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PlaceAgtersrivier and Kou Bokkeveld Pass , Western Cape
… and flowing North West to join Voorsterivier, 15 km South of Citrusdal. The name of the river in Afrikaans and means ' the hindmost river', … the River in…
Document 9 - First letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… Statement of principles 14. We believe that a conjuncture of circumstances exists which, if there is a demonstrable readiness on the part of the Pretoria…
PlaceGuinea
… Guinea is the traditional name of coastal Western Africa . The historical colonies of French Guinea, Spanish Guinea and Portuguese Guinea gained … the…
PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
… The discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields provided in 1886, the funds … 1980 while still under construction. It is at this session of the Volksraad…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Babanango is located about 58 km North-West of Melmoth in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. Initially the Town was part of land granted to White farmers, in 1885,…
PlaceOatlands, Simonstown
… on which this property is situated, originally formed part of the Dutch East India Company’s ,'Groot Tuin'. The 'Groot … established in March 1743 and formed…
PlaceRobertson, Route 62
… establish a new congregation to serve the spiritual needs of residents in its Southern region. To this end it purchased … The 1865 census indicated that…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… last. It was organised by the National Liberation League of South Africa and supported by the S.A. Indian Congress, … Coloured, Native, Indian, Malay and…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… wa Thiong Today, just over a century after the discovery of gold on the Rand, the nature of South Africa’s future is in the balance. But the future … the…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… (prior to 1910) The settlement of Hooge Kraal was established in 1813 as a station of the London Missionary Society (LMS) . In 1818, its name was changed to…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… African National Action Council was established in terms of a resolution adopted at a conference held at … your Government, after receiving a mandate from a…
Farewell To His Comrades: Message, September 19, 1983
… [Message to a meeting of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, written and signed … deep sorrow and great personal regret that I inform…
New Generation Sculpture
… During the 1980s the work of a number of sculptors working in the northern part of the country, Gazankulu and Venda, came to the attention of …
Address on Freedom Day, 27 April 2003
… Traditional Leaders, Distinguished Guests, People of the North West, Fellow South Africans: Today, we celebrate the 9th anniversary of our freedom, a year…
Chapter 8. Capitalists without Money
… In 1928 the clothing industry presented a picture of primitive capitalism. There were about fifty factories on … roughly forty in Johannesburg and the rest…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… In Exile 1963 - 1990 The Bram Fischer era In the aftermath of the Rivonia offensive, coupled with the 90-day detention … during the period between 1962 and…
A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-19451 by Heather Hughes
… Missionaries, Inanda Seminary was the first establishment of its kind in southern Africa, embodying a new concept of educational work among young African…
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 in the context of people living in their…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… after it there was an outcry against the expansion of Indians, and to meet this outcry the Prime Minister, General Smuts, appointed the Lange Commission of…
Chapter 12
… Bogus Unities The method of open frontal attack on the part of the Congress die-hards did not work and they found it necessary to change their tune again…
Introduction - The anti-Apartheid Movements: a 40-year perspective
… Africa. Speakers included Julius Nyerere, future President of Tanzania and long-time fighter against apartheid, K.Chiume, press secretary of the Nyasaland…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… in his own community. He was faced with a rising storm of opposition from he anti-segregationalists led by Dr. … group around Kajee, which included men like…
PlaceKenilworth
… Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens , between the suburbs of Claremont and Wynberg . A leafy suburb, upper Kenilworth is a well established part of Cape Town and…
PlaceMalay Quarter, Cape Town
… The area, known as the Malay Quarter of Cape Town, nestles against the steep slopes of Signal Hill. It formerly covered a much larger piece of land but this…
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… Museum is committed to collect, conserve and exhibit works of art which represent the heritage of South African art on behalf of and to the advantage and…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to National Worker`s Day Rally, 1 May 2011, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
… President of COSATU, comrade Sdumo Dlamini, ANC chairperson, Comrade Marius Fransman, General Secretary of the SACP, Comrade Blade Nzimande, Leadership of…
Document 104 - Boycott the Elections! The Spark, 3,4, April 1937
… has been working very busily. This so-called press" is, of course, simply the press agency of the ruling classes to spread their propaganda among the … and…
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… sportspersons and administrators were in the vanguard of this front of the anti-apartheid struggle. I would like to extend my … to Sam (Samba) Ramsamy - the…
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… populated. All eyes are focused on the speaker, who is out of your line of sight. In this 1989 photograph of a trade union meeting at the University of Cape…
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
… Introduction 1. The Declaration of intent which we adopted at Codesa 1 committed us to the established of a ‘democratic South Africa’. On the basis of this…