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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…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… Park Neighbourhood Watch, addressing safety concerns in one of Mitchells Plain's most vulnerable communities. Freedom … to four grandchildren, and great…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… in the Methodist Church, and Nomkhitha Mashinini, and was one of 13 children (11 boys and twin girls). He was active in … leader whose name will forever be…
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…
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…
BiographyGuy Tillim
… London, UK Contemporary Photography from South Africa - Part 2, Hereford Photography Festival, UK Cities in Crisis: …
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyGeorge Hallett
… Perspectives', SANLAM Gallery, Cape Town, 1999 'Cape Times One City Many Cultures', Blue Route Shopping Centre, Cape …
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… Soweto – which happened only in 1978. Still others sought part-time employment hoping to return to school when the … that the government intended identifying…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… The main difference was that apartheid made segregation part of the law. Apartheid cruelly and forcibly separated … always that easy to decide what racial…
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…
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…
!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…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki, at the University of Havana, Cuba, 27 March 2001
… We speak about the need for the African Renaissance in part so that we, ourselves, and not another, determine who we … helped scientists to explain the link…
Address at the University of Havana, Cuba, 28 March 2001
… We speak about the need for the African Renaissance in part so that we, ourselves, and not another, determine who we … helped scientists to explain the link…