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EventThe United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa
… South Africa) and thirty abstentions, including the Union of Soviets, Socialist Republics (USSR), the US,, Great Britain and France. At the time of the UN’s…
PlaceWalter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, Krugersdorp/Roodepoort
… The Walter Sisulu Botanical Garden in Ruimsig , is one of eight botanical gardens in South Africa. It covers almost 300 Hectares of ground with both…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The first phase of the war was one of the set-piece battles, but from July 1900 onwards the … of the population was…
ArchiveDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
… Programme Director, Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula, Acting Premier of Gauteng Ms Qedane Mahlangu, Family and friends of Steve … our nation’s…
PlaceFrankfort
… Frankfort is a small farming town situated on the banks of the Wilge River in the Free State province of South Africa. The town was laid out in 1869 on the…
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
… Mr President, Distinguished Members of the Security Council, Your Excellency, Dr Boutrous … and the legal authority to stop this violence and to act against…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.4 1992
… Nyatsumba, Essays: S.A. Literature and the Construction of Nationhood, Njabulo S. Ndebele; In Search of Light, Mongane Wally Serote; Culture as a Site of ……
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… Founding member and president of the Pan Africanist Congress , Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe , … was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for incitement of…
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… in central Johannesburg against the detention of a fellow clergyman who had supported the school boycotts … day, after being charged under the Riotous…
Event’Viva Frelimo’ rallies, organised by the BPC and SASO, take place even though they were banned by Government
… The achievement of independence in Mozambique inspired the South African … SASO and the South African government. The Minister of Justice, Jimmy Kruger,…
PlaceDiepsloot, Johannesburg
… Diepsloot is a densely populated township in the North of Johannesburg, South Africa. Diepsloot, loosely translated … as well as shacks. (These shacks are…
David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa
… Wednesday David Goldblatt wrote an email to the Chancellor of Orders explaining that he was declining the Order of Ikhamanga, a national honour awarded by…
20. Johannesburg Parsees claim special status
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … petition dated 17 September 1906 was sent to the Secretary of…
The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
… else, Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1881-1951) was the founder of the ANC. It was he who, on his return from long years of study in the United States and Britain,…
PlaceNoordhoek, Cape Town- Southern Peninsula
… While there is no doubt that it goes back to the time of the earliest white settlers some time after Jan van … in 1743, by G overnor-General Van Imhoff , who…
EventGoldstone Commission investigate the Bisho Massacre
… At the request of President F. W. de Klerk, the commission of inquiry, headed by Judge Richard Goldstone, started the … with the National Peace Secretariat,…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, the Wobblies) was the main influence on … Dunbar (1879-1964) Andrew Dunbar was general-secretary of the IWW in…
Documents, and articles relating to the Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… you that I deeply appreciate your decision in terms of which eight fellow-prisoners were freed on 15 October … and its people, who want to turn South Africa…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… , is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of the Year Award. Albert Newall re-establishes his … Ernest Cole in terms of the Suppression of…
Archive2022 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2022
… STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA CAPE TOWN … in Parliament speaks to a broader devastation in our land. For many, the fire was…
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… for diving with Great White Sharks and “game-viewing” of the Marine Big 5 from land, sea and air, the greater Gansbaai area offers a … have nurtured and…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… This short history of Electrical Supply Commission (ESKOM) aims to provide an … of electricity production. The Transvaal Power Act (1910) effectively put…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Anti-dangerous work. This organisation happened … 1984? The 1976 Soweto student uprising was…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… work. This organisation happened in the context of people living in their racial or cultural ghettos, with … 1984? The 1976 Soweto student uprising was a…
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… Introduction The Islamic community of South Africa has grown significantly since the arrival of … social, and cultural life of the community. Group Areas Act…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… and provincial leadership, ANC NEC Members, Leaders of the Tripartite Alliance, The Luthuli Family, I am greatly … month way back in September 1952, when the…
EventMethane gas explosion kills 68 mine workers
… were fined R400 for contravening the Mines and Works Act. Despite this explosion, the authorities continued to … 13 September 2013)| Niekerk, P. (1986). " A…
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
… A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the MSc in Urban Planning (Housing in Development), … the University College, London (Development Unit)…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches, first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church in … his…
The New Generation
… as regards the visual arts was undertaken at The State of Art in South Africa Conference held in 1979 at the … that we want to play a part too in the running…