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… Read this characterization of a Slave from Malabar (Walks & Sketches – Robert Semple) – He is in all respects the best of the household slaves. Without the inactivity or the dullness of the Mozambique slave, or the penetrative genius of the …

… From the book:  A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Indian Relief Act of 1914 and the Smuts-Gandhi Agreement of 30 June 1914 marked the end of the satyagraha campaign, …

… From the book:  Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … who was a Coloured by pushing the same pen into the hair of the person whose identity was being established. Can you … this? Can you believe that we are home grown products of this society ? They were the experts - Clever folks these. …

… had a human cargo: 174 slaves. This was the first shipment of slaves to arrive in South Africa, and marked the beginning of almost 200 years of slave trade at the Cape. The Amersfoort was not a slaver … in Richard Elphick and Hermann Gilliomee,  The Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1820 . Cape Town: Maskew …

… The Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Sam Dlamini was hacked to death by a group of youths, and doused in petrol and burned. The riots were in … poor education facilities. In addition, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983 had been …

… The government of South Africa disputed compensation claims from the government of Botswana for damages caused by the July 1985 South African Defence Force raid on Gaborone, capital of Botswana. The disagreement came after talks between …

… King Leopold II of Belgium handed over the Congo to the Belgian state on this … undertaken to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa. He operated under the pretext of protecting the "natives" from Arab slavers and opening the …

… Common was vested land, which was granted to the City of Cape Town in 1923 for public recreation and sport fields. … Your stadium is home to Green Point Common; a little piece of paradise in the middle of the Mother City. For a fun day out, school tours, family …

… Here he announced his plan to launch the Constellation of Southern African States (CONSAS) as a programme to re-establish the regional dominance of the apartheid state and its partners in big business. … the region (which he understood to be under the influence of the Soviet Union) in order to ensure that the region …

… probing me to consider this question in the context of the South African white male and the responsibility he … photographer and activist Omar Badsha accuses Goldblatt of being “naive” to his subjects’ position, particularly … apartheid] who never really looked at the consequences of their actions”. For Goldblatt, the terms “white” and …

… we were taught was, this led me to do reading outside of what was prescribed. During my first year at Wits I joined … decision to once more entrench the financial exclusion of poor students...” To your knowledge, what has been the … movement was started by the SRC under my term, a month of planning went into this. We got student volunteers and …

… The Dutch Reformed congregation of Uitenhage, the 10th oldest Dutch Reformed congregation in … the second oldest in the Eastern Cape is the distinction of being the first and only church of the Dutch Reformed Church formed from three churches! When …

… the Historic Indian temple thereon, being the remainder of Lot 79, Tongaat Township, situated in the Township of Tongaat, Province of Natal, and measuring (12 269) square feet. Vishwa Shakti; …

… noted for its Indigenous Vegetation. Although it is a spot of great natural beauty, it is also of little Architectural merit and any Historical interest resides in the fact that the graves of the Fitzpatrick family are located nearby. It was declared …

… Bantu civilisation in the period from 400 A.D. The site of a later iron-age village of the Lala people can be visited in the Shaka Valley, near … 1500. Ice Age In the Groutville area, there are sites of pre-historic Ice Age glacial activities, likewise in the …

… Sisulu. Metetiwe. Born in the Transkei, in the district of Tsomo on twenty-first October 1918. Educated in a lower … school that took me up to high school in the same district of Tsomo in a college called Maria Zell, which was a Roman … because when I was fifteen years my parents died, both of them. And we are a family of five, and I am the second to …

… because it is read by the politically conscious peoples of South Africa, and because it may appear in the last issue of this most valuable fighter for freedom and democracy in … he said. His statement continued:] On the occasion of June 26, 1962, I want to address my message to all …

… 17 December 1981. It was the first such establishment of its kind in KwaZulu Natal , located in a so called “White” … permission from all businesses within a 200-meter radius of the proposed site in Stanfield Lane, Pinetown. After a … granted a full liquor license in 1983. In those dark days of Apartheid, the Rainbow played an important role in the …

… The estate of Kronendal was part of land granted to Willem Basson in 1713, although it was only developed as a farm towards the end of the century. Its farmhouse was probably built after 1777 …

… 'Mostly Unseen' presents a selection of photographs taken by David Goldblatt over the past five decades. At times, it is a show of subtle and understated beauty. Divided into five components, it includes 18 classic studies of an impoverished white community in the Karoo, presented …

… has sent his condolences to the family and friends of legendary poet and short story writer, Pascal Mafika … away on Sunday. "It is with deep sadness that we learned of the passing of legendary poet and short story writer, Pascal Mafika Gwala …

… religious persecution brought about by the ascendancy of Catholicism in France. The Edict of Nantes, passed in 1685, inspired a great deal of resentment among non Catholics. Fleeing religious … Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.|Pieter Coertzen: The Huguenots of 1688-1988, Tafelberg Publishers 1988|Viljoen, H. C.,  The …

… first padrÁƒo, or stone cross, at Kwaaihoek near the mouth of the Bushman's River on the Eastern Cape coast. It is South … African soil was Bartholomew (or Bartolomeu) Dias. Details of his birth and ancestry are unknown, and the first mention of his career as ship captain is in an account of an …

… Railway Siding 16 km west of Greytown, on the route to Kranskop. It was named in honour of Wilhelm Ahrens, Principal from 1880 to 1906 of the School at Hermannsburg, 4 km to the North-East. 447 km … New Dictionary of South African Place Names by Peter E. Raper. …

… an invading military force. Consequently, towards the end of the 18th century, the area saw the construction of a number of fortifications, first at the foot of Hangklip, and later …

… The chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and … beyond the Koedoesberg along the Riet River, southwest of Kimberley, although Kausob himself cited the farm Soutpan … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , Pretoria: HSRC. …

… Africa was making propaganda in the towns and villages of Namibia by pointing out the weaknesses of the UN and telling the people that UN resolutions were … never implemented. The only way to get South Africa out of Namibia was by force. Mr. Ben Amathila, Information …

… formerly Abyssinia, is a landlocked country in the East of Africa. It shares one of its borders with Somalia , to the East. Sudan to the West, … Ethiopia is even documented in the King James Version of the Bible. Archaeologist have found the oldest known human …

… ruled that in 1971 the SACP’s Timol was pushed by members of the Security Branch out of a window in John Vorster’s 10th floor or off its roof, … leading to his death. He said there was a prima facie case of murder against the two policemen, who had in the past …

… in the fight against apartheid, now a thorn in the side of the fat-cat politicians. (This article first appeared in … chairs, cooing sympathetically about the plight of the poor, but drive around in fancy cars mimicking wealthy … Many politicians in South Africa are not at the forefront of the struggle for a better life for all. The struggle is …