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EventNelson Mandela meets President P.W. Botha to begin negotiating the end of apartheid
… and friendly." Therefore, despite the fact that Botha, or "Die Groot Krokodil" [Big Crocodile] had been instrumental …
EventJonas de la Guerre leaves the Cape in an expedition to the north
… The group was then forced to eat their oxen and walk back, or face death. They eventually returned to the Cape on 22 …
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… of deep holes into rock to check for pockets of water or gas, when the explosion took place. Though they were …
EventWilliam Brown becomes the first South African officer killed during World War I
… for service overseas. It was comprised of four battalions (or regiments) of infantry. The Brigade, numbering 160 …
EventWWI: battalion consisting of ‘Cape Coloured men’, called the Cape Corps, is established
… World War One, and fewer than 4 000 were black, coloured or Indian. The most well-known battle that was fought …
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… Indian Opinion, in which his ideas on passive resistance or Satyagraha were spread. Some years later, an act was …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… lived off the land as farmers, tenants on White farms or in reserves created by the colonial government. The tax …
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… food supplies were destroyed. Livestock were driven away or killed. Secondly, drives began aimed at capturing the Boer …
EventC James reports that South Africa is a poor market for produce
… war is over would become targets of the original settlers or the Boers. Nevertheless, the British settlers continued to …
EventXhosa hero Maqoma dies on Robben Island
… during the youth of Sandile, Maqoma (also spelled Makoma or Macoma), died on Robben Island. He was captured in 1858 …
ArchiveThe Final Prize: Family - chapter 1
… she addressed was a street-corner meeting of a dozen or so individuals, most of them black, voteless, domestic …
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
… by the residents, a reality portrayed without criticism or bias, and reflects the history and experiences that had …
PlaceAfrica South Art Initiative (ASAI), University of Cape Town
… the University of Cape Town since 2008, but not funded by or affiliated to the University, ASAI sees its role as …
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… King William’s Town and could not speak to the public or talk with media representatives. Biko started to work …
![”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/field/archiveimages/social_conditions_among_bantu_women_and_girls.jpg?itok=-8M0Ng6G)
Archive”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]
… of modern civilisaÂtion. Indeed, on her rests the failure or success of her children when they go out into life. It is … wives of other men, because of the…
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
… the best elements among the African youth into the ranks or even the vanguard of our liberation ' - the cream - the … They arm themselves, not because of…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the Brickfields Housing Development, at the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, on 12 August 2005.
… Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where … from either. Your shadow at morning…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… that his father had started in Natal fifty years or so earlier. Manilal was still editing the publication, … for not producing passes and were given seven…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, 02 May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania
… privilege to choose where we shall be the following day or the following week, or where we shall spend several nights, whether moving about in freedom or…
We are a Force - Speech at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College by O. R. Tambo, Mazimbu, Tanzania, May 1984
… privilege to choose where we shall be the following day or the following week, or where we shall spend several nights, whether moving about in freedom or…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - ‘Locations’ For Labour
… how in the early years the housing of the poor was more or less unplanned, and racially mixed. This section will … The first thing that is necessary to do is…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Vietnam Institute of International Relations on the occasion of Africa Day celebrations, Hanoi
… old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new … Americas. Accordingly, whether in Vietnam,…
Say It out Loud - The 1919 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 22nd April, 1919
… done work that should never be forgotten by either black or white in this country. Non-European soldiers and labourers … these shall be modelled upon the…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… that his father had started in Natal fifty years or so earlier. Manilal was still editing the publication, … for not producing passes and were given seven…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 79th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1991
… and in the future. All state practices intended to limit or circumscribe the exercise of this right must be ended … abolition of the system of apartheid, and…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… knowing what the next few months might bring ”” acquittal or conviction? I don't think we listened very much that … been participating in some high-level…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 10
… to Durban. Briefly it laid down that no Indian could buy or occupy a house owned or occupied by a European without obtaining a permit from the … Pegging Act…
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town, 12 February 2015
… agro-processing value chain. 3. Advancing beneficiation or adding value to our mineral wealth. 4. More effective … the role of state owned companies, ICT…
Archive1990 - President De Klerk: State of the Nation Address, 2 February 1990
… took place without the involvement of the Big Powers or of the United Nations. The countries of Southern Africa … whichever way it may be defined - shall be…
FW de Klerk’s speech to Parliament, 2 February 1990
… took place without the involvement of the Big Powers or of the United Nations. The countries of Southern Africa … whichever way it may be defined – shall be…