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O. R. Tambo Interviewed by RIXAKA, January 1985
… Question: In the January 8 statement of the National Executive Committee this year, prominent … field. How would you briefly define culture and the task of…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Rixaka, 05 January 1985
… Question : In the January 8 statement of the National Executive Committee this year, prominent … field. How would you briefly define culture and the task of…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… 1922 History does not proceed with the logical march of a proposition of Euclid. Wars and disputes never arise over clear-cut … in a hundred different…
An evening with FW de Klerk – the full event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017, (interview transcript)
… It’s 28 years ago that FW became leader of the National Party and he won against Barend du Plessis. … du Plessis got a home on Lake Geneva? Not that I know…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… The main building of the SA Army College was designed in a so-called … and when the South African Military School, predecessor of the Army College, was…
Address to the Swedish Parliament Stockholm, 13 March 1990
… It is a matter of the greatest joy to me that I have, at last, arrived in … This is therefore an historic day for us. It foretells of the moment when black…
Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi fo Leon Trotsky, 10 August 1932
… shall have seen a letter I send to the Communist League of America Opposition. Quite a lot has happened in the communist party of South Africa, private…
South African cricketers walk out in protest against apartheid after just one ball is bowled by Arunabha Sengupta, 3 April 2013
… In a trend-setting protest against the Apartheid policies of the Government, players of the two South African teams walked out after just one ball … Pollock…
Extract from a speech made at Koffiefontein on 11 August 1967
… inter alia to the UNO and South West Africa; the rumours of an impending split in the National Party, the necessity … told his audience that he was…
Address At The Commerce Faculty Graduation Ceremony(Media friendly) by Saleem Badat, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… dimension ensures that there is a keen awareness of the past and the present, how they intermesh, and create … and social change. Alberto Melucci, the great…
PlaceRondebosch Fountain, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… reality, only an ornamental trough used for the watering of horses, and consists of a round cast-iron drinking bowl supported on legs in the form of horses'…
PlaceElgin
… Originally called Koffee Kraal, the village of Elgin is a lush land circled with mountains, in the … . This broad upland valley, lies about 70km southeast of…
EventThe first ‘Bantustans’ or ‘homelands’ comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… On 11 December 1963 the first of the 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' came into existence when the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, De Wet Nel,…
EventThe ship São Bento (St Benedict) is wrecked on the Transkei coast
… the reason for the wreck is said to be due to the greed of Portuguese traders. Unlike the English, Dutch and French … C. Auret and .T.Maggs in 1982, the…
EventLinguist and educationist Sedumedi Moloto is born
… linguist, educationist and teacher who served as chairman of both the Tswana Language Committee of South Africa and the Botswana National Language Committee …
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Orange Free State and Cape, to restrict the further entry of…
Document 47 - “Answer to Government’s Apartheid Unions”, The Citizen. 1 3, 30 April 1956
… "THE LABOUR MOVEMENT MUST FIGHT ALL ATTEMPTS ON THE PART OF THE GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL THE FREE ASSOCIATION OF WORKERS INTRADE UNION ORGANISATIONS. IT IS THE…
ArchiveMarikana: The blame game - A special report by Niren Tolsi and Paul Botes
… in Marikana. Nearly three years later, on the afternoon of June 25 2015, with no warning to the families of those killed, President Jacob Zuma announced that…
EventFifth Constitution Amendment Bill is introduced
… The Republic of South Africa Constitution Fifth Amendment Bill, … in Parliament. The Bill was based closely on the majority of recommendations of the…
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… This is a bronze plaque on a cairn at the top of the Ecca Pass, 12 km South of Grahamstown. It was erected in 1964 by the Historical Monuments Commission in…
Cape Flats Details - Life and Popular Art in Cape Town’s Townships
… Author : Chris Ledochowski This book is the culmination of 10 years of documenting life in the Cape Flats African and Coloured townships of Cape Town by one…
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… On 1 May 1979, the first interim report of the Wiehahn Commission is tabled in Parliament. The … was set up by the government after the Durban strikes of…
ANC Gauteng Province pays tribute to Comrade Lawrance Phokanoka,15 July 2005
… dips its banner in tribute and honour to a stalwart of our national democratic revolution, Comrade Lawrance … in the Limpopo Province, passed away on the…
PlaceNewlands
… garden and an oak plantation. It remained the property of the VOC, and over the years became a gracious residence … 'New land'. In 1791 the property was sold…
PlaceCiskei
… for the South Africa's Xhosa -speaking people as part of apartheid racial segregation . The area was relatively small for the number of people it was…
PlaceRooigrond
… Rooigrond was a Rural Community 16km of Mafikeng and 25km South-West of Ottoshoop, in the former fomeland of Bophuthatswana, (now the North West Province)…
Bishop Tutu’s 1999 interview on NewsHour
… against apartheid in South Africa, including a reprise of several of his appearances on this program. CHAIRMAN : I call upon … his campaign against apartheid…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… Potenza An industrial revolution was affecting the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa. By the 1920s, one or more members of nearly every family…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Anthony Heard, October 1985
… views, how would you answer this, particularly the charge of being a communist-controlled organisation? TAMBO: It is … to observe that this has been a…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… controlled by Britain? This section examines The growth of manufacturing which today employs such a large work force … to finance the factories How the…