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PlaceRondebosch
… In 1657 a group of four free burghers were granted land in an area south of Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope . Jan van Riebeeck , the Dutch commander at…
PlaceFort Cox
… Fort Cox was a "post of occupation" established by the British military in 1835 and was named in honour of Major William Cox of the 75th Regiment and a…
Address by President Mandela at ECOWAS Abuja, 30 October 1998
… Your Excellency, the Chair of ECOWAS Heads of State Excellencies Distinguished delegates Ladies and Gentlemen It is indeed an honour for me as the Chair of…
Challenge to the church: A Theological Comment on the Political Crisis in South Africa | The Kairos Document, 1985
… Christians in South Africa to reflect on the situation of death in our country. It is a critique of the current theological models that determine the type of…
PlaceUitenhage, officially renamed Kariega
… the Kariega River , approximately 35 kilometres north of Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth). In Uitenhage you can … form. The Old Drostdy Museum built in…
SAHO Milestones
… 2000 June - Registration of SAHO as an NGO South African History Online (SAHO) was … Section 21 organisation 30 August - The Lives of Courage campaign was…
PlacePondoland
… or, more correctly Mpondoland, incorporated the divisions of Bizana, Libode, Ngqeleni, Port St John's, Tabankulu, and Umsikaba. In 1899 provisions of…
Canon Collins Memorial Lecture by Oliver Tambo, 28 May 1987, London
… Canon John Collins passed away. With his departure, many of us lost a dear friend. As a people, we lost a … a dependable ally in the struggle to abolish the…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 1) by Thabo Mbeki, 21 March, 2016
… comrade to engage him on an article he had written in one of the local newspapers to engage him on one of the issues he raised, i.e. as a country, “we self…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
… Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Honourable Chairperson and Deputy Chairpersons of the National Council of Provinces; Honourable…
PlaceAthlone - or Cape Flats, Cape Town
… was once known as West London, but renamed in honour of a member of the British Royal family. It was during the 1930s that the Earl of Athlone , arrived here…
PlaceGrahamstown, now known as Makhanda
… (2022 census), urban area, 97,815. Following the expulsion of the Xhosa chief, Ndlambe and some 20,000 of his followers from the Zuurveld , in 1811, the…
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
… to invite you to join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams. I ask those of you of my generation: let us cast our minds back to the run up to …
No Arms for South Africa: Albert Luthuli, 8 May 1963
… (An appeal sent to the people of the United Kingdom in May 1963 through the Anti-Apartheid Movement) I greet all lovers of freedom, wherever they may be…
Chapter 3. The Poor White Problem - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… I came face-to-face with the "Poor White" problem, one of the major tragedies of South Africa. People abroad believe that all Europeans in … against poverty,…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 1 - The First Farmers by Jeff Guy
… and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education For a moment let's consider history as a journey through time and space. For much of this…
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
… emphasis on the national unification and organisation of the non-European for the purpose of achieving full democratic rights. There are still some ……
INDIAN SOUTH AFRICANS - A brief history
… that had been brought to the Cape in the second half of the seventeenth century, it was only after the 1860s that … Africa had a relatively large Indian…
PlaceGardens Shul in Cape Town
… Southern Hemisphere! Until the 17th Century the history of Jewry had been played out in the relatively confined geographical Area of the Middle East, North…
PlaceZululand District Municipality
… Known as: 'The Kingdom of the Zulu' . KwaZulu-Natal is a: "melting pot of African, European and Indian cultures" . Known as the Kingdom of the Zulu ! This…
African farmers in Southern Africa
… The first farmers For a period of time that is almost impossible to imagine, all the inhabitants of Southern Africa were Stone Age hunter-gatherers. Then ……
PlaceKnysna, Garden Route- Western Province
… spellings since about the 1770's. It was ‘Nysna’ in one of the earliest letters from James Callander (who built a … home for himself at The Heads, and who…
81. The People’s Candidates Party and the Lenasia Management Committee
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … he declared, was not interested in the 'glittering chains of…
PlaceNiger
… Niger (was a former French colony to the north of Nigeria) and Nigeria (was a former British colony) were … them. The Arab legacy on the continent, with the…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… Town arrived on the HMS Melville in 1838. [i] Their date of arrival was telling, having coincided with enslaved people at the Cape experiencing their first…
27. Transvaal Indians respond to the 1895 arbitration decision
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Justice Melius de Villiers delivered his decision on Law 3 of…
Address at a Public Rally Dar Es Salaam Dar Es Salaam, 17 November 1998
… Mkapa Vice President Omar Ali Juma President Amour of Zanzibar Mr. Prime Minister Secretary General of the CCM Ladies and gentlemen My brothers and sisters…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on 16 June 1984
… The month of June, like no other month, carries a galaxy of dates each of which records and bears witness to the heroic content of …
Statement on June 16 by O. R. Tambo, 1984
… The month of June, like no other month, carries a galaxy of dates each of which records and bears witness to the heroic content of …
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
… HAD ITS BEGINNING as a propaganda force from the plinth of Van Riebeeck Statue, Adderley Street, Cape Town, when it stood at the bottom of Dock Road in the…