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PlaceYsterplaat, Cape Town
… a nearby Synagogue. This Area is situated very near the City of Cape Town . It is very close to the neighbouring … Paarden Island , Maitland , Milnerton and…
PlaceBreede River Valley, Route 62
… Capetonians and Visitors. It is close enough to the Mother City to reach easily within a couple of hours, but also … together with outlying Farms, provide a…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 9
… that no constitutional merger of the two bodies had taken place. He informed the Agent-General that whatever counsel … into as far as they throw some light…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… occasioned the round-table conference. Daily meetings took place, and almost daily travelling, showing one or other of … One of these assurances was that…
A Walk in the Night
… Emancipation Day “Walk in the Night” will once again take place on the eve of this jubilant day with celebrations and a … is organised by the District Six…
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… started to demand independence. A national uprising took place in 1947, but was crushed by the French government. … were reported during the year that this…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… MPLA had secured control of Luanda – Angola’s capital city – and declared itself as the new government of … In September of 1987 the Battle of Cuito…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… to do unskilled work such as working in the docks. In the city, slaves did almost all skilled work. Some learnt new … do this. Two organised but small…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… Matthews delivering the first speech. The meeting took place while Sino-Soviet relations were headed towards a … training was moved to a larger facility in…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
… was at hand. As he stood on the balcony of Cape Town City Hall to address the masses who had come in their tens of … Wankie Campaign of 1967. For half a…
PlaceGriquatown
… but a rill; and thesituation an open, bare, and exposed place, without any appearance ofa garden, excepting that of … years,intermarried with European…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… by mid century there was a rudimentary Boer republic in place, the previous black inhabitants were well on their way to becoming non-persons, and in their…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… in Adderley Street, Cape Town. The coat of arms of the city of Cape Town is also based on that of the Van Riebeeck …
ArticleIndian South Africans
… South Africa is concentrated in Kwa-Zulu Natal's largest city, Durban, which has the most substantial Indian …
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… tumultuous debates among black intellectuals over the place of the Indian diaspora in Africa played a central role … percent of South Africa’s Indians lived…
Address at the Work-in-Progress Review Workshop of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), 24 Jan 2002
… and concretise implementation and put the processes in place for the realisation of our development plans. Clearly, … we have experienced led to Africa being…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… by 1930. Further attempts at unionising Black workers took place throughout the period after 1930, including the … from 1981 to 1985. The first serious…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… with a strong moral purpose, heroic past which had a place amongst other nations. [27] These ideas quickly spread … for thousands of displaced poor…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… seen as of historic importance before either the COP took place or the Freedom Charter was written. The South African … for equity at work and at home. The…
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… also perceived that the Bay offered a possible landing place to an invading military force. Consequently, towards … side below Chapman's Peak. Initial…
EventSouth Africa celebrates the first National Women’s Day
… Federation famously challenged the idea that 'a woman's place is in the kitchen', declaring it instead to be … a national holiday. Since then annual…
EventDate is set for constitutional talks
… Africa (CODESA) and that the first meeting would take place on 20-21 December 1991. Every party or government would … with the ANC. The opening session of…
PlacePhilippolis, Free State
… pines. A donkey cart plods by. This is another world, a place time forgot: a living historical photograph preserved in sepia dust. I know this place well ‒…
ArchiveApartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
… him severely during repeated torture in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth . He died of brain damage shortly … We were shaken. The final attempted…
64. Congress addresses the Union Parliament, 1946
… 'Pegging Act' - applicable immediately to the whole of the city if Durban (not merely the old borough) and potentially … start be made, that conversations…
PlaceNamibia
… in the 1960s and 70s. Strict controls were put in place and the numbers of fish have steadily increased since … people from locations near Windhoek to one…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… Potchefstroom, including Johannesburg. Radiocarbon dates place the pottery (called Olifantspoort after the site where … kraal. Men are usually buried in the…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… and passive resisters. Published in 1989 in New York City, the images in Beyond the Barricades captured the … Africa and the peaceful transition that…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… to begin investigating apartheid’s harshest prisons. The city of Barberton is known to history as one of soot and … and punish these prisoners, the prison is…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1932 - 1949 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… premises as it was condemned as "a health hazard" by the City Health authorities. It then housed 42 women and children … pounds sterling] to the society. …