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PlaceVineyard Hotel, Colington Road, Newlands
… and adapted into the progressive Hotel, that you see before you today. The seven Acre Property, is Home to a …
PlaceKruger House Museum
… President Paul Kruger was to live, between 1883 and 1901, before he left South Africa to go into exile in Europe, the …
PlaceLiberia
… settlers and 3 society members sailed for Sierra Leone. Before departing they had signed a constitution requiring …
Address by ANC President, Nelson Mandela, to the International Solidarity Conference Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… and difficult times, for which there are not pat answers. Before we have even attained our freedom we are experiencing …
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
… demands throughout South Africa with the aim ofobtaining, before the Native Bills are reintroduced, at least a million …
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… in Cardiff (Wales), Toronto (Canada), and London (England) before rejoining the Dispatch in 1960. In 1965 Woods became …
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… a wealthy family in Cuba. He attended Catholic schools before pursuing a law degree at the University of Havanna, …
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
… both known to have been members of the PAC in the 1950s before the organisation was banned, would inevitably have …
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… and torture of several of its members and leadership just before the launch of the party and its constitution resulted …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… settlers, people wondered how many Africans had to die before there was freedom in South Africa with almost four … significant public movements of the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… served as RC assistant secretary in the early 1970s, 22 before being succeeded by Simon Makana. All of them, bar … 51 and South African government. On April…
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…