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A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 4
… important than the official charges lay upon them. "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" was never better …
In the enduring spirit of President O.R. Tambo: Good luck to all matriculants, 22 October 2012
Undeniably a matric certificate in South Africa symbolises aspirations of posterity while it represents a gateway to the dignity of getting further training…
ArchiveUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a painting of Yahya Jammeh, the former president of The Gambia, adorns the ceiling. Jammeh, in…
PlaceGriqualand East
The territory of Griqualand East is located South of the Colony of Natal, between the Drakensberg and Pondoland. Despite being well watered, fertile and richly…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist and top judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived a bomb attack…
Cataloguing the archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
The archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement arrived at Rhodes House Library in Oxford in 1996 and it is planned that the cataloguing process will be complete…
Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom
… by the idea of a classless society, an attraction which springs in part from Marxist reading, and, in part, from my …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede Abraham, Peter. Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Basner,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… the congress of the Transvaal branch of the ANC, held at Springs. 12 November, J.B Marks , a member of the CPSA, is …
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
For the last few weeks millions of fevered eyes have been fixed on South Africa, host to the World Cup, which ends next weekend. For half a century the probing…
ArticleInsurrections I: Tracks and Lyrics
1. What Shall We Do Now (Hindustani) Ab tum hi kaho kya karna hai Ab kaise paar utarna hai Ab kaise paar utarna hai (Now tell me what we should do How…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
19317 October, Desmond Mpilo Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South Africa.1961Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister in the…
PlaceSouth Africa
Is the Southern most Country of Africa. It is bordered by Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe. It is also bordered by two Seas, namely the…
PlaceMkhambathi Nature Reserve
Situated on the coast of north-eastern Pondoland, the Mkhambathi Nature Reserve,, offers visitors 7 720ha of open grasslands, dotted with indigenous forest…
May Day
On 1 May, South Africa will enjoy Worker's Day (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party…
EventFirst celebration of May Day in South Africa
On 1 May, South Africa will enjoy Worker's Day (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party…
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
On 1 May, South Africa will enjoy Worker's Day (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
Introduction The Robben Island prisoners settled down to the mindless timetable of imprisonment, filling hours with manual labour which mercifully distracted…
Statement at the 25th Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 24 – 26 July 1989
… in Paris recently. The idea that it is sought to elaborate springs from the knowledge that as apartheid appears to be …
Mission Stations - A-F
… grow their corn here, being able to irrigate the land from springs which rise under the hills". DARLING , Cape: DRCSA …
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
IntroductionStephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… Kimberley, Pretoria, Randfontein or Boksburg but in the Springs Municipality 827 were built, in Benoni 606 were … continued to be built in Johannesburg,…
America, Spanish conquest
All the content in this America section was developed from 2003 lessons, namely; – America in the 1500s – The Slave TradeThe content below has been modified…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… - an easily defended flat-topped mountain with natural springs that could support thousands of people and their …
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… experience of living on the Witwatersrand. She grew up in Springs. I grew up in Randfontein. Her stories enabled me to …
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
Now let us talk of Freedom,. Everywhere in the world today, the oppressed and exploited masses of people are up in arms. They are fighting against the forces…
Address of the president of the republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, to the summit meeting of the OAU heads of state and government Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, June 8 1998
Mr Chairman;Distinguished Heads of State and Government;Heads of Delegation;Honourable Ministers;Ambassadors and Members of the Diplomatic Corps;Ladies and…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… vacation working at Hotel American-Adelphi at Saratoga Springs, New York, where he managed to save $50 which he …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… branch of the African National Congress (ANC), held at Springs. 12 November, J.B Marks is elected Transvaal …
Mission Stations - M
… fetch water from it, or that they probably knew of other springs in the locality not yet seen by us. "Here, then, we …