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PlacePhillipton
… 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…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Industrialisationand rural change were key … life and politics in a particular way. In the…
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 …
Court Verdict Docket, 11 February 1978
… Madressa education does not exist in isolation but is part of the practice of the religion and grew and spread with the religion. Its primary objective has…
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…
“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…
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…
”Malan Cannot Succeed Where Hitler Failed”: Interview To , Cape Town, June 1950
… "Never before in the history of South Africa have the national leaders acted so swiftly and with complete oneness of purpose in their determination to beat…
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…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
… have just ended the tenth and final chapter, is the climax of our story. 1 It provides us with a kind of promontory from which we can now, in this conclusion…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - What is industrialisation? by Emilia Potenza
… All That Glitters by Emilia Potenza During the course of the last century, industrialisation has affected the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa…
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…
2003 New Year Message, 30 December 2002
… The year 2002 is rapidly reaching a close. The last month of this year will be remembered in the Southern hemisphere … in the year 2002, we know better and…
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…
Resist Apartheid Campaign Message to Meeting in Johannesburg, 11 July 1954
… the Western Areas Removal Scheme--the forcible removal of Africans from their homes in Johannesburg to segregated … statement to be read at the meeting. Sons…
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…
PlaceRondebosch Common, Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch.
… by Batavian forces during the first British invasion of the Cape. However, following an outbreak of dysentery among the troop, they were moved to higher … to…
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…
African National Congress President, Comrade Jacob Zuma, delivers the Peter Mokaba Memorial Lecture, Mankweng Village, Polokwane, Limpopo, 6 June 2010
… Programme Director, The Family of Comrade Peter Mokaba, ANC Youth League President, Cde Julius Malema, National Executive Committee of the ANC Youth League,…
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…
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…
PlaceFree State Province
… The Free State Province lies in the heart of South Africa, with the Kingdom of Lesotho nestling in the hollow of its bean-like shape. Lying between the Vaal…
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…
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 …
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… reader an insight into an important chapter in the history of our struggle from a different viewpoint because the racist dogmas of apartheid dictated that he…
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,…
Restrictions on the media
… seventieth birthday had just been celebrated by millions of people throughout the world would have made it a logical … in Holland and Denmark, This was…