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Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… that security police justified by claiming that at the time of his arrest he was on his way to Cape Town to … corporation to fund housing for the poor. At…
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
… beginning of a long struggle entailing great sacrifices of time, means and even life itself. To the African people the declaration is a challenge to organise…
"Form united front now": Interview with Albert Luthuli, 5 May 1962
… the last vestiges of freedom in South Africa? "Is it not time to close our ranks in the face of this threat by the …
Message by Albert Luthuli, 1 May 1955
… we have long awaited. This assembly will take place at a time when the political situation in South Africa has never …
PlaceFranskraal and the Strandveld Museum
… in 1852. This makes for an interesting addition to your time in this part of the Western Cape. For those that have a …
PlaceMbotyi, Eastern Cape
… lagoon while bathers enjoy themselves in the nearby surf. Time has stood still at Mbotyi, little has changed in the …
PlaceCaledon, Cape Overberg
… Caledon Garden has an annual show during September at the time of Year that best displays the abundant array of …
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… and those who simply violated the pass laws of the time. (Many ordinary and famous people were incarcerated here …
PlacePhilippi
… Townships formed, in the 1980s, at more-or-less the same time as Khayelitsha and Delft. It lies sandwiched between …
PlaceNdabeni
… buildings purchased from the military. Within a short time this had grown into a full community and sometime in …
PlaceTimour Hall Primary School, Plumstead
… of the same year, prefects were introduced for the first time. In 1974, Mr Roy Maggs was appointed and the first …
PlaceKimberley, Northern Cape
… where Boers used trench warfare for the first time. The city boasts other firsts like: 'The first city in …
PlaceIrene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
… the names of people who had died during their horrible time in the Irene Concentration Camp. Printed on paper slips …
PlaceDie Nederlandse Reherformrde Kerk (Paul Kruger Church) Pretoria
… documentations of the Reformed Church and otherS of the time, was plastered in. In 1951, with the restoration of the …
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… was overthrown by his nephew Teodoro Obiang Nguema. By the time Macias' rule ended, two-thirds of the population had …
Appeal For Funds For New Age, January 1956
… allow it to remain a four–pager when the needs of the time demand that New Age should be at least an eight-pager, …
Document 30 - Letter from S. P. Bunting fo E. R. Roux, 9 January 1929
… 9 1 29 Dear Roux, I have only time to say that we got over our crises at our Conference (a …
EventPeter Mokaba is born
… Member of Parliament in 1994 as well as in 1999. After his time in parliament, Mokoba was then elected to serve as the …
EventSouth Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
… the country could offer. Malan, Prime Minister at the time, stated that the scourge of communist aggression …
EventThe fall of the fortress town of Tobruk
… So rapid were the German forces deployed, that by the time the Allied forces could respond, the initial Allied …
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… (Click here to read his full acceptance speech) At the time, Tutu joined Chief Albert Luthuli, also a persistent …
EventThe second Carnegie Report on poverty in South Africa is released
… This report gave rise to policy changes which over time, effectively eradicated poverty amongst Whites. Fifty …
The Trust Feed Massacre
… of attempted murder. The significance of this case at the time was that Mitchell was the first senior policeman during …
EventForces loyal to Zambian president Frederick Chiluba quash a coup by a handful of disgruntled military officers, arresting nine men including the captain who said an angel told him to overthrow the government
… to the nation for staging the 1997 coup, but at the same time he felt vindicated by recent events and He adamantly …
EventBelgium annexes the Congo Free State
… resources in the Congo, known as Congo Free State at the time. Leopold also set up the Association Internationale …
PlaceOld Morley
… is a flourishing Station." Its population was at this time about 300. The Mission-house was a neat, brick building; …
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… of South Africa's socio-economic development. It took some time for us to shed the baggage of our origins in the white … was in 1929 (under the slogan of a…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… They held South African passports and visited family from time to time or family came to Lesotho to visit their children. They … are best without. Invariably…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
… terrain, but you also go back to the Karoo all the time. Do you follow particular routes or return to familiar … an element of accountability, which is…
Closing address by President Neslon Mandela at the 49th National conferenceof the ANC Bloemfontein, 22 December 1994
… I think that there are close to fifteen. And for the first time in our history, delegates discussed, not resistance, but … of the law, you rule yourselves…