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PlaceMolweni, Kwa Zulu Natal
The Population of Molweni is made up of mostly Black Africans, with Females being the predominate Gender! Molweni is a Residential Area of Western Ethekweni…
PlaceDe Rust, Little Karoo
The Little Karoo Village of De Rust, lying in the crook of a bend in the road somewhere between the Feather Capital of Oudtshoorn and the fold Mountains of…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki's AIDS denialism
The Durban Declaration was a statement signed by over 5 000 people in the scientific community stating that HIV caused AIDS. The declaration was signed and…
EventAmina Lawal's sentence upheld
On 19 August 2002, an Islamic high court in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upheld a sentence of death by stoning for Amina Lawal. The 31 year old woman had been…
ArchiveAn Analysis of the Imprisonment and Detainment Treatment of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Monica McCausland
Introduction Reflecting on her past years of imprisonment in 2012, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela stated “I think you can stand imprisonment of 27…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… the conference, I would undertake a tour of the African States with a view to obtaining facilities for the training … in the co-operation between Great…
Has Socialism Failed? by Joe Slovo South African Communist Party
… gross interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states through surrogates and direct aggression, and its … national rivalries between and within…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… of the country as is done in all truly democratic states. The existing forms of consultation, such as do exist, …
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… Director of Human Rights Watch Movement in the United States of America for his leadership role in the New …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… . Chief Albert Luthuli called on Britain and the United States of America to apply sanctions against South Africa. …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… probably hundreds of students also fled to neighbouring states seeking political asylum. Those from Soweto were …
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… in Germany published a map of Natal and South African Free States. He wrote: “The country at present contains five …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… of Trade Unions (SACTU) writes directly to the United States (US) President John F. Kennedy, accusing the US of …
PlaceTransvaal Province
The Transvaal is a historical region and former Province of South Africa, located North of the Vaal River, that existed from 1910 to 1994. It's now part of the…
PlaceTokai, Cape Town
The Suburb of Tokai took its name from Tokaj, a range of Hills in Hungary. It was built in the late 1940's due to the urgent need for housing for South African…
EventThe Natal Indian Congress is formally revived
The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) was formally revived in 1971 after a long period of inactivity due to the harassment of its leaders by the apartheid government…
PlaceWorld of Birds, Hout Bay
World of Birds is the largest bird park in Africa and one of the few large bird parks in the World. Over 3 000 birds (and small animals) of 400 different…
EventRocklands Community Hall declared a heritage site
On 20 August 2019, the 36th anniversary of the founding of the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Rocklands Community Hall, located in Mitchell’s Plain,Cape…
EventOne-fifth of SA's military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks
It was announced that at least one-fifth of South Africa's military was infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Therefore on 7 October 2003 the Defence…
EventWWI: battalion consisting of 'Cape Coloured men', called the Cape Corps, is established
On 20 September 1915 a new battalion consisting of Cape Coloured men, called the Cape Corps was established with the view of being dispatched to East Africa in…
PlaceMsunduzi River
The Msunduzi River flows through the center of Pietermaritzburg, the Capital of KwaZulu-Natal and is the namesake of the Msunduzi Municipality, where the City…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
The role and influence of the South African Communist Party in the armed struggle by Patrick Mangashe UFH [email protected] Abstract The Communist…
PlaceChad
… since the 900s [xxxi] . With the unification of the two states of Borno and Kamen in the mid 1500s, and the inclusion … . Slavery was also a common practice…
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture by Pallo Jordan, 15th April 2003, South Africa
… of certain trade unionists, especially in the United States and Canada, whose role in the anti-globalisation … While he understood well the difficulties…
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… his brother Henry Msikinya, and John went to the United States on church bursaries and attended the Lincoln … the origin of the black race. Black people, the…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… Ensure that all repression in some of the self-governing states, and in the so-called independent states, is ended forthwith. Our people are compelled to…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… disastrously, nothing was solved. Chaos In Johannesburg, states Bunting, the conference "ended in chaos". The … Conferences. "The response throughout the…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… For the main trading nations ie the Europe and the United States, gold was of value because their currencies were … low as this benefited nations in Europe…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… Border Extension Act, 1978 Act 13 of 1978 National States Citizenship Amendment Act, 1978 Act 36 of 1978 … proceedings. Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act …
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… in South Africa, and magazines in Europe and the United States weren't yet too interested in stories from there. But …