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Make South Africa Ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 10 October 1984
… We are marking two important occasions in the history of our protracted struggle at a time when the revolutionary fervour amongst all sections of the black…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… We have no recorded evidence of how the Iron Age community on Melville Koppies was affected, but it was almost certainly disrupted or destroyed. Then the…
Timol: Salim Essop testifies of beatings, torture following arrest, News24, in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… of inquest sitting into Ahmed Timol’s death Johannesburg – The man who was arrested alongside late anti-apartheid … activist Ahmed Timol in 1971, took centre…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… The main building of the SA Army College was designed in a so-called block-house … served as a recreation centre for soldiers and when the South African…
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was a very different one from that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had shattered …
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ) and is situated 5km west of the Durban city centre. The Township was known for its rich cultural and political heritage. Cato…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… - 1924 and 1939-1948, General J.C. Smuts passed away at the age of 80 on his Doorkloof farm in Irene, near Pretoria. His ashes were scattered on Smuts Koppie…
PlaceShangana Cultural Village
… The Shagana Village is home to the Shangana people who speak isiTsonga, one of the official 11 languages in South Africa. The Village, which … The Shagana…
PlaceKroondal, Rustenburg
… of 22 German Lutheran mission congregations established in the former Natal and Transvaal. The farm Kroondal, which was in existence since 1843, was…
PlaceStation Building, Point Road, Durban
… The Victorian Railway Station dates from the 1890s when the Natal Government Railways experienced a surge in economic …
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad Award, something like a Nobel for…
PlaceMzilikazi Memorial, situated at Phokeng, near Rustenburg
… him at Emanxiweni. A cart was brought at nightfall and the King's body was placed in it and taken to Mhlahlandlela where on the 9th September his death was…
Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo's Statement In Court In Trial For Passive Resistance, June 1946
… (Dr. Dadoo was sentenced in June 1946, at the beginning of the passive resistance campaign, to three months` … imprisonment with hard labour. He had been…
44. Gandhi explains ‘satyagraha’
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … and Bridglal Pachai M K. Gandhi introduced a new weapon in the Indians' campaign for justice…
Document 2 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton
… FOR A NEW EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS STATUTE COSATU welcomes the green paper announced by the Minister of Labour today, (13.02.96) for a new policy on … Statute…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Olehile Bada Pharasi
… To the Student Movements of 2016 Dear Students, The events witnessed at the country’s tertiary education institutions this year would …
PlaceNorth West
… The North West Province was part of the old Transvaal , and includes most of the parts of the old homeland, Bophuthatswana . There is a … Taung is the site…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
… It is a great honour for the ANC and for me, personally, to have been invited to participate with the Swedish labour movement and people in observing May Day…
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… Here are extracts from some of them FROM HIS ADDRESS to the conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa, … Ababa, January 1962…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph When I began to give evidence, my knees were actually trembling for the first time in my life. Somehow I managed…
PlaceMpumalanga
… Mpumalanga means ‘Place of the Rising Sun’ and is the name given to the new Province in Eastern Transvaal in 1993. It includes … Mpumalanga means ‘Place of…
EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were totally destroyed by the first atomic bombs used in warfare. The American…
Joint statement by ANC Commission on Religious Affairs and SACC, 18 September 2009
… Leaders representing the Commission for Religious Affairs (CRA) and the South African Council of Churches (SACC) met at Chief Albert Luthuli House in…
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. It was formed in 1944 by …
PlaceTree Garden, President Brand Street, Bloemfontein
… sandstone buildings that surprise with their grandeur - the 3rd Raadsaal (originally Government Building and today the National Afrikaans Literary Museum and…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 3 April 1994
… (Begin with a reading from the Gospel According to St Matthew, Chapter 5. Verses: 1 to 12.) 1. And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain;and…
PlaceRaadsaal Building, Church Square, Pretoria
… The Raadsaal Building is located on the South-Western corner of Church Square and forms an important part of the Historical Architectural character of early…
PlaceIrene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
… Opened on 2 November 1900, the Irene Concentration Camp was built with the intention that it would be one of the camps that would house Boer woman and…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 2 March 1973. The farm, Welgegund was awarded to Swart Martiens Pretorius a … nephew of President M.W Pretorius,…
ArchiveAppendix 6 Studies in Asia by Denis Goldberg
… written in December 1991 as part of group reports at the end of our studies at Institut Tadbiram Awam Negara (INTAN), the Malaysian Government Civil Service…