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PlaceKronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay.
… The estate of Kronendal was part of land granted to Willem Basson in 1713, although it was only developed as a farm towards the end of the century. Its…
Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules
… ruled that in 1971 the SACP’s Timol was pushed by members of the Security Branch out of a window in John Vorster’s 10th floor or off its roof, … leading to…
PlaceEthiopia
… formerly Abyssinia, is a landlocked country in the East of Africa. It shares one of its borders with Somalia , to the East. Sudan to the West, … Ethiopia is…
ArchiveThe Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé
… in the fight against apartheid, now a thorn in the side of the fat-cat politicians. (This article first appeared in … chairs, cooing sympathetically about…
Cosatu special congress, Day One: The façade finally falls by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 14 July 2015, South Africa
… Falls For the longest time, the national office bearers of Cosatu insisted that they have a firm grip on the federation. After the expulsion of metalworkers…
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… in 1964 by Mr. Stanley Trapido, Lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford. S. Trapido : Mr. Champion, … : We established, branches in every…
Document 4 - ‘Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering’: report in the ‘South African Worker’
… Prime Minister, YOUR people more than any other section of the white community must surely know in the very core of their beings, if they were unaware of the…
PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
… a beautiful, geometrical domed building, was the epitome of high society in Cape Town at the turn of the century when it was built as part of a hotel and…
PlaceWrensch House, 77 Lower Wrench Road, Observatory
… The main building, as well as some of its outbuildings, date from the last quarter of the 18th century, but subsequent additions have given it an overlay of…
EventCurnick Ndlovu, Trade Unionist, is arrested.
… Curnick Ndlovu was the secretary of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a leader…
I - Introduction
… has an independent inquiry been held; nor has any member of the security police or anyone else been held responsible … cannot be penetrated by friends or…
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… Petrus Mashishi, President of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) from its founding in 1987 until 2009, was both a man of his times and a giant…
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… became a mounted policeman at Thaba Nchu, on the border of Basutoland. When I was three years old, the family went to … movements and some fighting in the…
So truth be in the field
… A study of the history of South Africa, from an anthropologists point. With emphasis on the moral elements of social action including the injustice of racial…
ArchiveSo truth be in the field
… A study of the history of South Africa, from an anthropologists point. With emphasis on the moral elements of social action including the injustice of racial…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 5 August 1991
… to go back to one or two things that I was a bit unsure of and this was, first on the question of whether or not the government has a double agenda. Do you ……
EventPortuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias erects the first stone cross on the South African coast
… first padrÁƒo, or stone cross, at Kwaaihoek near the mouth of the Bushman's River on the Eastern Cape coast. It is South … African soil was Bartholomew (or…
EventA Dutch ship, the Rosenberg, carrying Huguenots, leaves for the Cape from the Netherlands
… religious persecution brought about by the ascendancy of Catholicism in France. The Edict of Nantes, passed in 1685, inspired a great deal of resentment…
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… Here he announced his plan to launch the Constellation of Southern African States (CONSAS) as a programme to re-establish the regional dominance of the…
PlaceGreen Point Common
… Common was vested land, which was granted to the City of Cape Town in 1923 for public recreation and sport fields. … Your stadium is home to Green Point…
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
… Following the adoption of a Programme of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC began the … the Defiance Campaign, the most dramatic non-violent act of…
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. It was formed in 1944 by members of the ANC who believed in…
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… security police colonel, who was involved in the murder of several political activists in the Eastern Cape, died in … 1982, two student activists who…
PlaceMaynardville Open Air Theatre
… Open Air Theatre is a popular and central part of Cape Town’s art scene – chiefly known for its Shakespeare … for children. The park is also home to a…
Obituary: Dr Hastings Banda by Richard Dowden (Independent), 27 November 1997
… practitioner and politician: born 14 May 1898; Minister of Natural Resources and Local Government, Nyasaland 1961-63; Prime Minister of Malawi 1963-66,…
A common purpose: the Commonwealth’s support for the AAM
… for the opportunity to be here and give a short synopsis of the Commonwealth's relations with the Anti-Apartheid … said to have found not only a role, but…
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… After the escape of Tim, Stephen and Alex we who remained behind bore the … That’s two or three hangings every week. There were some of our brave comrades on…
Document 16 - Letter from Clements Kadalie to E. R. Roux, 10 October 1928
… 10 October 1928 INDUSTRIAL and COMMERCIAL Workers Union of Africa (I.C.U.) NATIONAL COUNCIL … 53, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Dear Roux Dr. Norman Leys,…
Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… I REFER YOU TO MY LETTER of 20 April 1961, to which you do not have the courtesy to … receipt. In the letter referred to above I informed you of the…