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Circular Letter To Trade Unions, Progressive Organisations, Democrats And Anti-Fascists by Yusuf Dadoo, June 10, 1946
… law. The already so weak and feeble democratic structure of South Africa has received a further blow and our country's … threatened with cultural, moral and…
PlaceEshowe, Northern Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Coastal Forest . Eshowe actually means Ekowe, the place of Mushrooms: "Esikhowe seNkosi uCetshwayo!" Eshowe offers visitors a variety of unusual attractions,…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad … that make up “Intersections…
PlaceTulbagh, Western Cape
… On 1 February 1808 the territory North of the Great Berg river was annexed to the new District of Tulbagh, and declared a separate sub-drostdy with its ……
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… the post-colonial university, an authorised centre of knowledge production? In one form or another, this question has been at the centre of discussions in…
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… Territory of British Kaffraria On 21 December 1834 massed Xhosa armies attacked the eastern regions of the Cape Colony, destroying all settler resistance…
PlaceLibya
… history, has more recently been known for the 42-year rule of the mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi - and the chaos that … springboard for migrants heading…
EventA conference is held in Geneva, Switzerland (1949) to revise the original Geneva Conventions.
… The Geneva Conventions, are comprised of four treaties and three protocols, which establish the standards of international law for the treatment of civilians…
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… CAPETOWN. Dear Roux, I posted you yesterday copies of the resolutions passed at the Anti-Pass Conference with three paragraphs of general report at the foot…
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
… for Indian rights, was born in Johannesburg as son of Jariam Singh, a former president of the Transvaal Indian Association. In 1913 he was one of the…
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
… Magistrates` Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street was one of the few buildings in which African tenants could hire … offices: it was owned by Indians. This…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… local house. An informer had tipped them off about a group of externally trained ANC cadres giving military training to … no reason to believe they were…
PlaceDoornfontein, Johannesburg
… Doornfontein is a Suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is located just to the East of the City Centre. The Area of Doornfontein, which means thorn…
PlacePeddie
… Peddie is a small town in the Amathole district of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Peddie is a historic little town which lies 50 km South-West…
PlacePilanesberg Game Reserve
… Game viewing in a Malaria free environment. A wide variety of accommodation is available to suit your needs. The diversity of Pilanesberg’s accommodation…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… you believe the various literary or big screen adaptions of photojournalists over the years. The first famous … in the 1930’s. The latest film adaption of a…
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
… African Town in the former Ciskei, about 11km North-West of King William’s Town (on the road to Alice) and Fort Beaufort! Dimbaza is a symbol of the 'surplus…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… The end of World War I was followed by a global depression that … on strike. The reasons for the strike were a reduction of wages and the preference for…
Silent Cries from a Beloved Country by Ken Johnson, 20 August 2009
… Looking at the series of large color photographs called “In the Time of AIDS” by the South African David Goldblatt, you may wonder … with people, but no one…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… Behind the imposing grey granite walls of the National Mutual Building of Australasia, on Church Square, lie over 150 000 historical … in the Iziko Social…
Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini by O. R. Tambo, Iran, 13 February 1979
… Maputo, People's Republic of Mozambique, February 13, 1979 His Excellency Ayatollah Khomeini, (2) Teheran Islamic Republic of Iran On behalf of the…
PlaceMauritania
… Mauritania, Country on the Atlantic coast of Africa. Culturally it forms a transitional zone between the Arab-Amazigh (Berber) populations of North Africa…
EventPretoria receives city status
… was established in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers who named it after his father Andries Pretorius. Andries Pretorius became a hero…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
… THE GREAT ILLUSION First of all 22 percent of the whites did not even bother to vote which is … 700,000 voters, i.e. about half the votes cast in favour of…
PlaceMapungubwe
… The ancient city of Mapungubwe (meaning 'hill of the jackal') is an Iron Age archaeological site in the … years ago, Mapungubwe appears to have been the…
ArchiveIndia’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael
… From the hypnotic effects of the circular motions of the spiritual dancing of whirling dervishes to the mesmerising qawwali [1] …
Citizenship and Justice: rethinking Political Theory and Political Philosophy
… A project of the Centre for Humanities Research, the Dept. of Political Studies and the Dept. of Philosophy, UWC invites you to a Reading Group and Seminar …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 12
… on a black grape. He was working with the demonic energy of a man to whom time had become the only wealth worth possessing. He knew something of the despair…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… Muziwakhe Lembede Abraham, Peter. Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Basner, Miriam. Am I an African? The Political Mem^oirs of…
Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows
… which ended in Durban last night, touted the presence of Mafika Gwala as the “exciting re-emergence of the respected Black-consciousness era poet.” “Crap,”…