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Interview with Oliver Tambo to Newsweek, 01 August 1980
… a decision by the ANC. It is dictated by the expectations of the people. Q : Do you believe violence is the only … alternative left to achieve a solution to…
EventDulcie September's 's life commemorated at Athlone High School
… September was born on 20 August 1935. From her early years of activism she chose the path of resistance against the apartheid regime. She was a member of the…
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… The history of broadcasting in South Africa can be traced back to 1923, … broadcast was made in Johannesburg. By April 1927, an hour of Afrikaans programming…
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… During the 1980's P. W. Botha, the President of South Africa and leader of the National Party, launched his "Total Strategy" in response to what he saw as…
EventTRC gathers evidence against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
… against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, estranged ex-wife of former president, Nelson Mandela. Despite the fact that … she continued to gain wide support within…
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… The Rand Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising, also referred to as the Rand Revolt or Red Revolt, which occurred during a period of economic depression…
PlaceCradock Division
… the Eastern Cape Province. It is approximately 240km north of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality. It is one of six municipalities in the district,…
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… South Africa celebrates Freedom Day to mark the liberation of our country and its people from a long period of colonialism and White minority domination …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… Indian Congress (TIC), which was formed at the turn of the twentieth century by Mahatma Gandhi. It was not banned but was severely affected by the harsh…
ANC NGC – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly by Marius Strydom (News24 Voices), 12 October 2015
… himself facing an angry television audience at a recording of The Big Debate, the popular TV show that no longer airs. … for him. At issue was participation…
PlaceLookout, Uitenhage
… noted for its Indigenous Vegetation. Although it is a spot of great natural beauty, it is also of little Architectural merit and any Historical interest…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church Hall, Uitenhage
… The Dutch Reformed congregation of Uitenhage, the 10th oldest Dutch Reformed congregation in … the second oldest in the Eastern Cape is the distinction of…
PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
… a beautiful, geometrical domed building, was the epitome of high society in Cape Town at the turn of the century when it was built as part of a hotel and…
PlaceWrensch House, 77 Lower Wrench Road, Observatory
… The main building, as well as some of its outbuildings, date from the last quarter of the 18th century, but subsequent additions have given it an overlay of…
EventCurnick Ndlovu, Trade Unionist, is arrested.
… Curnick Ndlovu was the secretary of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a leader…
So truth be in the field
… A study of the history of South Africa, from an anthropologists point. With emphasis on the moral elements of social action including the injustice of racial…
ArchiveSo truth be in the field
… A study of the history of South Africa, from an anthropologists point. With emphasis on the moral elements of social action including the injustice of racial…
"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962
… because it is read by the politically conscious peoples of South Africa, and because it may appear in the last issue of this most valuable fighter for…
David Goldblatt - 'Mostly Unseen' at the Goodman Gallery by Sean O'Toole
… 'Mostly Unseen' presents a selection of photographs taken by David Goldblatt over the past five decades. At times, it is a show of subtle and understated…
PlaceKronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay.
… The estate of Kronendal was part of land granted to Willem Basson in 1713, although it was only developed as a farm towards the end of the century. Its…
PlaceEthiopia
… formerly Abyssinia, is a landlocked country in the East of Africa. It shares one of its borders with Somalia , to the East. Sudan to the West, … Ethiopia is…
ArchiveThe Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé
… in the fight against apartheid, now a thorn in the side of the fat-cat politicians. (This article first appeared in … chairs, cooing sympathetically about…
Cosatu special congress, Day One: The façade finally falls by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 14 July 2015, South Africa
… Falls For the longest time, the national office bearers of Cosatu insisted that they have a firm grip on the federation. After the expulsion of metalworkers…
PlaceTokai Arboretum, Tokai Forest
… was laid out in 1885 by Joseph Storr Lister, Conservator of Forests of the Western Conservancy of the Cape Colony, thus marking the beginnings of a Forestry …
Document 4 - ‘Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering’: report in the ‘South African Worker’
… Prime Minister, YOUR people more than any other section of the white community must surely know in the very core of their beings, if they were unaware of the…
PlaceLimpopo Province
… Area that lies Northern most in South Africa , just South of Zimbabwe . It was first called the Northern Province, but … this was changed in 2002. The…
I - Introduction
… has an independent inquiry been held; nor has any member of the security police or anyone else been held responsible … cannot be penetrated by friends or…
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… became a mounted policeman at Thaba Nchu, on the border of Basutoland. When I was three years old, the family went to … movements and some fighting in the…
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… Here he announced his plan to launch the Constellation of Southern African States (CONSAS) as a programme to re-establish the regional dominance of the…