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Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… of human displacement in this country.” South Africa is about to lose materials of inestimable value, in the form of … somehing has been vandalised, which…
PlaceEersteling Monument, Polokwane
… certain of the richness of his discovery. So, having heard about a small group of prospectors led by seasoned gold hunter Edward Button, who were fossicking…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the first Triennial Conference of the Methodist church of South Africa Durban, 17 July 1998
… lead our people to new life. True reconciliation will come about when those who were divided confront their past, join … delivery of a better life. This…
Challenge to the church: A Theological Comment on the Political Crisis in South Africa | The Kairos Document, 1985
… of the gun, a number of theologians who were concerned about the situation expressed the need to reflect on this … of July in the heart of Soweto …
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… for black people inthis country to begin thinking about themselves in a new way, to question certain values … from this reflection. But why should they need…
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… Needle by Richard Turner What is it that fascinates us so about South Africa? One thing, we would suggest, is that when … human family? The Eye of the Needle…
Article by Oliver Tambo - In the observer, 10 November 1985, London
… will continue to act in their various ways to help bring about genuine change in South Africa. The real problem that … is bad for our country. Grave…
ArchivePreface by Denis Goldberg
… and 24 years thereafter I felt it was time to write about my life in South Africa in struggle, in prison, in … stop me talking. I felt that it is ‘big headed…
Botha's British Allies by O. R. Tambo(Observer), London, 10 November 1985
… will continue to act in their various ways to help bring about genuine change in South Africa. The real problem that … is bad for our country. Grave…
Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] “The T.A.R.C.”, Majority Rule : Some Notes. Chapter XIX
… to what the struggle against train apartheid was all about, what its difficulties were from the very beginning and … for which TARC exists. This is what…
PlaceNatures Valley, Garden Route
… occupation, San hunter-gatherers lived in this Area from about 10,000 years ago until they were displaced by Khoikhoi herders from the interior about 400…
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… humour for the death-cells. It was an awful place, with about 150 hangings a year. That’s two or three hangings every … They were men who faced death with…
ArchiveWestern Cape Region - Regional Conference: Problems and challenges of the Western Cape
… history of the ANC in the Western Cape Region. Talks about entering a new period in which the primary challenge is …
PlaceConradie Care Centre, Pinelands
… a very old, single story Hospital divided into probably about 40 Buildings. The place has been trashed by vagrants, … a very old, single story Hospital…
ArchiveBackground to the 20th anniversary of Republic Day, 31st May 1981
… issued by the Commission for Justice and Reconciliation about the background to the 20th anniversary of the Republic …
PlaceRheingold Building, Market Street, Polokwane
… The building was erected in about 1910 by H Moschke to house a number of commercial …
EventWole Soyinka is born
… of the Swedish Academy Click here to read our feature about Nobel Prize …
EventJoseph Lekganyane of the ZCC (Dove) dies
… led to a split in the ZCC. Click here to read more about the growth of Zionism. …
EventBritish troopship wrecked – 372 drown
… on the rocks at what is now called Arniston in Marcus Bay, about twenty-five kilometres from Cape Agulhas. Of the 378 …
EventPiet Retief is baptized in Drakenstein, Western Cape
… manifesto to the Grahamstown Journal bitterly complaining about the abolishing of slavery and the free movement of …
PlaceRiebeek Kasteel
… The village of Riebeek Kasteel was established in about 1861, and was located at the foot of the Mountain of … The village of Riebeek Kasteel was established…
ArchiveNUSAS and the future - critical appraisal of structure and direction
… of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1977. Paper refers to concerns about the situation of the National Union on university …
Dare you Ponder the Obvious: Of course Mbeki is Aloof by Thabo Mbeki, 1 February 2016
… the Conference there had been much public/media discussion about the possible outcome and meaning of this election, … wrote; “Remember when people said all…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
… 1973 to 12 years` imprisonment. His wife was in prison for about 4 months and then freed on the grounds that she was … of the continuation of our struggle if…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
… 1973 to 12 years` imprisonment. His wife was in prison for about 4 months and then freed on the grounds that she was … of the continuation of our struggle if…
PlaceFranschhoek Motor Museum
… to preserve the ageing machinery. Every Hall has about 20 vehicles, separated with divisions that allow for … There is a very informative pedestal with…
ArchiveReturning to the scene of the crime by Inside Time (Inside Time), 31 May 2017
… David and the prisons on the project. “All of our work is about telling the story,” she says. “We are honoured to have … build bridges.” The governor of HMP…
EventEarthquake shakes up Tulbagh
… At about 10:04pm on 29 September 1969, the Boland farming towns … of before then. Because of a general lack of knowledge about earthquakes at the time,…
PlaceGeneral Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
… of Pretoria, is a unique museum that reveals much about the life and the spirit of this great statesman. … avenues of plane trees, poplars and old oaks;…
PlaceBethelsdorp, Algoa Bay -Eastern Cape
… of the colonial authorities. Established for a group of about 600 indigenous Khoikhoi people by Johannes Theodorus … It was described by travelers as a…