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ArchiveDavid Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Helen Stoilas, 30 May 2017
… photographer David Goldblatt has installed photographs of former criminals in prisons in Birmingham and Manchester. The portraits, part of a series called Ex…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… urban settlement or 'Township' in South Africa, South West of Johannesburg , with a population of approximately 1.3 Million (2008, Joburg archive). Soweto ……
PlaceNelson Mandela Bridge, Johannesburg
… 295 metre span that is lit up in all the colours of the rainbow at night. (It's one of the really striking attractions of Johannesburg!) The Bridge, which…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… and Pass Laws, and Africans in countryside towns, weary of tightened restrictions and growing unemployment, began … their grievances, the Communist Party…
PlaceSteve Biko Bridge, East London
… Bridge across the Second Creek, East London, West of Buffalo Harbour. Named in honour of Balthazar John Vorster, 1915-1983. Former Prime Minister of the…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems by Jan H. Hofmeyr
… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems
… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at…
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… a scientist, physician and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town. Fleming was born on 27 March 1905 in Port … in the Cape…
PlaceKliptown Museum
… The story the Kliptown Open Air Museum tells of the thousands of people who contributed to the drafting of the Freedom Charter through photographs, news…
EventJoe Slovo is born
… and African National Congress (ANC) leader and Minister of Housing was born in Lithuania. From 1950s Slovo became a victim of the government repressive…
EventNational Party wins general election
… The National Party under Dr H.F. Verwoerd claimed majority of votes in a parliamentary general election, Verwoerd's last … before his assassination in office…
EventUN passes resolutions on South Africa
… The UN General Assembly re-affirmed the legitimacy of the region's struggle against apartheid and the legitimacy of armed resistance. The UN General Assembly…
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… meeting, which was held to inform those residents of Peelton unable to attend a previous meeting, of the incorporation of the whole of Peelton into the…
ANC NEC meets (30th November, - 2 December 2001), 29 November 2001
… from Friday, the 30th November until Sunday, the 2nd of December, 2001. The meeting will be opened by a political … which is expected to address amongst…
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… Front (UDF) was formed in August 1983, and was one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements, comprising of over 400 workers', church, civic and student…
PlaceGrey Street Complex
… is the teaming business and residential Indian sector of the Durban City Centre , and is also the educational, cultural and business heart of; the Natal…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to ANC National General Council fundraising dinner at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 19 September 2010, Durban
… Kgalema Motlanthe, ANC Officials and NEC members, Captains of business and industry, Special guests, Good evening, we … us. Tomorrow we start the third…
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
… for Girls was started by Lord Milner in 1902 as part of his efforts to anglicise the Transvaal under British Occupation. And so it was that a group of 106…
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
… Cape Town in 1804 he correctly noted the significance of the naming pattern for Cape Slave owners: It may here be … most honourable to those deities at whose…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai On 28 January 1908, Gandhi and two of his…
PlaceFranschhoek, Western Cape
… Originally known as the Valley of the Huguenots , a Community of French Huguenots were granted land in this Valley by the Dutch Government of the Cape ,…
PlaceOlivedale , Randburg
… had a House erected upon it. During WWII Italian prisoners of war were used to build Improvements on the estate. One of which, a windmill, was built in…
PlaceRosemount
… time as East London, and was located immediately south of the town. By the early 1900s it had been overtaken by … residential development, and in about 1909…
PlaceNqamakwe
… In 1865 a number of Mfengu clans were resettled in the area around Nqamakwe. … and, at a relatively early stage, came under the guidance of European…
Extract from a speech by the Honourable the Prime Minister during the Cape National Party Congress at East London on 3 September 1975
… On this occasion the Prime Minister dealt with the policy of separate development in a particularly effective way. Adv. Vorster also referred to a few of the…
How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg
… As head of intelligence for the outlawed African National Congress … from inside and outside the ANC to resign over millions of rand of improper state…
XI - The Verdict
… which he stated that no one could be blamed for the death of Biko: Van Lieres: The real inquiry at this inquest centres … the evidence points to an act or…
Call to A. N. C. Ranks by Albert Luthuli, 1 November 1954
… have not in any way dampened the spirit and enthusiasm of the rank and file, but on the contrary, have fired each … time by willingly and happily carrying an…
PlaceSabie Sands Game Reserve
… the' World-Renowned': Kruger National Park. Today, many of the families who reside here are now third and fourth … Their legacy being mainly; the successful…
PlaceDarlington Dam- Lake Mentz
… P.W.F. Weyers, a former 'Hawker' (an informal seller of goods). He had lost Cattle in an attack by the Boers … and later still, they all disappeared under…