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Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… On January 18, the world lost an icon. Only much of the world did not know it. South African-Jamaican writer …
PlaceGouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay
… It enters the Indian Ocean on the Southern Coast of Africa and 34 km south-west of Mossel … It enters the Indian Ocean on the Southern Coast of Africa and 34…
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … indentured Indians and as 'free' or 'passenger' Indians. The…
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… The Administrative capital of South Africa , Pretoria, or the ' Jacaranda City' is best known for its annual display of … father, Andries Pretorius, a…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
… well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid , and as a political prisoner of the National Party –led South African…
PlaceWild Coast
… The Wild Coast, known also as the Transkei , is a 250 Kilometre long stretch of rugged and unspoiled Coastline that stretches North of East London along…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, …
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 in the ……
PlaceDonkin Mount, Port Elizabeth
… Port Elizabeth owes its origin and development to the arrival of British settlers in 1820. Sir Rufane Donkin was the Acting Governor of the Cape at the time,…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… struggle, January 1974 - June 1976 A struggle is made up of failures essentially. It’s true. You only win once, and that’s at the end. - Joe Slovo 1…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
… UNIVERSITY OF DURBAN – WESTVILLE DOCUMENTATION CENTRE ORAL HISTORY … to him on May 28th; interviewer is Christian de Vos from the Human Sciences Research…
PlaceCiskei
… The Ciskei Bantustan in the Eastern Cape was created as an enclave for the South Africa's Xhosa -speaking people as part of apartheid racial segregation …
PlaceMolenvliet House, Molenvliet Street, Mowbray
… The land on which this house is situated originally formed part of the farm Coornhoop, which was granted to Thielman Hendricks …
EventSouth African Prime Minister, John Vorster resigns
… African Prime Minister since 1966, John Vorster , shocked the nation by announcing his resignation from office, at the request of his colleagues, on the…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… In the mid-1920s African protest escalated throughout the Transvaal countryside. African labour tenants and farm … and Pass Laws, and Africans in countryside…
PlaceGoodman Gallery
… On 25 November 1966 Linda Givon (then Goodman) opened the Goodman Gallery in Hyde Park, Johannesburg . The Goodman Gallery has been instrumental to the…
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
… After the completion of World War One's Treaty of Versailles, German South West Africa was declared a mandate of the new international peace-keeping body,…
PlaceJunction Avenue Theatre
… The Junction Avenue theatre was formed in 1976, and it was organised and conceptualised by a group of White students from the University of the Witwatersrand…
PlaceRosemount
… Woodbrook Farm was established at about the same time as East London, and was located immediately south of the town. By the early 1900s it had been overtaken…
PlaceNqamakwe
… In 1865 a number of Mfengu clans were resettled in the area around Nqamakwe. As refugees from the Mfacane wars further north, they had relatively few links ……
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… INTRODUCTION. Unomsa, by Guybon Sinxo, is a coming of age story about a gothic heroine, Nomsa Ntobeko, who migrates from the Eastern Cape to work as a…
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… The following is an interview with Mr. Champion conducted in 1964 by Mr. Stanley Trapido, Lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford. S…
Place'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay
… Bartholomew Dias and his crew landed with his men on 3rd of February 1488, but Mossel Bay's History can be traced back, with the help of Archaeological…
Circular Letter To Trade Unions, Progressive Organisations, Democrats And Anti-Fascists by Yusuf Dadoo, June 10, 1946
… Dear Sir/Madam, The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Bill has become law. The already so weak and feeble democratic structure of South Africa…
Document 71 - National Committee for Liberation, Announcement [20 December 1961]
… Committee for Liberation, Announcement [20 December 1961] The National Committee announces that on 20 December 1961 it destroyed power lines in Johannesburg…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Zinzi Mandela at Jabulani stadium 10 February …
I - Introduction
… From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa This is the year, which people will talk about This is the year which … has an…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
… Cape Town interviewed by Rupert Taylor Taylor: What is the nature of the conflict? Ramphele: I’ll take issue with the …
Pravin Gordhan on a leash by Daniel Silke (Politics Web), 16 May 2016
… Gordhan on a leash In political science, students studying the theory are often told that the most dangerous time for political leaders is when they … the…
EventCarte Blanche is denied permission to quote Oliver Tambo
… On 30 January 1987 the Minister of Law and Order issued a message to the newspapers denying Carte Blanche, an investigative … Anon (1997) ' Chronology Of…