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PlaceWindermere
… Cape Town near the Ysterplaat airbase. The Group Areas Act of 1950 declared that the space be occupied by Coloured residents and all other residents, the…
PlaceBenin
… after colonialism was characterized by an early period of multiparty competition that proved unstable, and multiple … the traditional north/south…
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… 5 September 1928 British Association/or the Advancement of Science … UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW … from the continent. When I left Moscow the question of the new…
PlacePolokwane Game Reserve
… Bordering the City of Polokwane in Limpopo, the Polokwane Game Reserve is possibly one of the finest on which to cut your teeth if you’re new to the pursuit…
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… With the inception of apartheid in 1948, numerous repressive laws limited the freedom and movement of black South Africans. External resistance to the policy…
PlaceAlexandra, Township in Johannesburg
… kilometeres from North-East Johannesburg . The development of Alexandra Township dates back to 1912. Sometimes thought to be named in honour of Queen…
ArchiveAppendix 3 The Freedom Charter
… We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to … can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people;…
PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
… Three years after his arrival at the Cape, Superintendent of the London Missionary Society, Dr John Philip, paid a … For this purpose he purchased 1 427…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… Master of Ceremonies; Premier of the Western Cape; Minister of Arts &Culture, Science &Technology; Chief of the SANDF; …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… Master of Ceremonies; Premier of the Western Cape; Minister of Arts &Culture, Science &Technology; Chief of the SANDF; …
Chapter 24. Sack All Non-Europeans
… the following demands for a new agreement: 1. An increase of five per cent in the basic wage of all workers and, in addition, five per cent on the cost of…
PlaceNyanga Township
… Nyanga, a sprawling, poverty-stricken illustration of Cape Town’s urban sprawl, Nyanga is one of the oldest Black townships in Cape Town. It was … is located…
PlaceAnnis River, near Kuboes in the Northern Cape
… between Ploegberg and the Oemsberg about 14 km South-East of Kuboes. The name is said to mean, 'the one which is well … used by travellers in former times…
PlaceWoutersen Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point.
… nobody can cross! It was erected in 1827 by the widow of Peter Woutersen. His granddaughter married, Jacobus … Wessels, whose son, Sir John Wessels, became…
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
… Haile Selassie was born Lij Tafari Makonnen, in the village of Ejersa Gor, in the Harar Province of Ethiopia. Heir to a 13th century dynasty, he ascended to…
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
… experiences that had never been accessible to the people of Durban. KwaMuhle is in no sense an apartheid museum. Nor … and confrontations that made up the…
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
… A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the MSc in Urban Planning (Housing in Development), … the University College, London (Development Unit)…
Imijondolo
… a shack or informal housing), is Omar Badsha's second book of photographs. Badsha's groundbreaking book documents how … despite being located just thirty…
Fatima Meer: Portfolio
… Multi-party Planning Conference: BEING FULLY CONSCIOUS of the responsibility we individually and collectively bear for the well-being of our country; BEING…
EventThe AA is formed to coordinate motoring clubs
… The Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) was formed at a meeting in Port … motoring organisation to protect and promote the interests of motorists in…
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
… After the completion of World War One's Treaty of Versailles, German South West Africa was declared a mandate of the new international peace-keeping body,…
PlaceEbenezer, Limpopo
… Ebenezer was established in 1831 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society . The 1875 census indicated that the Village had a population of 291. It was…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to Conference on Unemployment, Low Wages and Poverty, 21 October 1961, Durban
… and vital conference called to consider the means and ways of meeting the acute situation of the growing number of unemployed workers, especially non-whites,…
PlaceMali
… Mali, landlocked country of western Africa, mostly in the Saharan and Sahelian … and on the west by Senegal and Mauritania. The countryside of Mali is…
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… for diving with Great White Sharks and “game-viewing” of the Marine Big 5 from land, sea and air, the greater Gansbaai area offers a smorgasbord of adrenalin…
EventFinal legal note on the SS Mendi
… A brief report appeared on the 13th of November in the Times, which was the last of the legal conclusions around the sinking of the SS Mendi troopship, from…
EventCarte Blanche is denied permission to quote Oliver Tambo
… On 30 January 1987 the Minister of Law and Order issued a message to the newspapers denying … television programme permission to quote exiled president of…
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… Carter Ebrahim, Minister of Education and Culture for the mixed race community, announced that 454 out of a total of over 900 schools were going to be closed…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… Her life experiences, the context and inspiration of her writing, her works, and her resistance as a … as having come “almost fully made.” [1] The embodiment…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 By December 1982, the government of Lesotho…