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PlaceOld gaol, Seventh Avenue, Roodepoort
… The original building was apparently already in existence in 1890 when it was converted to use as a gaol for the mining village of Florida. The structure was…
PlaceElephant House, Ridge Road, Durban
… The Elephant House, located on Ridge road on Durban's berea, was built in the early 1850's on the highest natural point on the Berea Ridge overlooking what ……
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… The Market Square in the heart of the Port Elizabeth town centre is a historical icon that … reveals much about this old coastal town. It is home to the City…
FOREWORD: THEORETICAL DEBATES AND METHODOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES
… WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, pledge ourselves to Peace and Reconciliation … in South African and agree to commit ourselves to the following: 1. The Inkatha Freedom…
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… nationalists rebelled against plans to have a Union Jack (the British flag) in the centre of the national flag. The controversy followed the introduction … …
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… Naidoo immediately began playing an influential role in the development of a pro-Congress radical politics in Johannesburg. For the young white left, mainly…
Cosatu march: For Who, for What? by Simelane and Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 8 October 2015
… morning, only a few people in union T-shirts sat in the shade in Johannesburg's Mary Fitzgerald Square, the listed starting point in the city for Cosatu's…
79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1977 the Government proposed a new…
Preface
… This study of "protest art" in South Africa for the period 1968 to 1976 presented me with several … period of South African art history, I was faced with the…
Don’t eat potatoes!
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner I have already spoken about the boys on the potato farms at Bethel, how they…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Babanango is located about 58 km North-West of Melmoth in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. Initially the Town was part of land granted to White farmers, in 1885, …
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 On 10 December 1996, the signatures on the country's new and final Constitution fixed a…
PlaceMalawi
… The Coastal and Marine Ecosystems of the Bijagós Archipelago – Omatí Minhô in Guinea-Bissau and the mountain range of southern Malawi have been added to the …
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… a bomb attack by South African security agents during the arduous fight to end apartheid. Sachs, 78, went on to help negotiate South Africa’s peaceful…
EventZimbabawean Independence Day
… day in 1980, Southern-Rhodesia gained independence from the British, taking the name Zimbabwe. The day marked the end of racial segregation after a … Bute, E…
PlaceFirst & Second River Temple's
… The First River Temple, built the banks of the Umbilo River, near Bayhead Durban, in 1875. This is the first Hindu Temple that was built in Africa. It was … …
EventWorld War I begins
… system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist threw this system off…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by Walter Sisulu
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe … were his most productive and significant ”” they were the years for which he is chiefly…
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
… A delegation of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) met with … P W Botha and other government leaders, following calls by the church for urgent…
Extracts from a press conference, 11 February 1990
… given by Nelson Mandela to foreign and local journalists, the first since his release on Sunday 11 February 13 February … said that after meetings with you…
PlaceAlgiers, Capital of Algeria
… Presumed to be named after the Harbour City, on the West side of the Bay of Algiers, Capital City of Algeria. Algiers is the …
Entering Namibia without visas
… It was on 27 October 1966 that the United Nations General Assembly terminated the mandate over South West Africa and declared that henceforth the territory…
PlaceWoutersen Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point.
… The vault is huge, well looked after, with a fence that nobody can cross! It was erected in 1827 by the widow of Peter Woutersen. His granddaughter married,…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… On 1 February 1994 President F.W. de Klerk announced the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong and…
Document 71 - National Committee for Liberation, Announcement [20 December 1961]
… Committee for Liberation, Announcement [20 December 1961] The National Committee announces that on 20 December 1961 it destroyed power lines in Johannesburg…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Newsweek, 01 August 1980
… faces an escalating urban guerrilla-warfare programme by the African National Congress? TAMBO : I`m afraid so. That is not merely a decision by the ANC. It…
PlaceMauritania
… Mauritania, Country on the Atlantic coast of Africa. Culturally it forms a transitional zone between the Arab-Amazigh (Berber) populations of North Africa…
PlaceBurundi
… a relatively small country located in central Africa, and the name and approximate territory has a continuity with the Kingdom of Burundi which was founded…
Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules
… clapped after Judge Billy Mothle ruled that in 1971 the SACP’s Timol was pushed by members of the Security Branch out of a window in John Vorster’s 10th … He…
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… Life Fatima Zohra Imalayen was born in 1936 in the town of Cherchell, Algeria (Chronology Assia Djebar … although French would come to be her enemy tongue in…