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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…
PlaceChurch Square, Pretoria
… Church square is in the historic centre of Pretoria! The founder of Pretoria, Marthinus Pretorius declared the …
Address by ANC President Nelson Mandela to ANC-business summit 30 March 1994
… departs from tradition in more ways than one. Firstly, in the hustle-bustle of a hard-fought election campaign, it stands out as a forum for calm, rational…
Address by ANC President Nelson Mandela to ANC-Business Summit 30 March 1994
… departs from tradition in more ways than one. Firstly, in the hustle-bustle of a hard-fought election campaign, it stands out as a forum for calm, rational…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
PlacePosthuys
… Posthuys is considered of the earliest buildings along the False Bay Coastline and was built in the late 1600's as a …
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)…
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…
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, …
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 …
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…
PlaceGrey Street Complex
… Grey Street is the teaming business and residential Indian sector of the Durban City Centre , and is also the educational, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PlaceWelgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
… In 1657 the VoC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number of free burghers under the leadership of Steven Bothma, who … https://www.geocaching…
PlaceAmathole Mountain Region, Eastern Cape
… The Amatola Region is one of the most beautiful and diverse in the Eastern Cape. The Amathole's stretch into the hinterland just North of Grahamstown and…