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PlaceGreater Mapungubwe Heritage Site And Tour.
… with other stakeholders launched the route from 12 to 14 October 2012. Attractions showcased included the …
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
… to an article suspected of an offence (Merrett:64) Oct 12: Pretoria News published a cartoon that read "Yes, there …
Archive2013 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2013
… twitter and Facebook. I also spent some time with Grade 12 learners who shared their own views on what should be … number of households with access to…
Lobenguela’s izinDuna by Martin Plaut (Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa ), 2016
… Amandabele, Rhodesiana, No. 23, December 1970, footnote 17, p. 53 ↵ [ii] For a detailed contemporary account of the …
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
Jacob van der Heiden, a political prisoner, spent part of his confinement in April-May 1706 in a dungeon in the Castle in Cape Town, which he shared with Ari…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
Photography is the common language of modern history. It’s everywhere; and everyone, in some way, understands it. No institution presents and parses that…
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All of the below links are to websites that SAHO recommends (and uses) for further research about South African History. Please inform us if links are no…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… spot there is a scar, perhaps an injury long forgotten. On 17/5 I had a cortisone injection and we hope that it will at …
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… 1976, many pupils and students, their ages ranging from 17 to 24 years, had been arrested in Port Elizabeth and …
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Hester Cornelius (Translated from the Afrikaans) I was born and brought up in the Lichtenburg District, Transvaal. Both my father and my grandfather fought in…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… few pitiful rights they had in the Cape were ignored. On 12 October 1908, exactly nine years after the outbreak of the … Winston Churchill. They had…
Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles
… to the bill came from the Conservative Party (CP). 17 On 19 May the government indemnified ANC leaders for a … was confirmed at D. F. Malan Airport in Cape…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… fewer major high-profile attacks (massacres declined to 12) but a high number of incidents (nearly 20% more) … 3-year period as follows: Year l - 34 Year 2 -…
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… – 1791) the founder of Methodism . John Wesley (born June 17, 1703, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England—died March 2, 1791, … Lillian Ngoyi and Thomas Masekela…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
… heard of the massacre but knew very little about it, while 17% said that they were unaware of it. Only 40% reported …
PlaceWellington, Western Cape
The picturesque town of Wellington is a scenic 45-minute drive from Cape Town. The train station is built on land donated to the Town Council in 1863, as part…
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
Queenstown was founded in 1853. It was intended to be a Military Outpost designed to protect the British subjects from attack during the time of the Frontier…
PlaceTsitsikamma National Park, Eastern Cape
… adventures. Permits are mandatory and limited to 12 hikers per day so advanced booking is required (often a …
PlaceMsunduzi River
… champion finished the race in an overall time of 7 hours 12 minutes and 50 seconds! …
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… developer would reveal a vivid orange or yellow message." 12 The innocent letter would be organised around a … to work and revolutionary commitment and…
Pedi
[baPedi – People and sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… were also established namely; Grey College which opened on 17 January 1858, the so-called Dames Instituut or Eunice …
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
South Africa has one of the longest sequences of human development in the world. It begins with two million years old hominid fossils. Human Origins South…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
Evolution refers to the slow process of human adaptation over millions of years. The roots of humanity are believed to lie in South Africa, where the earliest…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… 2014]|African National Congress, (1954). Women’s Charter, 17 April. Available at https://www.anc.org.za [Accessed 25 …
A Brief Commentary on the Question of HIV and AIDS by Thabo Mbeki, 7 March 2016
… ? Rank? Number? ?% ?Tuberculosis (A15-A19)* ?1 ?77 009 ?12.7 ?Influenza and pneumonia (J10-J18) ?2 ? 52 791 … and substance abuse. Every year in…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1947-Press Reports on the Campaign
… of 16 meetings all over Natal during the period 13 July to 17 August, culminating in a mass rally in Durban. Mr. Meer … on Sunday: Having begun on 13 June…
PlaceMuizenberg and Marina da Gama
… Andrews confirmed that the new huts will be covered by a 12-month defects liability period once construction is … https://rhodescottage.co.za/2024/03/17…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… was run by 2 white and 24 black staff members working 12-hour shifts. In 1957 the demand increased to such an …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinning, St. Georges Hotel, City of Tshwane, 27 September 2005
Distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: Thank you very much for your presence here today to support an important project - the South Africa-Mali Project…