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PlaceRhodes University, Grahamstown
Rhodes University, founded in 1904, the University has a well-established reputation for Academic excellence. With just over 8200 students, Rhodes is a small…
PlaceGabon
On 17 August 1960, Gabon, a country in west central Africa, astride the Equator. The Country gained independence from France. It shares common borders with…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… The Maulana was a dedicated da'i and authored several books on Islam. He started a monthly publication, Al-Muathin, …
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
The first Kroomen to be employed by the British Navy in Simon’s Town arrived on the HMS Melville in 1838. [i] Their date of arrival was telling, having…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… He continued writing and in 1916 he published two short books named the “Sechuana Provebs” and the “Sechuana Reader” … of Black South Africans. [187] Sol…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
Though first publicized as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
1840s John Dube’s grandmother, Dalitha becomes the first convert of the Lindley Mission Station in Inanda. 1871 22 February, John Langalibalele Dube is…
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
… with the organization, I was earning my living, write books and all the rest, but I was available for general … or a calamity. And from what I’ve read of the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the General Assembly of the African Ombudsman Association (AOA): Misty Hills Conference Centre, Muldersdrift, Johannesburg: 11 April 2005.
Deputy President of the Association, Ombudsman of Malawi, Enoch Chibwana, The Executive Secretary of the Association and Public Protector of the Republic of…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… she lived every day in agonizing oblivion. She was given books to read mainly of the crime and thriller genres. She …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - 'Defendre of the Hottentots'
From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke Dr. John Philip, Superintendent of the London Missionary Society (L.M.S.), who…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki, at the University of Havana, Cuba, 27 March 2001
… – a biography of the continent, page 21, published Penguin Books 1997). The compact super continent, which was in …
How to Approach Heaven by Jon Soske (Chimurenga Magazine)
… is almost indecipherable—in the Croxley exercise books that were popular at the time. (A remnant of his days …
Address at the University of Havana, Cuba, 28 March 2001
… - a biography of the continent, page 21, published Penguin Books 1997). The compact super continent which was in …
Address by Comrade President Nelson R Mandela to the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers Conference Prague, 26 May 1992
… to fuel violence. The removal from South Africa's Statute books of the scores of laws, ordinances, regulations and …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Conference of the Association of African Universities: Cape Town, 22 February 2005.
… and Renaissance eras. Its incomplete collection of books and manuscripts leaves us in no doubt as to the …
ArchiveThe end of an era - A tribute to Cde Govan Mbeki, by Jacob Zuma, 8 September 2001, Port Elizabeth
During the past week, the entire country has been united in mourning the fall of a giant of our struggle. Messages of condolences have come from all over the…
Names of Slaves and Free Blacks
The following list is taken from Frank R. Bradlow and Margaret Cairns, The Early Cape Muslims, appendix II. A note by the authors says that the list of names…
PlaceAlgoa Bay, East Coast of Cape of Good Hope
Old name for Algoa Bay was Angra da Roca named in 1488, by Bartolomeu Dias when he was the first European to land there. He planted a wooden cross on a small…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.4 Nov-Dec 1979
Contents and Contributors Stories: A Conversion by Michael Silum, It exists by Denis Beckett; Man Against Himself by Joel Matlou. Jazz and Rugby, Tough Games…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.3 Jul-Aug 1979
Content and Contributors Stories Heavy News by Funda Ntuli, Seth 'n Sam by Peter Wilhelm, Three Days in the Land of a Dying Illusion by Mtutuzeli Matshoba…
PlaceCasa Labia,198 Main Road, Muizenberg
Clifford Hume Knight purchased the land in 1901, and subsequently built his residence upon it, a large dwelling designed in a neo-Renaissance style with…
PlaceMuseum Africa
Museum Africa, Johannesburg's major history and cultural history museum, is housed in the Newtown Cultural Precinct's old fruit and vegetable market - which…
”Joint Declaration of Cooperation.” Statement by Dr. A. B. Xuma of the ANC, Dr. G. M. Naicker of the Natal Indian Congress, and Dr. Y. M. Dadoo of the Transvaal Indian Congress, March 9, 1947
This Joint Meeting between the representatives of the African National Congress and the Natal and Transvaal Indian Congresses, having fully realised the…
EventAllan Boesak’s plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
Allan Boesak graduated from the Belville Theological Seminary and worked as a pastor in Paarl between 1967 and 1970. After received his PhD from a university…
PlaceBergtheil House, 16 Queen’s Avenue, Westville
Named after Jonas Bergtheil, this museum is situated in the leafy suburb of Westville, almost midway between Durban and Pinetown. The museum is housed in…
2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Moothen had the following letter written to the…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… she knew Yolande was alive. The boers were searching for books and money. When Nellie thought that all was quiet she …
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
OriginsOne of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed response…
Interview with Ari Sitas, Of Socialism and Dentures by Jonathan Mandel, 10-11 April 2015
… Muafanjego, Batiss, Diamandis in another. And then the books, and the cds, and the chillies dangling in the kitchen. …