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ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… is entirely the wrong conclusion. This volume adds to the history of Jewish settlement in South Africa and throws light on Cape Town social history in the…
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… that, instead of being themselves subjects and creators of history as they have been led to believe, they have in reality, to a great extent, been objects of…
PlaceKlein Karoo
The Klein Karoo (Little Karoo) is a spectacular 350 kilometre long Valley stretching from Montagu in the West, to Uniondale in the East, and is almost…
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
… cartoon images of European politicians overseeing colonial holdings with maps of newly independent nations led … It’s easy to overlook the narrative…
PlaceHout Bay Museum
… museum is a hidden treasure with collections of Hout Bay’s history that goes back to 1652. When the Dutch colony … Bay valley and her inhabitants. There is…
PlaceRhodes Memorial, Vredehoek- Table Mountain
… He is among the most prominent figures in South African history. Rhodes rose to prominence as a Financier, … Founder of the De Beers Company of mines. In…
PlaceMcgregor Museum, Kimberley
… knowledge of the Northern Cape. Displays include natural history, the Siege of Kimberley , a Hall of Religions and the … Ancestors Gallery, depicting three…
EventThe Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
… 19 May 2011] Boddy-Evans A. (n.d.), ‘This Day in African History: 27 June,’from African History, [online] Available at www.africanhistory.about.com, …
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner meet in Bloemfontein to discuss the franchise question
… and left for Europe. References: Anon, (n.d.), ‘The history of the War,’ from Paperspast, [online] Available at … Johannes Paulus "Paul" Kruger, from South…
The Final Prize: My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy
… and the most exciting years of this country's recent history, Norman Levy's autobiography combines a narrative of … experience with South African economic…
EventStart of the Muslim community’s Tana Baru Cemetery Uprising
… the most significant political events in the 19th Century history of Cape Muslims. In commemoration of the 124th … Centre to the Tana Baru Cemetery. Related:…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… forces, this book is a contribution to their courageous history by a woman who is herself a part of that history. “a history of struggle told from it's heart…
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… and it stands tall as a testimony to the constructive history of South Africa. The thatched roof revolves to allow … popular tourist spot for young and old,…
Appeal by Oliver Tambo to the people of the world on the 75th anniversary of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987
… of the oppressive and evil system of white minority colonial domination and its replacement by a new democratic …
ArchiveSecret Histories | South African Photographer David Goldblatt Reveals the Effects of Apartheid on His Native Land by Miss Rosen, 29 September 2016
… 1994. Apartheid grew out of racial segregation under Dutch colonial rule and took shape under the National Party, which …
The National Anthem
… note that the sheet music is in .pdf format (245 KB). History A proclamation issued by the (then) State President …
ArticleRock Art
… possible (Lewis-Williams, D. 1981). Ethnology and oral history has been used to obtain information about "Bushman" …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… seen some of the most turbulent events in South African history, the first signs that the apartheid regime would not …
European Revolutions 1750-1850
… between 1750 and 1850. Change is the driving force in history. Without change there would be no progress. As a …
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… [i] Wright, E. (ed.). 2015. Oxford dictionary of world history. United Kingdom: oxford Press. page 536 ↵ [ii] …
Formation and launch of the UDF
… 1983 the UDF leadership sought unions support. ( For more history on the UDF, click on the hyperlink above. ) Growing …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… to intervene to hasten the independence of India from colonial rule. July 28, Dadoo opens a two-day conference of … of the African, Coloured and Indians…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… in superior to blacks. The old master-servant practices on colonial exploitation and oppression were founded, were … of capitalist economic growth. The…
Address to the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, 2 May 2002
… that we are, in many ways, one people. Long before the colonial borders were arbitrarily imposed on us, we shared common history, traditions, cultures and…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… Terrace, Main Rd, Sea Point. Those with a long family history in Cape Town may enjoy browsing Juta's annual Cape … Town was tossed back and forth between two…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 87th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1999
… to all of us as to whether we shall commemorate our history in order to re-ignite the conflicts of the past or … this command, you knew that, after three…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… Port. However, by the beginning of the 20th Century, the History of removals and marginalisation had begun! The first …
PlaceKwaxolo Cave Adventures, South Coast
… shelters for indigenous San communities , with the history of these people echoed in the rock paintings evident … must be inclusive of all communities, and…
PlaceHotazel
… one of the world’s largest manganese reserves. The modern history of the town began in 1915, when a team of land … vehicles’ frames and their battery…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… the first socialist-oriented co-operative society in the history of South African Labour is the best example of this … who purported to investigate and…