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Umrabulo - Issue No.11, 2nd Quarter 2001
… government such as the four provincial councils of Natal, Cape, Orange Free State and Transvaal which are headed by a … as Parliament or Provincial Councils,…
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
… Khumalo claims that, after running away from home in the 1970s to receive military training in exile, she was … species. We were heroines for the fact that…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… In the 1920s, with the First World War (1914-1918) over, the … in rural politics in the Herschel district of the eastern Cape in the 1920s and 1930s (Bozzoli…
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… died – he was a scientist, physician and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town. Fleming was born on 27 March 1905 in Port…
Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold
… Please join us for the opening of Tales of History Retold . For this exhibition, … Arts (AVA), a not-for-profit gallery and collective in Cape Town, as…
EventThe reburial of Flora
… On 6 April 1991, the reburial of a slave named Flora took place at Vergelegen … Wine Estate, Somerset West . This came about after the discovery of her…
EventJohn Thomas Baines is born
… as a marine and portrait painter. In 1848, he moved to the Eastern Cape, from where he took three journeys into the interior, one of which was past the…
EventOuneas Pakes Dikgetsi is born
… Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Housing and Local government of the Northern Cape Provincial Government and founder member of the United Democratic…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… persistent and widespread poverty and deep inequalities - the legacy of apartheid still casting a long shadow on the … as the Mary Stopes clinics (in Durban,…
Newspaper article taken from the City Press in 2002: Student Politics under Apartheid
… On June 15 this year the Azanian Students Organisation will celebrate its birth 25 years ago as a forerunner to the current leading student organisation…
Chapter 3
… The Formation of the All-African Convention: The Background … once and for all the myth of the liberal tradition of the Cape. It has become a common practice…
Notes from Books
… Jean Gelman Taylor, THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH … Those in Bondage: An account of the life of the slave at Cape in the days…
Archive'Hulle gaat die strop om onse nek sit': Dr Abdullah Abdurahman's Perspective on the Making of Union Voiced Through Piet Uithalder's 'Straatpraatjes' Column by Mohamed Adhikari
… om onse nek sit': Dr Abdullah Abdurahman's Perspective on the Making of Union Voiced Through Piet Uithalder's …
South African Blues directed by Andy Metcalf and Produced by Silvia Davies, Broadcast by the BBC (1990) featuring Churchill Jolobe, Princess Patience, Robbie Sithole, Jonas Gwangwa
… Andy Metcalf and Produced by Silvia Davies, Broadcast by the BBC (1990) featuring Churchill Jolobe, Princess Patience, …
”Call For Renewed Struggle Against Ghetto Act”: Joint Statement Of Dr. Dadoo And Dr. Naicker Issued After A Meeting Of The Joint Passive Resistance Council, December 1947
… Of Dr. Dadoo And Dr. Naicker Issued After A Meeting Of The Joint Passive Resistance Council, December 1947 …
Biko, Black Consciousness, and ‘the System’ eZinyoka: Oral History and Black Consciousness in Practice in a Rural Ciskei Village by Leslie Hadfield, 25 May 2010, South Africa
… Biko, Black Consciousness, and ‘the System’ eZinyoka: Oral History and Black Consciousness in …
Announcement by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Saleem Badat, on his decision to step down as Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University and depart Rhodes later this year.
… Announcement by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Saleem Badat, on his decision to step …
A set of shell beads estimated to be 75 000 years old and found in Blombos cave in SA, is believed to be the oldest known jewel
… old and found in Blombos cave in SA, is believed to be the oldest known jewel …
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… At a time when the country was in mourning for those killed in the Boipatong Massacre of 17 June 1992, the Bisho Massacre … soldiers were instructed to open…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… Transition to Armed Struggle The brief respite from the Treason Trial which ended on 29 … to be passed in June 1961 instructing Mandela “to join with…
ArticleWages Commission
… Soon after the 1971 garment workers’ strike at Currie’s Fountain, three students from the Durban campus of the University of Natal –David Hemson, … it as…
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… de Villiers was born on 10 March 1850 in Swellendam, in the Cape Colony (now Western Cape). De Villiers is known as the 'father of South African … (1971)…
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid. Anybody who felt they had been a…
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… In 1657 the VOC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a … subsequently married a Mostert, the great-grandson of the Cape's first miller, and the…
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… lies some 19km east of Wynberg and 25 km of south-east of Cape Town in the Western Cape . The name is of Xhosa origin and means ‘new home’. … Smith V.B., van…
Peace Treaty of Vereeniging - transcript
… THE FOLLOWING NOTICE is hereby published for general information. By order of His Excellency the High Commissioner and Administrator of the Transvaal. WE … 5…
ArchiveFederation
… the following notice is hereby published for general information. By order of His Excellency the High Commissioner and Administrator of the Transvaal. WE … 5…
PlaceRondebosch Common, Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch.
… This was situated almost opposite the Rustenburg Estate, and was used as a camping ground by … Batavian forces during the first British invasion of the Cape…
South African History Online and Bridgewater State University Partnership Project - 2018 Submissions
… in Massachusetts. Project: Paul Simon’s Graceland and the Anti-Apartheid Cultural Boycott Kayla Buckley Kayla … with minors in Psychology and Childhood…
PlaceBo-Kaap Museum
… Situated at the foot of Signal Hill, on the fringe of the city centre, … built and leased to slaves. These people were known as Cape Malays, and were brought…