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GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 2) by Thabo Mbeki, 28 March, 2016
… V During the whole period when GEAR has been challenged “from the left”, the assertion was made that GEAR sought to replace the RDP. I …
PlaceHeritage Route of King Shaka
… and his body servant, Mbopa assassinated King Shaka on the 22 September 1828. A memorial stone was erected over Shakas grave in 1932 by the Zulu nation and…
PlaceKuboes, Northern Cape
… Regarded by the local people as the heartland of the Nama Culture , the little Town of Kuboes lies nestled … to Kuboes is 'Cornell's Kop'. This is a Hill…
Chapter 8. Capitalists without Money
… In 1928 the clothing industry presented a picture of primitive capitalism. There were about fifty factories on the Rand, roughly forty in Johannesburg and…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… 16-year-old when I started my studies in 1950 at the University of Cape Town. In the long summer holiday between school and university I worked on a fruit…
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
… Bathurst in the Eastern Cape, is one of the smallest but most interesting Municipalities in South … Africa. Founded in 1820, this peaceful little Village on…
ArchiveChapter 16 Tee Shirts, Music and More Solidarity by Denis Goldberg
… In the months after I started my incessant round of speaking … badges and buttons, posters and pamphlets available from the Anti Apartheid Movement in…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… - The ANC’s operational strategic heritage, 1960-1975 The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to National Worker`s Day Rally, 1 May 2011, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
… chairperson, Comrade Marius Fransman, General Secretary of the SACP, Comrade Blade Nzimande, Leadership of the Alliance, Comrades, friends, Fellow South…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: ANC Statement on Policy Conference state of readiness, 25 June 2012
… The African National Congress is more than ready with its preparations for the fourth National Policy Conference which will kick off with a colloquium on…
PlaceStellenberg, Stellenberg Avenue, Kenilworth
… The Cape Dutch Homestead known as Stellenberg has played many … Heritage Site and much-loved family Home. Situated at the Crossroads of what were once four…
PlaceRoodepoort, Johannesburg
… a City of its own, although it has now merged with the Suburbs of Johannesburg to such a degree, there is barely … line over which you cross, other than a…
PlaceRandjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg
… February 1965. When Johannesburg was proclaimed in 1886 on the triangular site Randjeslaagte, the area of the town was nine square km. Randjeslaagte was a…
Press statement by Oliver Tambo in Moscow, 06 November 1986
… We are currently in Moscow as a delegation of the African National Congress which is here to hold discussions with the leadership of the Communist Party of…
EventFirst celebration of May Day in South Africa
… (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party and other labour movements in the struggle…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… From Perspective on Ideas and the Arts TERKEL: Here in a suburb of Durban, South Africa, we are sitting with Albert John Lutuli, winner of the 1960 Nobel…
88. Gandhi’s legacy
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Jerry Coovadia, professor at the Natal University Medical School…
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… A couple of days back I had a dream where I visited the renovated premises of my once favourite shop as a kid in Salt River just around the corner from where…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… Question: The ANC lays great emphasis on unity. How do you see the question of unity with such groups as PAC and other small groupings inside South Africa?…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… Question : The ANC lays great emphasis on unity. How do you see the question of unity with such groups as PAC and other small groupings inside South Africa?…
Document 3 - Peace Treaty of Vereeniging
… of President Nelson Mandela to parliament will go down in the history of our country as one of the most sober analyses of the challenges we face. The manner…
PlaceGardens Shul in Cape Town
… The Cape Town Hebrew Congregation, which built the Great Synagogue, was founded in 1841. This makes it, after the Sydney Hebrew Congregation, the oldest…
PlaceBlyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga
… One of the largest green canyons in the world, the Blyde River Canyon is a masterpiece carved over millions … The Blyde River Canyon known officially known…
PlaceRooigrond
… 16km of Mafikeng and 25km South-West of Ottoshoop, in the former fomeland of Bophuthatswana, (now the North West Province). The place Rooigrond derives its…
PlaceEersteling Monument, Polokwane
… The Eersteling gold mine, the site of the first commercial gold mining activity in South Africa’s … largely unsuccessful and, therefore, short-lived – and…
Displacing Hierarchies: Nation and Universities in India and Africa by Amrita Pande, Faisal Garba and Ruchi Chaturvedi
… We are academics raised and educated in various parts of the world, and now living and working in South Africa. The predicaments of its higher education…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… Port Elizabeth is now known as Gqeberha. The name change was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local…
Appendix II: About Dr. Dadoo, delivered by Oliver Tambo
… gathered here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the service of…
PlaceXuxuwa, Eastern Cape
… Xuxuwa the Railroad Siding, Eastern Cape, is 9 km West of Fort … of Brakfontein. It takes its name from a Tributary of the Kat River. Its estimate terrain…
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
… (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party and other labour movements in the struggle…