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PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
Iron Age Shell middens containing early Iron Age pottery fragments have been found at Umhlanga Rocks, Ballito and Shaka's Rock Village, which date back to…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Sons and daughters of Africa: On behalf of the Executive Committee of the African National Congress, I have great pleasure in…
Document 49 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: Introduction (Minority) (1934)
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 49 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: Introduction …
Say It out Loud - The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906 1 Dr Abdurahman rose to deliver his…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU The formation of a trade union federation based on the African…
Address at the Commonwealth Local Government Forum, 4 March 2003
Chairperson, Minister Sydney Mufumadi, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Don McKinnon, Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Dr Anna Tibajuka, Chairperson…
Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Although I had been active in the labour movement since the days of my youth, my election to the position of general secretary the union was purely fortuitous…
Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
The year 1944 was one of the busiest for the union. In the midst of the trouble, which started in February, we became involved in a series of court actions,…
1. The Way to Fox Street
Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana was born in 1899 in Witzieshoek (now known as Qwa Qwa), a tiny African reserve squeezed into a valley on the south-eastern border of…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
Sol T Plaatje’s ground-breaking work Native Life in South Africa was published 100 years ago in 1916. Janet Remmington, Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson…
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
Claremont, a Suburb in Cape Town, is situated North of Kenilworth, East of Bishopscourt and South of Newlands in the Western Cape Province. The name is French…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the closing session of the 50th National Conference of the ANC Mafikeng, 20 December 1997
My President, Comrade Thabo Mbeki; My leaders: the Officials, members of the NEC, PEC's, and BEC's; Colleagues and comrades; Dear Guests. The time has come…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the Brickfields Housing Development, at the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, on 12 August 2005.
Honourable Minister of Housing, Lindiwe Sisulu, Honourable Premier of Gauteng, Mbhazima Shilowa, Your Worship, Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg,…
The New Generation
A significant challenge to state policy as regards the visual arts was undertaken at The State of Art in South Africa Conference held in 1979 at the University…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, the economy was in a dire state with the working and lower classes being the most vulnerable. There were…
The death of Mama Luthuli,16 December 1996
The heart of a lioness has ceased to beat. Mama Nokukhanya Luthuli is no more. Comrade Nokukhanya Luthuli, 92 years old, was the wife of the late ANC President…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.5 No.2 1982
Contents and ContributorsStories: To Fly by Steve Jacobs ; Pikinini’s Adventure by Walt Oyi Sipho kwa Mthetwa; Don’t Leave Me by Joseph Moladira; Japie and…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, the economy was in a dire state with the working and lower classes being the most vulnerable. There were…
PlaceSilikamva High School, Penzance Estate-Hout Bay
There vision is for the positive transformation of Individuals and Communities through the creation of a School environment that fosters Academic excellence,…
EventJan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during South African War, is born
On 10 June 1872 Jan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during the South African War (the Second Anglo-Boer War), Member of Parliament and SA minister of…
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt’s trial begins in the Cape Town High Court
The trial of Commodore Dieter Gerhardt on charges of spying for the Soviet Union began in the Cape Town High Court. The Judge President granted an application…
EventThe energy and chemical company, Sasol, is registered
The history of Sasol began in 1927 when a White Paper was tabled in Parliament to investigate the establishment of a South African oil-from-coal industry. It…
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
The Transvaal University College, with branches in Johannesburg and Pretoria, took the examinations of the Cape University. The Pretoria branch of the…
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
The Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Sam Dlamini was hacked to death by a group of youths, and doused in petrol and burned. The riots were in protest against rent…
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
Journalist, anti-apartheid activist, and Director of Publicity of the African National Congress (ANC) External Mission, Marimuthu Pragalathan Naicker (M.P.)…
EventBanned PAC leader Sobukwe is admitted as attorney
Robert Sobukwe, former leader of the banned Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), although still under a banning order, was admitted to practice as an attorney in…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
The Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement was founded on 21 March 1975 at KwaNzimela, in Northern KwaZulu. Inkatha emerged, along with the Black…
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), was killed by a parcel bomb near Gaborone, Botswana. Tiro was completing an…
EventMinster of Justice, Pelser defends the banning orders on eight leaders of SASO
The banning of eight prominent Black Consciousness (BC) exponents in March 1973 came as a direct result of the popularity that these leaders enjoyed among…
EventSAA Helderberg 747 crashes
The South African Airways Helderberg 747 jet aircraft crashed into the Indian Ocean near Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board. A fire, which started from…