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PlaceRavenswood House, Hatfield Street, Gardens
… erected between 1817 and 1835 by M. A. de Kock, as one of a series of Houses for letting and is situated on a …
PlaceBritish Fort, Marabastad, Polokwane
… Rustenburg, Lydenburg, Wakkerstroom, Standerton and this one at Marabastad. This fort was established after the Battle …
EventFirst Black Test cricket captain in SA is announced
… start on July 27, while India would be the third team in a one-day triangular tournament to end on August 29. Source: …
EventWinnie and Nelson Mandela divorce
… before Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison as one of the Rivonia Trialists in 1963. It is believed that the …
EventConclusive Battle of Ndondakusuka takes place
… younger brother, Umbolazi also known as Mbulazi. This was one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on the southern tip …
EventSA footballer, Steven Pienaar is born in Johannesburg
… he joined the Dutch mother team Ajax and quickly became one of its best players. He later moved to other European …
EventHealth officials launch an intensive campaign to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda.
… to find the origins of the disease in Uganda. Uganda was one of the four countries ravaged by the disease in the early …
EventThe Japanese government announces that South Africans will no longer be granted visas to enter Japan
… cautious to be seen as allies with the country. Japan was one of these countries. Japan depended heavily on trade and …
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
… greed and injustice is unparalleled by the efforts of any one man. My Indian friends, in particular, are deeply … Affairs Board and the like. All this should…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… diamond mining boom. Over the next 30 years: he amassed one of the world’s great fortunes, engineered (with the … by his beloved private secretary (and sole…
Address at the Dinner in honour of South African Olympians and Paralympians: Bryntirion Estate, Tshwane: 11 December 2004
… and rejoice in the Olympic spirit. Each and every one of our Olympic and Paralympic athletes has done South … held in honour of the Greek God Zeus, whose…
Document 35 - Constitutional principles Schedule 4 of the Interim Constitution
… don't! President Mandela has described the job summit as one of the most significant events since the 1994 democratic … and industry. The presidential job…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Epilogue by Carol Hermer
… belong to them, the Tholos have transformed it. They are one of the few black families who through hard work and … Gus, Maria and the girls go jogging every…
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
… in 1961, after four and a half years. In 1963, I was one of the fourteen detainees arrested on 10 May in South … would like to preface my brief story by…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 68th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1980
… country, enabling them to reconstruct their country into one that offers its inhabitants prosperity and happiness. As … is within the grasp of the heroic…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
… country, enabling them to reconstruct their country into one that offers its inhabitants prosperity and happiness. As … is within the grasp of the heroic…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… no glamour in taking this path in the early seventies when one was branded as a radical terrorist by the establishment. … had eight children by four…
New tactics in the revolt
… at the meeting, apparently assured those present that no one would be prosecuted for carrying weapons and that the … which allowed them to manipulate the…
EventKing Williams Town schools are closed in commemoration of Victoria Mxenge
… four men in her driveway in Durban. At that time she was one of fifteen United Democratic Movement team members facing …
EventJoint call for June 16 Stay away
… Crisis Committee (NECC) gathered to issue a call for a one day work stay-away on June 16. The call was issued to all …
EventMandela meets Taiwanese Foreign Minister
… would still be maintained but not a diplomatic one the Taiwanese government was not impressed and cancelled …
ArchiveTerrorist Weapons 2
… weapons used by terrorist groups. Each group usually has one or a combination of the above weapons depending on the …
Mayibuye
… for many years as a small, underground newsletter, was one of three African National Congress publications alongside …
ArchiveColour and Christian community
… as having all the elements of a multi-racial society, with one difference, and that Christianity is seen as the …
EventMuhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman to regain his world heavyweight title
… out Foreman in the eighth round. The event is regarded as one of the greatest sporting events of the 20th century. A …
EventDjibouti, France’s last colony, gains independence
… it has an estimated population of less than a million, one of the least populous in Africa. France, which had …
EventLucas Seage is born
… and studied under the veteran artist Sydney Kumalo. He was one of the resistance artists, who saw art as a weapon …
EventBomb explodes at Johannesburg synagogue
… him from attending the temple's 50th anniversary. No one was injured, however, and Viljoen attended the …
EventSA signs Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
… South Africa was one of the original twenty-two nations who signed the …
EventSmugglers of military recruits in court
… Twelve people (eleven men and one woman) appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court after …