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Time for ANC members to speak out when democracy is at stake by Denis Goldberg (Sunday Times), 17 April 2016
… Members of the party can no longer follow party orders to remain … the national executive committee for silence in the ranks of the ANC is precisely the…
PlaceSignal Hill
… The Settlement at the Cape of Good Hope was founded by the Dutch in 1652 and the signal guns were originally part of the regular artillery at the Imhoff…
Biographical Introduction
… effort to compile a reasonably accurate and complete set of biographies. In the first instance, no detailed biographical survey of this important group has…
PlaceCaledon, Cape Overberg
… road in the Overberg region in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, located about 113 Kilometres (70 mi) east of Cape Town next to mineral-rich hot…
PlaceTimour Hall Primary School, Plumstead
… by the owners at Timour Hall Estate for the establishment of a school. The first structure was a wood and iron building consisting of two classrooms. On…
PlaceIrene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
… Camp was built with the intention that it would be one of the camps that would house Boer woman and children, driven … earth" policy. This policy dictated…
EventSADF officers dismissed
… State President F.W. de Klerk announced that 23 members of the South African Defence Force (SADF), including two … forcibly retired or suspended. This…
EventRaymond Dart completes work on Taung skull
… rock at a mine near Taung, a village 400 miles southwest of Johannesburg . When Raymond Dart , an anatomy professor at the University of Witwatersrand in…
PlaceAir Force Museum, Port Elizabeth
… This museum depicts the history of the South African Air Force and houses a collection of old aircraft, missiles, uniforms, aeronautical displays and…
EventMac Maharaj is born
… (Mac) Maharaj, political activist and first SA Minister of Transport in the democratically elected government in … he formulated a new policy and…
EventMedical Association agrees to investigate Biko’s death
… that no particular person could be blamed for the death of Steve Biko . The case was then submitted to the South … (SAMDC) for further investigation. The…
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… for the first time as a legal organisation. At the time of the celebrations the ANC was under the leadership of Oliver Reginald Thambo . The government…
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… on 30 October 2002 eight bomb blasts rocked Soweto. Seven of the blasts occurred on main commuter railway lines running … More than 200,000 commuters could…
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… On 14 October 1999, the first president and father of Tanzanian independence Julius Mwalimu Nyerere died of leukaemia aged 77. Nyerere became a symbol of the…
EventPallo Jordan opens the Mbuzini Samora Machel Public Library
… On 6 October 2006, the Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, opened a community library … library was opened to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the…
PlaceBergtheil House, 16 Queen’s Avenue, Westville
… Bergtheil, this museum is situated in the leafy suburb of Westville, almost midway between Durban and Pinetown. The … floorboards. Park like surroundings…
PlaceGriquatown
… In 1802 William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer, of the London Missionary Society, established a station among … little better than their first, and for many…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… 1958, we came to trial. The government wanted us out of Johannesburg this time, to avoid huge crowds of Africans thronging the court precincts, as there had…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
… For the last few weeks millions of fevered eyes have been fixed on South Africa, host to the … ends next weekend. For half a century the probing gaze of the…
ArchivePreface by Denis Goldberg
… interplay determined my life’s trajectory. The trajectory of my life took me through a happy childhood filled with a deep awareness of the inequalities of…
PlaceJoubertina
… town in the Eastern Cape that, until the establishment of the famous and very long wine route, suffered little notoriety and languished as something of a one…
PlaceHugh Eksteen Photographic Museum, Polokwane-Limpopo
… to be 91 years old. This talented photographer was the son of Jacomina Hendrina van der Poel and his physician, … settle down in the Town that was once…
Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay, 12 August 1908
… James Ramsay Macdonald Esq., M.P. House of Parliament, London. Dear Sir, We were surprised & … that nothing seems to have been done in the matter of our…
EventThe British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announces that a mysterious epidemic (AIDS) is causing increasing concern in the United States
… AIDS has dramatically improved the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, however, in the 1980s, relatively little was … men in the United States. The…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had … However, it was only in the 1980s that the implementation of sanctions…
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… On 18 April 2005, Zimbabwe celebrated twenty-five years of independence after the overthrow of white majority rule, under the then Prime Minister Ian … and…
Call for Participants: Academy for African Urban Diversity
… urbanizing. If this point is agreed upon by a wide variety of actors—from media, to governments, UN agencies, … what this process will mean for Africans. The…
PlaceStone House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… Baker in 1902 as his own home, is an important component of Parktown's surviving architectural character. It makes use of natural building materials and its…
Document 79 - “What is the Communist Party? Lesson 4: What will be Done in the Bantu Republic?”, Umsebenzi, 17 March 1934
… in South Africa", 1907' I landed at Durban, and was, of course, soon being interviewed by the Press. Then, as now, … refused to admit the coloured races to…
Document 1 - Keir Hardie, “Stoned in South Africa”, 1907
… in South Africa", 1907' I landed at Durban, and was, of course, soon being interviewed by the Press. Then, as now, … refused to admit the coloured races to…