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Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the football banquet Pretoria, 1 March 1996
… Master of Ceremonies; Guests of Honour; Ladies and gentlemen. South Africa had dared to expect much of the African Cup of Nations. We felt we would acquit …
IFP 2019 Election Manifesto
… A GROWING ECONOMY The development of an inclusive economy is an absolute priority. This is … empower families, and fulfil the rightful aspirations of all our…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, 02 May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania
… May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania Comrade Chezi, Representative of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, Comrade Director and members of the…
ANC Gauteng Centenary Month to celebrate Oliver Tambo, 18 October 2012
… November 2012. The ANC will celebrate the life and legacy of the ANC President O. R Tambo. As we celebrate President O.R Tambos contribution to the struggle…
PlaceRailway Station, Muizenberg
… and was officially opened on 7 June 1913 by the Minister of Railways & Harbours, Mr Henry Burton. It was declared a … entrances and beautiful teak clock…
Introduction
… The energies of South African Indians, mobilised in the 1890s against growing anti-Indianism in various parts of South Africa, were channelled into a…
PlacePinetown and its Museum
… commercial town named after Sir Benjamin Pine , Governor of Natal (1873-75). At the heart of the town and just off the main road lies the Pinetown … the…
PlaceSun City, Rustenburg
… as Hotels and self-catering Chalets. Home to the Valley of Waves and sprawled along the border of the Pilanesberg National Park. Sun City Resort enjoys the…
PlaceSt Stephen’s Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town
… In 1799, during the first British occupation of the Cape, the Governor, Sir George Yonge, appropriated a portion of Riebeeck Square to build a theatre upon…
Address at the Paris City Hall, 18 November 2003
… Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to meet with the Mayor of the great city of Paris, a city whose rich history, cultural splendour and architectural beauty…
The Struggle against our Weaknesses by A. B. Xuma, 1956
… A.B Xuma,the 6th President General of the ANC(1940 - 49) 44th National Conference: Letter on … President-General and Delegates to the Annual Conference of…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… On January 18, the world lost an icon. Only much of the world did not know it. South African-Jamaican writer … overlooked and often forgotten, especially in…
PlaceSeychelles
… can trace its first Settlement back to 1770. It is made up of 115 small Islands. They were first settled on by the French, leading a small party of Whites,…
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… completing his matric, Woods enrolled at the University of Cape Town in 1952 to study law but switched to journalism. Woods initially supported the idea of…
Slavery in South Africa
… known in India that there was a considerable importation of slaves from Asia to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company and its employees. Some of the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… Callinicos THE CHANGE TO WAGE LABOUR has described some of the different ways in which people lost the use of the land and entered wage labour. This happened…
VIII - The Pathologists
… Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa The cause of death revealed in the medical evidence was not disputed. … at least three brain lesions occasioned…
PlacePaarl
… (prior to 1910) The division of Paarl was originally part of the district of Stellenbosch, and was proclaimed a separate division in …
PlaceParow
… Parow was a Residential Suburb of Cape Town located some 16km from the City Centre . It was … Ferdinand Parow was born on 1 March 1833 in a Province of…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… among African American activists. He was a key founder of the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights … United States, and from 1910 to 1934 served it as…
ArchiveSouth Africa wants to make history compulsory at school. But can it? by Linda Chisholm (the Conversation.com), 1 June 2018
… South Africa’s minister of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has released a … a ministerial task team that recommends a major overhaul of the history…
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… Review of The Reb and the Rebel Jewish Narratives in South Africa … Schrire. Published by UCT Press and the Kaplan Centre of Jewish Studies and Research,…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… As adopted by the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress - 25 November 1992. The strategic perspective of the ANC is the transfer of…
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… The roots of White women's suffrage in South Africa began with the founding of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1899. The goal of this…
Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Although the union had previously denounced the treachery of Neville Chamberlain, once war was declared it supported the war effort, and hundreds of members,…
PlaceFraserburg
… The division of Fraserburg was originally part of the district of Worcester and was proclaimed a separate division on 12 …
74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … There were some 2 844 delegates present at the Congress of the…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… The origins of Enoch Sontonga and the song he wrote, Nkosi Sikelel' … and rather obscure. Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa nation, was born…
Document 26 - Nelson Mandela’s reply to F. W. De Klerk
… to the political, social and economic transformation of our country. The workshop took place against the background of continued job losses, very little…
This doccie about a SA photographer is worth the watch by Garreth Van Niekerk (channel24), 28 May 2017
… Johannesburg - For the better half of the past century, celebrated South African lensman David … But in Goldblatt – the first feature-length documentary of…