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PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
… predominantly neo-Gothic manner. It forms an integral part of the Porter Reformatory, established there in 1880. It was … 1985. Although fortifications were…
Azikhwelwa on Monday. Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council calling for a stay-away from 13 September 1976
… calling for a stay-away from September 13, 1976 The people of South Africa are going into the third phase of their struggle against the oppressors, namely:…
EventSmallpox Epidemic Strikes at the Cape
… havoc amongst the indigenous and colonist population of the Cape Peninsula and adjacent interior. Hardest hit are … suffer huge losses to their numbers. The…
David Goldblatt: “Particulars” (1975) by The ASX Team, 16 May 2013
… been fed by life experiences and heightened by the kind of hyper-awareness that photography sometimes enables and demands…” “My first awareness of a bodily…
PlaceOld Fort, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg
… Following the invasion of the ZAR in January 1896 by a troop of cavalry led by Dr Leander Jameson, the Executive Committee of the Republic, resolved on 12…
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… formed in protest to the Tricameral Parliament. It was one of the most significant anti-apartheid movements, and comprised of 400 church, civic and student…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet Division
… The district of Graaff-Reinet was constituted on 26 August 1785 and its … the 1880's they bore no relationship to the original lines of delimitation. When…
ArchiveThe apartheid city and its labouring class: African workers and the independent trade union movement in Durban, 1959-1985
… in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject history at the University of South Africa. This…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 10: So
… Report of the Political Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society. … political position in South Africa; Political aspects of…
ArchivePhotography pundit David Goldblatt takes ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Matsepo, 2 June 2017
… David Goldblatt (87) has installed photographs of former criminals in prisons in Birmingham and Manchester. The portraits, part of a series called Ex…
PlaceSenegal
… Cape Verde (Cap Vert) Peninsula is the western most point of the African continent. The Gambia consists of a narrow strip of territory that extends from the…
EventEmily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps
… addressed public meetings in Britain about the conditions of the Concentration camps during the South African War. … in the camps and at the same time to…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
… now.” – Ray Phiri You can’t relegate the activism of the late Ray Chikapa Phiri to the past; as the quote above … them. That’s the point: much as the present…
PlaceCentral African Republic
… various groups speaking languages related to those of the present day were living in the area. These peoples … and Bandi, all founded in the 19th Century…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
… The last year had brought home to me, more than any of the previous years, that I was restricted. Until that year the trial had gathered us all together in a…
PlaceChapman's Peak Drive, Hout Bay to Fish Hoek
… Peak is named after John Chapman , the Captain’s mate of an English ship, the 'Consent'. The Peak which can be seen … mountaineer, but a lowly ship's pilot…
Albert Luthuli`s message from Oslo to the South African people, 5 December 1961
… My people, my sons and my daughters As I pace the floor of my bedroom in the Grand Hotel, Oslo, putting the final touches on my speech of acceptance of the…
PlaceEmoyeni, Parktown, Johannesburg
… in the Air’ in Nguni, is located on the highest point, of the highest ridge in Parktown, keeping its original name … Henry Hull to host lavish parties for…
EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
… The Nobel Peace Prize is considered by many to be a symbol of international recognition over the prize winners struggle … Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December…
PlacePolokwane
… Is a City of 1 30,000 people counted in the census of 2011 . It now has a Population of about about 640,000 inhabitants. Spoken languages are: … iew-online…
The Wankie Campaign
… The Luthuli Detachment was one [of] those detachments that were well prepared and well … I personally participated in the preparations. A lot of time was…
PlaceKruger National Park
… on 31 May 1926 under the newly formed National Parks Board of Trustees , which became the controlling body of the park, and reported to the Minister of Lands…
ArchiveZuma rape case judge stands down (BBC News),13 February 2006
… The judge presiding over the rape trial of South Africa's former Deputy President Jacob Zuma has said … Ngoepe might be biased as he issued warrants for a…
PlaceSouth Sudan
… Egypt attempted to colonize the region of Southern Sudan by establishing the Province of Equatoria in the 1870s. Islamic Mahdist revolutionaries … the…
EventUgandan premier Apollo Milton Obote is shot
… invasion by Tanzanian forces and the subsequent deposition of Amin. He was president until 1985, when he was deposed a … State's administration. The British…
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
… a two year old guerilla war against South African control of the region. That struggle was directed by the Southwest … had no jurisdiction to try us. What…
A Political Reflection By John Fikile Block
… The measurement of any collective is not when the executive tasks in the normal course of organisational work, but when leadership is confronted with the…
EventIconic musician, John Lennon, was shot dead outside his New York apartment
… him. After the shooting, Chapman sat and read a copy of Catcher in the Rye as he calmly waited for police to … to kill the world-famous musician. The instant…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Bonner, Philip. African Urbanisation on the Rand … Consciousness. Inaugural address at the…
PlaceVictoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
… a small Jetty, built by Jan van Riebeeck in 1654 as part of his task to establish a Refreshment Station at the Foot of Africa for the Dutch East India…