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Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 3 - It’s a Mystery. Or is it? by Amanda Esterhuysen
… From the book: Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education This chapter looks at how archaeology and the…
Document 7 - Draft declaration of unity provisionally adopted at Unity Conference, Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943
… Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943 These organisations of the Non-European, which in themselves are not political … deliberations on questions affecting all Non…
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
… JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 15 — The South African Army reported tonight that six people were … wounded when a light truck set off a land mine close to the border…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… Oliver Tambo [1] In many colonial and social revolutions, the leaders of the people had to go into exile to guide the resistance or were imprisoned or…
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928 British Association/or the Advancement of Science … Secretary C.P.S.A. Dear Douglas, I am at present attending the…
Chapter 20. Malan’s Road to a New South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Round about 1940 the propaganda committee of the Nationalist Party issued a pamphlet under the title, The Road to A New South Africa, in which the …
PlaceGannahoek Farm
… Gannahoek Farm is situated in the Colenso district in KwaZulu-Natal Province. In 1894, the McFie family took possession of the farm until 1990. Evictions…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… - The Quest for a Political Base, October 1978 - August 1979 … [I]f our own independent efforts had taught us anything in the recent period, it was that our…
PlaceDoornkop/Doornsluiten
… in Utrecht , a town in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). To the west lay Annandale farm which was acquired by the South African Development Trust (SADT) in 1954…
14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai By far the largest number of Indians (152 184…
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… 30 October 2002 eight bomb blasts rocked Soweto. Seven of the blasts occurred on main commuter railway lines running through the township. The damage to the…
PlaceMali
… Mali, landlocked country of western Africa, mostly in the Saharan and Sahelian regions. Mali is bounded on the north by Algeria, on the east by Niger and…
PlaceSharpeville, Gauteng
… Sharpeville Township holds many sad memories and is Home to the Memorial at the 'Human Rights Precinct'. Sharpeville is situated +/-14 km … In 1960, during…
PlaceRissik Street Post Office, Johannesburg
… The correct name of Johannesburg's Old Post Office clock is the "Coronation Clock'. This might be a good point for city councillors to stress when they next…
PlaceSprings
… The Town of Springs, East of Johannesburg, is on the East Rand, or what is now known as the Metropolitan area of Ekurhuleni , in the Gauteng …
Briefing to organisation of African Unity Kampala, September 8, 1990
… (In a speech to the fifth session of the OAU Ad Hoc Committee on Southern Africa, Nelson Mandela dealt with the wave of violence in South Africa, and said…
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… Blue Plaque was unveiled at Windybrow. 2017, saw the reopening of Windybrow as an Arts Centre under the auspices of the Market Theatre Foundation. In the…
66. G.M. Naicker: We will not colloborate
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1946 the Government passed the Asiatic Land…
14. Suicide among indentured
… By far the largest number of Indians (152 184 in all by 1911) who came to South Africa were indentured. Among the many problems that faced them, and…
PlaceKenya
… in East Africa with a population of 44 million people and the largest economy of the region. The early inhabitants were mostly migrants from other regions ……
25. ‘Free State’ implies equality, declare traders
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … Bridglal Pachai Aboobaker Amod and three others submitted the following petition to the O.F…
Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited … up today as we cannot afford to let them off two days, the cane is so dry. N. Sykes and…
EventANC rejects National Party proposal for a new constitution
… In a strongly worded statement, the African National Congress rejected the constitutional proposals by the National Party calling it a 'recipe for disaster'…
PlaceDie Nederlandse Reherformrde Kerk (Paul Kruger Church) Pretoria
… The year 1859 marks the founding of the Reformed Church, in Pretoria and its first church was built in the town in 1863. Only on 21 December 1894 did the…
Document 24 - De Klerk’s reply to Nelson Mandela
… COSATU SPECIAL EXCO PRESS STATEMENT ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS. The COSATU Executive Committee met in a special session today. (04.05.96) The Executive…
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai 'The appeasers', declared the report of the…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… In 1950, the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful Organisations Act and the Suppression of Communism Act. In March 1950, the African … New History of…
66. G. M. Naicker: we will not collaborate
… In 1946 the Government passed the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act (referred to as the 'Ghetto' Act in the next document). The Natal Indian …
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… Liberation. 18, April 1956 "People seem to be alarmed at the fact that there may be a so-called Right wing, Centre and Left wing in the Congress. To me it is…
PlaceDarlington Dam- Lake Mentz
… seller of goods). He had lost Cattle in an attack by the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War , was said to have started Darlington Farm in the Jansenville…