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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…
"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962
… this statement. "New Age has already been threatened under the Sabotage Bill with banning and I have decided to make … statement to your paper precisely…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… them on charges arising from their opposition to the racist and colonial domination of the people of South Africa by an increasingly fascist white minority…
PlaceKronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay.
… The estate of Kronendal was part of land granted to Willem … in 1713, although it was only developed as a farm towards the end of the century. Its farmhouse…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by Walter Sisulu
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe … were his most productive and significant ”” they were the years for which he is chiefly…
PlaceAmandelboom, Town in Northern Cape
… name for 'Almond tree'. These trees were found near the Rhenish Mission Station from which the Town developed. The name Amandelboom was used from 1845 to…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PlaceMauritania
… Mauritania, Country on the Atlantic coast of Africa. Culturally it forms a transitional zone between the Arab-Amazigh (Berber) populations of North Africa…
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,…
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Into this sketchy collage which is Lesotho,…
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 …