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Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede On Easter Sunday 1944 a group of young political activists gathered at the Bantu Men's…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… Ottilie Abrahams was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable personalities of contemporary Namibia. … can never beemphasized enough for a new generation…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Introduction Introduction Part 1 - Building The National Movement Document 1 - Harry Snitcher , Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943] Document…
PlaceMaynardville Open Air Theatre
… The Maynardville Open Air Theatre is a popular and central part of Cape Town’s art scene – chiefly known for its Shakespeare … performances and its ballet…
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… violence in KwaZulu Natal led to 11 700 deaths and the displacement of up to 500 000 people. The organization and savagery of the conflict led to terror …
EventWorld War I begins
… 19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
PlaceSt Thomas’ Church, Ridge Road, Berea, Durban
… In 1835, Captain Allan Gardiner retired from the navy and went to Natal to begin Missionary work amongst the Zulus. Although the Zulus as a whole were…
PlaceHawston
… Close to Hermanus, the town of Hawston with its long, white unspoilt beach lies cosily between the sea and the mountain. It is thought that long ago the ……
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… Newspaper proprietors and editors of all the main South African newspapers, both English and Afrikaans, unanimously opposed the apartheid government's…
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
… Michael Stevenson, and an interview with the photographer by Mark Haworth-Booth. 124 pages; … 40 color plates. ISBN no.: 3-7913-3247-3; Library of Congress…
PlaceWindermere
… beside Kensington, Windermere was a settlement situated on the N1 highway in Cape Town near the Ysterplaat airbase. The Group Areas Act of 1950 declared that…
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Vendenayagum Lawrence petitioned the Natal…
PlacePinetown and its Museum
… commercial town named after Sir Benjamin Pine , Governor of Natal (1873-75). At the heart of the town and just off the main road lies the Pinetown Library ……
PlaceSabie Sands Game Reserve
… The Sabi Sands Game Reserve is a 65,000 Hectare Reserve, pioneered by local Landowners in the 1950s , and shares a border with the' World-Renowned': Kruger…
PlaceKuboes, Northern Cape
… Regarded by the local people as the heartland of the Nama Culture , the little Town of Kuboes … to Kuboes is 'Cornell's Kop'. This is a Hill that house the…
PlaceMoses Mabhida Stadium
… Durban like you’ve never seen it before. Take a ride up the SkyCar to the top of the arch where you’ll be rewarded with spectacular and …
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
… The name, Dimbaza, an African Town in the former Ciskei, about 11km North-West of King William’s Town (on the road to Alice) and Fort … The name, Dimbaza, an…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… Development of Langa location In the course of the Inter War Years the regulations of the 1902 Location Act … V.B., van Heyningen E., Worden N. (1999), Cape…
Document 2 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton
… COSATU PRESS STATEMENT RE: MINISTER OF LABOUR GREEN PAPER ON POLICY PROPOSALS FOR A NEW EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS STATUTE COSATU welcomes the green paper…
PlaceIrene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
… Opened on 2 November 1900, the Irene Concentration Camp was built with the intention that it would be one of the camps that would house Boer woman and…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… In the early 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and the state of emergency , there were more than 100 sabotage attacks …
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… A couple of days back I had a dream where I visited the renovated … my once favourite shop as a kid in Salt River just around the corner from where I once…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… Martin’s) in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, which was run by the Community of the Resurrection, a monastic order then headed in South …
ArchiveCommittee report: Education charter campaign
… Report of the Education Charter Campaign, a joint campaign of the Azanian Students Organisation, the Congress of South …
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… During the South African War the British military authorities imported a large number of horses from Argentina. Unfortunately their fodder was …
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, …
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
… The character of the Garden is shaped by the two main rivers that cut across … Province. The Garden plays a critical role in conservation of rare and…
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… When the VoC granted land in Rondebosch to the first free Burghers, Governor Jan van Riebeeck reserved a piece of this Land to be used as an Orchard by the…
Note on meeting with Mr. Sam Nujoma -1983
… We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live … can justly claim authority…
Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo's Statement In Court In Trial For Passive Resistance, June 1946
… (Dr. Dadoo was sentenced in June 1946, at the beginning of the passive resistance campaign, to three months` …