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ANC Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 16 August 1985
… Last night, the people of South Africa and the rest of the world were treated to an arrogant reaffirmation by P.W. …
PlaceAkkedisberg Mountain Pass
… The Akkedisberg Pass translates from Afrikaans into Lizard … Pass. It's an easy drive along this tarred coastal pass on the R 326 links the small Farming…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… On 26 May 1948, the Herenigde Nasionale Party (Reunified National Party) took power from Jan Smuts' United Party (UP) by 5 seats. The HNP came to power in…
85. Charter for Change, 1981
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … met in Durban on 10 and 11 October 1981. Among them were the Natal Indian Congress, the Anti…
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
… this dissertation and with whose genesis I have just ended the tenth and final chapter, is the climax of our story. Footnote It provides us with a kind ……
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia Potenza This feature has explored the devastating changes that industrialisation brought for the majority of…
PlaceCoffee Bay, Wild Coast
… Coffee Bay and the Hole in the Wall are virtually synonymous - mention the one and you picture the other - and one cannot describe … Coffee Bay and the Hole…
PlacePaardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp
… a National Monument under old legislation on 6 April 1936. The monument was designed by Sytze Wierda who was the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek State Architect,…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… with a three-tier parliament which would re-enfranchise the Coloured population and enfranchise the Indian population. The Constitution provided for three…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… was helping to organise non-racial youth camps over the Easter weekends of 1954 and 1957. We felt it important … for young people to be able to be together…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… I am Albertina Sisulu. Metetiwe. Born in the Transkei, in the district of Tsomo on twenty-first October 1918. Educated … up to a secondary school that took…
PlaceCookhouse, Eastern Cape
… The Village of Cookhouse was located on the Farm; 'Roodewal', near a River crossing. It probably … derived its name from a small stone structure, over the…
PlaceWild Coast
… The Wild Coast, known also as the Transkei , is a 250 Kilometre long stretch of rugged and … lazy Lagoons and Rocky Headlands. Originally encompassing the…
PlaceFugard Theatre, Cape Town
… The Fugard, a theatre based in Cape Town, was built within one of the five interconnected Sacks Futeran buildings in District … to South African theatre and…
PlaceEastern Cape Province
… Before 1993, the Eastern Cape was part of the Cape Province . Today it includes the old homelands of Ciskei and Transkei. Many of South … ggest-private-power…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… The Johannesburg Art Gallery was first commissioned to be built in 1910, and was initially housed on the campus of Witwatersrand. The gallery was overlooked…
Postscript
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph ... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference…
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
… Members of the Luthuli Family, Honourable Premier, Dr Zweli Mkhize; Hon … kaBhekuzulu, isilo Samabandla, Judge President of the province, Justice Qeda…
ArchiveIntroduction by Howard Barrell
… could find no solution to South Africa's crisis unless the African National Congress, its foe for 30 years, was a partner in that search. De Klerk announced…
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Statement by Jacob Zuma, 30 September 2002
… This National Policy Conference of the ANC, held over the four days of September 27th to 30th was attended by 687 … provincial, regional and branch level…
PlaceAthenaeum building, Belmont Terrace, Port Elizabeth
… The building dates from the late Victorian period and has impressive neo-Classical … Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 October 1980. The Grand Old…
PlaceLimpopo Province
… The Limpopo Province covers the Area that lies Northern most in South Africa , just South of Zimbabwe . It was first called the Northern Province, but this…
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… fought for independence for her country until she died at the tender age of 25. 7 April marks the day she died – a day celebrated as National Women’s Day ……
PlaceGriquatown
… In 1802 William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer, of the London Missionary Society, established a station among the Griqua at Leeuwenkuil. Thesite proved to be…
PlaceStendahl Mission
… is said to have existed for about 124 years. A Minister of the Berlin Mission Society, Gueldenpfennig, acquired the mission land in 1860. By 1924 the land…
PlaceDurban, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Durban is South Africa’s third-largest City and one of the fastest-growing urban Areas in the World. It's Port is the busiest in South Africa and also one of…
ArchiveChapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg
… After the State of Emergency in 1960, when so many of us were … moving towards a point where we would have to challenge the armed forces of the apartheid…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… groups using modern techniques. - Joe Slovo 1 Introduction The uprisings in Soweto and elsewhere in June 1976 created the opportunity for the ANC to break…
A Helots’ Bill of Rights
… A Helots’ Bill of Rights First Published: Editorial in The International, June 1, 1923. Transcribed: by Dominic … European or African descent, must…
Turning Adwa into a global heritage site of Pan-African struggle by Mammo Muchie (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
… March 1 marks the 120th anniversary of the Battle of Adwa, a decisive victory of Ethiopia over … source of inspiration for struggles for freedom throughout…