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Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the football banquet Pretoria, 1 March 1996
… Master of Ceremonies; Guests of Honour; Ladies and gentlemen. South Africa had dared to expect much of the African Cup of Nations. We felt we would acquit …
ANC Gauteng Centenary Month to celebrate Oliver Tambo, 18 October 2012
… November 2012. The ANC will celebrate the life and legacy of the ANC President O. R Tambo. As we celebrate President O.R Tambos contribution to the struggle…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… On January 18, the world lost an icon. Only much of the world did not know it. South African-Jamaican writer … overlooked and often forgotten, especially in…
The Struggle against our Weaknesses by A. B. Xuma, 1956
… A.B Xuma,the 6th President General of the ANC(1940 - 49) 44th National Conference: Letter on … President-General and Delegates to the Annual Conference of…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… Adv Jeremy Gauntlett on the life and work of the late former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson's last … nothing if it is not underpinned by the moral…
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… The farming community of Kirkwood, in the heart of the Sundays River Valley, close to the town of Addo and the Northern regions of the Addo Elephant Park, …
PlaceSt Stephen’s Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town
… In 1799, during the first British occupation of the Cape, the Governor, Sir George Yonge, appropriated a portion of Riebeeck Square to build a theatre upon…
Address at the Paris City Hall, 18 November 2003
… Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to meet with the Mayor of the great city of Paris, a city whose rich history, cultural splendour and architectural beauty…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Glossary
… Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education augur well - to be a sign that something good is … land owner in return for the right to…
PlaceSun City, Rustenburg
… as Hotels and self-catering Chalets. Home to the Valley of Waves and sprawled along the border of the Pilanesberg National Park. Sun City Resort enjoys the…
VIII - The Pathologists
… Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa The cause of death revealed in the medical evidence was not disputed. … at least three brain lesions occasioned…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… Callinicos THE CHANGE TO WAGE LABOUR has described some of the different ways in which people lost the use of the land and entered wage labour. This happened…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 2) by Thabo Mbeki, 28 March, 2016
… once GEAR was adopted it abandoned the pursuit of the RDP objectives. The 1996 GEAR document as approved by … Reconstruction and Development Programme. In…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… asserted the the Great Trek was motivated over the issue of the abolition of slavery but the fact of the matter is that historians have noted that most of…
PlaceRailway Station, Muizenberg
… and was officially opened on 7 June 1913 by the Minister of Railways & Harbours, Mr Henry Burton. It was declared a … entrances and beautiful teak clock…
PlacePinetown and its Museum
… commercial town named after Sir Benjamin Pine , Governor of Natal (1873-75). At the heart of the town and just off the main road lies the Pinetown … the…
Introduction
… The energies of South African Indians, mobilised in the 1890s against growing anti-Indianism in various parts of South Africa, were channelled into a…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… Fischer was deeply concerned, and which are also concerns of the Legal Resources Centre. But as this is the first Bram … by the Major from hugging him…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… Front was not the ANC's, whatever the prescience of the 1978-1979 strategic review, the ANC wasted no time in bringing the front under its suzerainty. The…
Slavery in South Africa
… known in India that there was a considerable importation of slaves from Asia to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company and its employees. Some of the…
PlacePaarl
… (prior to 1910) The division of Paarl was originally part of the district of Stellenbosch, and was proclaimed a separate division in …
Political Report by Limpopo ANC Chairperson Cde Cassel Mathale during the Limpopo ANC Provincial General Council, 10 June 2012
… Secretary Provincial Treasurer PEC members The leadership of the Alliance partners The Veterans League The ANC Youth League and the Women`s League All…
Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Although the union had previously denounced the treachery of Neville Chamberlain, once war was declared it supported the war effort, and hundreds of members,…
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… Review of The Reb and the Rebel Jewish Narratives in South Africa … Schrire. Published by UCT Press and the Kaplan Centre of Jewish Studies and Research,…
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… completing his matric, Woods enrolled at the University of Cape Town in 1952 to study law but switched to journalism. Woods initially supported the idea of…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… in 1979 that it had to take one step back in the conduct of armed operations if it was eventually to be able to mount … political base with two basic…
ArchiveSouth Africa wants to make history compulsory at school. But can it? by Linda Chisholm (the Conversation.com), 1 June 2018
… South Africa’s minister of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has released a … a ministerial task team that recommends a major overhaul of the history…
PlaceBurundi
… approximate territory has a continuity with the Kingdom of Burundi which was founded at the end of the 17th Century [i] . Between the 1890's and 1962 Burundi…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… June 1971 had brought me freedom from all the frustrations of house arrest and the other onerous mutilations of my liberty. It had done more than that. It…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… One of South Africa’s oldest Towns and Naval base is Simon's Town … was placed in her final resting place in an Annexure of the Naval Museum in Simon’s Town…