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PlaceTugela River and Waterfalls, in the Drakensberg
Tugela River is the largest River in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. It rises as a stream on the 3,050-metre high, Mont-aux-Sources Plateau near the…
PlaceLaingsburg, Karoo
A small, modern Karoo Village, Laingsburg lies at the confluence of two rivers, but is one of the driest parts of the Country. Laingsburg is 280 km from Cape…
ArticleThe African Union (AU)
… who must make the decision to comply with international laws and regulations. A number of AU member states have as …
ArticleNdebele
… identity is centred. Alongside the care of ageing in-laws, and the socialisation of and inculcation of values in …
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… to the Crown in 1887. The promulgation of a Code of Laws placed Zululand under a similar 'Native Policy' to that …
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… Africans who qualified under Section 10 (1) of the Native Laws Amendment Act of 1952 would be permitted to legally …
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… not “offend him by disregarding his wishes and obeying the laws of men”. Another meeting between the Israelites and the …
Document 37 - The Bill of Rights
… insecure as a result of past racially discriminatory laws or practices is entitled, to the extent provided by an … 19 June 1913 as a result of past racially…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
… sunshine. We had found them waiting for the years to pass, the years, not the months, nor the weeks, nor the days. Or were they waiting for their lives to…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… and to become eventually permanently urbanised, while the pass system was used to exclude Africans. The urban … South African workers a vital principle". One…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… fiancé outside of the country, somewhere where apartheid laws did not make it illegal for them to be together. She was …
ArchiveAn Analysis of the Imprisonment and Detainment Treatment of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Monica McCausland
… protest in Johannesburg against the apartheid government’s pass laws. [2] In all, around 1,000 women were arrested alongside … Dorothy Nyembe and Amina Desai…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association 24 April 1995
… we can make is that the time for real change had come to pass. South Africa was ripe for democratic revolution. I have …
Memorandum of the National Committee for Liberation. London, mid-1963
… this situation might be, while it may be possible to pass men through this gap back into Bechuanaland for …
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
… in December 1943 and encourage them to support an anti-pass campaign launched by the CPSA. When Gumede died in 1946 …
The diary of Maria Tholo - Epilogue by Carol Hermer
… commissions recommended major changes in the labour and pass law legislation affecting blacks, but when their reports …
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… Cato Manor worsened. Along with police raids to contain pass and liquor law infringements, the situation came to a …
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
The great South African writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Security Police in Maputo, Mozambique on…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
… Of a deep capital base, extensive infrastructure, sound laws and robust institutions. Of a rich, diverse, young and … in the National Register for Sex…
PlaceThesen Island
It was to this island that much of the timber harvested from the Knysna Forest came and it was shipped off again to Cape Town and points East to feed the Cape…
PlaceTownship Tours of Cape Town
… similar fatalities in Langa. This was part of the anti-pass campaign . 50 years later a monument was commissioned in …
PlaceUlundi, Kwa-Zulu Natal, (also known as Mahlabathini)
Ulundi is also known as Mahlabathini. Ulundi Local Municipality is part of Zululand District Municipality. At one time Ulundi was the Capital of Zulu Kingdom,…
PlaceUmhlanga, Durban
The history of Umhlanga Rocks is really interesting. Umhlanga Rocks was initially home to San hunter-gatherers and was later occupied by Nguni-speaking people…
PlacePort Edward, South Coast
Umtamvuna River Bridge / CH Mitchell Bridge (comment from FACEBOOK)"Driving down the South Coast of Kwazulu-Natal the last town before the Eastern Cape is Port…
PlaceBokoni, Mpumalanga
If you drive through Mpumalanga with an eye on the landscape flashing by, you may see, near the sides of the road and further away on the hills above and in…
Say It out Loud - The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
… also a revival of persecution in the Free State. The old laws of the dark days are being enforced with relentless … a salutary check to personal liberty and…
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
… it is felt should be represented in the legislature'. Laws would require a majority in both houses and assent by … Accord. Mandela responded using the…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
The Azania Liberation Support Committee (ALSC) was formed in London around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individuals of various broadly leftist political…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report…
Input by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Farewell service for former President Nelson Mandela, Waterkloof Airforce Base, 14 December 2013
… beginning with the defiance campaign of the unjust laws they could not see any person other than Madiba because … as he has always repeated to ensure that…