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EventDefiance campaign leadership meets with SAIC
… Defiance Campaign Executive members meet with the leadership of South African Indian Congress (SAIC) to recommend a … defiance campaign to their respective…
PlaceRheingold Building, Market Street, Polokwane
… The building was erected in about 1910 by H Moschke to house a number of commercial concerns. It is richly decorated with a number of Victorian architectural…
EventThozamile Botha breaks banning order
… order and escaped to Lesotho. PEBCO was an affiliate of the banned United Democratic Front. Thozamile Botha studied BA Law with the University of Lesotho,…
EventBBC reports demonstrations at a game ranch in SA
… BBC News reported that hundreds of demonstrators have protested at a game ranch in South Africa over the ill-treatment of fourteen baby elephants from…
PlaceClumber, Eastern Cape
… The Village of Clumber was established on land allocated in 1820 to Dr Thomas Carlton, leader of a party of settlers from Nottinghamshire. In October 1893 ……
Afra Newsletter
… Afra Newsletter, Report and Factsheet, all published by the Association for Rural Advancement, present case studies of families personally affected by the…
EventJoint call for June 16 Stay away
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), United Democratic … to issue a call for a one day work stay-away on June 16. The call was issued to all…
EventSouth Africa sends troops to Ciskei
… On 4 March 1990 Brigadier Oupa Gqozo of the Ciskei Defence Force (CDF), and a former member of the South African Defence Force (SADF), leads a coup in the … …
EventChief Mqikela dies
… The Paramount Chief Mqikela, eldest son of Chief Faku and first chief of East Pondoland, died in … Mqikela took over from his father as paramount chief of…
ArchiveMemorandum: a study in political heresy
… Unauthored memorandum on the history of the Peoples Struggles and strategy and the tactics of the …
ArchiveReport on Comrade Secretary General's Delegation to Bulgaria
… Report on a visit, headed by Alfred Nzo, by the African National Congress, to Bulgaria, to receive the Dimitrov-International Prize Award on behalf of Nelson…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein
… Simon van der Stel, arguably the first coloured Governor of the Cape, was a farming development visionary, who simply … https://heritagesa.org/wp/a-different…
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… exile. Known as Mama Africa , she had left in 1959 as part of the cast of the musical King Kong and was barred from returning when the …
EventDavid Phaswane Mogano, SA artist, is born in Pietersburg , Northern Transvaal
… ability to draw, Phaswane began training in fine art at the Polly Street Art Centre in 1959.He trained under great … such as Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Khumalo…
EventSA joins World War II
… After the invasion of Poland by Germany in September 1939, SA Prime Minister … parliament, proclaiming South Africa's neutrality during the war. Hertzog's…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.3 and No.4 1989
… Frank Meintjies and Mi Hlatshwayo. STORY: Reminiscences of a Job Seeker, Jan Ceasar Mbele. ESSAYS and INTERVIEWS: … 'We Organize and Educate': Cultural…
ArchiveDiscussions at Ruacana on 8 June 1976
… A report from a meeting between representatives of the South African Government and the Angolan Government to discuss the military situation on …
ArchiveNew Brighton Vilgilance Committee
… Report from the Town Clerk of the City of Port Elizabeth to Native Affairs Committee regarding …
PlaceIndian Army Memorial
… This memorial was erected towards the end of 1902, on the highest point in Johannesburg ; Observatory Ridge. It … https://allatsea.co.za/blog/the-indian…
Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari
… PART I: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES TO THE AFRICAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906 … PART II: OTHER MAJOR…
PlaceBoshof House, Boshof Avenue, Newlands
… The building was erected on a portion of the historic Boshof Farm, owned by Alexander van Breda. Its …
EventNew Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa
… At the height of apartheid in South Africa, New Zealand imposed a blanket … on virtually all visits by sports teams from South Africa. The move by New…
PlaceAmersfoort near Ermelo
… A Town 56 km South of Ermelo and 72 km South-East of Bethal , on the banks of the Schulpspruit River. It was founded in 1876 and proclaimed … New Dictionary…
EventMargaret Mary Smith, SA artist and ichthyologist, is born
… ichthyologist, Margaret Mary Smith, was born in Indwe in the Eastern Cape. Ichthyology is the branch of zoology that deals with the study of fishes. Margaret…
EventDisaster strikes as Portuguese ship São João sinks
… The Portuguese ship São João went down near the mouth of the Mzimvubu River (at the present Port St. … Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated at Union Buildings
… After the African National Congress (ANC) registered a landslide victory in the 1999 general elections, Thabo Mbeki, who had replaced … as the party's leader…
EventCecil John Rhodes is forced to resign
… Cecil John Rhodes, prime minister of the Cape Colony, was severely censured for his involvement in the infamous Jameson Raid and forced to resign by the…
ArchiveLetter from Raymond Suttner to whom it may concern
… Letter from Raymond Suttner, Head of the ANC Political Education Department, regarding the making of a video series on the history of the ANC. …
PlaceAnniskop, Hill in Karoo-Namibia
… Hill some 13 km North-West of the confluence of the Annis River with the Orange River. Near the hill is the … New Dictionary of South African Place Names by…
EventFirst Egyptian woman to file for divorce under new law
… In 2000, a 32 year old Egyptian housewife became the first woman to file for a divorce without having to prove … she begged him to grant her a divorce and he…