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EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… The Great Trek was a migration that took place between 1838 and the 1840s, and involved the Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the …
PlaceFalse Bay
… If you leave the "Mother City" of South Africa and follow the M3 towards Muizenberg , you will have a great view of the Coasts of False Bay (Afrikaans:…
PlaceTree Garden, President Brand Street, Bloemfontein
… sandstone buildings that surprise with their grandeur - the 3rd Raadsaal (originally Government Building and today the National Afrikaans Literary Museum and…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… Adv Jeremy Gauntlett on the life and work of the late former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson's last public … It expressed two qualities he valued so highly…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… In the early 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and the state of emergency , there were more than 100 sabotage …
PlaceDe Waal Park, Camp Street, Oranjezicht
… The land was originally part of the van 'Breda Estate'' in Oranjezicht, and was purchased by the Town Council of Cape Town in 1877 for the building of the …
PlaceRaadsaal Building, Church Square, Pretoria
… The Raadsaal Building is located on the South-Western corner of Church Square and forms an important part of the Historical Architectural character of early…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… Ottilie Abrahams was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable personalities of contemporary Namibia. … can never beemphasized enough for a new generation…
PlaceLesotho
… Two-thirds of the Country of Lesotho consists of Mountains. The highest Peak, Mount Ntlenyana , is 3,482 Metres above sea level. The Drakensberg range forms…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Introduction Introduction Part 1 - Building The National Movement Document 1 - Harry Snitcher , Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943] Document…
PlaceIrene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
… Opened on 2 November 1900, the Irene Concentration Camp was built with the intention that it would be one of the camps that would house Boer woman and…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 2 March 1973. The farm, Welgegund was awarded to Swart Martiens Pretorius a … nephew of President M.W Pretorius,…
EventDepartment of Environmental Affairs and Tourism approves ESKOM’s prototype 110MW pebble
… On 25 June 2003, the South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism approved the construction of a prototype pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR)…
ArchiveAppendix 6 Studies in Asia by Denis Goldberg
… written in December 1991 as part of group reports at the end of our studies at Institut Tadbiram Awam Negara (INTAN), the Malaysian Government Civil Service…
EventNapoleon assembles his army near Aboukir, Egypt
… The First Battle of Aboukir was a decisive victory for the French and secured France's occupation of Eqypt. In June … army departed France to conquer Egypt,…
PlaceJohannesburg Botanical Garden
… The Johannesburg Botanical Garden is located in the suburb of Emmarentia in Johannesburg . The gardens were established in 1964 as a large rose garden ……
PlaceAliwal South, Alternative Name for Mossel Bay
… The alternative name in 1850, for Mossel Bay . It was the first place that Europeans landed, that was Bartholomew … of Portugal. Without realizing it he had…
PlaceRiverside Mosque and Mausoleum, Umgeni, Durban
… The Mosque was erected by the celebrated Hajee Soofie who immigrated to South Africa in 1895. He was responsible for the construction of 11 other mosques,…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Exiles who sought political asylum from the…
Siyanqoba Bafana-Bafana Siyanqoba!!! Siyavena Bafana Bafana Siyavena!!!, 3 June 2010
… The African National Congress joins all soccer loving … Africans, and South Africans in particular by hosting the ANC 2010 FIFA World Cup Street Bash,…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
… training of its members, its organisational culture, and the conditions that shaped its activities. These issues are considered in relation to two distinct…
Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
… Nelson Mandela Dear Friends, I am writing this letter on the instructions of the All-in African National Action Council which was established in terms of a…
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… Kenilworth , East of Bishopscourt and South of Newlands in the Western Cape Province. The name is French for ‘clear mountain’. Claremont was … Lower and…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 21 August 1990
… POM We're talking with Mr. Gumede on the 21st of August. I recall when we talked the last time you had said that you were going to try to get … has taken…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… Development of Langa location In the course of the Inter War Years the regulations of the 1902 Location Act were expanded to … V.B., van Heyningen E., Worden…
20. Johannesburg Parsees claim special status
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … Pachai A petition dated 17 September 1906 was sent to the Secretary of State for the…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The Congress of the People was over. We had come down from the mountain, down …
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
… How would you assess the current state of affairs in South Africa? TAMBO: The South African regime has become very desperate. They have … ground. They have…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents … conviction that Indians in South Africa must Bt submits to the latest racial legislation…
Extract from a speech made at Koffiefontein on 11 August 1967
… The Prime Minister's Koffiefontein speech is very well-known … opportunity to reply to numerous questions which were in the air, thus throwing welcome light…