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Speak
… Front page of Speak magazine No. 16, August-October 1987. Blue poster. Title of feature article: "Fighting our slavery: Domestic workers … organise" in…
ArchiveRace, culture and personality
… who was concerned with the social and political importance of race problems and more specifically the study of race, culture and the psychology of African…
PlaceCwanguba
… A forest 34km East of Elliotdale. The forest is reputed to have resulted from Imilenya shrubs, planted on the grave of Chief Tsiwo! The name is thought to be…
ArchiveGrahamstown and group areas: some facts
… Map showing the plan of the city of Grahamstown under the Group Areas. Also includes Map showing the proposed zoning of Grahamstown under the Group Areas Act…
ArchiveA bill
… A bill to amend the comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 to prohibit United States depository institutions … to South African depository institutions and…
SABC CEO Jimi Matthews quits: ‘What’s happening at the SABC is wrong' (Tmg Digital), 27 June 2016
… Matthews tweeted a picture of his resignation letter to SABC board chair Professor … made me complicit in many decision which I am not proud of. “What is…
Author uncovers Gandhi’s links with early ANC leaders by Anelisa Kubheka (Daily News), 02 March 2012, Durban
… shown that Gandhi had close ties and friendships with some of the ANC’s early presidents when he was still alive. … Anil Nauriya was speaking at the Durban…
PlaceAmatikulu, a Nature Reserve in Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Town some 130 km North-East of Durban, near Gingindlovu. Where the first sugar factory in … drive from Durban, the Amatikulu Nature Reserve is one of those…
PlaceLittle Lions Head, Mt. Above Llandudno
… Sandy Bay and Hout Bay and is basically a smaller version of Lions Head as they look almost identical. " We went for … day so I decided it would be wrong not…
PlaceAlbert Jackson School, Port Elizabeth
… first opened its doors on 26 January 1942 on the corner of Pearson Street and Belmont Terrace overlooking the Donkin … held on 8 September each year to…
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… Penelope Heyns, was born on the 8th of November 1974 in Springs, Transvaal. Her parents later … excelled in both academics and in athletics. At the age of 13…
EventThe UN orders Libya to hand over two suspects linked to the Lockerbie bombing
… on board were killed, as were eleven people in the town of Lockerbie, where large sections of the plane plummeted. Thus, the air disaster is referred to as…
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
… promulgated a new Act which enforced registration of the colony's Indian population. At a mass protest meeting … 11th that year, MK Gandhi adopted his…
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
… march, but ended with violence, tears, blood and death of a 13 year old boy, Hector Peterson. The Soweto uprising … when more than 20 000 learners marched…
On Post Colonial African Liberation Movements
… On the 25th of May 2017 the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command … Ndlozi. This event will take place at the University of Cape Town's New Lecture…
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… exile. Known as Mama Africa , she had left in 1959 as part of the cast of the musical King Kong and was barred from returning when … career, addressed the…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.1 Oct-Dec 1959
… Maurice Pope. The Potato Harvest, Tony O’Dowd. The Reply of Makerere, Bernard de Bunsen. The Treason Trial, E.V. Stone with illustration by David Marais. The…
Coloured by History, Shaped by Place - New perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town
… This book examines-and plays with the boundaries of-the disconcerting, discomfiting meanings that have grown … It argues that coloured identities are a valid…
After Apartheid – Culture in the New South Africa Vol. 2
… One of the many issues confronting post – apartheid South Africa is that the cultural expression of its citizens was severely limited by the policies of the…
PlaceMarabastad Market Stalls, Pretoria
… where you’ll experience the colours and hustle and bustle of Africa. This area has a mix of ‘muti’ shops, spazas, a mosque, a Hindu temple and the … diverse…
EventDavid Phaswane Mogano, SA artist, is born in Pietersburg , Northern Transvaal
… medium and painted exclusively in it. He joined the group of artists known as Artists Under the Sun. The group … at Joubert Park in the Johannesburg inner…
EventSA joins World War II
… After the invasion of Poland by Germany in September 1939, SA Prime Minister … attempt was rejected by 80 votes to 67. After the refusal of Governor-General…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… President Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreated from the capital, Mmabatho, in the face of a popular uprising after…
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… Former apartheid era Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, applied to the Truth and … Commission (TRC) for amnesty for his role in the bombing of a trade…
EventTogolese football player, Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor is born
… Adebayor is a Togolese footballer. He was born to parents of Yoruba descent in the city of Lomé. After a talent scout spotted him playing, he was … cup in…
EventJames Kantor, a lawyer, is arrested for his involvement in Liliesleaf farm activities
… Wolpe. Unbeknownst to Kantor, Wolpe was an active member of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Though Kantor…
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… was a trade unionist, Labour Party member and Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund. From the emergence of the South African Congress of Trade Unions …
EventThe Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha
… Survivors Centre in Cape Town reported that almost half of the rapes in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township involved … to July 2006 the Centre treated 743 rape…
EventBhawani Sannyassi Dayal dies
… Indian rights in SA, died in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organisers of the Indian strike led by Mohandas Gandhi at Newcastle in 1913, and was a…
EventSA raises concern with the Dutch government
… its ambassador to The Hague to inform the Dutch government of its displeasure over a grant of 100,000 guilders being made to the Defence and Aid Fund for…