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EventCharles Darwin and the HMS Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands
… between the inhabitants of the different islands" In time he came to believe that the only way to account for the …
EventThe Directors of the Dutch East India Company propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possible area to settle some Dutch families
… held 'the finest forest in the world'. Indeed, by this time the thinner forest around the more arid Table Bay side …
EventTRC gathers evidence against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
… and dismissed the claim that she was not in Soweto at the time of the said incident, whereas Katiza Cebekhulu, a former …
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… deaths, but the involvement of political leaders at the time, such as F.W. de Klerk, whom de Kock claims was …
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… Brian Anderson, the head of the Nigerian operation at the time. Shell offered $15.5 million to the families of the nine …
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… threw out his arms and cried, "Shoot me!" The second time, when the crowd behind him began to move forward, he was …
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
… to the truth) or non-violent protest for the first time. He called on his fellow Indians to defy the new law and …
EventThe Johannesburg Stock Exchange is established
… to conduct trading. The establishment of the JSE at this time made it the oldest stock exchange facility in the …
PlaceFort Wiltshire
… 250 men, including stores and stabling facilities. By the time Somerset returned in 1821 the building had been …
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army’
… of the country. Cetshwayo's ruled the Zulu nation at a time when British colonial penetration of the South African …
An extract of the speech delivered by Albertina Sisulu on the first anniversary of the UDF
… and Indian conscription) “It can have many armies, but the time is up, the patience of the people has been exhausted …
PlaceRaadsaal, 95 St George’s Street, Bloemfontein
… plain work ". Initially it was used as a Church and, for a time, services were conducted there by Dr Andrew Murray until …
PlaceTree Garden, President Brand Street, Bloemfontein
… of the Republic (the Orange Free State was, at one time, ruled independently by the Boers) and, as further …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… by the early 70s it was virtually non-existent. At this time, some activists in the Indian community were involved in …
65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… in its large and still increasing membership, than at any time in the past. NATAL AND THE INDIAN QUESTION 2. Natal …
Introduction
… which speak of the progress of the campaign from the time it was resumed in June 1908 until its final conclusion …
’Asinamali’
… campaign was one, which must go on for a long time so that the workers must understand what it is for, and …
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… animal diseases and abnormalities. This was before the time of colour photographs. She produced splendid work that …
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… the Cameroon fixture. The Durban match was the first time a truly representative, non-racial South African XI took …
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… have been dependent on the attitude of government at the time. Under the government of the Union, Coloureds had …
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… relations with Europeans, and for a considerable period of time they engaged with Europeans voluntarily and on their own … 1790, slave numbers increased from…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… began with annexation and division of territory, over time proclamations were made and laws were enacted by both … consolidating areas of White settlement…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… SACTU, FSAW and the reconstituted SACP. For the first time, the interests and weight of these varied … occurred within the established political movements of…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… prices for produce received extremely low; at the same time they raised the prices of the commodities the women had … social and political empowerment and at…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… of Peace, claimed that “It essentially just gives time and space for the military and Hemeti to further …
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… 1980s, some women embraced newer ideologies which posed a challenge to their traditional roles. Others defended … their places of work and spent a large…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… the ANC rejected the contention that Congress had at any time accepted the position that the Department of Native … peoples. "This van Riebeeck celebration…
Chapter 5 - Preparing to negotiate
… cannot be both player and impartial referee at the same time. Against all odds By April 1991 the process of … the task of the National Party government until…
Black ViewPoint - Black Development by Njabulo Ndebele
… any conflict, two or more parties are both and at the same time, fighting against each other for an objective which … is that which has been granted the…
Edited Transcript of Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Heads of Mission at the Presidential Guest House, Tshwane, 13 October 2005
… today, we, the Cabinet, yesterday spent quite a bit of time discussing a very important matter, which is: what is it … these areas. And I think I had…