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EventJacob Zuma, Former President of South Africa and of the ANC, is born.
… Zuma was born on the 12 April 1942, at Inkandla, in KwaZulu Natal. At the age of 17, he joined the African … active member of its military wing, uMkhonto…
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
… interview with Peter Donald Hjul who was a leading figure in the Liberal Party, which existed from 1953 until 1968. Born in Northern Rhodesia in 1929, Hjul…
EventAndries Dreyer, church archivist and collector of Africana, dies
… Andries Dreyer was born on 10 January 1872 in Philadelphia, in the present day Western Cape Province. After studying at the Normal College in Cape Town, be…
A tribute to international solidarity support for Southern Africa
… 40 years ago, the Anti-Apartheid Movement was launched in London at the request of the African National Congress of … Huddleston, both of whom later played…
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
… of the Union of South Africa marks an important step in the political history of the country. The change that will be effected in the government of the four…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
… military means. The political events which have occurred in the last few years have convinced the overwhelming … It can also be gauged by their reluctance to…
The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
… ANC. It was he who, on his return from long years of study in the United States and Britain, issued the call to Africans to meet in Bloemfontein in January…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Bosman Street, Pretoria
… Square used to house the Dutch Reformed Church building in Pretoria, with the open space around it used as ‘outspan’ … and used the proceeds to build two new…
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… under the auspices of the Market Theatre Foundation. In the last two years Windybrow has been Restored. The team … Books Reading Room. It is a centre that is…
PlaceThe Mead and Meadway, Pinelands-Cape Town
… The land was granted to the Garden Cities Trust in 1919 and was capitalised in part by a member of the trust, namely Richard Stuttaford … The first Pinelands…
ArchiveBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
… Context In the 1960s, Senegal was a new, independent nation. It had previously been ruled in succession by the Portuguese, the Dutch and finally the ……
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… Political leader, Walter Ulyate Sisulu was born in the Engcobo area in the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu worked as a miner, … before joining the African…
PlaceClarkson, Eastern Cape
… A Moravian Mission Village in the former Humansdorp District, 26 km South-East of Assegaaibos Railroad Station, located in Cacadu District Municipality. It…
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
… the many personal accounts now published by those involved in the anti-apartheid struggle, Norman Levy’s substantial … of South Africa’s cheap labour system,…
EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
… Tatamkhulu Africa was born in As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a … on 7 December 1920. His parents relocated to South Africa in…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the National Council of Provinces Cape Town, 7 August 1998
… as "first". And so it is with this august Council, now in the second year of its service to democracy in South Africa. Part of that service, we believe, is…
Domestic work
… violence, tension and conflict. That is unacceptable and in nobody's interest. The well-being of all in this country is linked inextricably to the ability of…
2003 New Year Message, 30 December 2002
… a close. The last month of this year will be remembered in the Southern hemisphere for the total solar eclipse in some parts that for six seemingly long…
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… became a symbol of the struggle against colonialism in Tanzania and to other African countries including South … allowing several liberation movements to…
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church rejoins the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
… with the WARC persuaded the church to renounce apartheid in its theological teachings. The DRC was suspended from the WARC at the 21st General Council…
EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… the evening of 16 December 1961 five bombs were detonated in Port Elizabeth. The MK High Command selected targets for … buildings. For instance, an…
PlaceSt George’s Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town
… the Martyr stands at the bottom of Parliament Street in Cape Town and was erected to provide a place of worship for English settlers of the Anglican…
Towards Simon’s Town – The life of Peter Clarke by Joline Young
… and melodic, that I could not help but quote him verbatim in many parts of this text. Being a well known man in his community, his house was easy to find. …
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… Cynthia Lindenberg Letty was born in Standerton, in the old Transvaal Province in 1895. She was the eldest of five children. At the outbreak …
PlaceThe Simon's Town Mosque
… looks down majestically from Thomas Street, Simon’s Town in the Western Cape. Passers-by, especially Tourists, gaze up in wonder at its fine Architecture,…
Presidential Address to the Extended Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, April 1975
… Events across the globe in the past twelve months have moved at a new speed, in some instances, a dazzling pace. The period from the … coup to the…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 4
… to encourage co-operation between town councils in matters of common interest. The body was composed of … of town councils and performed some useful work in…
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… Sir Patrick Duncan was born on 21 December 1870 in Fortrie, Banffshire, Scotland as the second son of a crofter. He received a Master of Arts in Classics…
PlaceSt Thomas’ Church, Ridge Road, Berea, Durban
… In 1835, Captain Allan Gardiner retired from the navy and … the Zulus as a whole were singularly disinterested in both his and most other Missionary…
“What I Owe To Mahatma Gandhi”: An Article, September 16, 1948
… word among the Indian community. I faintly realised in those early days the powers of the simple man who was to achieve in the fullness of time such miracles…