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PlaceXuxuwa, Eastern Cape
Xuxuwa the Railroad Siding, Eastern Cape, is 9 km West of Fort Beaufort and 7 km East-Northeast of Brakfontein. It takes its name from a Tributary of the Kat…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
Sugar farming grew rapidly in the late 1800s in Natal as a result of very cheap “indentured labour” sourced from India. The first group of Indian workers…
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
On 22 November 1979 South African prime minister P. W. Botha gathered business leaders together in a conference at the Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg. Here he…
Photographs from Boyhood Exhibition
PlaceGrydo Pass
Gydo Pass is situated in the Western Cape, province of South Africa on the Regional road R303 between Ceres and Citrusdal. The Gydo Pass was built at the same…
PlaceFaculty of Health Sciences, UCT Observatory
The oldest medical school in South Africa, offer a variety of educational, training and academic career options within the context of health care and research …
PlaceGroote Schuur High School
English-medium school Groote Schuur High School was founded in 1959 as a co-educational Afrikaans High School in the Vredenhof residence, presently the Frank…
PlaceGroote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town
Groote Schuur is one of Cape Town's premier tertiary Academic Hospitals and was officially opened in 1938. The hospital is internationally renowned as the…
Third Mafika Gwala Annual Lecture 5 October 2017 Video
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
On January 18, the world lost an icon. Only much of the world did not know it. South African-Jamaican writer Peter Abrahams died at 97 in Jamaica, where he has…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Pretoria
The Dutch Reformed Kerk, Pretoria was established in 1854, when it separated from the Rustenburg congregation. The site where the first church was built would…
PlaceCape Town Stadium
This Stadium was built when we put in the bid to host the 2010 World Cup. The Stadium has proved to be very use full in hosting other events and is a major…
Stages in Memory lecture
Stages in Memory
What Kind...? A film by Peter McKenzie & Sylvie Peyre
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…
The legacy of Oliver Reginald Tambo
Five Questions with Francis Wilson: The History of SALDRU
ArchiveMasibumbane - a Project by the Durban Centre for Photography by Peter McKenzie
Insurrections at Poetry Africa 2014
Kora Sound Bites Part 1
Part 1 of 2 This node contains the sound files from afraidkora1123.wav to numtwokora1057.wav afraidkora1123
ArchiveAlfred Qabula Collected Poems
The online version of Alfred Qabula'a Collected poems.
The third Mafika Gwala Annual Lecture, 5 October 2017 Video
ArchiveSpeech by Pallo Jordan on the Occasion of the 3rd Annual Oliver Reginald Tambo Memorial Lecture, University of Fort Hare, 5 October 2017
ArchiveUniversally Comprehensible, Arrogantly Local by Wiebke Keim
Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules
A packed courtroom clapped after Judge Billy Mothle ruled that in 1971 the SACP’s Timol was pushed by members of the Security Branch out of a window in John…
ArchiveList of Members of the Satyagraha Movement
The chapter was taken from the book Pioneers of the Satyagraha, Indian South Africans Defy Racist Laws, 1907 - 1914 by E.S. Reddy and Kalpana Hiralal
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
Two different current Narratives refugeesTo many Afrikaans speaking white people in South Africa the narrative of what in South Africa is called ‘The 2nd…
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