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Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… of another missive to Moscow which it seems was read, before despatch by Baker & Thibedi, cutting us & others to … to meet the expense, I have no idea. [-]…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… were among the first people to spread the faith in Europe. Before converting to Christianity, the Nubian religion was … was useful for writing the history of…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… Transvaal government knew the raiders were on their way before they reached Johannesburg. On 2 January 1896 Jameson … and Uitlanders were treated with more…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… rumblings about a strike had been circulating a few days before the actual event, and on 8 January management issued … upcoming strike was the work of…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… Cape during the Dutch East India Company era, documents of court cases recorded slaves’ spoken language: their recorded … copies of this religious text did…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… Union of South Africa. Selby Msimang delivers a speech before the second conference of the Industrial Commercial … Attempt to extend pass laws to African…
Address at the SANEF Conference on the Media, the AU, NEPAD and Democracy ,12 April 2003
… proceeding from the assumption that you were African before you became journalists and that despite your … wish to urge the earliest possible establishment…
Group Areas Act and Its Effects on Indian People in Natal, May 1956 by Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… Union’s history and Conference has the benefit of having before it the views of Chief Albert J. Luthuli, … Areas Bill" and the "Areas Reservation Bill"…
ArchiveInterview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo
… he was responsible for much of the PAC's success before Sharpeville, as well as for most of its failings in …
PlaceGold Reef City
… many fascinating insights into life in Johannesburg long before the technological age. In the centre of Gold Reef City …
EventAndrew Vusi Fasedemi is born
… Drinks, Health and Hygienic products at Cadbury, Nigeria, before he came to South Africa in 1994. …
EventJoyce Kgoali dies
… She was MEC for Public Works and Transport in Gauteng before being appointed as substitute to Naledi Pandor as the …
EventP.W. Botha is born
… on the farm Telegraaf in Paul Roux district, Free State. Before he became state president he served as Prime Minister …
EventAn assassination attempt is made on first Ghanaian President, Kwame Nkrumah
… four people, scores of whom were left injured. Four years before this incident, Nkrumah passed the Preventative …
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
… Africa's troubled social history unreels. Ernest Cole (1940-1990) was exiled in the mid-'60s after the publication …
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
Beerhalls have always been at the centre of the waves of political turmoil in Johannesburg's African townships. The Johannesburg City Council JCC) opened a…
EventYouth has been burnt to death in Mahwelereng Township
… was pointing out the homes of youth to the police. A day before the incident Mr Molifi was released from jail after …
EventPrincess Margaret dies
… She suffered a stroke and developed heart problems before she could be rushed to hospital. Though the funeral …
EventCecil John Rhodes is forced to resign
… by Uitlanders on the Witwatersrand was called off shortly before Jameson's invasion. *The 2 & 7 January are given by …
EventPretoria’s first Black mayor
… Johannes Lebone Slo Ramokhoase was born in 1951 in Eesterus before the residents were moved to Mamelodi. He was the …
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… 1995, have galvanized communities in ways that was never before seen in South Africa. Successive attempts by the …
ArticleMapungubwe
… of a civilization that existed and flourished years before European occupation. Mapungubwe hill is 300m long, …
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… from the area around Angola and destined for Brazil before the Dutch captured the ship and brought it to the …
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 1: The world around 1600
… should include accounts of the first contacts with Europe before conquests, when relationships were still balanced. …
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… kerk in the eastern cape to call on its members to testify before the commission - October 16, 1996 . Mandela's speech …
Insurrections: The Storming
September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw and Ari Sitas Performance Visual: Piya…
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw and Ari Sitas Performance Visual: Piya…
Statement at Press Conference in Dar es Salaam Concerning Sentences in the Rivinia Trial by O. R. Tambo, 12 June 1964
… The African National Congress will not rest before this challenge has been fittingly answered. There shall be no peace before our people take full…
PlaceOpera House, Port Elizabeth
… the railway line by two years. It took 16 more years before artificial lighting - in the form of Gas - came to The … speculated that public hangings took…
Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo on S.A.F.N.T.U. (1930)
… reopened its office at Feneira Street Johannesburg) were before the Executive. One was contained in a note from T.W. … the Secretary had replied that he…