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Book launch: Attacking the Heart of Apartheid by Yunus Carrim
… equality. Date: Saturday 18 October 2025 Time: 14:00 - 16:00 Venue: The Witness Office, 225 Hoosen Haffajee Street, …
PlacePrestwich Memorial and Garden
During excavations for a new residential block in Cape Town in 2003, old bones were uncovered! These were decided to be unmarked graves of slaves, dating from…
PlaceWagenaer's Reservoir, Sanlam Golden Acre-Cape Town
… major public transport systems. This ancient aqueduct dates back to the 1600's. This ancient structure was …
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… Islamic cities and in the middle of urban Cairo, the site dates from the 10th century and reached its golden age in the …
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… who demanded the recognition of their union, and a wage of 10 shillings a day, a wage that the Chamber of Mines refused … 4. Abolition of the contract system…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation, 9 February 2012
… the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town 09 Feb 2012 Honourable Speaker of the National Assembly, … The year 2012 is also special because…
Frances Baard Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps, 11 July 2013
The African National Congress in the Frances Baard Region will be launching the Luthuli Volunteer Corps on Sunday 14 July 2013. The Programme will include a…
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
… Chapter 9 "To build solidarity - that was my task" Chapter 10 East - West Relations Chapter 11 Thank you for the … Chapter 15 Denis Goldberg - a Face of…
PlaceMaitland
… the two locations. It now has a population of about 10 000 people, made up mostly of Black African and Coloured, …
EventPolice open fire to disperse a rioting crowd in Cato Manor, Durban
… Cato Manor, a shanty town, is situated 10 kilometres from the centre of Durban; it was named after …
EventWilhelmina Johanna (Wilma) Stockenström is born
… moved back to Cape Town with her husband, who passed away 10 years later. …
PlaceGrey Institute/School, Port Elizabeth
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 December 1976. …
EventJacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the WBO world champion title
Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala was born on 8 January 1962 in Soweto, Johannesburg. He began his professional boxing career in 1980. Matlala’s first crack at a world…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… by hanging in Pretoria Central Prison, was born on 10 July 1956 in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria. Mahlangu left the …
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, Masego was one of 10 722 South Africans who were taken to a German …
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela’s bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
… of this, he had spent a year in detention at the age of 10, reportedly the country's youngest detainee. …
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
The Supreme Court convicted former Police Colonel Eugene de Kock (dubbed 'Prime Evil') of six murders of Black anti-apartheid activists during his service as…
EventWits attains full university status
… Student numbers increased rapidly to 6 275 in 1963, 10 600 in 1975 and by 1985 there were 16 400 students. …
EventThe State President F.W. de Klerk issues a proclamation adopting the new national flag and National Anthem of SA
… national flag in the world. The flag was first flown on 10 May 1994, the day Nelson Mandela became president - two …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections end as counting begins
… leadership of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi won 2 058 294 (10%) of the national votes, Freedom Front (FF) under the …
EventSir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape, dies in London
… of church named after him. His wife, Juana, died on 10 October 1872, and is buried with him. … Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 10,…
The Bill of Rights
… it is established that the discrimination is fair. 10. Human dignity Everyone has inherent dignity and the right … section and the other provisions of the…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… regions, while the MPLA occupied 12 of the country’s 16 provinces by September, but had a precarious hold over … Cabinda A day before the announcement of…
ArchiveDenis Goldberg belongs to those who defeated apartheid
… Denis was 69 and a former engineer. Edelgard died in 2006. In the later years of his life, Denis Goldberg was …
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Because they can't feel. They have lost their humanity." [10] For "coloureds" (people of mixed race), resistance … your documentation, the record...the…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
… ruling party and Alliance partners, for whom this is an extra special occasion. Compatriots and friends, On this … creation. We therefore plan to increase…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… the Friday, so as to give the men from the Eastern Cape an extra day to spend with their families at the weekend. We … mass arrests for pass laws…
Regarding the white male gaze in South African photography by Daniel Gallan, 14 Jun 2017
… nature of his gaze in series such as Beaufort West (2006) and Ponte City (2014) and started shifting it “inward”. …
PlaceSt Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Odendal Street, Germiston
… by Barry and Lynette Taylor, “To the Glory of God” in 2006. The Modern style compliments that of the Classical …
PlaceKuGompo was called East London, Eastern Cape
… turned further East. The need became more pressing after 16 June 1835 when Governor Sir Benjamin D'Urban proclaimed a … the economy of the City and serviced…