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EventPresident Paul Kruger authorises the construction of the railway line to Delagoa bay
… World railways of the nineteenth century: a pictorial history in Victorian. [Online]. Available at: … [Accessed 25 May, 2010] Important dates in South…
Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective
… Ari Sitas, “Badsha could do in one picture what a dozen history workshop papers couldn’t in terms of the detail that captured the texture of life and the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education
… "This first volume in the series, Turning Points in History, highlights two important events that occurred prior … 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Pan African Parliament, Gallagher Estate, Midrand, 16 September 2004
… our country, and thus bring to a close the long period of colonial and white minority rule in our country. It is a … need anybody to inform them about their…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … and Thambi Naidoo, wrote from prison to the Transvaal Colonial…
PlaceThe Old Supreme Court Adderley Street, Cape Town
… has since been given over to the National Cultural History Museum. It was declared a National Monument under old … Offices Building, Old Supreme Court, and…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… IS ALSO MORE INFORMATION IN FURTHER READING.) June 16th in history is dominated by the Soweto Uprising (1976), a … country in the months that followed. About…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… to be defeated. In South Africa the whites maintain their colonial rule over the black population, or the majority. The … population are worsening; the…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the 40th anniversary of Inkosi Albert Luthuli`s passing away, 4 November 2007, Thembeni, Ilembe District Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
… of African patriots who were not prepared to endure colonial subjugation. In South Africa, as we know, at the … time when Inkosi Luthuli was born, our armed…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… to be defeated. In South Africa the whites maintain their colonial rule over the black population, or the majority. The … population are worsening; the…
South Africa’s policy towards Zimbabwe: synopsis by Thabo Mbeki 22 February 2016
… in South Africa. ANC relations with ZANU Despite this history, in 1978 ZANU sent a delegation from Mozambique to … from diverse backgrounds without links to…
PlaceTranskei
… An early history of the Transkei area Originally the Transkei included … River and on 10 May Governor D'Urban extended the colonial boundaries to the Great…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… it to Castro's historical speech at his own trial - "HISTORY WILL ABSOLVE ME". My Basotho clients complained that … taught and later went into the civil…
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… In 1883, the farm with its buildings was acquired by the colonial government who, for a time, used it as a … In 1883 the farm with its buildings was acquired…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
… the harsh life experienced by Black South Africans under colonial rule. Linda sold his rights of the song Mbube to …
42nd African National Congress Conference: Resolutions, 20 December, 1953
… this Act. 9. Conference confirms its solidarity with other colonial peoples in their struggle against imperialism, for …
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… helped to establish the New Era Fellowship (NEF), an anti-colonial and leftist debating society. The NEF was the …
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… leadership at all critical moments in our country's history. As the Union of South Africa was established to the … national movement. As Ismail Vadi notes in…
Address of Nelson Mandela at his Investiture as Doctor of Laws Soochow University, Taiwan, 1 August 1993
… even during the darkest days of racist tyranny. But the history of opposition to the vile policies of apartheid is … free South Africa must operate, for the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 1 - The First Farmers by Jeff Guy
… by The Department of Education For a moment let's consider history as a journey through time and space. For much of this … in our journey through time and…
PlaceTransvaal Province
The Transvaal is a historical region and former Province of South Africa, located North of the Vaal River, that existed from 1910 to 1994. It's now part of the…
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… he published his only and much acclaimed book Blame Me on History, which was in many ways similar to Can Themba's short … for Sophiatown (destroyed in the…
EventProtest against gender- based violence throughout South Africa
… Town. who was raped and killed by a man in a Cape Town Post Office. The protesters were angry, some demanding the … into Uyinene Mrwetyana alleged killer…
EventHerero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
… north of the Waterberg, and the Waldau and Waterberg post offices were destroyed. The Waterberg military station …
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… occasion arises, without once feeling the weight of the history he was carrying on his mighty shoulders. Therefore, … a product of his own environment a…
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… lost, this is one of the ten worst earthquakes in recorded history, as well as the single worst tsunami in history. The Tsunami traveled at 500 miles per…
The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994
… a vivid account of this crucial era in southern African history. It seeks to understand the sociology of the ANC in … Centre, Oxford University and is a…
PlaceBergtheil House, 16 Queen’s Avenue, Westville
… and New Germany. The museum’s exhibitions, center on the history of these Settlers and their contributions to the … with a considerable collection of South…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… and Thabisa Lethala sent by Leballo from Lesotho to post letters in Ladybrand, a South African town close Lesotho … leading to their subsequent arrest. 1…
ArchiveMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
… am seeking mainly to describe a current in the ideological history of modern capitalism, and am not taking a position … in that context. Indeed, this…