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Former South African President P W De Klerk’s Manifesto for the New South Africa
… We, as South Africans from all walks of life, associating ourselves with the goodwill and the … desire for justice, peace and freedom among the majority of…
Key players in the various passive resistance campaigns
… in 20th Century South Africa; therefore the lists of key players are broken down into their appropriate …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Tributes to Lembede After His Death
… surprised when they read the news item headlined "Death of a Noted African Lawyer." They were surprised because they had not heard of a Bantu lawyer before…
The New Generation
… as regards the visual arts was undertaken at The State of Art in South Africa Conference held in 1979 at the University of Cape Town. ParÂticipation from…
PlaceThe Randjeslaagte Beacon, Parktown Johannesburg
… .This Beacon marks, the Northern Boundary of the Farm “Randjeslaagte" on which Johannesburg was laid … Boundary Road, Parktown, just off Louis Botha Avenue,…
PlaceMasjiengebou (Machine Building), Defense Headquarters, Pretoria
… Building, "Staatsartillerie" Stables and Western portion of the Main Building. all situated at Defence Headquarters, … and they were Erected in the 1890 by…
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was a very different one from that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had … not…
ArchiveFederation
… is hereby published for general information. By order of His Excellency the High Commissioner and Administrator of the Transvaal. WE Davidson, Acting…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at funeral in Maseru, 05 December 1982
… more than 10,000 people who attended the funeral service of members of the ANC massacred by raiders from the South African … living and the departed. We are…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education After 1994 politicians, historians, educators … and parents were included in the debate about…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 1
… Indian Community by C. H. Calpin An early photograph of " A.I."with C.F. Andrews The main road south from Durban … from the dust thrown up by the ox-drawn…
PlaceRondebosch
… In 1657 a group of four free burghers were granted land in an area south of Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope . Jan van Riebeeck , the Dutch commander at…
67. The Xuma-Naicker-Dadoo Pact, 1947
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … closer co-operation with Africans. In 1943, a conference of the…
Biko’s legacy lives on in our nation’s history and culture by Nkosinathi Biko, 12 September 2012, South Africa
… TODAY marks the 35th anniversary of the murder of black consciousness leader, Bantu Stephen Biko. Arrested a … on August 18 1977, he died three weeks…
Bibliographical Data
… In the preparation of the introductory essays in this volume, heavy reliance has … by them inside and outside South Africa. The documents, of which only a…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… by D.D.T Jabavu Introductory. The aboriginal black people of South Africa have not remained unaffected by the general world movement of awakening race…
Address by President Mandela at ECOWAS Abuja, 30 October 1998
… Your Excellency, the Chair of ECOWAS Heads of State Excellencies Distinguished delegates Ladies and Gentlemen It is indeed an honour for me as the Chair of…
Address by Executive Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, to Corporate Council on Africa’s “Attracting Capital to Africa” Summit, 19-22 April 1997; Chantilly Virgiana, USA
… it should be present during and participate in the act of creation. I believe that ours is privileged to occupy such … many in this room would not have…
PlaceUitenhage, officially renamed Kariega
… the Kariega River , approximately 35 kilometres north of Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth). In Uitenhage you can … form. The Old Drostdy Museum built in…
PlacePondoland
… or, more correctly Mpondoland, incorporated the divisions of Bizana, Libode, Ngqeleni, Port St John's, Tabankulu, and Umsikaba. In 1899 provisions of…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Introduction
… Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education Chris Hani The most talked-about turning point in South African history is the 1994…
PlaceGrahamstown, now known as Makhanda
… (2022 census), urban area, 97,815. Following the expulsion of the Xhosa chief, Ndlambe and some 20,000 of his followers from the Zuurveld , in 1811, the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 1 - The First Farmers by Jeff Guy
… and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education For a moment let's consider history as a journey through time and space. For much of this…
INDIAN SOUTH AFRICANS - A brief history
… that had been brought to the Cape in the second half of the seventeenth century, it was only after the 1860s that … Africa had a relatively large Indian…
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
… emphasis on the national unification and organisation of the non-European for the purpose of achieving full democratic rights. There are still some ……
PlaceGardens Shul in Cape Town
… Southern Hemisphere! Until the 17th Century the history of Jewry had been played out in the relatively confined geographical Area of the Middle East, North…
PlaceZululand District Municipality
… Known as: 'The Kingdom of the Zulu' . KwaZulu-Natal is a: "melting pot of African, European and Indian cultures" . Known as the Kingdom of the Zulu ! This…
78. The Natal Indian Congress calls for a national convention
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In his address as acting president of the Natal…
African farmers in Southern Africa
… The first farmers For a period of time that is almost impossible to imagine, all the inhabitants of Southern Africa were Stone Age hunter-gatherers. Then ……
PlaceKnysna, Garden Route- Western Province
… spellings since about the 1770's. It was ‘Nysna’ in one of the earliest letters from James Callander (who built a … home for himself at The Heads, and who…