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PlaceBritish Bechuanaland
… Territory of British Bechuanaland The territory known as British Bechuanaland covered an area that included the subsequent divisions of Vryburg, Mafikeng …
PlaceKroondal, Rustenburg
… of 22 German Lutheran mission congregations established in the former Natal and Transvaal. The farm Kroondal, which was in existence since 1843, was…
PlaceStation Building, Point Road, Durban
… The Victorian Railway Station dates from the 1890s when the Natal Government Railways experienced a surge in economic …
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad Award, something like a Nobel for…
PlaceOld Fort and Cemetery, Durban
… The Old Fort and Durban's first cemetery are situated in Umgeni Road, and are now an integral part of the city centre. The first formal European settlement…
PlaceMzilikazi Memorial, situated at Phokeng, near Rustenburg
… him at Emanxiweni. A cart was brought at nightfall and the King's body was placed in it and taken to Mhlahlandlela where on the 9th September his death was…
Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo's Statement In Court In Trial For Passive Resistance, June 1946
… (Dr. Dadoo was sentenced in June 1946, at the beginning of the passive resistance campaign, to three months` … imprisonment with hard labour. He had been…
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… The following is an interview with Mr. Champion conducted in 1964 by Mr. Stanley Trapido, Lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford. S…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… Introduction Part One - South African Socialists and the radically-divided working class Document 1 - Keir Hardie, … "Stoned in South Africa", 1907 Document…
Chapter XV - House arrest
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph On 13 October 1962,1 became the first person in South Africa to be put under house arrest. The minister was …
PlacePondoland
… The territory known as Pondoland or, more correctly Mpondoland, incorporated the divisions of Bizana, Libode, Ngqeleni, Port St John's, … 314 allowed for…
Document 2 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton
… FOR A NEW EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS STATUTE COSATU welcomes the green paper announced by the Minister of Labour today, (13.02.96) for a new policy on … Statute…
PlaceNyanga Township
… illustration of Cape Town’s urban sprawl, Nyanga is one of the oldest Black townships in Cape Town. It was established in 1946 and proclaimed a township…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Olehile Bada Pharasi
… To the Student Movements of 2016 Dear Students, The events witnessed at the country’s tertiary education institutions this year would …
PlaceNorth West
… The North West Province was part of the old Transvaal , and includes most of the parts of the old homeland, Bophuthatswana . There is a … Taung is the site…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
… It is a great honour for the ANC and for me, personally, to have been invited to participate with the Swedish labour movement and people in observing May Day…
PlaceGoodman Gallery
… On 25 November 1966 Linda Givon (then Goodman) opened the Goodman Gallery in Hyde Park, Johannesburg . The Goodman Gallery has been instrumental to the…
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… Here are extracts from some of them FROM HIS ADDRESS to the conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa, … Ababa, January 1962…
PlaceMpumalanga
… Mpumalanga means ‘Place of the Rising Sun’ and is the name given to the new Province in Eastern Transvaal in 1993. It includes … Mpumalanga means ‘Place of…
EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were totally destroyed by the first atomic bombs used in warfare. The American…
No Arms for South Africa: Albert Luthuli, 8 May 1963
… (An appeal sent to the people of the United Kingdom in May 1963 through the Anti-Apartheid Movement) I greet all lovers of freedom, …
INDIAN SLAVES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A little-known aspect of Indian-South African relations by E. S. Reddy
… The visit of Nelson Mandela to India may be an appropriate … Soon after Jan van Riebeeck set up a Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 to supply…
Testimony of Bruno Mtolo, Johannesburg (Rivonia Trial), 15 January, 1964
… Testimony of Bruno Mtolo, saboteur, for the prosecution Direct Examination by Percy Yutar: … Who ordered you to commit these acts of sabotage? Mtolo: …
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
… by Lord Milner in 1902 as part of his efforts to anglicise the Transvaal under British Occupation. And so it was that a group of 106 eager young girls from…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… The origins of Enoch Sontonga and the song he wrote, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika are humble and rather obscure. Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa…
Joint statement by ANC Commission on Religious Affairs and SACC, 18 September 2009
… Leaders representing the Commission for Religious Affairs (CRA) and the South African Council of Churches (SACC) met at Chief Albert Luthuli House in…
Chapter V - Acts of conscience
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph One of the special joys of being unbanned was that although banned … me, listed people could. This brought some…
"If I were Prime Minister": Article by Albert Luthuli, 2 December 1961
… Many problems face the emergent Black States in this continent. Among these problems are: the avoidance of economic chaos when independence comes; the…
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… The farming community of Kirkwood, in the heart of the Sundays River Valley, close to the town of Addo and the …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. It was formed in 1944 by …