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Archive25 Years of Freedom and Democracy: Success , Challenges and Solutions
Ngubethole Bam J.S.S P.O Box 2426 Dutywa 5000 22 August 2019 The President Private bag x1000 Pretoria, 0001 Dear Sir RE: …
ArticleA history of Soweto
The consequence of this promising wealth was that a great number of people left their farms, rural homes and other towns in South Africa to make a quick buck…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
Evolution refers to the slow process of human adaptation over millions of years. The roots of humanity are believed to lie in South Africa, where the earliest…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
The increasing social unrest in South Africa that swept through the country in the 1980s, and the changing geopolitical circumstances on the international…
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
To understand what effects WW2 had on the nature of the fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa we need to look at the climate just before WW2. …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
2000 January, The partnership is formalized by South African National Aids Council (SANAC) to review its two years of work against HIV/AIDS being under the…
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 45 - Ray Alexander, "Trade Unionism in South…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged between racially…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged between racially…
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Into this sketchy collage which is Lesotho,…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and formal racial segregation. This history has an uneasy relationship…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
Cecil John Rhodes was the sickly, poorly educated and otherwise unremarkable son of an English parson of meagre means. He knew from an early age that he was…
PlaceWindermere
Situated beside Kensington, Windermere was a settlement situated on the N1 highway in Cape Town near the Ysterplaat airbase. The Group Areas Act of 1950…
PlaceBenin
Benin’s political history after colonialism was characterized by an early period of multiparty competition that proved unstable, and multiple interventions by…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Celebration of National Day of Reconciliation, Freedom Park, Tshwane, 16 December 2005
Programme Director, Mongane Wally Serote Chairperson of the Board of the Freedom Park Trust, Gertrude Shope Honourable Minister of Justice and Constitutional…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
Awards 1960s 1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University College, London. 1965 Elected Honorary President of the Students'…
Archive2013 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2013
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament Cape…
PlaceVissershok Farm
The Diep River originates in the Riebeek-Kasteel Mountains and flows into the ocean near present-day 'Dolphin Beach Hotel', in Milnerton. Three years after his…
PlaceArthur Newton's- Rock Seat in the Comrades Marathon
This Area has a Plaque of Comrades Marathon achiever Arthur Newton. This is aslo the resting place of many other brave runner's during the race! Arthur, the …
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
Trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela has passed away after a long battle with prostate cancer. When he cancelled…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
When trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela cancelled his appearance at the recent Johannesburg Joy of Jazz…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela on Women’s Day, Pretoria, 9 August 1996
Chairperson; Ministers; Guests; Friends and compatriots. When the women of South Africa converged on these Union Buildings forty years ago, from every…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
The 1980s witnessed an increase in attacks launched by the ANC through its armed MK inside South Africa. Conversely, the government responded by stepping up…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
After coming to power in 1948, the National Party-led government began implementing apartheid by passing a series of racist laws, notably the Population…
PlaceWindhoek, Capital City of Namibia
Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. If Namibia is Africa for beginners, then Windhoek is very much its capital in more than…
ArchiveHighlights on successes and experienced challenges during the 25 years of freedom and democracy.
Union Buildings Government Avenue, Private Bag X1000 PRETORIA, 0001 Dear President, Ramaphosa I am Mnguni Bulelani, 14 years old and doing Grade 9 at…
PlaceThembuland
It is a natural region in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Its territory is the traditional region of the Thembu people, one of the sub-groups of the…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
You are here: homehome libraryarticles & documents NANA SITA: LAST OF THE GANDHIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA (2) Among those who kept the spirit of Mahatma…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
Historians recognise the significance of popular struggles over the past 100 years. But debates among historians about their relationship to formal political…