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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…
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…
Say It out Loud - The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906
… its whole history had that flag covered such deeds; never before had it been in the hands of such exploiters men … go to the Orange River Colony and…
PlaceAogutoas, Village near Port Nolloth
… around the Cape, in 1487. It was the last landfall sighted before a wild storm blew his ship off course and out to sea …
ArchiveThe birth of the African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… some background, on the political state of the country before the birth of APDUSA. The NEUM called on the leadership …
EventThirty people die in a 5.7 magnitude earthquake in Algeria
… compared to others that have ravaged the country before and after this specific one. The latest earthquake to …
EventMillions Regain SA citizenship
… by President F.W. de Klerk, became effective four months before the first South Africa non-racial polls of 27 April, …
EventKen Oosterbroek is killed
… in Thokoza township on the East Rand, just two weeks before South Africans went to the polls in South Africa's …
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…
South African History Online and Bridgewater State University Partnership Project - 2018 Submissions
… Education and History, with a minor in Irish Studies. Before entering college, she knew very little about the …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… should include accounts of the first contacts with Europe before conquests, when relationships were still balanced. …
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…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… the interpretations of Africa and South Africa's history before European conquest. Secondly, it looks at the new … are some of the key misconceptions about…
EventMarais Viljoen is inaugurated as state president
… replaced B.J Vorster who had resigned on that date. Before being elected to the position permanently, he served …
EventSouth African multi-title holder, Brian Mitchell wins the WBA title
… managed to defend the title a world record 12 times before retiring in 1991. He was also a SA Junior Lightweight …
EventBulelani Vukwani on a shooting spree
… her, Vukwani fired randomly at everyone he came across before returning to the scene of the original murder to shoot …
EventWinnie and Nelson Mandela divorce
… married in 1958 and only spent a couple of years together before Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison as one …
48. Breach of the compromise
… Smuts on the strength of the letter that was placed before me in the gaol-yard, and I believe that I myself … to accept voluntary registration that was…
Say It out Loud - The 1939 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 11th April, 1939
… is necessary that we should revivify and keep constantly before our eyes the now fast fading historical background of … salvation in the life which is to…
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… FAVOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA’ Gumede’s health had deteriorated before his departure from England.356 The return voyage gave … for the Colonies, after we were…
ArchiveThe Basotho Origin of Mathematics - A Public Lecture By Zulumathabo Zulu
… Africans, boasted an incredible mathematical lexicon long before the advent of the Europeans. The Basotho have used …
EventThe Johannesburg International Airport is officially renamed OR Tambo International Airport by President Mbeki.
… previously known as Johannesburg International airport and before that as Jan Smuts Airport after the former Prime …
EventSir Thomas Cullinan, digger and founder of the Premier diamond company, is born
… in the The Cape Colony in 1862. He settled in Barberton, before moving to Johannesburg in 1887. He began working as a …
EventMethane gas explosion kills 68 mine workers
… gas explosion was caused by poor safety standards. A week before the explosion a miner who also died in the explosion …
EventBomb explodes at Johannesburg synagogue
… Reform Congregation. The explosion took place four hours before State President Marais Viljoen was due to attend a …
EventRhodesia withdraws from Summer Olympic Games
… Games held in Munich, Germany. The request came a few days before the official opening ceremony, as result of Rhodesia's …
EventBavumile Vilakazi dies
… the first mayor of the Ekurhuleni Metro on the East Rand before he was posted to Uganda. He was tried in the United …