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Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… witnessed the conditions of black South Africa with new eyes. He saw firsthand how damaging Apartheid was, but he … Thunder was released to critical acclaim,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association 24 April 1995
… levels of the social ladder, all owe allegiance to this new state. They all seek to achieve the central objective of … change, to co-operate. We are…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… National Congress, Pixley ka Isaka Seme, when he spoke at New York's Columbia University 96 years ago, in 1906. He … Africa... Yes, the regeneration of…
A Dialogue in Partnership with Kaya FM - MyConstitution Exhibition
… of powers and articulates the values on which the new South Africa has been founded. As such, the Constitution …
ANC welcomes Cde Mac Maharaj appointment as President Zuma`s spokesperson, 7 July 2011
… minister, Cde Mac will bring wealth of experience into his new responsibility. He played a leading role in the …
Letter from Oliver Tambo to Ayatollah Khomeini, 13 February 1979, Iran, Maputo, People`s Republic of Mozambique
… in the celebration of your achievement and welcomes the new Iran into the ranks of the anti-imperialist and …
PlaceHillbrow Tower
… district, it became necessary that the height of the new telephone tower stayed above the height of the buildings …
ArchiveChurch and State relations: the story of Bophuthatswana and its independence from 1977 to 1994
… for the end of states such as Bophuthatswana. This saw the new secular state of South Africa coming into existence. …
PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
… example of Florentine architecture remain, and that a new building not obstruct their view of the ocean. Reacting …
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
… University Chapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 Chapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance Chapter 6 Underground in … and More Solidarity Chapter 17 Life…
PlaceFort Wynyard
… reaction the commander of the Cape forces ordered that a new battery, Kijk-in-de-pot Battery, be built on a hillock … declared a National Monument under old…
PlaceGeorge Division
… various portions of its territory were separated to form new divisions at Mossel Bay in 1848, Knysna in 1856, … 3,780 were literate 1904 census: 12,667…
PlaceFraserburg
… January 1890 its Southern Districts were given over to the new Division of Sutherland. The region was subject to …
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… committed suicide by jumping from a high-rise building in New York on 14 July 1965. An annual award for courageous … 06 July 2011] Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New…
PlaceRoodepoort Town School, Rex Street
… available. Father Sebastian Wall established the new School in just one week, starting with one trained …
PlaceOld Government Building, Church Street, Boksburg
… magistrate and his staff, but after they were moved to a new building, it was acquired by the Boksburg Municipality …
EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
… their families joined them. Moolla was later based in New Delhi as the Asian representative of the African National …
EventWW2: British 8th army marches into Tripoli
… on the side of the British/Allies, were South Africa, New Zealand, Senegal and Australia. …
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… legislative issues in the 1980s led to the adoption of a new constitution for the Republic of South Africa, in which …
EventSADF takes over security of Northern Natal from the SAP to prevent infiltration into SA by Liberation Movements
… the armed forces in a policing capacity was however not a new approach by the Apartheid government, as most of the …
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… banished and exiled to for more than 300 years, the new maximum-security prison was established in the early …
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… to save a suspected informer from a murderous mob. When a new constitution was proposed for South Africa in 1983 to …
EventFearon Fallows, first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born in England
… Fallows was unfortunately unable to take advantage of the new facilities due illness. He died of scarlet fever in …
EventHelen Suzman is born
… times at Robben Island. When Nelson Mandela signed the new constitution in 1996, Suzman was along side him. In the …
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
… and The Vedic prayer. Sources: Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v. 2. …
PlaceCape Maclear, Malawi
… Maclear, at the Cape of Good Hope. In October 1875, a new mission, "Livingstonia", was set up by a group of members …
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… as the de Villiers/Pama system, after it was refined in a new edition in 1966 by Dr. Cornelius Pama, one of the …
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… On 10 February 1908 a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C.), …
EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
… He went on to hold a number of important positions in the new South Africa, including general secretary of the Congress …