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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…
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…
PlaceUmlazi
… History of Umlazi The history of Umlazi (or Mlazi) dates back to 1845 when … Natal ) and created a number of ‘Native locations’ for the Zulus in the Natal…
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…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… grieves me and inspires me to write this to you now, with the hour of your death still a fresh wound in our peoples’ … sense, this one word brings out much…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Anthony Heard, October 1985
… HEARD: The ANC is officially portrayed in South Africa as a … terrorist-type organisation, almost presented to the public as demons. Now, since the public…
PlaceSt Margaret’s House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… St Margaret's was built in 1905 and is not visible from the road, but what a pleasure it is to walk up the driveway through what must be one of the most…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… On 11 July 1963 I was sitting in the living-room of the Liliesleaf farm -house reading Robert Junk’s Brighter than a Thousand Suns, the story of the first…
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1961 the South African Government gave…
PlaceMozambique
… is not easy to miss on a map!" But due to its troubles in the past, it was mostly overlooked in the greater scheme of African safaris. The voyage of Vasco da…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner The start of a bad time The treason trial was the start of a very bad time. At…
A Farewell To Madiba! National Assembly, Cape Town, March 26,1999.
… Madame Speaker Chairperson of the Council of Provinces Honourable Members Mr President … yomthonyama! Sithwalandwe! You have walked along the road of the…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… Janet Remmington, Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson are the editors of a new scholarly work on Plaatje’s book, Sol … (Wits University Press), from which…
PlaceFort Klapperkop
… This was the third fort erected by the German firm Krupp and designed by von Dewitz and Werner. The German forts were of the pentagonal reinforced type, … …
Tribute To Michael Harmel: Oration At Funeral In Prague, June 24, 1974
… whole life was unconditionally and totally dedicated to the struggle of the people and who devoted all his adult years to the cause which was dear to him…
#JimiMatthews decision praised by Chelsea Geach (News), 28 Jun 2016
… Cape Twon - The suddent resignation of SABC acting chief executive Jimi Matthews has been hailed by groups across the country as a move of integrity amidst…
PlaceNamaqua Coastal Route
… The Northern Cape is South Africa's largest province and a must-see destination, whether you prefer the ocean, the desert, the bush or quirky towns rich in…
PlaceAddo Elephant Game Reserve, Port Elizabeth
… This Reserve lies East of the Sunday's River and North of Port Elizabeth . In about 1931, about 680 ha. was enclosed to form the Addo Elephant National Park…
PlaceAkasia- a Complex of Suburbs, of Pretoria
… Town in the Wonderboom district, 3 km from North of Pretoria North, … now known as Tshwane. It obtained Municipal status on the 1 October 1984. Akasia is…
PlacePhilippi
… The settlement of Springfield was established sometime before … Philippi is one of Cape Town’s Townships formed, in the 1980s, at more-or-less the same time…
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… When the VoC granted land in Rondebosch to the first free Burghers, Governor Jan van Riebeeck reserved a piece of this Land to be used as an Orchard by the…
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… Equatorial Guinea is a West African nation bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon and Gabon . The earliest indigenous population of this country…
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… Robben Island is located off the coast Cape Town and was named as such by Dutch explorers who encountered many seals on the island. It was however,…
PlaceMariammen Temple, Pretoria
… Established in 1905, the temple is the oldest Hindu temple in Pretoria. The temple gets its name from Mariammen, the goddess that … Established in 1905, the…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
… Vladislavic: What work are you showing at the Art Fair? Goldblatt: I've chosen 30 pictures, both old … or published before, including some personal…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… Until the photographer Ranjith Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the man and his work…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The 1950s had been a decade of protest, from the Defiance Campaign at the beginning to the Treason Trial …
PlaceKing’s Blockhouse, Devil’s Peak, Cape Town.
… Following the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795, the existing Dutch line of defence, known as the French line …
PlaceLebowa
… During the apartheid period, Lebowa was the homeland of the North Sotho people. It became a semi-independent national …
PlaceLiberia
… Liberia, which means ‘freedom’ formerly known as the Grain Coast, is one of the few African countries including Ethiopia that were not colonised by the…