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PlaceMilnerton
… in 1929. It was built by Sir David Graaf and used by his family as a seaside home until his death in 1931. Milnerton’s beach is well known for its …
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
… authority, was called to explain the Act to the people. His refusal to address the group angered the people to such an extent that they destroyed his house…
PlaceWelgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
… who then established a Farm he named Welgelegen. After his death the estate changed hands a number of times until 1756, … the end of the 18th century by…
EventPAC leader, David Sibeko shot dead in Dar-es-Salaam
… in the PAC in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. At the time of his death, Sibeko was based New York. The death of Sibeko came as result of increasing hostility …
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… the rising tide of unrest in many parts of the country. In his letter Mandela states that he was directed to write that … of teaching in schools. 1985…
Farewell Speech On Eve Of Imprisonment, February 29, 1948
… meeting in Johannesburg on February 29, 1948 on the eve of his imprisonment.) When Dr. Dadoo rose to speak on Sunday at the great solidarity meeting in his…
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… and in the ensuing gun battle, Mahlangu and one of his companions Mondy Johannes Motloung were arrested. In this … purpose of the group. Mahlangu was then…
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
… in speaking for South Africa, the paper demonstrates his avocation of a more locally rooted philosophical … natural right to ownership (as is appropriated…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… David. A grief-stricken Rufane left for England, with his baby son and his wife’s embalmed heart. On his stopover in Cape Town , he … took his own life – on…
ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
… a woman would give birth, while the right was the side of death, where a body might be laid out prior to burial. At the … basis in alternating order of…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… fundamentally warmhearted and friendly. The African in his kraal, even in his squalid "Shanty Town", and in the cities where he is … up Special Criminal…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony in 1907, and his father Percy Fischer, who later became Judge President of … Susanna Johanna (Molly) Krige , who…
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BiographyMatsie Angelina Motshekga [Angie Motshekga]
… a South African lawyer and politician who was elected to his third consecutive term as a Member of Parliament in the 2019 general election. He formerly…
De Klerk pays tribute to Mandela’s ‘unique contribution’
… was with the greatest sadness that I have learned of the death of Nelson Mandela. My wife, Elita, and I would like to convey our deepest condolences to his…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… a mission to this people, and continued with them till his death ... On revisiting this kraal in 1819 ... I found the … William Anderson joined the mission,…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… and who might be forced into exile. Mandela had come into his own, more assertive, more combative towards the regime … as much to the circumstances of the…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… the Mpondoland (eQawukeni), region of the Eastern Cape. His mother, Julia, was the third wife of Mzimeni Tambo, son … at a local trading store. 1920s 1928…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… used the term "apartheid" from the 1930s as he distanced his party from British traditions of liberalism and the … Chief Albert Luthuli 1898 - 1967 After the…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… At Freedom Day celebrations in 2008 Thabo Mbeki delivered his last speech as South Africa President: “The brutalities … it was their mission to bring us our…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… leaders, but still the mass action raged. By 9 April the death toll had risen to 83 non-White civilians and three … any misgivings regarding government…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… period through which the country is passing just now. THE DEATH OF PROFESSOR JAMES THAELE: Please allow me to speak to … June 1948. I was extremely sorry not…
Indian immigrants engaged in non-sugar growing activities
… was re-appointed for Northern Natal. The high rate of death among Indians resulted in improved housing conditions …
"Apartheid - the Indictment": Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sactions agains South Africa by O. R. Tambo, April 1964
… South Africa Act, 1909, as amended. But Hertzog and his Party were not the originators of the concept of "people" … sphere of life, and invariably…
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
… of the South Africa Act, 1909, as amended. But Hertzog and his Party were not the originators of the concept of "people" … sphere of life, and invariably…
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… a father Reb Yehuda Leib (1851-1912) born in Lithuania and his youngest son, Harry (1895-1980), born in Cape Town and … from 1911, showing the patriarch, Reb…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… core of the monster. He had to be eliminated so that his ideas would not germinate. How does one kill ideas? It was too late. In the nine years of his…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… Orlando Community Centre. He excelled at boxing and shared his love of the sport with his son, Thembekile. He enjoyed visiting the cinema and … attacks in…
PlaceAlbaster Klip, Northern Cape
… probably after reading this diary of Trechardt and his Forefathers! The diary covers the period from the end of July 1836, when Trechardt and his group of…
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… the black oppressed and the white oppressor; and even unto death, black cemeteries and white cemeteries - always and … dead by a policeman or whipped and…
BiographyConstance Stuart Larrabee
… a portfolio of photographs on the author Alan Paton and his book Cry, the Beloved Country. She also had …