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PlaceOfficers’ Club, Military Base, Wynberg
… the oldest military establishment in South Africa. Its history has long been neglected. Unfortunately, the original …
EventGeneral De Wet is defeated by British forces
… African War became one of the most important events in the history of South Africa. On 31 March 1900 De Wet dealt the …
EventGambia gains independence
… On this day in history Gambia became the 36th African nation to gain …
EventSA is suspended from World Meteorological Organization
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
EventCOSATU intensifies campaign against apartheid
… at the time, decorated the hall. References: South African History Online http://www.cosatu.org.za/shop/ss0406-26.html …
Event17 anti-apartheid organisations are restricted in terms of Section 6 of the Public Safety Act
… On this day in history, State President P.W. Botha amended the emergency … E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology…
EventDelmas Treason Trial starts
… Treason Trial, up to that time the longest trial in the history of SA, started in Delmas, east of Pretoria. …
EventMary Elizabeth Barber, pioneer naturalist, dies
… a remarkable woman with an extensive knowledge of natural history, especially botany and entomology and supplied …
EventPieter Jacobs Marais reports discovery of gold
… first person to discover gold in this area, Johannesburg history proved him wrong. Allegedly Carel Kruger, who was … HighBeam Research, History of…
EventSouth African cricketer, AB de Villiers is born
… and ODI rankings, making him only the ninth batsman in history to do so …
ArchiveBlack consciousness: a reactionary tendency
… provides the reader with a very detailed background and history of the formation of the Black Consciousness Movement …
EventGovernment declares that five ‘non-White’ South African University Colleges will be entities separate from the University of South Africa
… colleges played a tremendous role in shaping the history of South Africa during the liberation struggle. … From Crisis to Stability to Crisis’ , from South…
East Cape Update
… of the Eastern Cape region. This region had a rich history of democratic opposition to the white minority …
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… Hegel's influential sentiment that "Africa has no history". European scholars have long dismissed Africa as not being an actor in the world's history. Hegel…
Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000 Demonstrate AT Mass Rally”, The Torch , National Edition, 1 April 1958
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 42 … AT Mass Rally", The Torch , National…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinning, St. Georges Hotel, City of Tshwane, 27 September 2005
… resolution. Islamic study during this period of human history, when the intellectual evolution had stalled in the … taken. These manuscripts represent a…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… "The Lovedale Press: Literature for the Bantu Revisited," History in Africa, 6 (1979): 155-175) and Brian WiUan's … were unhappy with the ANC's growing ties…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State University Albert Luthuli's place in … In 1946 he joined forces with Rev…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… the ANC. A similar battle has been going on in SACPO. The Indian Natal Congress is not so important and is otherwise in … inhuman. 3. He must not join non…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… the struggle to boycott the enemy-imposed South African Indian Council and so on. Having realised that it could not …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
… Poems, Sipho Sepamla; Five Poems, Jose Craveirinha; Four Indian Ocean Poets; Brentpark, Antjie Krog; Life in Limbo, …
PlaceLinden, Johannesburg
… Africa". For lunch or dinner take your pick from French, Indian, Mexican, sushi or Chinese food. Favourites include … s/linden-and-delta-park/https://www…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… turned to robbery and protection fee racketeering against Indian shopkeepers. The Berliners were largely concerned with …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… reinforcements had to be sent to Natal to suppress the Indian Passive Resistance campaign . In January 1914 another …
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… support from the (African) University College campuses, Indian students at the University of Durban-Westville and …
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… Natal and Kwa-Zulu, where Inkatha had much support and the Indian UDF leadership did not really understand black …
PlaceBo-Kaap, Cape Town
… IN FURTHER READING) Cape Town is a city built on layers of history and landscape. Beyond its iconic mountain and … Museum . " This is the best place to…
PlaceKalk Bay, Southern Suburbs- Cape Town
… False Bay. They capture the village’s atmosphere and a history shaped by community and the sea. In February 1862 Mrs … and reflects a cosmopolitan heritage…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Narasimha Rao of India New Delhi, 25 January 1995
… the South African Government. For those who did not know history it might seem strange indeed that there should only … affinity of cultures and traditions,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of Steve Biko’s death East London, 12 September 1997, South Africa
… and worked with him, but by the fruits of his endeavours. History called upon Steve Biko at a time when the political … visible organisation of the people…