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Chapter 8 - Survivors
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 In the accounts that follow no one was killed…
PlaceGrey Street now Yusuf Dadoo Street, Durban-City Centre
… Not too many people are aware that Durban has the largest concentration of Indian people outside of India! Originally brought in during the 1860’s by the…
ANC NEC meets (30th November, - 2 December 2001), 29 November 2001
… The African National Congress National Executive Committee … at an undisclosed venue around Johannesburg from Friday, the 30th November until Sunday, the 2nd…
EventGhana demands independence from Britain
… In 1821, the British Government took control of the British trading forts. In 1844, Fanti chiefs on the Gold Coast (as Ghana was then known) signed an…
EventCODESA II Talks end in deadlock
… The second Convention for a Democratic South Africa, or CODESA II, ends in a deadlock. The negotiating parties ie. The South African Government and the…
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
… Sbongiseni Dladla (SD): How did you feel in hearing the street would be named after you Gogo? Lulu Dube (LD): I … me if I wouldagree to be honoured to have…
EventMbeki unveils Women’s Monument at Union Buildings
… President Thabo Mbeki unveiled the Women's Monument at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. The aim of the monument was to commemorate the role of women … www…
Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner
… father's killer in 1989. I was living in New York City at the time. I read in the paper that an investigative journalist called Jacques Pauw had blown the…
Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa
… International political processes leading to the " Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive … Consequences in Southern Africa " can be traced back to the…
PlaceQuaqua
… Quaqua, or Qwaqwa, was a homeland created for the Southern Sotho people from a reserve in the Orange Free State (OFS) that had been granted to the followers…
PlaceFort Frederick, Port Elizabeth
… along Belmont Terrace, is a stone fort built in 1799 by the British Forces to defend the mouth of the Baakens River. Built in 1799 on a natural citadel, Fort…
EventYoweri Kaguta Moseveni becomes president of Uganda
… rule in 1962. In December 1980 Apollo Milton Obote, from the Uganda People's Congress (UPC), who had previously ruled Uganda, returned to power for the…
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… The Bantu Women's League (BWL) under its first president … undertook a passive resistance on 7 January 1919 against the application of pass laws to women…
PlaceWarden, Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality
… The N3 passes right through Warden on the route between: Johannesburg and Durban , just North of Harrismith . It falls under the jurisdiction of the Thabo…
History Wars, Wars in history & other Southern African histories
… In the prologue to The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley claimed that the “past is a foreign country: they do things differently … moment for historians to reflect…
PlaceShri Jagannath Puri Temple, Tongaat
… The property, with the Historic Indian temple thereon, being the remainder of Lot 79, Tongaat Township, situated in the Township of Tongaat, Province of…
PlaceWits Art Museum
… Situated on the ground floor of University Corner in the heart of Braamfontein, The Wits Art Museum is one of Johannesburg’s foremost tourist …
PlaceVenda
… In 1962, the South African Government created Venda as a Homeland for the Venda-speaking people. The area set aside for the bantustan, or homeland , was in …
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… The Anglo-Boer War broke out in 1899 and was the result of the British annexation of the Transvaal, soon after gold had …
PlaceTimour Hall Primary School, Plumstead
… In the early 1900’s land was set aside by the owners at Timour Hall Estate for the establishment of a school. The first structure was a …
PlaceAlgeria
… Situated north of the Sahara desert . Algeria shares a common border with Libya … , Niger , Mali , and Morocco . Algeria has access to the Mediterranean Sea…
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… During the South African War the British military authorities imported a large number of … Africa's major towns recorded outbreaks of this disease. The…
PlaceGallery 101
… In 1961, the Swiss Fernand Francis Haenggi (b. 1934, Dijon, France) … founded Gallery 101 to showcase modern South African art. The original location was…
PlacePilrig House, 1 Rockridge Road, Parktown, Johannesburg
… at; no.1 Rockridge Road. A classic Baker House built in the arts and crafts style, with a stone and mortar base up to first level, and the second storey with…
In memory of Archbishop Dennis Hurley by Phyllis Naidoo, 16 September 2009, Durban
… Archbishop Emeritus Denis Hurley, centre, at the freedom march in 1989 with other religious leaders. On the morning of the 17 August 2009, my copy of The…
PlaceEmoyeni, Parktown, Johannesburg
… Emoyeni, the ‘Place in the Air’ in Nguni, is located on the highest point, of the highest ridge in Parktown, keeping …
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… The Administrative capital of South Africa , Pretoria, or the ' Jacaranda City' is best known for its annual display of purple flowers in October. Located in…
PlaceKruger House Museum
… Situated at 60 Church Street, this was the home of President Paul Kruger. It was his personal property as the ZAR did not have an official residence for the…
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… Naudé was born into a family that was fully committed to the preservation of Afrikaner nationalism. His father was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church …
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… The Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) was re-launched in Roodepoort for the second time. After the outbreak of the Student Uprising in 1976, the…