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PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… Territory of British Kaffraria On 21 December 1834 massed Xhosa armies attacked the eastern regions of the Cape Colony, destroying all settler resistance…
PlaceLibya
… history, has more recently been known for the 42-year rule of the mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi - and the chaos that … springboard for migrants heading…
EventA conference is held in Geneva, Switzerland (1949) to revise the original Geneva Conventions.
… The Geneva Conventions, are comprised of four treaties and three protocols, which establish the standards of international law for the treatment of civilians…
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… CAPETOWN. Dear Roux, I posted you yesterday copies of the resolutions passed at the Anti-Pass Conference with three paragraphs of general report at the foot…
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
… for Indian rights, was born in Johannesburg as son of Jariam Singh, a former president of the Transvaal Indian Association. In 1913 he was one of the…
South Africa’s policy towards Zimbabwe: synopsis by Thabo Mbeki 22 February 2016
… with ZANU when it broke away from ZAPU. This was a product of a continuous process in Zimbabwe which had started with the establishment of the Southern…
ArchiveChapter 18 New Life Number 9 2002- 2009 by Denis Goldberg
… information showing that I could indeed handle the post of Special Adviser in the Ministry of Water Affairs and Forestry. It is a technical ministry and … a…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… central to ANC strategy, armed propaganda and the boycott of state-approved institutions, would serve the ANC well over … latter would become the main…
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… We are currently in the continent of Africa. The country located furthest south is called South … A law promoting Apartheid has just been passed. A majority…
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
… Magistrates` Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street was one of the few buildings in which African tenants could hire … offices: it was owned by Indians. This…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1948
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1948 Report … by A.I. Meer to the Joint Passive…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… local house. An informer had tipped them off about a group of externally trained ANC cadres giving military training to … no reason to believe they were…
PlaceDoornfontein, Johannesburg
… Doornfontein is a Suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is located just to the East of the City Centre. The Area of Doornfontein, which means thorn…
PlacePeddie
… Peddie is a small town in the Amathole district of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Peddie is a historic little town which lies 50 km South-West…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… you believe the various literary or big screen adaptions of photojournalists over the years. The first famous … in the 1930’s. The latest film adaption of a…
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
… African Town in the former Ciskei, about 11km North-West of King William’s Town (on the road to Alice) and Fort Beaufort! Dimbaza is a symbol of the 'surplus…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… The end of World War I was followed by a global depression that … on strike. The reasons for the strike were a reduction of wages and the preference for…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… Behind the imposing grey granite walls of the National Mutual Building of Australasia, on Church Square, lie over 150 000 historical … in the Iziko Social…
PlaceNorthern Cape
… largest Province in South Africa, but has the least number of inhabitants. Before 1993 it was part of the Cape Province (under old Provinces ). "With only…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA TO THE RALLY AT KWA - MTHETHWA KwaMbonambi, 21 May 1995
… Nkosi Nyambose Bantu bakwaMthethwa Members of the Provincial Legislature Distinguished Guests Comrades and Friends I would like to thank the organisers of…
Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini by O. R. Tambo, Iran, 13 February 1979
… Maputo, People's Republic of Mozambique, February 13, 1979 His Excellency Ayatollah Khomeini, (2) Teheran Islamic Republic of Iran On behalf of the…
PlaceMauritania
… Mauritania, Country on the Atlantic coast of Africa. Culturally it forms a transitional zone between the Arab-Amazigh (Berber) populations of North Africa…
EventPretoria receives city status
… was established in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers who named it after his father Andries Pretorius. Andries Pretorius became a hero…
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 11 - … Alliance Despite the isolation and consequent defeat of the March-April 1960 Cape…
Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… cause bitter resentment among the workers, and nearly all of them are punitive in character. Before Union each of the four provinces in South Africa enacted…
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 26 April 2013, Queenstown
… Members of the Hani family, Premier Noxolo Kiviet and members of the provincial executive, Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Executive Mayor of Chris Hani…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… The ANC attempted to unravel this paradox in the course of a formal review of strategy. ANC operational strategy between the early 1960s and 1978 centred on…
New tactics in the revolt
… the partial stay-at-home which kept at least 60 per cent of the labour force away from work, the SSRC was forced on to … two days at the same place. On 11…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
… THE GREAT ILLUSION First of all 22 percent of the whites did not even bother to vote which is … 700,000 voters, i.e. about half the votes cast in favour of…
PlaceMapungubwe
… The ancient city of Mapungubwe (meaning 'hill of the jackal') is an Iron Age archaeological site in the … years ago, Mapungubwe appears to have been the…