communism Act became law, Sam Kahn…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… life sentences escaped from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria in a canoe. This was after the prisoners hacked to death a … operation. After killing him they hid…
Year of women of South Africa by E.S. Reddy
… she's going to travel very far I was born in 1925 and grew up near Hermitage Street, on the hill in Paarl. We were four brothers and four sisters. My father,…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1946
… were all comparatively young men who took over leadership in the time of their countries' need said. Transvaal … While the Indian Community is facing a…