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BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… early advocate of Black pride and racial equality who was one of the people who inspired the founding of the African … of Edinburgh, qualifying in April 1886…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… was led by Professor Leshoai, the same man who had been one of his influences while growing up. Furthermore, through … full houses. The adaptation of Head’s…
EventAngola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty
… of Cuito Cuanavale and the Cuban intervention in Angola is one of the turning points in Southern African History. It led … force, into the west, towards the…
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… After reports surfaced that he was allegedly mistreating one of his Khoikhoi laborers, he was summoned to appear in a … fact that he was shot by a Coloured…
PlacePioneer Museum, Silverton Pretoria
… A visit to the three hectare area to the Museum gives one a real sense of early farming Culture in South Africa, as one takes a guided tour around the Farm,…
PlaceRavenswood House, Hatfield Street, Gardens
… erected between 1817 and 1835 by M. A. de Kock, as one of a series of Houses for letting and is situated on a part of the former Welgedaan Property which was…
EventThe Japanese government announces that South Africans will no longer be granted visas to enter Japan
… cautious to be seen as allies with the country. Japan was one of these countries. Japan depended heavily on trade and … Japan. The announcement meant that…
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… he became an underground operative. He was an integral part of the revival of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in 1971 and became one of its Vice Presidents. …
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… – and new, more draconian legislation – they played their part in weakening the liberation movement organizationally. One curious effect of the frequent…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by … had two token blacks, an induna and a…
EventSA signs Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
… South Africa was one of the original twenty-two nations who signed the … in the sub-antarctic Indian Ocean that are politically part of South Africa. A South…
BiographyKabelo Sello Duiker
… He was sent to the elite Redhill School, where he was one of only two Black children in the entire school. Having …
BiographyMngqingo Pikani
… Govan Mbeki writes in his book, The Peasants Revolt, that‘one man by the name of Mngqingo (Pikani) turned his backside …
BiographyPaulus Howell Mopeli
… [now Mpumalanga]. His banishment order described him as ‘one of the “recalcitrant Natives” of Witzieshoek Native …
BiographySusan Shabangu
… member of the Anti-Republic Campaign Committee in 1981 and one of the organisers of the Release Mandela Campaign …
Article50 Facts on Africa
… the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 facts about this continent … the view people are given of Africa is…
PlaceDjibouti
… volcanic formations and Gulf of Aden beaches. It's home to one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world, the … Arabic. This is as a result of the…
BiographyGuy Tillim
… London, UK Contemporary Photography from South Africa - Part 2, Hereford Photography Festival, UK Cities in Crisis: …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… the outcomes of deliberate, organisational efforts on the part of the ANC and other political formations? And to what … measures passed by the apartheid…
Excerpts from Chief Luthuli’s evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
… struggle? First, I would say that it is always better for one to gain freedom, or for that matter any obective that you … it is not ”” the suggestion is made…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… of Freedom to celebrate. We meet to reaffirm that we are one people with on destiny;and to recommit ourselves to the … this week Constitution Week. All of us…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… of Freedom to celebrate. We meet to reaffirm that we are one people with on destiny;and to recommit ourselves to the … this week Constitution Week. All of us…
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
… souls on board, including 195 crewmembers. The ship was part of an Allied convoy. The aircraft involved was a … in London. Of the 1138 men killed in the…
PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… The Rugby Museum has one of the largest private collections of rugby memorabilia and is one of its kind in the world, a must-see for rugby fans, the … during…
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… have known my secret, for she never made me take it off. One cold, dark night, while we were at my grandmother's farm, … Johanna was arrested in Germiston…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… into a family, in which the children spoke Otjiherero to one grandmother, and Damara to the other, among themselves … Abrahams, a Capetonian UCT medical…
!U’S STORY - Photographs 16 - 19
… see photos !U's story Part 3: How big is a family and who belongs to it? A family … of a mother, father and children. A man can have more than one wife if he…
PlaceSignal Hill
… by the Dutch in 1652 and the signal guns were originally part of the regular artillery at the Imhoff Battery at the … British controlled the Cape…
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
… Qwaqwa was one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the … Africa became a democracy. It was then dissolved to form part of the Free State…
EventKenyan runner, Yobes Ondieki becomes the first man to run 10,000 meters in less than 27 minutes
… 10 000 Meters in less than 27 minutes. Ondieki was taking part in the Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway, when he made history. This achievement saw him ranked…