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PlaceWelgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
… In 1657 the VoC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number of free burghers under the leadership of Steven Bothma, who then established a Farm…
Gandhi, Tamils and the Satyagraha in South Africa by E.S Reddy
… At a farewell meeting of the Tamil community in Johannesburg on July 15, 1914, Gandhi said that the Tamils bore the brunt of the satyagraha struggle and that…
Work In Progress
… The context in which the first issue of Work In Progress appeared was one in which the embryonic … associated with guerilla and sabotage activities of the…
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… been in South Africa now for 85 years, and in the measure of their possibilities, they have contributed to the prosperity and development of the Union. As…
PlaceGriqualand West
… The Khoikhoi was a nation of widely scattered migrant pastoralist clans, whose economy was not conducive to the creation of permanent Settlements. As a…
UCT defends stance on artistic freedom after Goldblatt pulls out by Paul Herman (News24), 4 March 2017
… Cape Town - The University of Cape Town has defended its protection of freedom of artistic expression, after the David Goldblatt Collection …
PlaceBlyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga
… One of the largest green canyons in the world, the Blyde River Canyon is a masterpiece carved over millions of years by the Blyde River as it cut through…
PlaceFlagstaff
… a Mr Owen, established a trading store on the site of present-day Flagstaff. The Town owes its name to their practice of running a white flag up a flagstaff…
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
… Originally no provision was made for the education of Indians. The Reverend Stott of the Wesleyan Mission established a school for Indian … years later…
Black consciousness and the land question by Pandelani Nefolovhodwe, 17 March 2015, South Africa
… Introduction A Sowetan article of the 6th September 2013, states that 14% of audited land in South Africa is in the hands of the state, and 79 % is in the…
ArchiveThe Tay Bridge Disaster by Peter Ball (The Heritage Portal), 24 September 2016
… pride, as in pride before a fall, has been the ruin of many a man, no more so than Thomas Bouch, a Victorian … engineer, whose life and career were blighted…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… Communist Party. Robben Island prisoner, 1963-1973. Member of Parliament, 1994-1999. Author: Island In Chains By … began playing an influential role in the…
Early Beginnings
… British Association for the Advancement of Science RECEPTION ROOM UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW 5 September 1928 General Secretary C.P.S.A. [Communist Party of South…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… be built in 1910, and was initially housed on the campus of Witwatersrand. The gallery was overlooked by blocks of flats on three sides. To the east was one…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… Date of birth : 29 October 1938, Monrovia, Liberia. Ellen Johnson was born in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, amongst the descendants of original colonists…
PlaceMahaking, formerly known as Mafikeng
… Mafikeng is the provincial capital of North West since 1994 and lies on the border with Botswana , it's about 260 kilometers West of Johannesburg. It was…
Document 85 - E. R. Roux, “The Native Exploiters: A reply to ‘A. Z.”’, Umsebenzi,20 April 1935
… 1935 I am glad that A. Z.'s article, "Is there a class of Native capitalists in South Africa," has been published, as it gives one an opportunity of re…
Notes from Books
… Jean Gelman Taylor, THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 The book…
PlaceGlen Grey Division
… The frontier war of 1850-53 was precipitated when the amaNgqika, faced with the increased pressure of European settlement upon their ancestral lands, rose in…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… by Luli Callinicos Topic This part describes the nature of housing and shows how it was related to the labour needs of the employers on the Rand. Housing in…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Informal Ministerial Consultations on COP 17, O.R. Tambo Building, Tshwane, 09 September 2011
… honour and pleasure for me to welcome you on the occasion of this informal Ministerial consultation on climate change … The fact that we are gathered here is…
PlaceTunisia
… kilometres and is home to 10.6 million people. The capital of Tunis is home to nearly 800,000 people, though over 60% of the population lives in urban…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… ban this book. If I were them I would distribute thousands of copies for whites to show their children if they were … with eventual survival. (Ernest Cole…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… schools in rankings nationally, as well as in all of Africa. Notable alumni includes: 'two Nobel Prize … Rhodes scholars; several Government Ministers and…
34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A fresh piece of legislation sought to tighten…
Address to the Commonwealth Club, World Affairs Council and US/SA Business Council Conference, 24 May 2000
… in his book 'Future Positive', captures the essence of the dilemmas of the current economic relations between the rich and poor countries, where the process…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… just returned from my vacation there." Cape Town is one of South Africa’s most Historically important Cities. It was … set foot in South Africa —which also…
Document 4 - “The Great Native Strike”, “ The International, 27 February 1920
… issue the Rand has witnessed the unprecedented spectacle of a strike of 40,000 mine natives. Owing to the compound and indenture system, the general public…
PlaceFort Frederick, Port Elizabeth
… built in 1799 by the British Forces to defend the mouth of the Baakens River. Built in 1799 on a natural citadel, … Fort Frederick stands guard over a…
PlaceDjibouti
… Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, is a country of dry shrublands, volcanic formations and Gulf of Aden beaches. It's home to one of the saltiest bodies of …