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EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… to race. Gandhi was practising as a young Indian lawyer in South Africa at the time, and this event proved a remarkable … movement influenced civil rights…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… By Sara We salute one of our best known heroines of South Africa, Albertina Nontsikelelo (Blessings) Sisulu, on her … to be an inspiration to the younger…
Slavery in South Africa
… was a considerable importation of slaves from Asia to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company and its employees. … from India. This aspect of history is…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
… sold over 100,000 copies, making Linda a musical star in South Africa. Although Mbube is Linda's best known recorded song, … the oppression and the harsh…
EventGerman Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha lands in Swakopmund, South West Africa
… campaign conducted by Germany against the Herero people in South West Africa (now known as Namibia) is considered among the first … aristocratic Prussian…
EventP. W. Botha refutes possibility of Black majority rule
… At the height of mass revolt in the country and world condemnation, President P.W. Botha rules out any possibility of a Black majority government in South…
EventThe Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Bishop Ambrose Reeves, resigns
… Ambrose Reeves, resigned after having been deported from South Africa in September 1960 for his strong condemnation of the … and lonely stand ... the hardest…
PlacePhiphidi Falls, Limpopo Province
… The vhaVenda clans of northern South Africa, in present-day Limpopo Province, are among the … Province at the foothills of the Soutpansberg (Dzwaini), South…
EventJacob Matlala, SA flyweight, wins the World Boxing Organisation world champion title
… On 15 May 1993, Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala, won the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) world champion title. Matlala had been introduced to boxing … Port…
EventWorld Book and Copyright Day is celebrated globally
… World Book and Copyright Day is a UNESCO initiative first held in 1995.By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO seeks to promote reading,…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… had to be built in straight lines which lay in a north-south direction. Stand numbers had to be placed on the huts … – a common process in the phases of race…
PlaceLovedale Missionary School
… William Chamler presented Tiyo Soga, who would become South Africa’s first indigenous Black cleric for the Presbyterian …
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a day in which all are … beliefs, and traditions that make up the nation of…
ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… representative of the UN, Cyrus Vance, is sent to visit South Africa, amidst concerns over violence. 20 August 1992: The NP …
The first martyrs of Satyagraha by E. S. Reddy
… mere jail-going. He warned, during the first satyagraha in South Africa, as early as 1909: "A satyagrahi must be afraid … and divide the ranks of the…
ArchiveSt James Church Massacre
… A terrorist attack on St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa left 11 people dead and 58 wounded. At about 7:30pm, … 11 years Frontline Fellowship has…
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai … the quest for future improvements rested…
EventSpringboks wallop their Australian counterparts
… rugby team, nicknamed Amabokoboko, national team of South Africa under mentorship of Nick Mallett, registered an … under Mallett. This envisaged the…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… That is not to say that repression was not exercised in South Africa before 1948 or that apartheid did not exist before … colonialism so successfully…
Document 79 - “What is the Communist Party? Lesson 4: What will be Done in the Bantu Republic?”, Umsebenzi, 17 March 1934
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … 1950, by Allison Drew Document 1 - Keir Hardie, "Stoned in South Africa", 1907'…
Document 1 - Keir Hardie, “Stoned in South Africa”, 1907
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … 1950, by Allison Drew Document 1 - Keir Hardie, "Stoned in South Africa", 1907'…
EventParliament convenes to consider the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki
… Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki resigned as president of the Republic South Africa on Sunday 21 September 2008. Parliament convened on …
Black consciousness and the land question by Pandelani Nefolovhodwe, 17 March 2015, South Africa
… the 6th September 2013, states that 14% of audited land in South Africa is in the hands of the state, and 79 % is in the hands … we are nowhere near clarity…
EventThe participants at the multi-party forum negotiations agreed on both new structures of the police and defence force
… of the police and defence forces. They agreed that the old South African Police would be substituted by the new South African Police Services (SAPS), which…
87. Today’s lessons are tomorrow’s weapons for students
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai … first document Omar responds to questions put…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Golden Doves of Peace Awards ceremony 7 June 1994
… Peace Committee and its Secretariat, as well as Education Africa for inviting us to this solemn occasion. I also wish … are the true heroes, the soldiers of…
PlaceStellenbosch, Western Cape
… This has seen Stellenbosch continue to dominate the South African wine scene in terms of quality. With the … Trails. Stellenbosch is the second oldest Town,…
EventJacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the WBO world champion title
… boxing career in 1980. Matlala’s first crack at a world title, the IBF flyweight title, in September 1991 was … year. Matlala was the shortest professional…
ArchiveOpening Address of Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Commemoration Project, by Nelson Mandela, 21 September 2004, Johannesburg
… reconciliation. In our view the work of archives in the South Africa of today is potentially one of the most critical … to South Africans and visitors from…
ArchiveBefore Dawn Culture in Another South Africa (CASA)
… IN AMSTERDAM IN DECEMEBR 1987 AND WAS ATTENDED BY 300 SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS, OF WHOM 120 CAME DIRECTLY FROM SOUTH AFRICAN AND 180 AS EXILES FROM THE REST OF…