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Statement by O. R. Tambo with other ANC Leaders Visiting Sweden, 2 February 1990
… creating a climate conducive to negotiations. We welcome the lifting of the bans on the ANC and other organisations. We also welcome other …
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… appointed by President Nelson Mandela in June 1994 to be the first President of South Africa's new Constitutional Court and was the Chief Justice of South…
PlaceOld Magistrate’s Offices and Residence, Main Street, Simonstown
… Town, Western Cape, South Africa. This museum depicts the history of the Simon’s Town community, past and present, with an emphasis on the town’s diversity…
PlaceElaandslaagte, a Mission Station in Kwa Zulu Natal
… Elandslaagte was a mission station of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and was probably founded in about 1860. The 1875 census indicated that the…
PlaceThaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte
… area) in Pretoria , South Africa. Founded around 1905 by the British Army, and called: Roberts Heights , after Lord … Voortrekkerhoogte ("Voortrekker Heights…
EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… The first violence during the Defiance Campaign erupted in New Brighton, near Port Elizabeth . According to reports the riots followed after a Black person…
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… Two years after the first democratic election (1994) the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, signed the … Dugard, J. (2008). The New…
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… Sports and the Liberation Struggle: a Tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others … sports boycott made a great contribution to liberation. The Indian community can be…
PlaceAgtersrivier and Kou Bokkeveld Pass , Western Cape
… River rising in the Koue Bokkeveld Mountains, (meaning Cold Buck Shrub Land … West to join Voorsterivier, 15 km South of Citrusdal. The name of the river in…
PlaceOld gaol, Seventh Avenue, Roodepoort
… The original building was apparently already in existence in 1890 when it was converted to use as a gaol for the mining village of Florida. The structure was…
PlaceElephant House, Ridge Road, Durban
… The Elephant House, located on Ridge road on Durban's berea, was built in the early 1850's on the highest natural point on the Berea Ridge overlooking what ……
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… The Market Square in the heart of the Port Elizabeth town centre is a historical icon that … reveals much about this old coastal town. It is home to the City…
FOREWORD: THEORETICAL DEBATES AND METHODOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES
… WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, pledge ourselves to Peace and Reconciliation … in South African and agree to commit ourselves to the following: 1. The Inkatha Freedom…
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… nationalists rebelled against plans to have a Union Jack (the British flag) in the centre of the national flag. The controversy followed the introduction … …
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… who have also played crucial roles in making Cape Town the city it is today are so often overlooked. In the light of Women’s Day, on the 59th anniversary of…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… Naidoo immediately began playing an influential role in the development of a pro-Congress radical politics in Johannesburg. For the young white left, mainly…
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… To understand what the Women's liberation movement today represents, we must understand the general situation, which is developing in the Western world…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… Behind the imposing grey granite walls of the National Mutual Building of Australasia, on Church … artefacts. These priceless objects are housed in the Iziko…
PlaceNorthern Cape
… The Northern Cape is the largest Province in South Africa, but has the least number of inhabitants. Before 1993 it was part of the Cape Province (under old…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… In the mid-1920s African protest escalated throughout the Transvaal countryside. African labour tenants and farm … for black organisations to assist them…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… Martin’s) in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, which was run by the Community of the Resurrection, a monastic order then headed in South … Phahle became a…
PlaceDelmas
… Delmas became famous in the latter part of 2010 for its proximity to the missing tiger known as Panjo. The tiger, only 17-months old, disappeared somewhere…
Bantu Education boycott
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner - 'The Bantu Education Act will make African mothers like fowls … and make what…
Cosatu march: For Who, for What? by Simelane and Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 8 October 2015
… morning, only a few people in union T-shirts sat in the shade in Johannesburg's Mary Fitzgerald Square, the listed starting point in the city for Cosatu's…
PlaceTokai Arboretum, Tokai Forest
… The Arboretum was laid out in 1885 by Joseph Storr Lister, Conservator of Forests of the Western Conservancy of the Cape Colony, thus marking the beginnings…
ArchiveTrafalgar High School, Cape Town, marks 100 years
… Thursday sees Trafalgar High School, located at the foot of District Six, marking 100 years of existence and according to school principal, Nadeem Hendricks,…
79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1977 the Government proposed a new…
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
… been made since Nelson Mandela became President in 1994. The first is that the old guard racists have in general come to realize that there is no going back…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… of Southern Africa, wide-eyed to the differences of the worlds they encountered, our master photo-grapher has stubbornly traipsed the landscape to look,…
PlaceiSimangaliso Wetland Park, former Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park
… A World Heritage Site, iSimangaliso Wetland Park (the former Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park ) incorporates an astonishing variety of habitats from the…