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Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… As a result of disturbances in South African politics the Prime Minister found it necessary on this occasion to state his policy as Leader of the National…
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
… A delegation of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) met with … P W Botha and other government leaders, following calls by the church for urgent…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… The arrival of Lord Kitchener and Lord Roberts, with the latter taking up the role of Supreme Commander of British forces in 1900 …
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… During the latter half of 2010, a series of events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the first Indian indentured laborers in Natal will take place …
ArchiveA History of Botsotso by Allan Horwitz
… platform for performance, was formed in 1996 by members of the Botsotso Jesters poetry performance group. The Jesters had come together in 1994 and consisted…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… I AM DIRECTED by the All-In African National Action Council to address your Government in the following terms: The All-In African National Action Council was…
Extracts from a press conference, 11 February 1990
… given by Nelson Mandela to foreign and local journalists, the first since his release on Sunday 11 February 13 February … said that after meetings with you…
PlaceAlgiers, Capital of Algeria
… Presumed to be named after the Harbour City, on the West side of the Bay of Algiers, Capital City of Algeria. Algiers is the …
Entering Namibia without visas
… It was on 27 October 1966 that the United Nations General Assembly terminated the mandate over South West Africa and declared that henceforth the territory…
NANNA’S LIFE STORY
… Contents Early Days Seasonal work in the canning factory THE 'SUBS' STEWARD - "a fine leader to workers in all areas" … Marital Struggle Being banned Back to…
PlaceWoutersen Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point.
… The vault is huge, well looked after, with a fence that nobody can cross! It was erected in 1827 by the widow of Peter Woutersen. His granddaughter married,…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… On 1 February 1994 President F.W. de Klerk announced the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong and…
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… In 1815, tensions between the British and Dutch were running high. The Dutch settlers strongly (and correctly) suspected the British of resenting their…
Document 71 - National Committee for Liberation, Announcement [20 December 1961]
… Committee for Liberation, Announcement [20 December 1961] The National Committee announces that on 20 December 1961 it destroyed power lines in Johannesburg…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Newsweek, 01 August 1980
… faces an escalating urban guerrilla-warfare programme by the African National Congress? TAMBO : I`m afraid so. That is not merely a decision by the ANC. It…
ArchiveHow a slave from Mauritius led a rebellion in Cape Town by Nigel Worden (Ground Up), 30 March 2016
… a slave in chains appears to be driven by a master on the left side of the image. Some four decades later, slaves in the Cape rebelled. Drawing by the Danish…
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… The Reverend Michael Scott was born on 30 July 1907 at Lowfield Heath Sussex, the youngest of three brothers. In 1911 his father, an Anglican priest, was…
PlaceMauritania
… Mauritania, Country on the Atlantic coast of Africa. Culturally it forms a transitional zone between the Arab-Amazigh (Berber) populations of North Africa…
PlaceSt James, Cape Town
… The Seaside Resort of St. James was located on False Bay , some 26 km South of Cape Town , the Suburb derived its name from the Church of St. James, built…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as an activist was to the…
PlaceBurundi
… a relatively small country located in central Africa, and the name and approximate territory has a continuity with the Kingdom of Burundi which was founded…
Raymond Tucker: Attorney interview with Rupert Taylor 26 January 2000, 32 St John Road, Houghton, Johannesburg
… Maybe I should begin by telling you a bit more about the project. Tucker: Please. Taylor: I’ve been doing it now … month, I’m going to be sitting down to…
PlaceKookfontein
… Kookfontein’s Sauvignon Blanc is grown on the Northern bank of the Jackals Creek, near the rustic seaside town of Lamberts Bay. The small boutique …
EventKenyan mediates in SA election deadlock
… J. Okumu urged Chief Buthelezi to participate in the forthcoming general election. Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) … Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi to…
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… Life Fatima Zohra Imalayen was born in 1936 in the town of Cherchell, Algeria (Chronology Assia Djebar … although French would come to be her enemy tongue in…
PlaceSophiatown
… who named it after his wife; 'Sophia'. Subsequently, the Area became a Whites only Area. When a sewage dump was built next to the Area, White people did not…
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… platinum mine in Rustenburg. It is not yet clear why the police were using live ammunition, nor whether a warning was issued. Audio-visual depictions of the…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… links throughout Southern Africa and an understanding of the social linkages between struggles particularly in … George Peake was a bricklayer by trade,…
PlaceVictoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
… as part of his task to establish a Refreshment Station at the Foot of Africa for the Dutch East India Company. Cape Town Harbour had become a … for Dutch…
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… This interesting and Historic Village of Genadendal is the oldest Moravian Mission Village in Africa, with Church buildings and a School that dates back to…