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… Mission station of the Moravian Church on the Western slopes of the Piketberg, in the magisterial district of Piketberg. The farm was originally (1838) bequeathed to …

… Dr Allan Boesak, former anti-apartheid activist, leader of the World Alliance of Churches and patron of the now disbanded United Democratic Front (UDF), was one …

… On 31 July 1969 Albertina Sisulu, the wife of Walter Sisulu who was serving a life sentence Robben … order renewed for another five years after the expiry of a previous one. Reasons for the renewal of the banning order were based on a mixture of fact and lies …

… The construction of the railway line linking Durban and Pietermaritzburg was completed in 1880, the twentieth anniversary of railways in South Africa. The line was constructed as result of a mounting need for transport, as Natal had to hold its … |Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed ., Pretoria: Academica, p. 225. …

… Social Charter of Fundamental Rights of Workers in Southern Africa 1992. Outline of origin of Charter. Green, red, black and white poster. …

… Dr Eschel Rhoodie, former South African secretary of information, was initially tracked down by a journalist at … shortly after testifying before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Roelof Erasmus. The commission was …

… was formally separated from the Cape Colony by means of the Charter of Natal. The Cape Governor still held the position of the High Commissioner, but the Lieutenant-Governor of …

… a naval college. McKinlay is considered to have been one of the most important motivators of what has become known as the " Berea Style ". It was … jewel, on the Victoria Embankment. It is considered one of the epitomes of the so-called `Berea Style' which arose …

… renamed Drakenstein Correctional Centre) on the outskirts of Paarl and was driven the 60 kms to Cape Town by African … Congress'(ANC) Rose Sonto along a route lined by thousands of supporters. On the balcony of the City Hall he spoke to a crowd of approximately 50 000 …

… Liberation Army (APLA) was the underground military wing of the Pan African Congress (PAC). APLA was formed in the 1960s, after the banning of the PAC and other political organisations such as the … Communist Party (SACP). APLA supported the PAC ideology of iZwe ngelethu, "Africa is Ours", and Mayibuye iAfrika, …

… Congress (ANC) released a report by an internal commission of inquiry (the Skweyiya Commission), appointed to … abuse allegations in ANC camps abroad. The members of the Commission, Louis Skweyiya, Gilbert Marcus and Bridgitte Mabandla, found evidence of brutality and torture to extract confessions from alleged …

… Cutting Through The Mountain is a collection of interviews with South Africans - most of them prominent and all of them Jewish - who fought against institutionalised racism …

… at the Lonmin platinum mine. This was the biggest incident of police brutality since the dawn of democracy and it revived memories of security-police brutality suffered under Apartheid. …

… Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the first Prime Minister of Nigeria after it gained independence. He served his term … term was tumultuous due to tensions in the western Region of the country. Nigeria was comprised of three regions each with a considerable amount of …

… A five-day conference of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) held in Cape Town … Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act (No. 28 of 1946) or "Ghetto Act". The Act deprived the Asian South Africans of communal representation and took away their fundamental …

… History of the farm Boschhoek Farm, (known locally as kwaHlathikhulu) … Inkosi Sigweje the previous leader, related the history of his people and their struggle to find land security in an … Rural Advancement (AFRA).  This interview forms the basis of a report as well on AFRA’s findings on the history of …

… As a matter of crude shorthand, the South African photographer David … as his country’s Walker Evans. Though Evans was one of Goldblatt’s models when he was starting out more than a … at this point serves only to hint at the moral clarity of his vision, the seriousness of his purpose and the scope …

… richly decorated gable, was completed in 1896 and is one of the last surviving structures of the old Transvaal railway system. It was declared a … began in 1895 on two other important station buildings of the Rand Tram, Krugersdorp and Jeppe. The former was …

… The village of Mowbray was established in about 1853 on the farm … an area more commonly known as Drie Koppen. This name was of Dutch origin, and was given to a road intersection where the heads of three slaves had been impaled, following their execution …

… African traders who visited south Saharan states in search of gold. The powerful Sudanese empires dominate the history of the Ivory Coast. It was from these empires that Islam spread to the northern regions of the Ivory Coast. After the collapse of the Sudanic empires …

… in Table Bay. Its name was first recorded in Dutch records of 1661, and probably refers to a defensive chain which … Three Anchor Bay, easily overlooked by Visitors because of the apparent seamless fusion of Green Point into Sea Point, lies in fact right where the …

… If you leave the "Mother City" of South Africa and follow the M3 towards Muizenberg , you will have a great view of the Coasts of False Bay (Afrikaans: Valsbaai) at the end of the route. …

… in the old Transvaal Province in 1895. She was the eldest of five children. At the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, the family moved to … Estcourt in Natal . It is here that she attended the first of thirteen schools. Two years after the end of the war the …

… Between 1962 and 1995 he was the Honorary Secretary of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. Minty played an … International Olympic Committee in 1963 for the suspension of the South African Olympic Committee from the Olympics. In 1969 he published his study on the defence strategy of the apartheid government in South Africa. His publication …

… The ancient city of Mapungubwe (meaning 'hill of the jackal') is an Iron Age archaeological site in the … years ago, Mapungubwe appears to have been the centre of the largest known kingdom in the African sub-continent. … sanparks,' The Route of Lost Kingdoms ', [Online],Available at: www.sanparks.org …

… as a lawyer after completing his studies at the University of Stellenbosch. Vorster was instrumental in the founding of the anti-British Ossewa-Brandwag (OB), and also became a … Africa's participation in WWII. The Conservative section of the NP were impressed by Vorster's membership of and …

… in England, as well as degree in law at the University of Amsterdam. He became increasingly disillusioned by the treatment of Afrikaners by the British colonial government and … attempted to challenge this injustice through the study of law. Upon his return to South Africa, he worked as an …

… in the Colony came a year after the Slavery Abolition Bill of 1833 was passed by the British House of Commons and by the House of Lords. Although the Bill was passed in August 1833 it came … Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa. Cape Town: NASOU. v. 9, p. 659-660.| …

… the semi-completed fortress, the Fort de Goede Hoop (Fort of Good Hope). Here their son, Bernert Willemz, was born on 6 … was appointed on a five-year contract as an employee of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). His task was to set up … on their way to the spice-rich Far East. The construction of a fort as a place of safety was a matter of great urgency …

… The Village of Papendorp lay some 2 km East of Cape Town , on the Main Road to Stellenbosch , later to … in 1781-84 , was registered in 1788 as security for a debt of 4,000 Florins, he had incurred with Jan Winterbach. In …