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The Polly Street Era
It is evident, through the examples of the art of John Koenakeefe Mohl, Ernest Mancoba and Gerard Sekoto, that the foundations of a fine art by black South…
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
… even if women do come forward, their claims may not reach court or be taken seriously. Many commentators maintain that … 793). In Soweto, between 5-50% of…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… Act, Act No. 2 of 1907 . Gandhi defends Pandit in court free of charge. 14 November, Ramsundar Pandit is … is sentenced to two months' imprisonment for…
PlaceRondebosch Fountain, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… Rondebosch Fountain, which is of great Historical value, before a speeding motorist drove into it. The Iconic Fountain … people of that area and those that…
Constitution of the African National Congress (South Africa), January 1958
… the higher committee; and To inform his branch committee before leaving his area, and to report to the branch … to the interests of the Congress or the…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… orders on the grounds that he had been granted a hearing before they were served on him. He had taken his case to the highest court in the land and there his…
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… Opera House in 2013, then at the Damelin Walmer Campus, before premiering the production at the Athenaeum Building. … saying. Nongendi reads a letter from…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… yet. We are only experiencing the whirlwinds that go before it." Winnie Mandela is elected to the Black Parents … Act, Intimidation Act, and the…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… on grounds including race and disability (Constitutional Court of South Africa, 1996). The resulting white paper, the … literary embodiments of inarticulacy…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… on grounds including race and disability (Constitutional Court of South Africa, 1996). The resulting white paper, the … literary embodiments of inarticulacy…
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
… are you? You have made a request, Mrs Sobukwe, to appear before the Commission today to tell us about Mr Sobukwe. We … he was arrested under the Sobukwe…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… been settled in the region for at least a thousand years before the Dutch arrived, and were an unwilling labour force. … In 1795, the Cape Colony became a…
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
… places of pleasure. It is also important to note that before abolition of slavery, there were certain residential … assembly from playing in the streets…
ArticleTransport on land
… the way that people travelled and transported things. Before the wheel was invented, the amount of things people … human travel forever. Wagons, coaches and…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
Back in 2000, musicians interviewed for my book on music and politics in South Africa, Soweto Blues, regularly asserted: I’m not a politician. How could this…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… on the outside. A new school block was built between 1940 and 1951. Today it’s home of the "Akkertjie"- …
PlaceChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg
… of health care for military personnel. By September 1940, with hostilities escalating, and with the need for …
Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition 2012
… research project The importance of background research before undertaking the oral history research (interviewing) …
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
… to pass through the valley of the shadow again and again before we reach the mountain-tops of our desire. “Danger and … to pass through the valley of the…
An interview with Dorothy Molefi: Hector was ‘always smiling’
… a symbol. She told us her story of June 16th 1976. Q: Before June 16th you dreamt that something was going to … about June 16th? A: We didn't know about the…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… external support for the operation. He left a short time before we were arrested. Joe Slovo was a co-founder of MK … not resolved because we were arrested…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… Asvat, Mrs. Fatima Meer, the Reverend Michael Scott— before I could visit South Africa for the first time in 1991 … Nations, it was still a colony under…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… as a seven year old to watch this old German lady kneel before the statue of a black man, the son of an African … After the foster homes I lived with my…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… flight when they tried to turn back another group. Shortly before 9am, a senior pupil addressed a crowd of several … of contention for African students. This…
Pik lashes West hanging indignation: Rand Daily Mail 9 April 1979
… Rand Daily Mail article published one day before Mahlangu’s execution. …
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… and the second from the University of Warwick in the UK, before being appointed Lecturer in Mathematics at UCT, where … a few months earlier on 6 June – two…
PlaceOld gaol, Seventh Avenue, Roodepoort
… was enlarged by three cells and an office shortly before the turn of the 20th century, when a wall was also … The building was used as holding cells for a…
EventThe Directors of the Dutch East India Company propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possible area to settle some Dutch families
… is a sheltered cove along South Africa's Cape Peninsula. Before European settlement, the area was populated by Khoisan … station for the Dutch East India…
EventReported arrest of London bomb mastermind, Rashid Aswat
… in London on July 7 hid in South Africa for several weeks before being arrested in Zambia last week. Cable News Network … with al-Qaeda. US attempts to…
PlacePondoland
… river mouth, including a customs house and a magistrate's court. On 15 September 1884 the sliver of land known as the …