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PlaceKamastone and Bulhoek
… The Cape government established the settlement of Kamastone in the Queenstown area, in 1854. In 1874 the … that people who were living there had to be given…
Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay, 12 August 1908
… James Ramsay Macdonald Esq., M.P. House of Parliament, London. Dear Sir, We were surprised & … that nothing seems to have been done in the matter of our…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… Newspaper proprietors and editors of all the main South African newspapers, both English and … operate under state authority and administer a strict code of…
EventThe British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announces that a mysterious epidemic (AIDS) is causing increasing concern in the United States
… AIDS has dramatically improved the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, however, in the 1980s, relatively little was … men in the United States. The…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had … However, it was only in the 1980s that the implementation of sanctions…
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… On 18 April 2005, Zimbabwe celebrated twenty-five years of independence after the overthrow of white majority rule, under the then Prime Minister Ian … and…
PlaceDu Toit's Kloof Pass and the Huguenot Tunnel
… beautiful, high-altitude viaduct bridge (the first of its kind to be built in South Africa ) The bridge is … . The 4km-long tunnel drastically reduced the…
PlaceMuizenberg and Marina da Gama
… The Village of Muizenberg was established by the Dutch in 1743 as a … was named after Wynand Willem Muijs , Sergeant in charge of the post in 1844, and later…
Nelson Mandela The World Celebrates the Mandela’s
… banning order expired in September 1975 and thirteen years of silence was broken. She was in a sense pulled back from … reception fell into disarray, the…
Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014
… Harvard’s museum landscape: the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, which will host rotating exhibitions of American, European, and…
The Hawks letter to Pravin Gordhan by Berning Ntlemeza (Politics Web), 28 February 2016
… Text of the letter from Lt General Berning Ntlemeza, National Head of Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, to Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan, 19…
Message sent to Canon Collins by ALbert Luthuli, 1 March 1956
… Canon Collins. I have just been making a tape-recording of a message that I am sending to your Group. I was told by a … I have quite a little audience here…
PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
… predominantly neo-Gothic manner. It forms an integral part of the Porter Reformatory, established there in 1880. It was … 1985. Although fortifications were…
Azikhwelwa on Monday. Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council calling for a stay-away from 13 September 1976
… calling for a stay-away from September 13, 1976 The people of South Africa are going into the third phase of their struggle against the oppressors, namely:…
Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo's Statement In Court In Trial For Passive Resistance, June 1946
… (Dr. Dadoo was sentenced in June 1946, at the beginning of the passive resistance campaign, to three months` … Court as a passive resister in response to the…
EventSmallpox Epidemic Strikes at the Cape
… havoc amongst the indigenous and colonist population of the Cape Peninsula and adjacent interior. Hardest hit are … suffer huge losses to their numbers. The…
David Goldblatt: “Particulars” (1975) by The ASX Team, 16 May 2013
… been fed by life experiences and heightened by the kind of hyper-awareness that photography sometimes enables and demands…” “My first awareness of a bodily…
PlaceOld Fort, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg
… Following the invasion of the ZAR in January 1896 by a troop of cavalry led by Dr Leander Jameson, the Executive Committee of the Republic, resolved on 12…
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… formed in protest to the Tricameral Parliament. It was one of the most significant anti-apartheid movements, and comprised of 400 church, civic and student…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet Division
… The district of Graaff-Reinet was constituted on 26 August 1785 and its … the 1880's they bore no relationship to the original lines of delimitation. When…
ArchiveThe apartheid city and its labouring class: African workers and the independent trade union movement in Durban, 1959-1985
… in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject history at the University of South Africa. This…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 10: So
… Report of the Political Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society. … political position in South Africa; Political aspects of…
ArchiveSelf rule in the Transkei: a monstrous fraud
… about; to which this document ensures continued domination of the Transkei by the Republic of South Africa. The Unity Movement and the freedom fighters' ……
My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016
… his denialist position, which hampered the roll-out of anti-retrovirals (ARVs) to ordinary South Africans and, is said to have unnecessarily claimed the…
ArchivePhotography pundit David Goldblatt takes ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Matsepo, 2 June 2017
… David Goldblatt (87) has installed photographs of former criminals in prisons in Birmingham and Manchester. The portraits, part of a series called Ex…
PlaceSenegal
… Cape Verde (Cap Vert) Peninsula is the western most point of the African continent. The Gambia consists of a narrow strip of territory that extends from the…
EventEmily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps
… addressed public meetings in Britain about the conditions of the Concentration camps during the South African War. … in the camps and at the same time to…
PlaceCentral African Republic
… various groups speaking languages related to those of the present day were living in the area. These peoples … and Bandi, all founded in the 19th Century…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
… The last year had brought home to me, more than any of the previous years, that I was restricted. Until that year the trial had gathered us all together in a…
PlaceChapman's Peak Drive, Hout Bay to Fish Hoek
… Peak is named after John Chapman , the Captain’s mate of an English ship, the 'Consent'. The Peak which can be seen … mountaineer, but a lowly ship's pilot…