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… Your Excellency, Mr. Tomichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan; Excellencies; Ladies and Gentlemen. Since we … your beautiful country, we have been treated with the kind of hospitality which makes us feel exceptionally important. … recovery you have made from the devastating effects of war. You have also been repeatedly struck by natural …

… new leaders were trying to build". These were the words of A.B. Xuma who in 1943 moved a resolution that the ANC … Natal politicians. It is a truism that there is a group of people, whether of a political, socio-economic or religious stature, who …

… when I stepped off a British India steamer at the end of a long journey. Fresh from the rural life of northern India, South African Indians and their complex … concerned with Indians in South Africa the period was one of hope. The Indian community was united. The office bearers …

… Mr Jimmy Manyi, President of the BMF Ms Tembakazi Mnyaka, our host and chair of BMF KZN, Prof William Makgoba, Vice chancellor of University of KwaZulu-Natal, Distinguished guests, Thank …

… to higher education in South Africa over a period of twenty-five years, and particularly to Rhodes University during his eight-year term of office. A career in higher education was always likely, … as a social science student at what was the University of Natal in Durban in the late 1970s, and then at UCT. A …

… in Cape Town.  It was started in 1872 with the donation of Sir Thomas Butterworth's personal Gallery. From an initial bequest of 45 paintings presented in 1871 by Thomas Butterworth Bayley, the collection of Iziko South African National Gallery has grown to one of …

… The Village of Richmond was established in 1844 on a portion of the Farm Driefontein, owned by P J van der Merwe. It was named after the Earl of Richmond, father-in-law of Sir Peregrine Maitland, …

… ago, a Gangai Amman Temple was Built at the lower end of Booth Road on the banks of the Umkumbaan River, popularly known as First River. This was constructed of reeds and grass. It was washed away in the floods in 1905. …

… Cape Town - The University of Cape Town has defended its protection of freedom of artistic expression, after the David Goldblatt Collection …

… and Golden City Post in Johannesburg. Lewin at the launch of Stones Against the Mirror in 2011. Image source In July … in the African Resistance Movement, a small group of activists that executed acts of ‘protest sabotage’ against the apartheid state, targeting, …

… 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 was before the axe of the Group Areas Act fell to declare the area "white" and … Youth League. We went together into the Defiance Campaign of 1952, into general strikes against the Government and sat …

… ANC President-General Albert Lutuli calls on all lovers of freedom in our land to commemorate the past deeds for freedom and to rededicate themselves to the cause of freedom. "Let us in all humility remember that we of this age and hour are not the first and only ones who have …

… 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 he named … http://www.gscid.co.za/about/places-of-historic-interest/mosterts-mill-rhodes-drive-mowbray/ mon …

… to 1910) Philipton was established in 1829 as a station of the London Missionary Society, and was named in honour of Dr John Philip, who was Superintendent of the Society's missions at the Cape. A staunch abolitionist …

… Fugard, a theatre based in Cape Town, was built within one of the five interconnected Sacks Futeran buildings in … Six . [1] It opened in early 2010 and was named in honour of Athol Fugard , an iconic South African playwright known … to South African theatre and film.  He is one of the most internationally acclaimed  local playwrights, …

… anything about the man and his work. That I was ignorant of his more than 60 years of photography, mostly in KwaZulu-Natal, some 30 of them in the service of Drum and Golden City Post, and of …

… From the book:  A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai 'The appeasers', declared the report of the Passive Resistance Council, 'had been prepared to accept a status of permanent inferiority for Indians in this country.’ The …

… was opened on 16 February 1834 and was extended a number of times thereafter. In October 1854 the original church was … 1980. On 5 September 1832 Bishop Daniel Wilson, the Bishop of Calcutta, Consecrated the Ground on which St Paul's Church … stands. Just six days had elapsed since the Governor of the Cape, Sir Lowry Cole approved the grant of this Area …

… So far, this feature has described how the development of a racial capitalist society affected the lives-working … and how, day-by-day and year-by-year, they created a way of life —a culture — through which they survived in the strange and hostile world of the city. The shock of the city ‘Fifty years I have lived …

… 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 every Sunday as a … the shop was closed. At its outset, the Postal Business of Flagstaff was carried on in a temporary Hut, a square plan …

… The Khoikhoi was a nation of widely scattered migrant pastoralist clans, whose economy was not conducive to the creation of permanent Settlements. As a result they developed a … although suited to the low rainfalls and seasonal grazing of the southern African interior, it also facilitated the …

… 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 you are aware, they were asked to migrate from India, and towards the end of the last century, they were encouraged by the State to …

… 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 late 1970s and early 1980s. The impetus for the publication came from a group of University of Witwatersrand post-graduate students who …

… 1. Bill of Rights A. Right to Strike The right to strike should … right to defend and promote social and economic interests of workers. The report of the Fact Finding and Conciliation Commission on Freedom of …

… ‘”¦ when historians assess the democratic credentials of Thabo Mbeki’s government in future, it is likely that … pandemic ”¦ What explains Mbeki’s apparent embrace of dissident ideology?’ Tom Lodge, politics professor, Wits … director and TAC  executive committee member, ‘The Price of Denial’,  Development Update , February 2005 ‘How does one …

… The earliest settlement of the area now known as Zimbabwe goes back about 100 000 … an Archaeological site in present-day Zimbabwe, just North of the Limpopo River. There are other … has since 1980 been led by Robert Mugabe . Early History of Zimbabwe The Country which is now known as Zimbabwe does …

… 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 … amaGcaleka, the amaThembu and, most notably, the Khoikhoi of the Kat River Settlement, a group whom the British had …

… 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 …

… 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 magnificent view of Algoa Bay. Named after Frederick, Duke of York and Commander of the British Army, it was built by …

… never forget what I saw on 9 August 1956 ”” thousands of women standing in silence for a full thirty minutes, arms raised high in the clenched fist of the Congress salute. Twenty thousand women of all races, from all parts of South Africa, were massed …