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History Wars, Wars in history & other Southern African histories
… elephants. Other such History Wars have raged in the past or are still being fought on issues as diverse as: memory vs … heritage vs history; patriotic…
PlaceShri Jagannath Puri Temple, Tongaat
… response was considerate - instead of distancing himself or his conception of Faith from the Younger People within the … think through ways of handling these…
Introduction
… two categories, namely as indentured Indians and as 'free' or 'passenger' Indians. The former came as a result of a … category of Indians were free to remain…
PlaceGrahamstown, now known as Makhanda
… regularly laid out; and the houses are neat, and white, or yellow. The inhabitants are about 4,000, almost … , and Independents. Adjacent to the town there…
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
… sooner with each joint campaign, with each shared disaster or united victory - when the fullest possible unity, inside … case (and still is) with, say,…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Cross-roads of Native Policy
… no problem. For example, in the West Indies (say Jamaica or Trinidad) white and black rule together without … are engaged in farm-work either as servants to…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
… is yet to come for farewells, as many of us - by choice or circumstance - will not return. However, there is no time … subsidised housing. With 700-thousand…
Archive1999 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 5 February 1999 (Before National Elections)
… is yet to come for farewells, as many of us - by choice or circumstance - will not return. However, there is no time … subsidised housing. With 700-thousand…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 4 - 19 by Carol Hermer
… Maria's Diary, September 6 - 14 It's difficult to describe or understand the kind of excitement everyone is feeling. … They just heard about it but not how…
Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
… were now being ejected. To brew African beer, to drink it or to use the proceeds to supplement the meagre family income … To live in the "wrong" area - an…
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
… were now being ejected. To brew African beer, to drink it or to use the proceeds to supplement the meagre family income … To live in the "wrong" area - an…
Nelson Mandela by Oliver Tambo
… were now being ejected. To brew African beer, to drink it or to use the proceeds to supplement the meagre family income … To live in the "wrong" area - an…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… radio was the English language commercial radio channel - or 'station' as it was then called - of the SABC. This, … They almost exclusively showed films made…
EventThe first legal photograph of Nelson Mandela released.
… him as after 1964 it was illegal to have his photographs or to photograph him for the 22 years that he had been in …
PlaceTylden, Eastern Cape
… the Eastern Cape. There are arid deserts in the interior, or the lush, humid land to the east--home to elephants, …
PlaceCaledon Museum, Eastern Cape
… – you might even be lucky enough to purchase a loaf or two.) This House has ancient artefacts from 1840 to 1900. …
ArchiveThe rehabilitation scheme: a new fraud
… a slave to the White man and to invariably create wealth or him. A plan directed for those Africans in the Reserves …
Rixaka
… country. President of the African National Congress, OR Tambo, in 1984, charged "our cultural workers with the …
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… in which the right to life, regardless of race, gender or age is entrenched. …
EventDeputy Minister of Interior Affairs, P.W. Botha, introduces the Republican Referendum Bill to Parliament
… is held, voters would be asked to vote either "Yes" or "No" to the question; "Are you in favour of a republic?" …
EventThe Riotous Assemblies Act Commences
… punishment. It allowed the government to ban any newspaper or any other "documentary information" that would cause …
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… forces were planning to kill him by means of a parcel or letter bomb. While in Mozambique he became involved in the …
EventCiskei National Security Decree No 19 promulgated
… The decree provided for indefinite detention without trial or interrogation, and stipulated that any meeting of more …
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
… of either having participated in apartheid structures or for their racial make-up. The move of AZAPO caused the …
EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
… in need of international food aid. For the last 70 years or more, Ethiopia had experienced repeated droughts and …
EventSuspect in US embassies bomb blasts denies charges
… If convicted Mohamed could be handed down a death penalty or life imprisonment sentence without possibility of parole. …
EventWinnie Mandela sued by the government
… value of government property she had allegedly misused or failed to return after being dismissed as Deputy Minister …
EventGen. De la Rey captures Lord Methuen
… and captured Gen. Lord Methuen in the Battle of Tweebosch (or De Klipdrift) in Western Transvaal in the last important …
EventCape Colony Prime Minister opposes War
… has put on the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) or South African Republic (Transvaal) in an article in the …
EventThe BSAC flag is hoisted in Bulawayo
… The flag of the British South Africa Company (BSAC) or Chartered Company was hoisted in Bulawayo, the Matabele …