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Address of Nelson Mandela at his Investiture as Doctor of Laws Soochow University, Taiwan, 1 August 1993
… The Honourable President of the University, Esteemed Members of the Convocation, Distinguished Members of the Faculty, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is a singular…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson … South African history can legitimately be described as the…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The Congress Alliance, functioning with a closely co-ordinated leadership, was working on the preparations for…
PlaceOutcrop of Main Reef Group of Conglomerates, Johannesburg
… BY: JADE DAVENPORT CREAMER MEDIA CORRESPONDENT One of the most curious realities of South Africa’s mining history is that the precise details relating to…
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… Congress Resister was published by the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was formed at the turn of the twentieth century by Mahatma Gandhi. It was not…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… The Swazi nation, as we know it today, originally came from … Their Nguni ancestors probably moved there before the sixteenth Century as part of the Bantu…
PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
… The discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields provided in 1886, the funds necessary to construct this building that was able to house the first Volksraad…
South Africa's freedom struggle by E.S. Reddy
… Dr. Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo played an outstanding role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - in persuading the Indian community to…
Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer
… Personnel Officer during 1974 at a mine near Windhoek, and the book presents a sociological study of the black migrant labour force on the mine: in the words…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim … Mahida 1804 Attainment of freedom of worship 23 By 1804, the number of the Vryezwarten or…
Stuart Commission Report
… 1984 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA March 14, 1984 Lusaka CONTENTS PART ONE INTRODUCTION Per its letter of…
Early Beginnings
… British Association for the Advancement of Science RECEPTION ROOM UNIVERSITY OF … of South Africa] Dear Douglas, I am at present attending the science…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… It is hard these days - twenty-five years on - to recapture the feeling of the time of Rivonia - of the sudden arrest of some of the leading liberation …
Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… The year 1944 was one of the busiest for the union. In the midst of the trouble, which started in February, we …
PlaceMapungubwe Cultural Landscape, Joining South Africa with Zimbabwe and Botswana
… Landscape is an open, expansive Savannah Landscape at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers. Mapungubwe developed into the largest kingdom in the…
Biko’s legacy lives on in our nation’s history and culture by Nkosinathi Biko, 12 September 2012, South Africa
… TODAY marks the 35th anniversary of the murder of black consciousness leader, Bantu Stephen Biko. … three weeks later as a result of subarachnoid…
Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg
… The early Cape was settled not only by ex-VOC workers who became free burghers and the Huguenots but also by slaves who lost their freedom and was brought to…
Pretoria Socialist Society
… The Honourable the Prime Minister, Union of South Africa, House of Assembly … in many respects our country is passing through some of the most difficult…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… This complex dates from 1892 and includes the church building, Cornelia House, and the William Frederick School. It was built by the Tafelberg Congregation…
80. Local affairs committees: a means to an end
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The system of management committees, or local…
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… Village, which date back to roaming Bantu civilisation in the period from 400 A.D. The site of a later iron-age village of the Lala people can be visited in…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… A Report of the CASA Conference and Festival We want the world to know We have come a long way now We are not like spotless white shirts We are khaki It is…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education The1950s and 1960s in South Africa were marked by the…
Chapter eight - Conclusion
… From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson Gomas died on the morning of Wednesday 25 April 1979 two…
PlaceMkhambathi Nature Reserve
… Situated on the coast of north-eastern Pondoland , the Mkhambathi Nature Reserve,, offers visitors 7 720ha of … swamp forests flanked by magnificent forested…
Archive”Native Union”. Article by Pixley ka Isaka Seme, in October 24, 1911
… and Chiefs, to write a full and concise statement on the subject of the South African Native Congress, so called. I feel, … as well as more properly treat…
PlaceOld Post Office, Fleming Street, Port Elizabeth
… This building is today commonly referred to as the ‘(old) Post Office Complex’ but contains 4 conjoined buildings. The complex is situated on erf 3787 but…
ArchiveCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… meeting openly by South Africa’s apartheid government, the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party was held in Cuba in April … Castro’s…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… - Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 Victory is the sum total of the resolution of a whole succession of problems, a whole succession of factors. So …
Voters may act if ANC fails to uproot patronage by Steven Friedman (BDlive), 10 August 2016
… EITHER city voters will get the ANC leadership they want by 2019, or the party may well no longer govern the country on its own. The ANC’s huge setback does…