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ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
… gains have been made since Nelson Mandela became President in 1994. The first is that the old guard racists have in general come to realize that there is no…
Address at 90th brthday celebration, by Nelson Mandela, 25 June 2008, London United Kingdom
… It is a great privilege having been able to travel here in our 90th year and be in the presence of so many good friends. Thank you for the continuing support…
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… west of Greytown, on the route to Kranskop. It was named in honour of Wilhelm Ahrens, Principal from 1880 to 1906 of … falls under the Umvoti Local…
PlaceTulbagh, Western Cape
… sub-drostdy with its Magisterial seat at Jan Disselsvlei. In about January 1896 its Northern Districts were separated … There are still a number of other…
28. The Dealer’s Licences Act is an attempt to weed out smaller traders
… councils and town boards to decide licence applications. In terms of the Law, their decision was final, and there was … for some time, and to see whether the…
28. The Dealers’ Licenses Act is an attempt to weed out small traders
… councils and town boards to decide licence applications. In terms of the Law, their decision was final, and there was … for some time, and to see whether the…
ArchiveAfrican languages should be at the center of educational and cultural achievement by Abdi Latif Dahir (Quartz Africa)
… At his farewell speech as the chairman of the African Union in 2004, Mozambique’s then-president Joaquim Chissano … surprised African leaders by delivering…
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… Funeral arrangements are afoot in the Eastern Cape in preparation for the funeral of African National Congress … from throughout the country, with the Mhlaba…
PlaceCamp’s Bay, Cape Town
… Farm that later became Camps Bay. She was born at the Cape in 1663. Her parents arrived at the Cape in 1658 as part of a group of 220 enslaved people taken…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 3
… by C. H. Calpin Mr. A.B. Moosa, partner of "A.I." in Avalon Associated Cinemas and one of the honorary secretaries of the SAIC in 1940, addressing a…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… In July 1990, five months after the South African government had unbanned the ANC, security police in Durban raided a local house. An informer had tipped…
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… 1946 8 Dear friend, I am addressing this letter to you in the hope that you would read it with sympathy and consideration. Indians have been in South Africa…
PlaceSprings
… what is now known as the Metropolitan area of Ekurhuleni , in the Gauteng Province. It was founded as a coal and gold mining town in 1904, but its History…
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
… In March 1939, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a series of eight articles which were reprinted in a pamphlet and later included in his book The Unity of India …
ArchiveUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
… In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a … president of The Gambia, adorns the ceiling. Jammeh, in his characteristic white, free…
PlaceSierra Leone
… Sierra Leone is found in West Africa, fronting onto the Atlantic Ocean , and … National Park and the Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary, in Sierra Leone. Gola…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Wellington East
… The foundation stone of this church was laid way back in 1838. The first section of the building which comprised of the nave only was taken into use in 1840…
PlaceRuth Prowse School of Art
… With the death of Ruth Prowse in 1967, her Mansion Property “the Retreat” located on … She was also the Curator of the Michaelis Collection, in Cape Town…
ArchiveInterview with Duma Nokwe
… the ANC from 1958 to 1969. Born to working class parents in Evaton, he studied at St. Peter's School in Johannesburg, Fort Hare, and the University of the…
EventNigerian Political Scientist Professor Claude Ake is born
… University where he taught political science. Ake died in a plane crash in 1996 when the airplane that he was travelling in crashed into a lagoon in a…
ArchiveOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
… Badsha and the accompanying launch of further book titles in the Social Identities South Africa Series are therefore … The photographic exhibition as well as…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of IDASA Cape Town, 18 August 1995
… assets is the vibrant civil society that its people forged in the struggle for freedom. On its continued vibrancy … here does not signify any relaxation of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to a joint sitting of both houses of the parliament of Lesotho Maseru, 12 July 1995
… victories as our own. The achievement of your forebears in holding colonial forces at bay was emulated, in our own time, apartheid regime encircling your…
EventTwo ANC members convicted of terrorism training
… Isaac Giwu and Mr Sivuyile Botwe Qegu were convicted in the Supreme Court in Bisho for terrorism training and being in possession of firearms and explosives…
PlaceAlbany, Eastern Cape
… was established on 7 January 1814 by Sir John Craddock, In 1811, he was appointed Governor of the Cape Colony and commander of the forces on that station,…
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… On 19 January 1984, the Stander gang robs three banks in less than an hour in the Johannesburg city centre. The Stander gang was a group … and even during…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Vietnam Institute of International Relations on the occasion of Africa Day celebrations, Hanoi
… Relations. Writing about the period between 1848 and 1875 in his book, 'The Age of Capital' historian Eric Hobsbawm … sky' at times when we analyse the…
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… the support of the opposition. Conscription was instituted in South Africa in the form of 9 months of service for all white males … anti-apartheid activists…
A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen)
… Pierre Simond, a Huguenot minister, was born in 1651 in Nion (Dauphine). After studying theology he became a … of the reformed Huguenot religion, he fled to…
PlaceSouth African Library, Cape Town
… two former National libraries: the South African Library in Cape Town and the State Library in Pretoria. It was declared a National Monument under old … on…