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ArticleExample of a local history: Pretoria
The places we come from are a part of our heritage. Where we grew up and where we live are important because we learn from the people who live there with us,…
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
Poet, scholar, botanist, auxiliary soldier, journalist, politician, talented sportsman and grandson of a famous Herero leader, Robert Grendon is one of the…
Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki: University of Witwatersrand, 29 July 2006.
Esteemed Member of the Order of Mapungubwe, Nobel Peace Laureate, Isithwalandwe, Seaparankwe, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Dr Graca Machel, Deputy President…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
The origins of Enoch Sontonga and the song he wrote, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika are humble and rather obscure. Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
From the book: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du PlessisThis project has been beset throughout by many difficulties,…
Address at the Opening Session of The South Africa-Algeria Bi-National Commission, Algiers, 22 September 2000.
Your Excellency, President Bouteflika, Your Excellencies Ministers, Honourable Members of Parliament, Your Worships the Mayors here present, Business…
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
King Kong: An African Jazz, was the first all-Black South African musical which opened in 2 February 1959. The musical chronicles the rise and fall of…
Islam
Islam What do Muslims believe? This is the Arabic script for Allah.Source: www.webislam.com Muslims believe in a Supreme God that is called Allah in Arabic…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1947-Press Reports on the Campaign
… on white supremacy. But the Ghetto Act remains the statute books of South Africa. Final victory has yet to be won. There …
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… of the people, so the laws that besmirch our Statute Books are a true expression of the moral standards of South …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
… every point industrial training is hampered. A supply of books and equipment sufficient for reasonable cannot be …
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… the police station where Solly was held, to take food and books to him. He was brought out from the cells to us without …
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… the help of a demobilisation bursary to cover my fees and books, and managed to fit in the lecture times without …
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… our own version, oddly unlike the orthodox school history books. Everything had to be some sort of game or informal …
44th National Conference: Report of the National Executive Committee, 18 December 1955
… the Minister intends forcing our women to carry Reference Books from January, 1956. The African National Congress has … some detail had not been entered in…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.1 March 1979
Content and Contributors Soweto Speaking,Nhlanhla Paul Maake's Conversation Piece, Joe Masinga's, Bogus Cripple, Modase Mogotse, (Rustenburg)fNoorie…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1947
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1947 Statement to the Press by Mahatma Gandhi, 28…
Passive Resistance, 1946 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1948
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1948 SAIC in Court The refusal of the President and…
PlacePhillipton
(prior to 1910) Philipton was established in 1829 as a station of the London Missionary Society, and was named in honour of Dr John Philip, who was…
PlaceShangana Cultural Village
The Shagana Village is home to the Shangana people who speak isiTsonga, one of the official 11 languages in South Africa. The Village, which was built by…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
< Menu page < 3. Formation of the NIA | 5. Convulsions in Natal > CHAPTER IV The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 4. War…
Postscript
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph ... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter One - By Riashnee Pather
From the book: The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - by Riashnee Pather Chapter One Before embarking on an…
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
“Naturam expellas furca tamen usque recurret.” These words of the Latin poet Horace seem to be turning up everywhere lately. Rendered loosely in modern…
ArchiveChapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg
After the State of Emergency in 1960, when so many of us were locked up for four or five months in detention, there was a widespread feeling that we were…
This doccie about a SA photographer is worth the watch by Garreth Van Niekerk (channel24), 28 May 2017
Johannesburg - For the better half of the past century, celebrated South African lensman David Goldblatt has turned his camera away from himself, focusing…
ArchiveBirth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe
In the mid-80s a strange pop phenomenon swept through the shebeens and music festivals of South Africa. Based on the artist's name and song title, everybody…
PlaceBo-Kaap, Cape Town
The stone shown in PHOTO is off the Well, uncovered at the Bo-Kaap Market site upgrade.(LINK PROVIDED IN FURTHER READING)Cape Town is a city built on layers of…
Apartheid power in crisis
… racially discriminatory laws are still on the statute books and which administrative structures still exist to … by the knowledge that the Act is still on…
Introduction
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Indian traders arrived in the wake of indentured…