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PlacePhilippolis, Free State
… "The first Historical Settlement North of the Orange River, this Southern Free State Town also belongs to the False Karoo, a Geographical Region of dry scrub…
PlaceForts Around Pretoria
… As a direct result of the abortive Jameson Raid of 1896, the Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek realised … There were four forts in Pretoria, all…
PlaceGroutville
… Groutville is situated approximately ten kilometers south of KwaDukuza and about 69 kilometers north of Durban. The name Groutville was acquired from its…
XII - Unanswered Questions
… From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Despite limitations of method and purpose, the inquest had in some respects assumed…
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… Village, which date back to roaming Bantu civilisation in the period from 400 A.D. The site of a later iron-age village of the Lala people can be visited …
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 26 April 2013, Queenstown
… Members of the Hani family, Premier Noxolo Kiviet and members of the provincial executive, Ministers and Deputy Ministers, …
PlaceChurch Square, Pretoria
… Church square is in the historic centre of Pretoria! The founder of Pretoria, Marthinus Pretorius declared the …
Class, Consciousness and Organisation:Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa, 1979 - 1996 by Kumi Naidoo
… Magdalen College, D. Phil., Michaelmas, 1997 Resistance to the apartheid system, led by the African National Congress (ANC) and its allies dominated … deals…
Slavery in South Africa
… known in India that there was a considerable importation of slaves from Asia to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company and its employees. Some of the…
PlaceNyanga Township
… Nyanga, a sprawling, poverty-stricken illustration of Cape Town’s urban sprawl, Nyanga is one of the oldest Black townships in Cape Town. It was established…
Introduction
… The energies of South African Indians, mobilised in the 1890s against growing anti-Indianism in various parts of South Africa, were channelled into a…
PlaceMossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
… to find a sea Route to India. This was in order to develop the spice route and spread Christianity. After a few … surmounted by a cross, was erected by Da…
Statement by Oliver Tambo with Other ANC leaders visiting Sweden, 02 February 1990
… creating a climate conducive to negotiations. We welcome the lifting of the bans on the ANC and other organisations. We also welcome …
Statement by O. R. Tambo with other ANC Leaders Visiting Sweden, 2 February 1990
… creating a climate conducive to negotiations. We welcome the lifting of the bans on the ANC and other organisations. We also welcome …
PlaceRooigrond
… Rooigrond was a Rural Community 16km of Mafikeng and 25km South-West of Ottoshoop, in the former fomeland of Bophuthatswana, (now the North West Province)…
PlacePosthuys
… Posthuys is considered of the earliest buildings along the False Bay Coastline and was built in the late 1600's as a …
PlaceNxuba (formerly known as Cradock)
… Cradock is a Historic Town that has retained much of its 19th-Century charm. Its beautifully restored Victorian … Karoo-style buildings, combined with its…
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
… Taylor and Adam Habib Habib: We generally start off with the question of trying to get people’s own conceptions of what they feel the conflict was about in…
ArchiveIndia’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael
… From the hypnotic effects of the circular motions of the spiritual dancing of whirling dervishes to the …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… Congress Resister was published by the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was formed at the turn of the twentieth century by Mahatma Gandhi. It was not…
Document 1 - Keir Hardie, “Stoned in South Africa”, 1907
… in South Africa", 1907' I landed at Durban, and was, of course, soon being interviewed by the Press. Then, as now, the racial question was acute, and the…
IFP 2019 Election Manifesto
… A GROWING ECONOMY The development of an inclusive economy is an absolute priority. This is … poverty, redress inequality, empower families, and fulfil the…
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, …
PlaceOld Fort and Cemetery, Durban
… The Old Fort and Durban's first cemetery are situated in Umgeni Road, and are now an integral part of the city centre. The first formal European settlement…
Notes from Books
… Jean Gelman Taylor, THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 The book…
PlaceGrey Street Complex
… Grey Street is the teaming business and residential Indian sector of the Durban City Centre , and is also the educational, …
PlaceGlen Grey Division
… The frontier war of 1850-53 was precipitated when the amaNgqika, faced with the increased pressure of European settlement upon their ancestral lands, rose in…
PlaceScottish War Memorial, Johannesburg
… The Sculpture shows a soldier in kilt and Scottish regalia. … in most dramatically with its position on a rising site on the triangular ground where St…
PlaceGreyton, Western Province
… This Village of Greyton, in the Cape , was established in 1852. Although the first plots of land were only sold in 1854. It was named … The village of…
Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati
… few kilometres from Ganyesa in Kagisano-Molopo area within the district of Bophirima, now called Dr Ruth Mompati District Municipality, named after her. Born…