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Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… Adv Jeremy Gauntlett on the life and work of the late former Chief Justice Arthur … of those who work it. Speaking to a packed audience of the Cape Law…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is a South African political … to advance his political ambitions. Buthelezi used the name Inkhata which was rooted in a…
PlaceSutelong a township in the West of Mortele, Pretoria
… 1 person. (This was taken from a 2011 statistics survey. The first language is Setswana spoken by 3,104, which is 76.62% of the total population.) The…
PlaceBotshabelo Mission Station, near Middleburg
… Botshabelo Mission Station can be found in Middelburg in the Mpumalanga Province. Originally a place of refuge for … grew into an important and rather…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … for our troubles have never ceased. Again, when the Cape Town Agreement was made by the…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… In May 1963, the Cape Times announced the launch of ‘a national art exhibition, open to South African artists of all races’. The first iteration of Art South…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
… receives her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Fort Hare located in the Eastern Cape. 1962 Tshabalala-Msimang is one of 27 young members of …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.2 Apr-May 1979
… Content and Contributors CONTENTS Two letters on the banning of Staffrider Vol 2 No. 1 March 1979, Soweto … ... . Mtutuzeli Matshoba (Orlando West) A…
Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo on S.A.F.N.T.U. (1930)
… its office at Feneira Street Johannesburg) were before the Executive. One was contained in a note from T.W. Thibedi to the Secretary asking for the use of a…
PlaceUtrecht
… South African War of 1899 - 1902 as their headquarters. The British were wary of having to camp in high altitude area where their health were going to be…
PlaceElukhanyweni
… Elukhanyweni is a small settler village in the foothills of the Amatola Mountains, located some 50km from King William's … John Eyre of the 73rd Royal…
ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
… The year 1896 signifies an important moment in African … invading Italian forces and a strong Ethiopian army (under the leadership of Emperor Menelik II and…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… Goldblatt that is included in his current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, the South African photographer ponders how it is possible to … as books. Suburban…
PlaceCasper Nek Pass
… Casper’s Nek Pass looping off it through the Mountains, to join the R36 North of Ohrigstad. It is 1404m at its highest point! … Casper’s Nek Pass looping off…
Following the January meeting of health ministers in London, a decision is taken that December 1 become World Aids Day
… The World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for … London with representatives from 140 national governments. The conference marked the first broad…
PlaceMjejane Game Reserve
… Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport. Positioned on the Kruger National Park's Southern boundary, between the Malelane and Crocodile Bridge gates, the…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… ... A strike teaches workers to understand what the strength of the employers and what the strength of the … that their wages and conditions be raised to the…
PlaceWinnie Mandela Drive, Johannesburg
… The road was named after William Nicol , the Administrator of the Transvaal, at the time of construction. It was changed in … The road was named after…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, 02 May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania
… 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania Comrade Chezi, Representative of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, Comrade … as well, a very important front. That…
We are a Force - Speech at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College by O. R. Tambo, Mazimbu, Tanzania, May 1984
… Comrade Chezi, Representative of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, Comrade … as well, a very important front. That is why, at home, schools…
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… On 27 June 1976, almost two weeks after the Soweto Uprising on 16 June, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, the National President of the Black People's Convention (BPC),…
Debating Lineages of Socialism in Africa Webinars
… South African History Online, the Wits History Workshop, the Department of History at the … at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town,…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… groups using modern techniques. - Joe Slovo 1 Introduction The uprisings in Soweto and elsewhere in June 1976 created … of apartheid, personified ‘the enemy’…
PlaceGouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay
… It enters the Indian Ocean on the Southern Coast of Africa and 34 km south-west of Mossel … be economically taken from it. The national road between Cape…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… out as beacons guiding and inspiring peoples all over the world and for generations. Such was the great freedom … origins partly in the union of Ovambo…
PlaceMatjiesfontein
… A visit to Matjiesfontein is like stepping straight into the Victorian era. Established in the late 1800s, this tiny railway town boasts beautifully … during…
PlaceDitsong Museum of Natural History
… The Ditsong National Museum of Natural History used to be the Transvaal Museum of Natural History, which in turn … sites. There are collections of San rock…
A Political Reflection By John Fikile Block
… The measurement of any collective is not when the executive tasks in the normal course of organisational … has brought about significant developments in the…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The 1950s had been a … for my house arrest and bans was that I had arrived in Cape Town in the company of this…
ArchiveLetter to Petros Sipho Mkhize from his father in Macambini, KwaZulu-Natal
… handwritten letter in isiZulu on green paper, headed with the address of Mathubesizwe Secondary School, Nyoni … Mission" struck through and a "P.O. Box 104"…