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Address at the National Youth Day Celebrations, 16 June 2002
… It has been 26 years since the youth of South Africa marched in all parts of the country on a lonely journey for a better education, a transformed South…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… If a life could be mapped, that of the Honorable Arthur Chaskalson would surely appear as a … human rights, and leading, without deviation, to the bench of…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as an activist was to the development of…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… me and inspires me to write this to you now, with the hour of your death still a fresh wound in our peoples’ hearts. We … other ‘Madala’ – old man – it…
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… to higher education in South Africa over a period of twenty-five years, and particularly to Rhodes University during his eight-year term of office. A career…
Statement "Algeria honours Chief Luthuli" by Oliver Tambo, 30 November 1964
… South Africa Freedom News, Dar es Salaam The University of Algiers has conferred an honorary Doctorate of Literature on Chief A.J. Luthuli, President-General…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the interfaith commissioning service for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town, 13 February 1996
… The Right Honourable Rev. Desmond Tutu, Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission;…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Tomichi Murayama Tokyo, 5 July 1995
… Your Excellency, Mr. Tomichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan; Excellencies; Ladies and Gentlemen. Since we … your beautiful country, we have been treated…
Address by ANC President, Nelson R. Mandela, to the Ruth First tenth anniversary commemoration trust Cape Town, 17 August 1992
… My grief was all the more poignant because I knew both of the men injured in the same blast. In my mind's eye I saw … together;who uncompromisingly broke…
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
… in a New South Africa , 1990) that you reject a kind of either or interpretation of the conflict, here in the conclusion of your book on… Sachs: Well I…
PlaceJohannesburg, Gauteng Province
… thunderstorms and is ironically the Economic powerhouse of Africa!" 'Joburg' as it is called by locals, was founded in the heydays of one of the World's…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… and Golden City Post in Johannesburg. Lewin at the launch of Stones Against the Mirror in 2011. Image source In July … in the African Resistance Movement, a…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin
… when I stepped off a British India steamer at the end of a long journey. Fresh from the rural life of northern India, South African Indians and their complex…
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
… Situated on the west coast of Africa, the banks of the River Gambia have been inhabited for many centuries. The first known written record of The Gambia is a…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… anything about the man and his work. That I was ignorant of his more than 60 years of photography, mostly in KwaZulu-Natal, some 30 of them in the service of…
PlaceFugard Theatre, Cape Town
… Fugard, a theatre based in Cape Town, was built within one of the five interconnected Sacks Futeran buildings in … Six . [1] It opened in early 2010 and was…
PlaceSouth African National Art Gallery
… in Cape Town. It was started in 1872 with the donation of Sir Thomas Butterworth's personal Gallery. From an initial bequest of 45 paintings presented in…
PlaceRichmond
… The Village of Richmond was established in 1844 on a portion of the Farm Driefontein, owned by P J van der Merwe. It was named after the Earl of Richmond,…
Chapter 7 - CONCLUSION
… - 1990 The Party, as an organisation, underwent a number of changes during the exile period, some of which were revisited after the unbanning in 1990. To…
PlaceRosebank, Cape Town
… Rosebank is a residential suburb of Cape Town , located between Mowbray and Rondebosch . The … suburbs train route) on 19 December 1864. The Suburb of…
PlaceXamdeboo was called Aberdeen, Eastern Cape
… Aberdeen is about 50 km South-West of Graaff-Reinet and only 3 hours drive from Port Elizabeth. … a small town in the Sarah Baartman District Municipality…
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… Suburb of Kimberley to the South of the Big Hole and North-West of New Park. It was established when the Newton Township, was … New Dictionary of South…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… Court, the country’s highest court. This spring, as part of a cross-country teaching and lecture tour of the United States, Sachs visited Flint, Mich. ”” the…
PlacePhillipton
… to 1910) Philipton was established in 1829 as a station of the London Missionary Society, and was named in honour of Dr John Philip, who was Superintendent…
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… been in South Africa now for 85 years, and in the measure of their possibilities, they have contributed to the prosperity and development of the Union. As…
PlaceGriqualand West
… The Khoikhoi was a nation of widely scattered migrant pastoralist clans, whose economy was not conducive to the creation of permanent Settlements. As a…
PlaceBlyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga
… One of the largest green canyons in the world, the Blyde River Canyon is a masterpiece carved over millions of years by the Blyde River as it cut through…
UCT defends stance on artistic freedom after Goldblatt pulls out by Paul Herman (News24), 4 March 2017
… Cape Town - The University of Cape Town has defended its protection of freedom of artistic expression, after the David Goldblatt Collection …
”Malan Cannot Succeed Where Hitler Failed”: Interview To , Cape Town, June 1950
… "Never before in the history of South Africa have the national leaders acted so swiftly and with complete oneness of purpose in their determination to beat…
PlaceFlagstaff
… a Mr Owen, established a trading store on the site of present-day Flagstaff. The Town owes its name to their practice of running a white flag up a flagstaff…