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EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) as one of the top ten Greatest South Africans of all time. The … political controversy. Nelson Mandela…
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… say 'NO'? And when he has turned South African life into one vast unfunny game of rugby with every non-Nationalist … by the South African Congress of Trade…
17. Latief insists on his right to travel by any train
… first place the agreement was I am told a merely temporary one, secondly it is unreasonable to contend that a private … my claim so strongly before your kind…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note
… conquest in Southern Africa that she set about writing her one great published work "The Role of the Missionaries" as it … with its concepts of non-racialism…
PlaceSun Valley Estates, Ladysmith
… savings which they had built up over the years. Removals One of the families recounted their removal saying they … their jobs and their properties without…
PlaceAmathole Mountain Region, Eastern Cape
… The Amatola Region is one of the most beautiful and diverse in the Eastern Cape. … individual forests. The Amatola Hiking Trail, ranked as one of the country…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… Cape. A brutal police raid on Langa on 30 March, provoked one of the largest marches in Cape Town's history, when 30 … off and cordons of troops and armoured…
PlaceCastle of Good Hope, Castle Street- Cape Town
… Castle is not known to have fired a shot in anger, and is one of a number of fortifications subsequently added to cover … to have been erected at the Cape…
PlaceAmalienstein, a Mission Station in the Western Cape
… Entrance to the 'Sewe Weeks Poort'. Amalienstein is the one with the beautiful yellow Church that you notice from the … of SAMS, only to fall out over…
Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
… Like all centenary lectures, the reflection on the life of one ANC President is in essence a review of the period during … the African Union, as we have lost…
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… after the new dispensations started in South Africa, if one looks back, there are reasons to be positive and say we … new vision... that we must abandon…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, Sandton Convention Centre, 2 April 2007
… to address this important meeting convened to deal with one of the most critical challenges facing all nations of the … basic condition of man”¦ is a…
Report of the Joint Planning Council of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress, November 8, 1951
… for the commencement of the struggle as it marks one of the greatest turning points in South African history … for the commencement of the struggle as it…
A Biography of Ernest Cole by Anna Hutchinson
… Peter Magubane , often butted heads over their work. On one occasion their colleague Alf Kumalo had done a piece on … truth he would come down on them hard…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 29 July 1990
… POM When we were talking to one of the people yesterday in one of the townships, we talked to one 15 year old boy and I asked him would he have been …
ANC Youth League Manifesto 1944
… suppressed. In South Africa, the conflict has emerged as one of race on the one side and one of ideals on the other. The White man regards the …
ArchiveSouth Africa Advisory Committee Report, 10 February report to Secretary of State
… which dealt with United States policy toward South Africa, one of the provisions of the Executive order directed the …
ArchiveDialectic of Higher Education for the Colonised: the case of Non-White Universities in South Africa
… to two-fold functions, a conservative and a progressive one. It can be viewed as a custodian of societal values or …
ArchiveThe birth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… One day in July 1968 a group of students formed a separate …
PlaceUWC - Robben Island Mayibuye Archives
… of the Western Cape (UWC) campus. The Mayibuye Archive is one of the largest archives of liberation struggle materials …
PlaceOld Anglican Church, Rustenburg
… result of the efforts of John Pilkington Richardson and is one of the oldest Anglican Churches in the Transvaal. It was …
PlaceMill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico
… and cast-iron machinery drove a set of millstones, and is one of the few such structures surviving in the old …
EventThe North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is founded.
… reason was to encourage European political integration. One hundred and ten thousand military personnel are engaged …
EventSculptor Lucas Sithole is born in KwaThema
… used to give an explanation why he made his sculptures. As one of South Africa's best known sculptors internationally, …
EventMugabe announces the merging of ZANU and ZAPU
… Zimbabwe African People's Union), are to be merged under one command after the political affiliation of the two groups …
EventThe ‘Afrikaner Volksfront’ is founded
… Afrikaner Volksfront flag A new coalition made up of twenty-one right wing parties, known as Afrikaner National Front …
EventMargaret Mary Smith, SA artist and ichthyologist, is born
… 'Sea fishes of Southern Africa', which is regarded as one of the most comprehensive books on fishes in the world. …
EventIEC extends election dates
… Electoral Commission (IEC) to extend polling by one day in areas plagued by voting problems. These included …
EventBotswana gains independence from Britain
… resources like diamond and today the country has achieved one of the highest per capita income rates in Africa. …
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique begin discussions which lead to the creation of a cross-border conservation park
… upheld his vision of a protected wilderness. It is now one of the largest conservation parks in the world. …