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EventMinister of Bantu Administration and Development, MC Botha announces that he will not stand for re-election.
… and will resign as Minister in November 1977. At the time Botha was at the centre of the land dispute between the …
EventSA poet and artist Wopko Jensma is born
… lived in Mozambique, Botswana and Swaziland for some time, Jensma returned to South Africa where he disappeared in …
EventSwazi King Sobhuza II dies
… and was the longest reigning monarch in the world at the time. King Mswati III ascended the throne in 1986 at the age …
EventFifth banning order for Albertina Sisulu
… Sisulu, was placed under a banning order for the fifth time since 1963. Click here to read more about the life of …
EventMandela and Tambo meet in Sweden
… his old friend, ANC President Oliver Tambo, for the first time in twenty-eight years. The meeting took place in Sweden, …
EventSifiso Nkabinde is shot dead by assassins
… National Congress (ANC) in the Natal Midlands and at the time of his death secretary-general of the recently formed …
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… without consulting Comrade Sisulu. Madiba also at this time met and married his first wife, Evelyn Mase, who was a … The ANC youth was impatient with the…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… in the hot sun made me fit and strong – and, for the first time right up front, I witnessed the conditions of farm … profits were higher. This also…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… and participation (see box on this page). At the same time, to off-set the popular appeal of the Ossewabrandwag , … position are of interest in as far as…
Call for United Front by Albert Luthuli, 5 November 1961
… for the establishment of a United Front as suggested. Time for Action The struggle ahead is dark and difficult but this is not the time to bemoan the fact;…
Document 93 S. B., “Unite Against Reaction and Oppression: United Front Against National Oppression and Fascism”, Umsebenzi, 23 May 1936
… very similar, an Imperialist dictatorship all the time. They have no democratic rights and are kept in … branch to their union. Finally this year for the…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… our countrymen, will work their gradual degradation and in time their extinction as a self-respecting useful section of … administrative troubles which…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - “Defender of the Hottentots”
… Movement was fortunate in sending out such a man at such a time. He had his agents all over the country so that he … and subdue the inhabitants. Lord…
Chapter 12
… we consider the political atmosphere prevailing at the time, with the people awakening to a new consciousness. The … longer asking for petty reforms here and…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
… on the new reclaimed land that was once Table Bay. At that time Roggie Bay came right up to the Dock Road, where the … proved him to be something of a…
ArchiveStatement announcing retirement, Nelson Mandela, 1 June 2004
… the media. Thank you very much to all of you for taking time out of your very busy schedules to come and listen to me … more than an announcement. I am…
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… young Moravian missionary, Georg Schmidt . He arrived at a time when the Khoisan , already suffering under the influx of … to put an end to the missionary…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… the dream of a real church was to remain just that for the time being. Instead, a suitable hall was erected on the … newsletter, "Irenenuus", was published…
EventYouth has been burnt to death in Mahwelereng Township
… from jail after being charged with public violence. At the time the police reported that no-one had been arrested for …
PlaceRust-en-Vrede, Wellington Road, Durbanville
… Georgian and Victorian Architectural Features. During its time it has served variously as a Prison, a Magistrates …
PlaceThe Pines, Parktown, Johannesburg
… and displaying many bold architectural elements. In its time it made an important contribution to the unique …
EventChris Hani succeeds Joe Slovo as Chief of MK
… Chris Hani, freedom fighter, political activist and at the time Deputy Commander of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in Zambia, was …
EventAllison Wessels George (Mhlongo) Champion is born
… Groutville, Stanger district in Natal. He assumed the full-time secretary position of the Transvaal branch of the …
PlaceBelvidere, Knysna
… retired to Knysna the following year, where he devoted his time to the development of his estate on the Knysna Lagoon, …
EventSpringboks wallop Scotland
… Scotland to engage their Scottish counterparts. The last time the team made a trip to Scotland was in 1969, when they …
EventKaiser Matanzima of Transkei announces his intention to retire from the Presidency
… from the Presidency in February 1982, to devote more time to traditional and family affairs. However, in 1986 …
EventThe iconic Athlone cooling towers are demolished
… at 11:56 - about 3.5 minutes earlier than the expected time and scores of people who dared a drizzling Cape Town … News24 , (2010), ‘Ladies of Athlone’…
Cyril Ramaphosa: Can ‘Mr Nice’ Be A Decisive President? Some say he lacks decisiveness, also in pursuit of his own interests by Liesl Pretorius (Huff Post), 21 August 2017
… got cold feet and Motlatsi was elected instead. This time, he thought he would help out for a year, which turned … I was his wife and I had been his…
ArticleMapungubwe
… probably became overcrowded. It was also at about this time that hills and mountains became associated with royalty …
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… trade with East, Britain occupied the Cape for the second time permanently in 1806. In 1807 the British government …