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ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… Executive Editor, what had happened was this. Some time in the earlier 1970s, unable to pay his rent, Cole was … Africa – by all accounts catalogued and…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… received a reply as ludicrous as the one asked for at the time of my first bans in 1957. It added a few choice extras, … social life again had been brief but…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… in political activism. [2] Sonia began working full time at the CPSA in Johannesburg, where she met a young war … turn. [8] In 1954, the paper was banned for…
Chapter 10 - The Character, Role and Significance of SANSCO
… exclusive approach to political struggle, if at the same time they also sought to incorporate into BC doctrine … movements, and under these conditions it…
European Revolutions 1750-1850
… order, like the European Industrial Revolution that took time to spread from England to the rest of Europe. Certain …
ArticleSilverton Siege
… Volkskas Bank; eyewitness accounts vary as to the exact time. The cadres take 25 civilians in the bank hostage, …
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… they were at odds with the British colonies most of the time. Long before union, the British saw the existence of …
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… Sciences. This learning area was introduced for the first time in Grade 7 last year and is now being implemented in …
ArticleThe House in session
… into operation and the various houses sat for the first time on 1984. While the House of Assembly, the White …
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… join NUSAS , another student led organization. At the same time, Black workers began to organise trade unions in …
Inside Robben Island (Part 1) by Thami Mkhwanazi, 14 August 1987
… in our company who were returning to his prison a second time after a retrial. He had prior information about me. He … But the marriage officer had not…
Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall
… the way in which the labour force would be replaced over time. Moreover, the presence of women underscored the … recession in the colony and partly because…
EventThe Berlin Airlift, which delivered food and fuel to West Berliners during a Soviet blockade, and in which the SAA took part, comes to an end
… the Airlift alongside their RAF colleagues. During this time South African air crews carried out a distinguished and … of the Cold War was over. Flights…
EventSir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor and founder of tropical medicine is born
… Scotland. He was an important physician at the time, and contributed to research in the field of … causes elephantiasis. These observations, made during his…
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… and slowly arrived in Xhosa territory over a period of time. By the 1830's, a centre of Mfengu settlement had been … in various areas of Xhosa territory over…
EventThe first Comrades Marathon takes place
… the 1921 Race was won by Bill Rowan who finished in a time of 8:59:00 and his name is now given to the sub 9 hr … awarded to Lew Pearson who completed the…
EventMahatma Gandhi is arrested for refusing to carry Apartheid pass
… 10 January 1908 Mahatma Gandhi was arrested for the first time in South Africa for refusing to carry an obligatory … known as satyagraha (loyalty to the…
EventEdgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.
… songs and poetry. He soon left the army and became a full time writer. At the turn of the century Wallace worked as a … worked like a Dictaphone and a typing…
Address at the South African Millenium Trust Launch, Kyalami 19 November 1998
… it in so many words: the epoch is rotting away, stalled at time's centre like the bones of a cow with its predators gnawing within, while out of time's…
Constitution of the ANC
… provincial conferences may be convened at such other time as the provincial committee may deem fit, and shall be … the proportion laid down by the provincial…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… of subjects that were of great topical interest at this time. There were among other things the Ecumenical Synod; … things, however unpopular they may be. Mr…
First National Consultative Conference: Extracts from the Political Report of the National Executive Committee, 25 April 1969, Morogoro
… and the masses in the imperialist countries themselves challenge the policies of the rulers. Apart from inherent … to the anti-imperialists at this grave and…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Roanne Moodley
… eternal present that surrounds the underclass. It distorts time: with no past and no future, where does hope fit it? … to what extent is protest prophetic?…
Oldest stone tools pre-date earliest humans by Rebecca Morelle (Science Correspondent, BBC News), 20 May 2015
… the previous oldest site and this site is 700,000 years of time. It's monumental." This stone tool is known as a core - … million years ago. The researchers…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… children, in a house in Kwamakhutha, KwaZulu Natal. At the time Archie Gumede , a United Democratic Front (UDF) leader, … the Kwamakhutha Youth League (KYL)…
Archive”Presidential Address” by Dr. A. B. Xuma
… we can to assist our people. Fellow Countrymen, this is a challenge. Shall we not pick up the gauntlet? South Africa, … out their duties. They seem to have…
Place'Agoada de Saldanha', Saldanha
… (to find this is almost non-existent!) The best at the time was Saldanha Bay, but they lacked fresh water. The best … Hout Bay The problem being- they were…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Zoutpansberg
… as an insight into the architecture, celebrities of the time, clothing, industry and trade. Take a look at the … and was present to photograph historic…
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
… it was decided that the 11th July 1963 would be the last time they would meet at the farm.Virtually the entire … the commander-in-chief of MK, was not…