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EventSoweto agrees to pay rent
… negotiations to create a just local government system in South Africa. The two parties agreed to: To end the five year rent …
PlaceLookout, Uitenhage
… is the center of one of the largest citrus regions in South Africa with approximately 12,000 ha (30,000 acres) of citrus … citrus are exported from here to…
ArchiveAppendix 5 Notes on Palestine and Israel by Denis Goldberg
… unjust We fought it to be free to rebuild our country The world condemned apartheid and international anti-apartheid … live when they are adults and raise…
EventBlack empowerment makes headway
… In South Africa's largest Black economic empowerment deal, Anglo … " Johnnic Holdings Ltd (Johnnic) - Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa ", from Mbendi ,…
Closing Address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC 16 December 1990
… so horrified when they outlined to me the actions of the South African Police. Although it was late in the evening I … be reviewed only when our demand for a…
30. Potchefstroom traders: we please the poorest class of customers
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai … there were nineteen licences issued to Asiatics…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… Areas Act is passed. 1930 'Africans' are moved out of the south of Fietas (between 17th and 24th Streets) to Orlando … between 11th Street in the north, 24th…
EventSouth African model, Candice Swanepoel is born in Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal
… very fast after she was discovered. She became the first South African Victoria’s Secret model. She is among the top earning models in the world, taking the…
EventStampede kills twelve people in Harare
… Police fired tear gas at unruly fans during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a stampede that killed twelve…
EventJosephine Wood, founder of the South African Library for the Blind, is born in Grahamstown
… donors. The Library was officially opened in 1946 as the South African Library for the Blind in Grahamstown. Woods was … including the African Union of the…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… Newspaper proprietors and editors of all the main South African newspapers, both English and Afrikaans, … withdrew the bill. In its place, a new self…
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
80 Harrington Street, Cape Town. 16th June, 1948 My dear Mandela, Now to the discussion on the question of organisation, which is every day assuming greater…
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… Petrus Mashishi, President of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) from its … such as the late historian Phil Bonner, around issues of South…
EventCecil John Rhodes is buried in the Matopos
… . In his will he asked to be buried on the 'View of the World' hill in the Matobo district, Matabeleland. The bulk of … Groote Schuur as a residence for the…
PlaceHangberg, Hout Bay
… police in to tear down the houses, on the firebreak. The South African Police Service fired rubber bullets and … These types of informally constructed…
Notes from Books
… Jean Gelman Taylor, THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. … sponsoring women as migrants to Dutch settlements east of Africa. (p…
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
… gets a share!" Now aged 80 and a leading figure of South African photography, Goldblatt has lost none of his … largely ignored by the media, exploring the…
EventZimbabwe is suspended from the commonwealth
… of Commonwealth leaders that included then President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki. The suspension meant that the country …
ArchiveMarikana: The blame game - A special report by Niren Tolsi and Paul Botes
… Introduction On August 16 2012 the South African police shot and killed 34 striking miners at … refuge On August 16, and in the weeks that followed, the…
PlaceOld Arts Building, University of Pretoria
… Dutch masterpieces, European furniture and ceramics from South Africa and around the world. - Author Nicole Hoffmann …
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on Receiving an Honorary LLD Degree at the University of Fort Hare 9 May 1992
… transformation, a time of change or prospective change in South Africa as a whole as well as in this university, we all have … us to take our place amongst…
EventThe governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, opens the Graaff-Reinet-Middelburg railway line
… statesman and colonial Administrator. Milner came to South Africa in May 1897. In South Africa he became governor of the Cape. The cape was … Doyle, A.C., …
EventAllan Boesak's plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… from a university in New York, he led a parish in Belville South. Boesak rose to prominence when he became the head of the World Alliance of Reformed…
ArchiveThe Congress of the people
… have this conference and that it is for all the people of South Africa. We got people together in small groups, maybe 10 … them, ‘If you go to this…
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl , SA artist and founder member of Artists Under the Sun, dies in Soweto
… Mohl got an opportunity to accompany a German Artist to South West Africa (Namibia), where he received formal training at the … studied at the Kunst-Akademie…
Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows
… A press release from the Poetry Africa festival, which ended in Durban last night, touted the … Black-consciousness era poet.” “Crap,” says the published…
EventMark Thatcher arrested
… Town home on 25 August 2004. Thatcher was charged under South Africa's anti-mercenary laws in connection with an alleged …
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… South African History Online Tribute to Prof Meer on her … vs Marxism debate around race, class and ethnicity in Africa. Fatima Meer, through untold…
EventVuyani Bungu wins IBF World Boxing Title
… The South African junior featherweight, Vuyani Bungu, registered … Carousel to lift the International Boxing Federation (IBF) world title. The victory earned…
EventSouth African President Charles Roberts Swart opens the first session of the Transkei Legislative Assembly
… of government. The President added that the Republic of South Africa would continue to assist the Transkei and would train … South African President Charles…