Reshaping Remembrance Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory by Albert Grundlingh and Siegfried Huigen (editors)
One of the organisers of the 1956 Women's March, Lilian Ngoyi
Aftermath: Violence and Wellbeing in the Context of the Student Movement - Online Exhibition
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This day in history
Find out who was born, who died and other significant events from this day in history
History in Images
A young victim of the atrocities committed by Belgium in the Congo stands next to a missionary.
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Riot police play a game of soccer with youths in Nyanga on 27 August 1976. Photo by John Paisley
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A certificate of slavery for an infant named Sophie, dated 1827 Cape of Good Hope.
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Riot police attempt to block the way of workers leaving a May Day meeting at Khotso House in Johannesburg in May 1985.
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A family sits outside the front door of their District Six home in Cape Town in the 1970s, prior to their forced removal. Photograph by Jansje Wissema.
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An Inconsolable Memory by Aryan Kaganof
An Inconsolable Memory is Aryan Kaganof’s film about the Eoan Group. Combining rare archival film footage of District Six and Eoan’s opera performances with contemporary documentation and interviews, An Inconsolable Memory forges documentary narrative and poetic meditation on memory into a single compelling form. What was Eoan? What did it mean to the people who took part in its many productions? These questions propel Kaganof’s documentary, but form only the surface of a richer and deeply tragic story.
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Mafika Gwala School Debate Contest 2020
Between:
Team - Ukusa High School (Hammarsdale)
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Team - Umvuzo High School (Pietermaritzburg)
Topic One: Government should make South African History compulsory for all students in high school.
Winner (Trophy): Team Umvuzo High School (Pietermaritzburg)
Topic Two: Government should make South Africa Literature (Poetry, Short Stories & Novels) compulsory for all students in high school.
Winner (Trophy): Team Ukusa High School (Hammarsdale)
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Fort Glamorgan, East London
The Historical site of Fort Glamorgan in East London, named after the Earl of Glamorgan. Established in 1848 along the Buffalo River, this Fort was used as troop barracks and to guard the supply line to King Williams Town. The Fort was named after Lord Charles Somerset's father, the Earl of Glamorgan. Somerset was the governor of the Cape Colony. The original Fort consisted of a loop-holed wall, which encompassed the soldier's barracks, forage stores and stables, a Hospital and cookhouses. The original powder magazine was located outside of the Fort's perimeter.
Dullstroom, Mpumalanga in the Emalaheni Municipality District
Dullstroom dates back to the 1880’s and was name after its Dutch founder, Wolterus Dull, and the many Rivers found in the Area, hence the suffix- ‘stroom’, which is Afrikaans for; 'Stream'. '