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… For the last few weeks millions of fevered eyes have been fixed on South Africa, host to the … ends next weekend. For half a century the probing gaze of the South African photographer David Goldblatt has been … delirium. Mr. Goldblatt’s art, avoiding the overt display of big feelings, goes for hard South African facts. A …

… Trevor Grundy writes on the life of the historian and political activist At a dinner party in … Ranger, who has died at his home in Oxford at the age of 85, told the left-wing academic John Reed  that he wished … to build up." In early 1968 - soon after the publication of his greatest work "Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-7" …

… The memory of District Six , also known as Kanaladorp (kanala is a Malay …  word meaning ‘help one another’), is marked by the event of 11 February 1966. On this day the district was declared a ‘White area’ under the 1950 Group Areas Act  of the Apartheid government. Before the passing of the Group …

… This charming figure which stands in front of the Oranje Girls High School was sculpted by Laurika Postma. The positive influence of aesthetically pleasing Buildings and well cared for School Grounds, on the creation of School Climate.This Article speaks about the positive …

… Following a press conference of General Staff Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio dos Santos Franca Ndalu, Chief of ForÁƒÂƒÂ§as Armadas Populares de LibertaÁƒÂƒÂ§ÁƒÂƒ£o de … had killed over 230 South African troops in the course of the offensive and had destroyed large numbers of vehicles, …

… virus a virus that kills its host by  attacking the lining of the cells and coagulating the blood in the human body.. … named after the Ebola River valley which was near the site of the first outbreak of the virus in 1976. It is thought that bats harbour the …

… place mentioned in John. It lies 13 kilometres East of Kirkwood and 60 kilometres North-East of Uitenhage,(formerly known as Witterivier). Enon was formed … in 1818 by the Moravian Missionary Society on request of the Area Landdrost Jacob Glen Cuyler, to serve as a buffer …

… Omar Badsha's first book of photographs, Letter to Farzanah was published in 1979 in commemoration of the United Nations declared International Year of the Child. The book, consisting of sixty-seven images and …

… On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were totally destroyed by … used in warfare. The American government justified the use of the bombs by saying that they wanted to shorten the war. … by the immense radiation. In both cities, the majority of the dead were civilians. The bombing forced the Japanese …

… The rapid expansion of Johannesburg after the end of the Second Anglo Boer War increased to over twice it's the … before the war. This increase meant that the usual means of transporting provisions and articles to and from the city …

… the past, it was mostly overlooked in the greater scheme of African safaris. The voyage of Vasco da Gama in 1498 marked the arrival of the Portuguese, which resulted in their settlement by … Portugal Coup 1974, World of the wars website [online, accessed 17 June, 2009]    …

… As a direct result of the abortive Jameson Raid of 1896, the Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek realised that they would …

… "The first Historical Settlement North of the Orange River, this Southern Free State Town also belongs to the False Karoo, a Geographical Region of dry scrub that transforms to grassland in times of rain. As I drift into Philippolis, an immediate sense of …

… 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 around me in the house of a friend who has been doing the recording for us. I am grateful to you for giving me this opportunity of speaking to your Group, separated though we are by …

… predominantly neo-Gothic manner. It forms an integral part of the Porter Reformatory, established here in 1880. It was … Although fortifications were a necessary feature of early Dutch settlement at the Cape, neither the Fort of Good Hope nor the Castle were in good strategic positions …

… 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: Operation … demonstration called by the cynics a riot-lost millions of rands as a result of the people not going to work. Thus …

… havoc amongst the indigenous and colonist population of the Cape Peninsula and adjacent interior. Hardest hit are … suffer huge losses to their numbers. The Smallpox Epidemic of 1713 On 13 February 1713 something as unlikely as the dirty linen of the crew of a Dutch ship that had stopped at the …

… a scientist, physician and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town. Fleming was born on 27 March 1905 in Port … in the Cape Colony (now known as Eastern Cape). He was one of South Africa’s most distinguished nutritional scientists …

… meeting, which was held to inform those residents of Peelton unable to attend a previous meeting, of the incorporation of the whole of Peelton into the Ciskei on 12 August 1988. … South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, …

… Bridge across the Second Creek, East London, West of Buffalo Harbour. Named in honour of Balthazar John Vorster, 1915-1983. Former Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa, know now as the Steve Biko …

… The National Party under Dr H.F. Verwoerd claimed majority of votes in a parliamentary general election, Verwoerd's last … before his assassination in office six months later.  Of the 166 seats representing the White voters of South Africa and South-West Africa, nineteen were …

… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at the South African College back in … to his involvement in academia in especially the field of philosophical investigation; but was dominated by the …

… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at the South African College back in … to his involvement in academia in especially the field of philosophical investigation; but was dominated by the …

… 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 coast eastward into …

… David Goldblatt (87)  has installed photographs of former criminals in prisons in Birmingham and Manchester. The portraits, part of a series called Ex-Offenders, show men and women at the scene of their crimes, with accompanying texts that relate the …

… 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 rally the support of the British government for the improvement of conditions at the camps. The camps came as a result of the …

… Text of the letter from Lt General Berning Ntlemeza, National Head of Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, to Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan, 19 February 2016 OFFICE OF THE …

… Harvard’s museum landscape: the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, which will host rotating exhibitions of American, European, and other black art traditions. … a prime campus setting, while the other comprises a pair of small storefronts on a busy thoroughfare several blocks …

… 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and the state of emergency , there were more than 100 sabotage attacks … innocent until proved guilty. Henceforth, in a case of sabotage, the prosecution needed to show only that the accused might be guilty, leaving the onus of proof of innocence on the accused. Proving innocence is …

… From the book:  Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … from the regime's racist policies and its total repression of human rights activists, after June 1976, arrived in … extended beyond the prison cells, with not a day of remission of their sentences. On release they were …