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EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… on this date at the Natal North Coast. Giving testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Dweba's …
EventPort Natal is renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D’Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 1837
… residents, as there is no written history of the area before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Vasco da …
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
… cheering supporters. The inauguration came just two days before his 57th birthday. The occasion was also a farewell to …
EventFreak storms create havoc in the Eastern Cape and President Mandela narrowly escaped injury
… warning in the mountain village of Hogsback. Shortly before noon winds ripped through Hobbiton on Hogsback where …
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… began destroying its stockpile of anti personnel mines before signing the Convention in December 1997. Mozambique …
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… in the UK and in the United States of America (USA), before returning to South Africa to lecture Clinical Anatomy …
PlaceGoshen
… It remained the capital of the Protectorate until shortly before Botswana's independence, when the administration was …
PlaceAddo Drift, Sunday's River in the Eastern Cape
… direction, passing the town Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo before winding its way through the Zuurberg Mountains and …
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… tradition of protest and political activism. In the years before 1910, from the turn of the 20th century, women in …
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… participated nobly in the fight against Hitlerism. It had before it a world-famous statesman, Field Marshal Smuts. It … support for reference of the matter…
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… during that I received a rise of 2s. 6d. and, a few weeks before I left, one of 5s., making my wage 17s. 6d. I then … a certain amount every day. Many…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Investment Against Crime Seminar 19 August 1998
… of corrupt elements in the police, the prisons and the court system who undermine the work of the great majority of …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Introduction
… 1996 Constitution. Ebrahim explains how the Constitutional Court continues to play a role in making law and in shaping …
EventVerwoerd's grandson joins ANC
… Verwoerd was a card-carrying member of the ANC even before he joined the organisation. His main aim of joining …
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
… the Voortrekker [reportedly] took several days before they engaged in an armed conflict with the troops of … in the re-naming of the day. Towards the end…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… 18, 1970, the twenty-two men and women were taken back to court for a re-trial. This time, the state linked them to … She was placed back in the same cell…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… South Africa of more favourable conditions than ever before for armed struggle. Uprisings The tempo of popular … - had been among the 14 UDF leaders detained…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… followers of Ngqika, he was punished, and she was returned before the matter became a big issue. [19] What is important … and a bottle of brandy, but in fact…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… Much like Olive Schreiner, who wrote nearly 80 years before her, Bâ concerned herself with giving a voice to the … was published in 2006, also to critical…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… which Sihayo's men had retreated, driving their cattle before them. The Natal Native Contingent showed reluctance to … column brushed aside Zulu resistance…
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
… reparations paid to victims of gross human rights abuses. Before the budget was cast before the government, Davenport and a group of Black Sash …
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… Fehr with his sister and brother enjoyed further study before moving in 1910 to Berlin. From the German capital … as a gift to all people of South Africa a…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… of South Africa. He says, “The advantage with us was that before we became poets we were actually reciters” [xi] . He … armed dissidents [xxvii] . Tladi left…
No Arms for South Africa: Albert Luthuli, 8 May 1963
… than the whites. We have been victims of suffering long before our boycott and sanctions call to nations of the … freedom - as it has been the lot of all…
Address by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, 09 May 1986, New Delhi
… Today, I stand before this august and eminent assembly to receive an … enabled us to take on the apartheid onslaught. But even before her independence, India…
"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… Today, I stand before this august and eminent assembly to receive an … us to take on the apartheid onslaught. But even before her independence, India…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… these 75 years, there have been two alternative paths before our people: two premises upon which we could organise … spectrum, that apartheid can no longer…
Closing address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate Cape Town, 22 April 1998
… who took part in the debate on the President's Budget. As before, many flattering remarks were made about the President … appreciated. But suffice it to…
Document 49 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: Introduction (Minority) (1934)
… the most highly concentrated of industries. Here we have before our eyes the very curious social phenomena of a people … Party under the leadership of…
Document 8 - S. P. Bunting, The “Colonial” Labour Front, 23 October 1922
… it seems that some atmosphere of cooperation is necessary before propaganda among the subject or dependent races can … because real equality can only be…