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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…
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 …
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,…
PlaceSeychelles
… can trace its first Settlement back to 1770. It is made up of 115 small Islands. They were first settled on by the French, leading a small party of Whites,…
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…
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,…
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…
Address at a Banquet at the Guildhall London, 13 June 2001
… important function and to spend some time in the company of so distinguished a gathering. Your city undoubtedly is - and I believe will remain - at the…
74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … There were some 2 844 delegates present at the Congress of the…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… among African American activists. He was a key founder of the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights … United States, and from 1910 to 1934 served it as…
PlaceParow
… Parow was a Residential Suburb of Cape Town located some 16km from the City Centre . It was … Ferdinand Parow was born on 1 March 1833 in a Province of…
Document 114 - (National Liberation League?), How To Work Among Urban Africans
… is confined to work among Africans in urban areas because of the following:- a) Being in touch with modem forms of organisation and having imbibed new ideas…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… As adopted by the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress - 25 November 1992. The strategic perspective of the ANC is the transfer of…
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… The roots of White women's suffrage in South Africa began with the founding of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1899. The goal of this…
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… History of Cato Manor Cato Manor was established in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ) and is situated 5km west of the Durban city centre. The Township was known…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… The origins of Enoch Sontonga and the song he wrote, Nkosi Sikelel' … and rather obscure. Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa nation, was born…
Document 26 - Nelson Mandela’s reply to F. W. De Klerk
… to the political, social and economic transformation of our country. The workshop took place against the background of continued job losses, very little…
Statement at Press Conference in Dar es Salaam Concerning Sentences in the Rivinia Trial by O. R. Tambo, 12 June 1964
… trial which since last year, has been the focal point of world attention. The judge in the trial has done his … been put away by the evildoers. The…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… changes that industrialisation brought for the majority of people in South Africa. From being farmers with varying degrees of independence, most people…
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… as a factor in the South African situation we are accused of a departure from Marxism. We are told that it is necessary to point always to the economic basis…
Cable to the United Nations, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, November 25, 1948
… on sixteen November that Mr. Rathebe told meeting of Johannesburg Joint Council Europeans and Africans that … This was apropos Polish delegate's anticipation…
PlaceFraserburg
… The division of Fraserburg was originally part of the district of Worcester and was proclaimed a separate division on 12 …
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… On the 300 anniversary of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in Table Bay, the African National … its campaign to mount a mass action against the passing of…
Extracts from a press conference, 11 February 1990
… Last night you committed yourself to the intensification of the struggle. Would you care to comment? (A) There is no … those statements. I have committed…