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EventThelma Gutsche, a South African scholar, historian and film critic, dies
… was privately tutored at home and matriculated at the age of 14. Two years after her matriculation she enrolled at the University of Cape Town to study for a…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… his last crumb with a passing stranger. The hospitality of the Afrikaners is famous and they will readily extend it … (Rooineks). I have often found a warm…
PlaceSteenberg Farmstead, Tokai Road, Constantia
… was granted to Catherina Ustings in 1688 and was one of the first farms in the Western Cape. Its Cape Dutch … its verandah and outbuildings were added at the…
EventEarthquake shakes up Tulbagh
… 10:04pm on 29 September 1969, the Boland farming towns of Tulbagh, Wolseley and Ceres experienced the most … earthquake in South African history.[i] The…
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… nor whether a warning was issued. Audio-visual depictions of the event demonstrate a systematic attack on strikers, … and the ability to cordon off the…
Address at the National Youth Day Celebrations, 16 June 2002
… It has been 26 years since the youth of South Africa marched in all parts of the country on a lonely journey for a better education, a transformed South…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… not 100 years old. It abandoned the fundamental objectives of the original 1912 ANC more than 50 years ago. In 1955, a section of the 1912 ANC leadership was…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… If a life could be mapped, that of the Honorable Arthur Chaskalson would surely appear as a … human rights, and leading, without deviation, to the bench of…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as an activist was to the development of…
Closing speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… Cde Deputy President Motlanthe and all officials, Members of the incoming of the National Executive Committee, Leadership of the ANC Women's League and Youth…
Statement "Algeria honours Chief Luthuli" by Oliver Tambo, 30 November 1964
… South Africa Freedom News, Dar es Salaam The University of Algiers has conferred an honorary Doctorate of Literature on Chief A.J. Luthuli, President-General…
PlaceUtrecht
… British troops occupied Utrecht during South African War of 1899 - 1902 as their headquarters. The British were wary of having to camp in high altitude area…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… So far, this feature has described how the development of a racial capitalist society affected the lives-working … and how, day-by-day and year-by-year, they…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the interfaith commissioning service for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town, 13 February 1996
… The Right Honourable Rev. Desmond Tutu, Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission;…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Tomichi Murayama Tokyo, 5 July 1995
… Your Excellency, Mr. Tomichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan; Excellencies; Ladies and Gentlemen. Since we … your beautiful country, we have been treated…
Address by ANC President, Nelson R. Mandela, to the Ruth First tenth anniversary commemoration trust Cape Town, 17 August 1992
… My grief was all the more poignant because I knew both of the men injured in the same blast. In my mind's eye I saw … together;who uncompromisingly broke…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the workshop for Human Rights Education Durban, 21 September 1994
… Mr. Chairman, Members of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, Judges of the Supreme Court, Vice-Chancellors, Delegates to this … Africa. Let…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin
… when I stepped off a British India steamer at the end of a long journey. Fresh from the rural life of northern India, South African Indians and their complex…
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
… Situated on the west coast of Africa, the banks of the River Gambia have been inhabited for many centuries. The first known written record of The Gambia is a…
PlaceSouth African National Art Gallery
… in Cape Town. It was started in 1872 with the donation of Sir Thomas Butterworth's personal Gallery. From an initial bequest of 45 paintings presented in…
PlaceRichmond
… The Village of Richmond was established in 1844 on a portion of the Farm Driefontein, owned by P J van der Merwe. It was named after the Earl of Richmond,…
PlaceRosebank, Cape Town
… Rosebank is a residential suburb of Cape Town , located between Mowbray and Rondebosch . The … suburbs train route) on 19 December 1864. The Suburb of…
PlaceKirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town
… reputation as the most beautiful garden in Africa and one of the great botanic gardens of the world. Few gardens can match the sheer grandeur of the setting…
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… Suburb of Kimberley to the South of the Big Hole and North-West of New Park. It was established when the Newton Township, was … New Dictionary of South…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… Court, the country’s highest court. This spring, as part of a cross-country teaching and lecture tour of the United States, Sachs visited Flint, Mich. ”” the…
ANC Press Statement presented by Oliver Tambo, 16 August 1985, Lusaka
… Last night, the people of South Africa and the rest of the world were treated to an arrogant reaffirmation by … could not help but show itself for what it is…
ANC Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 16 August 1985
… Last night, the people of South Africa and the rest of the world were treated to an arrogant reaffirmation by … could not help but show itself for what it is…
Freedom Day Call by Albert Luthuli, 3 June 1956
… ANC President-General Albert Lutuli calls on all lovers of freedom in our land to commemorate the past deeds for freedom and to rededicate themselves to the…
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…
PlaceWelgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
… In 1657 the VoC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number of free burghers under the leadership of Steven Bothma, who then established a Farm…