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Archive`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement
… The magnificent response to the call of the National Action Council for a three day strike and the … people determined to win their freedom. In the face of…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… Muziwakhe Lembede Abraham, Peter. Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Basner, Miriam. Am I an African? The Political Mem^oirs of…
PlacePiketberg
… The small, farming Town of Piketberg also sometimes spelt Piquetberg in the past. Is located at the foot of the Piketberg Mountain Range. It is surrounded by…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history. There were several political and … First,…
25. ‘Free State’ implies equality, declare traders
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … O.F.S. Volksraad in May 1887. They were, like the authors of…
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … 'free' or 'passenger' Indians. The former came as a result of a…
Education for Service
… We, the duly authorised representatives of political parties, political organisations, … African Government, coming together at this first meeting of the…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
… for Unity in the working class and for the establishment of a broad "People's Front" to stop fascism and war, proclaimed by the Seventh Congress of the…
ArchiveCommittee report: Education charter campaign
… Report of the Education Charter Campaign, a joint campaign of the Azanian Students Organisation, the Congress of South African Students and the National…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local people. Gqeberha was the original name for the … and Walmer Township in the area. The name…
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… Plaque was unveiled at Windybrow. 2017, saw the reopening of Windybrow as an Arts Centre under the auspices of the Market Theatre Foundation. In the last two…
PlaceMossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
… maritime achievement, if one considered the small size of his Carvel, a replica of which is housed in the museum at Mossel Bay . Of the original 170 men only…
PlaceThe Mead and Meadway, Pinelands-Cape Town
… Trust in 1919 and was capitalised in part by a member of the trust, namely Richard Stuttaford of Stuttaford’s fame. The first Pinelands Homes were thatched…
PlaceSharpeville, Gauteng
… unarmed group headed to the Police Station with the intent of protesting against having to carry around pass books . The police did not know what to do with…
42nd African National Congress Conference: Resolutions, 20 December, 1953
… to make plans for and embark upon an immediate campaign of economic boycott directed against selected individual … undertakings and government enterprises…
AAM and UN: partners in the international campaign against apartheid
… I think of the 'anti-apartheid movement' as a coalition of anti-apartheid organisations and individuals, as well as a growing number of governments, which in…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… March, 1992, President F.W. de Klerk announced the results of the Whites-only referendum held to determine White … he started in February 1990. Surprisingly,…
PlaceRandjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg
… in 1886 on the triangular site Randjeslaagte, the area of the town was nine square km. Randjeslaagte was a piece of ‘uitvalgrond’ – land left over from the…
ANC Gauteng Centenary Month to celebrate Oliver Tambo, 18 October 2012
… November 2012. The ANC will celebrate the life and legacy of the ANC President O. R Tambo. As we celebrate President O.R Tambos contribution to the struggle…
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… The farming community of Kirkwood, in the heart of the Sundays River Valley, close to the town of Addo and the Northern regions of the Addo Elephant Park, …
Address at the Paris City Hall, 18 November 2003
… Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to meet with the Mayor of the great city of Paris, a city whose rich history, cultural splendour and architectural beauty…
PlaceRailway Station, Muizenberg
… and was officially opened on 7 June 1913 by the Minister of Railways & Harbours, Mr Henry Burton. It was declared a … entrances and beautiful teak clock…
PlacePinetown and its Museum
… commercial town named after Sir Benjamin Pine , Governor of Natal (1873-75). At the heart of the town and just off the main road lies the Pinetown … the…
Introduction
… The energies of South African Indians, mobilised in the 1890s against growing anti-Indianism in various parts of South Africa, were channelled into a…
Slavery in South Africa
… known in India that there was a considerable importation of slaves from Asia to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company and its employees. Some of the…
PlaceSeychelles
… can trace its first Settlement back to 1770. It is made up of 115 small Islands. They were first settled on by the French, leading a small party of Whites,…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… among African American activists. He was a key founder of the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights … United States, and from 1910 to 1934 served it as…
ArchiveSouth Africa wants to make history compulsory at school. But can it? by Linda Chisholm (the Conversation.com), 1 June 2018
… South Africa’s minister of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has released a … a ministerial task team that recommends a major overhaul of the history…
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… Review of The Reb and the Rebel Jewish Narratives in South Africa … Schrire. Published by UCT Press and the Kaplan Centre of Jewish Studies and Research,…
Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Although the union had previously denounced the treachery of Neville Chamberlain, once war was declared it supported the war effort, and hundreds of members,…