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ArchiveThe Tay Bridge Disaster by Peter Ball (The Heritage Portal), 24 September 2016
… pride, as in pride before a fall, has been the ruin of many a man, no more so than Thomas Bouch, a Victorian … engineer, whose life and career were blighted…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… Communist Party. Robben Island prisoner, 1963-1973. Member of Parliament, 1994-1999. Author: Island In Chains By … began playing an influential role in the…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… be built in 1910, and was initially housed on the campus of Witwatersrand. The gallery was overlooked by blocks of flats on three sides. To the east was one…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… Date of birth : 29 October 1938, Monrovia, Liberia. Ellen Johnson was born in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, amongst the descendants of original colonists…
PlaceMahaking, formerly known as Mafikeng
… Mafikeng is the provincial capital of North West since 1994 and lies on the border with Botswana , it's about 260 kilometers West of Johannesburg. It was…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Informal Ministerial Consultations on COP 17, O.R. Tambo Building, Tshwane, 09 September 2011
… honour and pleasure for me to welcome you on the occasion of this informal Ministerial consultation on climate change … The fact that we are gathered here is…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… ban this book. If I were them I would distribute thousands of copies for whites to show their children if they were … with eventual survival. (Ernest Cole…
Address to the Commonwealth Club, World Affairs Council and US/SA Business Council Conference, 24 May 2000
… in his book 'Future Positive', captures the essence of the dilemmas of the current economic relations between the rich and poor countries, where the process…
Restrictions on the media
… seventieth birthday had just been celebrated by millions of people throughout the world would have made it a logical … in Holland and Denmark, This was…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad … that make up “Intersections…
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… reader an insight into an important chapter in the history of our struggle from a different viewpoint because the racist dogmas of apartheid dictated that he…
PlaceEshowe, Northern Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Coastal Forest . Eshowe actually means Ekowe, the place of Mushrooms: "Esikhowe seNkosi uCetshwayo!" Eshowe offers visitors a variety of unusual attractions,…
PlaceFort Frederick, Port Elizabeth
… built in 1799 by the British Forces to defend the mouth of the Baakens River. Built in 1799 on a natural citadel, … Fort Frederick stands guard over a…
PlaceDjibouti
… Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, is a country of dry shrublands, volcanic formations and Gulf of Aden beaches. It's home to one of the saltiest bodies of …
Chapter IX - Return to my faith
… me and I cannot really account for it. There was a period of about two years between leaving convent school and going … although I would never have denied…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… central to ANC strategy, armed propaganda and the boycott of state-approved institutions, would serve the ANC well over … latter would become the main…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… the post-colonial university, an authorised centre of knowledge production? In one form or another, this question has been at the centre of discussions in…
PlaceLibya
… history, has more recently been known for the 42-year rule of the mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi - and the chaos that … springboard for migrants heading…
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… CAPETOWN. Dear Roux, I posted you yesterday copies of the resolutions passed at the Anti-Pass Conference with three paragraphs of general report at the foot…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… local house. An informer had tipped them off about a group of externally trained ANC cadres giving military training to … no reason to believe they were…
PlacePeddie
… Peddie is a small town in the Amathole district of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Peddie is a historic little town which lies 50 km South-West…
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
… African Town in the former Ciskei, about 11km North-West of King William’s Town (on the road to Alice) and Fort Beaufort! Dimbaza is a symbol of the 'surplus…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… Behind the imposing grey granite walls of the National Mutual Building of Australasia, on Church Square, lie over 150 000 historical … in the Iziko Social…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA TO THE RALLY AT KWA - MTHETHWA KwaMbonambi, 21 May 1995
… Nkosi Nyambose Bantu bakwaMthethwa Members of the Provincial Legislature Distinguished Guests Comrades and Friends I would like to thank the organisers of…
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 11 - … Alliance Despite the isolation and consequent defeat of the March-April 1960 Cape…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… The end of World War I was followed by a global depression that … on strike. The reasons for the strike were a reduction of wages and the preference for…
Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini by O. R. Tambo, Iran, 13 February 1979
… Maputo, People's Republic of Mozambique, February 13, 1979 His Excellency Ayatollah Khomeini, (2) Teheran Islamic Republic of Iran On behalf of the…
PlaceMauritania
… Mauritania, Country on the Atlantic coast of Africa. Culturally it forms a transitional zone between the Arab-Amazigh (Berber) populations of North Africa…
ArchiveIndia’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael
… From the hypnotic effects of the circular motions of the spiritual dancing of whirling dervishes to the mesmerising qawwali [1] …
Address On World Aids Day, 1 December 1999
… People of South Africa, Today we mark World AIDS Day. As South … we participate in the World AIDS Day events as part of our ongoing support for the…