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PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… since the arrival of the first Muslims to the Cape Colony in 1658. The first Muslims came from Amboina in the eastern Indonesian islands of Maluku, and came…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Women’s Day Celebrations, Atlantic Park Stadium, Witbank, Mpumalanga, 9 August 2004
… occasion of our National Women's Day being celebrated here in Witbank and across the country. In this year of the First Decade of Freedom, we also … we seek…
PlaceMcGregor, Western Cape
… and most complete example of mid-nineteenth Century Towns, in the Cape Province. With its traditional, whitewashed, thatched Cottages set in quiet streets,…
Address on the Occasion of the Budget Vote of the Presidency, 18 June 2002
… various elements of our international work. The Minister in the Presidency will address the House on our programmes … on-going meetings with the Big Business…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… a development never known before were due to the discovery in 1886 of the greatest gold mines of all history, ancient … the mines to pay the hut tax. Every…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… Background to the project This book had its origins in an extraordinary discovery in 2007 by Mike Besten [1] , that two or three elderly people … ↵ [28] John…
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
… you remember our patience and quiet dignity as we waited in long queues to cast our very first votes as citizens of a … overcome the high barriers to…
ArchiveEulogy at funeral of Dr Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang, by Jacob Zuma, 22 December 2009, The Cathedral of Sacred Heart, Pretoria
… self-less South Africans, who have experienced minimal joy in their lives, due to their decision not to surrender until … of our struggle, to free the…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… from Africa to other parts of the world 8500 BC – 6500 BC In the Sahara Desert region, the people develop the use of … use it for tools and dishes. 6000 BC…
Address by his excellency, President Jacob Zuma at the 50th Anniversary of the Mpondo Revolt of 1960, 07 June 2010, Ingquza Hill, Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape
… ezidibene apha kuLomzi wakwa Faku! I stand here today, in the land of Nkosi Faku, Nkosi Mqikela, the land of Nkosi … this event. I also thank the traditional…
Obituary: Dr Hastings Banda by Richard Dowden (Independent), 27 November 1997
… The next name he added to himself was Doctor, first in the United States in 1937, and then in Edinburgh and Glasgow, collecting the … paying the rents of the…
Document 15 - ‘A document to create a climate of understanding’; Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
… after 1959, Non-White student leaders met at Stutterheim in July 1968. A need for contact, especially among the … would investigate ways of establishing…
Challenges facing workers and unions: The role of the ANC by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… 2007 Introduction The 52nd National Conference of the ANC in December 2007 will have to address a wide range of policy … have to rely on mobilising workers…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… own slaves. Canadian professor Wallace Mills noted this in his course on the Great Trek & the Encyclopedia Britannica … one century & a half earlier. The…
Message to the Soweto Rally to Welcome Released Leaders by O. R. Tambo, 29 October 1989
… who have suffered from the daily violence inherent in the apartheid system. Celebrate Freedom, Life, Humanity … ideology of white supremacy from the kraals…
Say It out Loud - The Education Bill, 1906
… his public career, Dr Abdurahman displayed great interest in education. Thus, when the School Board Bill was proposed … to all, not only to Europeans, but to…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… almost 10 000. Most were housed at the Magazine Barracks in Somtseu Road, Durban, where conditions were deplorable and barely upgraded over the years, in…
Acceptance speech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony Oslo, Norway, 10 December 1993
… Rev Martin Luther King Jr. He, too, grappled with and died in the effort to make a contribution to the just solution of … outside our country, had the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 3 - It’s a Mystery. Or is it? by Amanda Esterhuysen
… of knowledge exists. What is the archaeological background in time and space? Muslim traders dominated Indian Ocean … and discoveries made by Europeans in…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
… about it. When I entered prison after being sentenced in the Rivonia trial I was still quite optimistic. I … being paid too much to compensate them for…
Address at The Official Opening of The Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, 28 June 2003
… entered into a social contract for a better tomorrow. In 1822, when Cape Town was already a bustling cosmopolitan port, Percy Bysshe Shelley said in his poem…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, 20 June 1989, Stockholm
… southern Africa, convened by the Socialist International in Harare earlier this year, took place against a favourable … independence for Namibia, and chances…
Statement to the Ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, 20 June 1989
… southern Africa, convened by the Socialist International in Harare earlier this year, took place against a favourable … independence for Namibia, and chances…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… adopted by an OAU sub-committee on Southern Africa in its summit in Harare, Zimbabwe, on 21st August 1989. It … to the Coloured and Indian compatriots. The…
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
… your task is, and that great trust has been placed in you by the high command. B. The purpose of your … and the liberators of our country. Thousands of young…
Chapter II - More of the same
… when I drive to work, to the tune of "Around the World in Eighty Days" but with my own words: "In eighty days I … helped me to get through the coming…
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… of ethnic survival confronts all small nations living in the proximity of nations that are politically, or … irreconcilable goals: on the one hand there was…
Statement at the 50th Session of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the Liberation Of Africa by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 13 May 1988
… and greatly inspire the masses of our peoples in Namibia and South Africa who are presently locked in … apartheid constitution on our people and coopt some…
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
… and gentlemen, A seemingly routine event has occurred in Harare. In keeping with the constitutional practice of the … of South Africans. We have…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the ANC National Conference on Reconstruction and Strategy NASREC, Johannesburg, 21 January 1994
… Honoured guests, Comrades and friends: I greet you warmly in this, the Year of Liberation for all South Africans. We … of nations. We sit at the southern…