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Finding Courage: Young Women's Writings edited by Shamim Meer
… the past! by Frida Bapela Discovering the taste of lime in the midst of lemons by Lawrentia Lukhele A visit to the … a leader by Keitumetse Self Love by…
PlaceConcordia
… The village of Concordia was established in 1863 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society. It … obligingly laid down their weapons. The Boers remained…
EventMac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrive on Robben Island prison
… to house political prisoners and common law prisoners in the 1960s. Over the course of time, several hundred … from Robben Island. Maharaj and Masondo were…
EventTanganyika becomes a member of the UN
… a member of the United Nations(UN) and two years later, in 1963 it merged with the island of Zanzibar. Following the … winning the August 1960 elections by…
EventA group of White men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters
… government by Mahatma Gandhi made at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, India, the previous day. He had asked the … by warning the Resisters to vacate their…
EventOAU Council of Ministers decide to reject dialogue with South Africa
… and to gain acceptance of the status quo. However, in a declaration issued at its 17th ordinary session in June 1971, the OAU Council of Ministers concluded…
EventThe father of Rosalind Ballingall joins the search for his missing daughter
… University of Cape Town (UCT) who reportedly disappeared in the Knysna Forest. The daughter of a Rand Mine's … the Sugarhouse. She was thought to have been…
EventNelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
… In 1990, at the opening of parliament, former state president … from Victor Vorster Prison after spending 27 years in the gaol. After his release he toured…
EventMandela visits Zambia
… release from prison on 11 February 1990, after 27 years in jail, he had been following a gruelling schedule of … the headquarters of the African National…
EventThe Harms Commission officially restricts investigations into South African security force
… and unlawful acts of the security forces, were laid out in a Government Gazette. The commission's terms of reference … not be linked to the murder of Anton…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa’s longest wage strike
… At the time it was the second largest trade union in South Africa. NUM represented mainly Black mineworkers in the gold and coal mines belonging to the…
EventQueen Mother Elizabeth turns 100
… her 100th birthday with thousands of people lining up in the streets of London to cheer her. The Queen Mother is … full of presents and cards at Clarence…
EventWork is stopped at the Kimberley mine
… yielding production. This event ended a pioneering episode in South African engineering history. The history of the Kimberly mine began with the discovery of…
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… as a popular chief and earned the respect of the elders in the Amazondi traditional council. Related: References: … impi yamakhanda (1906 uprising) as…
EventGerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen buys a section of land, which is later declared part of the Witwatersrand gold reef
… on the property. When the main gold reef was discovered in the Roodepoort area of Johannesburg in 1886, Langlaagte was incorporated into a group of nine ……
PlaceAgate Terrace, Port St. Johns
… here. The 'Meliskerk' was wrecked off the Coast there in 1943. Agate Terrace is halfway between the river mouth and where the beach ends abruptly in a very…
Oliver Tambo call for the observance of the 70th birthday of Nelson Mandela, 18 June 1988
… challenge to the full might of Pretoria`s tyranny. In spite of fierce repression under the state of emergency, … July 1988. Let the apartheid regime know the…
Call for the Observance of the 70th Birthday of Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, June 1988
… challenge to the full might of Pretoria's tyranny. In spite of fierce repression under the state of emergency, … July 1988. Let the apartheid regime know the…
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… and the scope of his achievement. It does not prepare you in any serious way for the stirring experience that awaits … (I first met Goldblatt—a long-time…
PlaceXanadu Nature Estate, Hartebeespoort
… The beautiful Xanadu Nature Estate , in Hartbeespoort, is set on 240 Hectares and overlooks the … they can observe bird and game activity. (link availible in…
ArchiveBuild UDF
… Black and white; artwork of bricks in the shape of a hand in a fist. …
ArchiveKhumbula, Unganikezeli, Onthou, Remember June 16
… Black and white, text in red, with artwork of school children in protest. …
Minutes: Vergadering van die AG-Werkgroep op 22 Augustus 1986, Kantoor van die Administrateur-Generaal, Windhoek
… Minutes, written in Afrikaans, of a meeting of the AG-Workgroup held in Windhoek. …
ArchiveEritrea never kneel down
… War on Want poster. Title in black letters. Coloured photographs of people in Eritrea. …
ArchiveThe bus boycott, Johannesburg: The explosive penny
… Incomplete article by I B Tabata about a bus boycott in Johannesburg following an increase in fares. …
ArchiveMisani : Udlame lwamaphoyisa : Notheleweni
… Black, green and yellow poster. Word Misani in white letters. Other letters in black. …
Minutes: Vergadering van die AG-Werkgroep op 19 en 20 Maart, 1987, Kaapstad
… Minutes, written in Afrikaans, of a meeting of the AG-Workgroup held in Cape Town. …
ArchiveMeet the chief
… Ribebe is the traditional leader of the Sambiyu people in the Kavango in Namibia …
ArchiveMosambiek: Die huidige stand MBT moontlike onderhandelinge tussen RENAMO en FRELIMO
… Memorandum, written in Afrikaans, outling the situation in Mozambique with regard to FRELIMO and RENAMO …
ArchiveHuman rights now!
… White image of man breaking apart black background. Title in black letters underlined in red. …