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PlaceAir Force Museum, Port Elizabeth
… This museum depicts the history of the South African Air Force and houses a collection of old aircraft, missiles, uniforms, aeronautical displays and…
EventMac Maharaj is born
… (Mac) Maharaj, political activist and first SA Minister of Transport in the democratically elected government in … he formulated a new policy and…
Document 79 - “What is the Communist Party? Lesson 4: What will be Done in the Bantu Republic?”, Umsebenzi, 17 March 1934
… in South Africa", 1907' I landed at Durban, and was, of course, soon being interviewed by the Press. Then, as now, … refused to admit the coloured races to…
Document 1 - Keir Hardie, “Stoned in South Africa”, 1907
… in South Africa", 1907' I landed at Durban, and was, of course, soon being interviewed by the Press. Then, as now, … refused to admit the coloured races to…
PlaceJoubertina
… town in the Eastern Cape that, until the establishment of the famous and very long wine route, suffered little notoriety and languished as something of a one…
PlaceHugh Eksteen Photographic Museum, Polokwane-Limpopo
… to be 91 years old. This talented photographer was the son of Jacomina Hendrina van der Poel and his physician, … settle down in the Town that was once…
Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay, 12 August 1908
… James Ramsay Macdonald Esq., M.P. House of Parliament, London. Dear Sir, We were surprised & … that nothing seems to have been done in the matter of our…
EventThe British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announces that a mysterious epidemic (AIDS) is causing increasing concern in the United States
… AIDS has dramatically improved the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, however, in the 1980s, relatively little was … men in the United States. The…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had … However, it was only in the 1980s that the implementation of sanctions…
PlaceMuizenberg and Marina da Gama
… The Village of Muizenberg was established by the Dutch in 1743 as a … was named after Wynand Willem Muijs , Sergeant in charge of the post in 1844, and later…
Nelson Mandela The World Celebrates the Mandela’s
… banning order expired in September 1975 and thirteen years of silence was broken. She was in a sense pulled back from … reception fell into disarray, the…
Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014
… Harvard’s museum landscape: the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, which will host rotating exhibitions of American, European, and…
The Hawks letter to Pravin Gordhan by Berning Ntlemeza (Politics Web), 28 February 2016
… Text of the letter from Lt General Berning Ntlemeza, National Head of Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, to Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan, 19…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
… Since the rising of the sun of democracy upon the magnificent Drakensberg, none of the other sons of the soil on whom we have bestowed the …
Message sent to Canon Collins by ALbert Luthuli, 1 March 1956
… Canon Collins. I have just been making a tape-recording of a message that I am sending to your Group. I was told by a … I have quite a little audience here…
Azikhwelwa on Monday. Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council calling for a stay-away from 13 September 1976
… calling for a stay-away from September 13, 1976 The people of South Africa are going into the third phase of their struggle against the oppressors, namely:…
EventSmallpox Epidemic Strikes at the Cape
… havoc amongst the indigenous and colonist population of the Cape Peninsula and adjacent interior. Hardest hit are … suffer huge losses to their numbers. The…
David Goldblatt: “Particulars” (1975) by The ASX Team, 16 May 2013
… been fed by life experiences and heightened by the kind of hyper-awareness that photography sometimes enables and demands…” “My first awareness of a bodily…
PlaceOld Fort, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg
… Following the invasion of the ZAR in January 1896 by a troop of cavalry led by Dr Leander Jameson, the Executive Committee of the Republic, resolved on 12…
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… formed in protest to the Tricameral Parliament. It was one of the most significant anti-apartheid movements, and comprised of 400 church, civic and student…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet Division
… The district of Graaff-Reinet was constituted on 26 August 1785 and its … the 1880's they bore no relationship to the original lines of delimitation. When…
ArchiveThe apartheid city and its labouring class: African workers and the independent trade union movement in Durban, 1959-1985
… in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject history at the University of South Africa. This…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 10: So
… Report of the Political Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society. … political position in South Africa; Political aspects of…
ArchiveSelf rule in the Transkei: a monstrous fraud
… about; to which this document ensures continued domination of the Transkei by the Republic of South Africa. The Unity Movement and the freedom fighters' ……
ArchiveRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
… Forty years ago, in the early hours of January 8th 1978, a 36-year old political philosopher was … colleagues and friends as Rick) was coming to the end of a…
My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016
… his denialist position, which hampered the roll-out of anti-retrovirals (ARVs) to ordinary South Africans and, is said to have unnecessarily claimed the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… struggle, January 1974 - June 1976 A struggle is made up of failures essentially. It’s true. You only win once, and … Moreover the ANC lacked any domestic…
PlaceSenegal
… Cape Verde (Cap Vert) Peninsula is the western most point of the African continent. The Gambia consists of a narrow strip of territory that extends from the…
EventEmily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps
… addressed public meetings in Britain about the conditions of the Concentration camps during the South African War. … in the camps and at the same time to…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
… now.” – Ray Phiri You can’t relegate the activism of the late Ray Chikapa Phiri to the past; as the quote above … them. That’s the point: much as the present…