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PlaceStevenson Gallery, Woodstock-Cape Town
… The gallery, Stevenson, was founded in 2003 after two of its founding directors Michael Stevenson … that something new was afoot that had yet to find a home…
PlaceGreyton, Western Province
… This Village of Greyton, in the Cape , was established in 1852. Although the first plots of land were only sold in 1854. It was named in honour of Sir George…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the State dinner hosted by the Governor-general of New Zealand, Dame Catherine Tizard Wellington, 15 November 1995
… addressing business and interest groups on developments in South Africa. Wherever I went, I felt as if I was among … country. The people of New Zealand…
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…
53. The significance of the settlement for the colonial-born India
… Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In the following article, Albert Christopher reflects on what … remarked, the solution to the Indian…
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…
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… publication of the Liberal Party, was published monthly, in Pietermaritzburg, during the period January 1954 to … 1957. With effect from January 1958,…
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…
EventZelda la Grange was born on this day
… On this day, Zelda Grange was born in Pretoria, South Africa. She completed a 3-year National … started her career at the Department of State Expenditure in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Brief Commentary on the Question of HIV and AIDS by Thabo Mbeki, 7 March 2016
… carrying on various aspects on the ‘Mbeki Presidency.’ In 2002 a few of us here in South Africa wrote a booklet entitled “Castro Hlongwane…”, … for itself: …
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Roanne Moodley
… without media coverage- while June 16 remains a beacon in our past) I wonder about the differences that may exist … education system, and commodification of…
ArchivePhotography pundit David Goldblatt takes ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Matsepo, 2 June 2017
… (87) has installed photographs of former criminals in prisons in Birmingham and Manchester. The portraits, part of a series … with accompanying texts that…
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…