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PlaceKookfontein
… Kookfontein’s Sauvignon Blanc is grown on the Northern bank of the Jackals Creek, near the rustic seaside town of Lamberts Bay. The small boutique …
EventKenyan mediates in SA election deadlock
… J. Okumu urged Chief Buthelezi to participate in the forthcoming general election. Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) … Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi to…
PlaceSophiatown
… who named it after his wife; 'Sophia'. Subsequently, the Area became a Whites only Area. When a sewage dump was built next to the Area, White people did not…
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… platinum mine in Rustenburg. It is not yet clear why the police were using live ammunition, nor whether a warning was issued. Audio-visual depictions of the…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… The death of Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s … to 1994, has produced a range of appraisals of his life. The general tone of the commentaries –…
PlaceSt Margaret’s House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… St Margaret's was built in 1905 and is not visible from the road, but what a pleasure it is to walk up the driveway through what must be one of the most…
EventMercenaries from South Africa led by Colonel “Mad Mike” Hoare, attempt an unsuccessful coup in Seychelles
… The armed mercenaries entered the Seychelles disguised as a beer-drinking tourist party, "The Ancient Order of Froth-Blowers." Hoare's objective was to ……
PlaceMozambique
… is not easy to miss on a map!" But due to its troubles in the past, it was mostly overlooked in the greater scheme of African safaris. The voyage of Vasco da…
PlaceFort Klapperkop
… This was the third fort erected by the German firm Krupp and designed by von Dewitz and Werner. The German forts were of the pentagonal reinforced type, … …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner The start of a bad time The treason trial was the start of a very bad time. At…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… Janet Remmington, Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson are the editors of a new scholarly work on Plaatje’s book, Sol … (Wits University Press), from which…
PlaceAkasia- a Complex of Suburbs, of Pretoria
… Town in the Wonderboom district, 3 km from North of Pretoria North, … now known as Tshwane. It obtained Municipal status on the 1 October 1984. Akasia is…
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… Equatorial Guinea is a West African nation bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon and Gabon . The earliest indigenous population of this country…
PlaceMariammen Temple, Pretoria
… Established in 1905, the temple is the oldest Hindu temple in Pretoria. The temple gets its name from Mariammen, the goddess that … Established in 1905, the…
PlaceLebowa
… During the apartheid period, Lebowa was the homeland of the North Sotho people. It became a semi-independent national …
PlaceLiberia
… Liberia, which means ‘freedom’ formerly known as the Grain Coast, is one of the few African countries including Ethiopia that were not colonised by the…
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… The Natal Indian Organisation (NIO) was founded on May 4 1947 by A. I. Kajee and others who had left the Natal Indian Congress (NIC). The NIC had grown more…
EventCourt approves same-sex couple's right to marry
… partner of twelve years, Cecelia Bonthuys had been refused the right to marry on the basis of the common law interpretation of marriage. The couple … E. …
PlaceBantu Dramatic Society, Johannesburg
… The Bantu Dramatic Society was founded in Johannesburg by … promoting black theatrical development. It was housed at the Bantu Men’s Social Centre, a club…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… Until the photographer Ranjith Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the man and his work…
PlaceNieu-Bethesda
… was started by a determined group of people who lived in the area and who wanted a Church closer than the one in Graaff-Reinet – over seven hours ride away…
PlaceCity Hall and Francis Farewell Gardens, Durban
… Street - lies Durban's second National Monument from the colonial times. The Victorian building used to be the Town Hall from 1885 to 1910 and today serves…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
… THE EXTREMITY OF CONFLICT in a revolutionary struggle can … attempting a serious study of such a struggle. Firstly, the antagonists, for reasons of their…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… The building, with its richly decorated gable, was completed in 1896 and is one of the last surviving structures of the old Transvaal railway system. It was…
Introduction
… The energies of South African Indians, mobilised in the 1890s against growing anti-Indianism in various parts of … into a concerted movement which aimed at…
ArchiveLetter to Zuma by David Goldblatt (Mail and Guardian), 25 November 2011
… to renounce a top South African award, in protest against the Protection of State Information Bill, which was passed by … came after a protracted but failed…
Nelson Mandela ‘Release Us or Treat Us as Political Prisoners’, 22 April 1969
… Letter addressed to the Minister of Justice from Robben Island Prison Dated 22 April 1969; Published by the ANC in 1978 Dear Sir, My colleagues have…
ArchiveAppendix 5 Notes on Palestine and Israel by Denis Goldberg
… was unjust We fought it to be free to rebuild our country The world condemned apartheid and international … campaigning was an important part of our struggle…
Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … on Thursday, 9 December 1982, Lesotho was held…
Address to Beijing University Beijing, 6 May 1999
… President of the University of Beijing; Members of faculty and students; … members of this distinguished institution of learning. The occasion is unique not…