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Adriaan Oosthuizen
… whose hobby became an occupation for the past 16 years. I work as a commercial photographer but decided to …
ArticleThe aftermath of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… of the Vow For the greater part of the twentieth century 16 December had been observed as a public holiday, with …
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… parties. The terms of Dutch surrender were Signed here on 16 November 1795. During the short-lived Occupation that … under old NMC legislation on 22 August…
PlaceCape Floral Areas, Western Province
… 12 new cases and 23 fines issued between April and June 2025 alone. Most fines were related to violations of the … of the world's richest floral kingdoms…
ArchiveInterview with Murphy Morobe
… singled out by the Le Grange as being responsible for the uprising taking place around the country. …
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… management refused to meet with the striking miners. On 16 August 2012 , 34 miners were killed and a further 78 … of Marikana before the confrontration…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2011
… Chief Albert Luthuli. Thirty-Five years since the Soweto students uprising. Twenty Years since the United … of the entire country clad in national colours on…
ArchiveHow a slave from Mauritius led a rebellion in Cape Town by Nigel Worden (Ground Up), 30 March 2016
… to ‘hoist the bloody flag and fight themselves free.’ The uprising was short-lived. On reaching Salt River, the slaves … Within 36 hours it was all over…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… to quell unrest, especially by 'uncontrollable' black youth who stayed out late, the city council set a curfew of … bell was 'degrading' for 'law abiding'…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… histories of the ANC and the National Party; 2) The post-Soweto period in South Africa (1976-88). Let’s start with the … not dwell on the ANC between its…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… for the last time at the 33rd annual meeting on 15 June 1951 at the age of 88. He died at his retirement home in …
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… or white supremacism. It is thus fitting that in June 1999 Nelson Mandela , in one of his last official acts …
ArticleThe Big Debate
… government, civil society, the private sector, experts, youth, workers, and affected communities, to discuss the …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… Document 14 - Letter from C. F. Glass to John Gomas, 7 June 1927 Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade Unionism in South Africa, 28 July 1928…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… May Day protests, was legislated shortly after, on 20 June 1950. This May Day rally was significant in the history … and the ANC embarked on a National Day…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1930-1939
… due to the fast, which he had begun on 16th August. August 16, (Yeravda Prison). Gandhi refused facilities granted …
Address to the National Council Of Provinces, 11 November 2003
… of our system of education so that it gives our youth the necessary skills to engage in economic activities … We are proud of our own achievements in…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… Police Corps became the responsibility of the SAP. On 1 June 1939 South West Africa (now Namibia) also fell under SAP … actions during events like the…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Tributes to Lembede After His Death
… WALTER NHLAPO,"He Sang and Soared Away," Barlow's Weekly, 16 August 1947 Walter Nhlapo (d. 1967) was a Journalist … He was founder and President of the…
ArticleMcGill University Project
… History Online (SAHO). Over the course of two months, 16 students in this programme liaised with a team of SAHO …
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… that system began to open in the period following the 1976 Soweto Uprising, he embraced “reform”. This was an ultimately …
PlacePaardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp
… by WY Vietch . It was unveiled by President Paul Kruger on 16 December 1891. On the 12th of April 1877, Sir Shepstone … Self Governance and later the…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… career His political career began early. He joined the ANC Youth League and was expelled for student political protest … politician, for example through…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… at the Charles Hurwitz Santa Tuberculosis Hospital in Soweto. He spent three months recovering there. Many scholars … from the hospital, Dumile stayed with…
EventPoqo members kill a White family
… In an attempt to destabilise the country and cause an uprising against the Apartheid government, members of Poqo, …
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… The British made a third attempt at subduing Sekhukhune in June/July 1879, under the command of Colonel Lanyon. This too …
87. Today’s lessons are tomorrow’s weapons for students
… boycotted over three issues: they had to write exams on June 16, a day of commemoration for most South Africans; the … boycotted to protest against the…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… people near the Fish River with large herds of cattle. June/July 1533 Portuguese … been killed. From a population of 60 to…
Archive2006 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 3 February 2006
… for national liberation. The representatives of the youth that rose up in revolt 30 years ago, in the Soweto Uprising sit everywhere in this House, including…
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… totalitarian government had total control over men, women, youth, newspapers, radio, art, books, music, universities, … Party. The propoganda unit also set…