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EventAt a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
… was tabled before parliament. Click here to read more about labour and Wiehahn commission. Related: References: …
EventPrime Minister opens SA’s first atomic reactor
… Fundamental Atomic Reactor Installation-1) at Pelindaba, about thirty km West of Pretoria. The installation was not …
EventANC calls for the dismissal of Adriaan Vlok and Magnus Malan
… 000 US Dollars in recent years. Click here to read more about the charges against Magnus Malan …
EventSAA Helderberg 747 crashes
… rumours that there had been an earlier fire (information about which had allegedly been suppressed), and also that the …
EventHolomisa on corruption
… had made huge secret donations to the ANC. No one knew about it except him. Click here to read an online article by …
EventPresident Mandela addresses the National assembly of Mali
… Assembly at Bamako where he emphasised that his visit was about building economic, cultural, and political links …
EventThe SA government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill
… for negotiations which would end apartheid and bring about a new Constitutional dispensation for South Africa, …
EventStruggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island
… in 1818. On 25 December 1819, Makana, together with about thirty other prisoners, attempted to escape from Robben …
EventThe passive resistance movement begins with a mass meeting of 2000 Africans
… used force on the crowd and arrested hundreds. When asked about their main grievances, the representatives stated two …
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… was filled with tension as some members were unhappy about the suppression of political and cultural renewal. …
PlaceAlbertskroon, Suburb of Johannesburg
… adjoining Greymont and Montgomery Park. Established about 1896 on the Farm Waterval, it was named after the …
PlaceOude Molen, Alexandra Care and Rehabilitation Centre, Maitland
… much more steeply than those of other Cape windmills and about a metre thick at the base. In a Government Notice of 4 … the Alexandra Care and Rehabilitation…
Address to the Biennial Meeting of the Association for The Development of Education in Africa (Adea), Johannesburg, 6 December 1999
… of alienation and also assimilation, in this way bringing about what Ngugi aptly described as "the domination of the … constitutes the kind of intellectual…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… name], but a statement of fact to one who is conscious about sensational but completely unfounded press reports on … had one of my perpetual dreams. I June…
Preface
… colleagues in art history, notices calling for information about works were placed in local and national newspapers, and … contemporaneous, public opinion…
27. Transvaal Indians respond to the 1895 arbitration decision
… assets would amount to nearly £100,000. Of these about three firms import goods directly from England, Durban, … 2,000 hawkers in the Republic who buy goods…
Bernard Shaw and May Morris
… come out of the dining room on one occasion, as he was about to leave, and how their eyes met and seemed to … the opposite of any libertarian purpose. The…
Chapter 6 -The making of a black Bolshevik: Gumede and the League Against Imperialism, 1927
… which was long overdue, Gumede informed Harris of the APS about his arrival and mission to Brussels.441 In his last … speeches, he set out to inform the…
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 16 - 1 January 1977 by Carol Hermer
… Diary, Monday, December 20 We were all a bit anxious about December 16, supposedly our Black Christmas, but it … who lives across the street and she was also…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… from SWAPO a few months later for raising questions about how funds were being spent. [2] Ottilie, Kenneth and … Recalling this time, in 1991 Ottilie…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around financial problems
… dependants. Nelson, in the loneliness of his cell, worried about the survival of his family. He had left behind a … By the way she adds, 'At the present…
Document 26 - Nelson Mandela’s reply to F. W. De Klerk
… redistribution of resources and services. This will bring about real transformation rather than tinkering at the edges … These we can not allow. Economic…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… has become increasingly dependent on its migrant labour. About 140,000 worked in South Africa as miners. Their limited … ALL REFUGEES FROM LESOTHO. IF YOU…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… source Johanna Jonkers Image source So what do we know about the tour? This is what I have so far discovered. … I would welcome further information –…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… and South Africa There are a number of conflicting stories about Hastings Banda’s life before he rose to power in the … Otherwise blog, November 7, 2011…
PlaceSudan
… for centuries, until the influx of Arab immigrants brought about their collapse in the 13th–15th centuries. Egypt had … covers an area of 1,841,507 sq. km…
ArchiveAddress at Commemoration of the lives of Yusuf Cachalia and Bram Fischer, by Nelson Mandela, 5 June 2005,
… to all patriots. I have written and spoken extensively about their respective roles and my appreciation of them. I … things one neglected and omitted. I…
PlaceDarling, West Coast
… been made over the years. There’s something so interesting about having a piece of history displayed in front of you. (a … is a trail with a treasure hunt…
New Book | Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy edited by Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs
… what the South African experience might tell us not only about the present situation in Palestine, but also about various possible paths towards a just peace…
PlaceWooden Bridge over Lagoon, Milnerton, Cape Town
… Another reason for the Restoration, is the City’s concerns about Public Safety. “The bridge, which spans the Milnerton … that contributes to Community life,”…