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EventThe death of Andries Tatane
… of the helmets that were worn. Less than two months before his death, a protester died during a clash between …
EventThe Johannesburg Meteorological Observatory opens
… same name. The land was owned by the Bezuidenhout family before they gave it to the government. South African Agency …
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… CÁ´te d'Ivoire. He went to live and attend school in Mali before leaving for France. When CÁ´te d'Ivoire gained …
EventTakudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-born American rugby player, is born
… moved to Texas, USA, where he played for Plano Rugby club before moving on to Dallas Athletic Rugby Club. Ngwenya is …
ArchiveObituary for Andrew Verster
… or wood carving as I have done for the new Constitutional Court – rather that I collaborate with people who DO have the …
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… in detention over the years and up to the present time. Court records abound with such allegations and medical … of all detentions end in release without any…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… were also treated unequal to a Dutch settler in the court of law based on a racial hierarchy which promoted the …
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… of taking the time-consuming path of having them tried in court, it was thought to be much more convenient and …
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… light on Cape Town social history in the two decades before World War I. As I turned the pages, I found this a … (see main picture). The photo was taken a…
EventJacob Thabo Lengane is murdered in Soweto
… from his Soweto home by a group of armed men the night before his death. The incident occurred two days after the …
EventANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu
… Even the P.A.C chaps joined us, and very enthusiastically, before they remembered to catch themselves...” In 1982, …
EventMargaret Rheeder is hung in Pretoria
… Port Elizabeth to buy a bottle of Antexit ant-killer. Before she left the pharmacy, Rheeder signed the poison …
EventAt a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
… a year after the Wiehahn commission on labour was tabled before parliament. Click here to read more about labour and …
EventHolomisa on corruption
… two million rand to the African National Congress (ANC) before the 1994 elections. Holomisa claimed this was an …
Event5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops
… the Anglo-French ultimatum was handed to Egypt and Israel before Israel had even reached the canal. This War …
![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.
… AIDS; he had just admitted to having the disease the day before. His death made him even more popular with Queen’s …
EventTwenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen are sentenced to death for the Lari massacre in Kenya
… part in the event. The unfortunate event happened 10 years before the independence of the country from Britain in 1963 …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the 19th meeting of heads of government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) St Lucia, 4 July 1998
… community of free nations. It was delayed for decades before that, by South Africa's oppression under the yoke of … I feel especially honoured and privileged…
PlaceKlein Karoo
… by the Historic Mission Stations of Zoar and Amalienstein before plunging through the Huisrivier Pass (House River … , a steep ravine through the twisted…
PlaceMamelodi
… made by some among us. It is important that all of us, before making reckless statements, give ourselves time to … people had lived in Tshwane for over two…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… missionary parents, Lewin attended Rhodes University before beginning his journalistic career at the Natal Witness … Lewin served the full term of his…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… Further, while it may have been in crisis many times before in its history, and a history of adaptability and … of four social groups: traditional leaders,…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… but thousands of African women, many of whom had never before been involved in political protests or demonstrations. … issuance of permits in the urban areas…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… but thousands of African women, many of whom had never before been involved in political protests or demonstrations. … issuance of permits in the urban areas…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… in their home country. Their best known performance was before Queen Victoria, at Osborne House, the royal residence … so unique, so interesting and amusing…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… number of conflicting stories about Hastings Banda’s life before he rose to power in the 1950s, but he certainly had a … States. He studied in Ohio, Indiana,…
PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
… so personally involved in the construction of a building before. He took great interest in all its details. The … unlike the small barn-like Raadsaal that…
PlaceDonkin Mount, Port Elizabeth
… had died at Murat, in Upper Hindustan, on 21 August 1818, before his secondment in South Africa. Shortly after the … suicide. His father died the same year…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the mural celebrating the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
… those who come after us. The moving testimony of witnesses before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has reminded … our wildest expectations. As they…
EventThe Dutch Indiaman, the Nieuwe Haerlem, is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay
… dramatic than the countless ships that had run aground before it: no crewperson was killed and the invaluable cargo … for the crew and cargo. He waited for…