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EventHenry Morton Stanley’s expedition reaches Fort Bodo, Congo
… explorer who lived in America, was commissioned by The New York Herald with the task of finding explorer David …
Chapter VIII - The Mandela’s – family extraordinary
… older than Nelson but looking far younger than her real age. Lilian, the attractive charismatic leader of the ANC … horror nearer. The girls went back to…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… and land hunger are but some of the problems that the new democracy in South Africa has to confront. It is a matter …
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… too-low paid contract, as well as freedom to search for a new assignment without action by the police; permission to …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… Alliance, decided to plan a convention and draft a new constitution for South Africa. On 26 June 1955, a meeting …
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
… December - Strikes at the Durban docks October 1972 - when new wages for dockworkers were not implemented, stevedores in …
ArticleThe Homelands
… exist on 27 April 1994, and were re-incorporated into the new nine provinces of a democratic South Africa. …
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… – providing a focal point for the encouragement of a new body of creative work on the liberation struggle in …
PlaceGroote Kerk, Pretoria
… The congregation was moved to Bosman Street where a new church building was inaugurated in 1904. Today it is … a home at the Bronberg campus of the church. …
PlaceCarmel, George
… of Alan and Trudy Blackshaw the ministry expanded, new buildings were added, and the Caravan Park established. … was also strongly developed and significant…
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… one of the founding members. At Seme's suggestion, the new organization was patterned after the United States … by dispute and dissension. However, it did…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… living in so-called White areas had to be removed to new areas set aside solely for Black occupation. Second, … residents were not permitted to move to towns…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… population. The Malan government did not introduce many new laws; instead it made the old segregation laws more … 12 km south-west of Church square, was set…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… history, but there can be little doubt that an entirely new phase opened up as a result of the Second World War. The … overcrowding of the townships (and the…
Chapter 4 - THE PARTY AND THE “SOLDIERS OF LUTHULI”
… and with Kotane and Marks retaining their positions, new members on the CC included Josiah Jele, Moses Mabhida and … J. The augmented meeting not only saw…
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
… a result, only 10000 of the 32000 children of school going age were receiving education and the main burden was borne by … in Natal because 40% of Indian…
PlaceErica Girl’s School Building, Richmond Hill, Port Elizabeth
… After the South African War, it was decided to erect a new school building, which was designed by architect W …
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
… details of the early opposition by India to the new apartheid government, read article. To read the actual …
EventThe SA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster announces that the Department of Information was being disbanded
… 1978, to be replaced by Dr. Connie Mulder as leader of the new institution. It was also agreed that future evaluation of …
EventJames Ranisi Jolobe, Xhosa author and poet, and Presbyterian clergyman, dies in Tsolo, Transkei
… dictionary. References: Verwey, E.J. (ed) (1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: …
EventAgreement to reincorporate Ciskei into South Africa is reached
… Roelof "Pik" Botha, to reincorporate Ciskei into a new non-racial South Africa. The first step taken to … Keesing's Record of World Events, New Digest for…
EventJeremy Cronin and British couple are sentenced in the Cape Town Supreme Court
… twelve-month sentence and she returned to Britain with her new born daughter in October. …
PlaceWagon Museum
… wheel are also depicted in the exhibition area. In 2009, a new display was included which focused on the various means …
PlaceZithulele Hospital, Mqanduli
… and breastfeeding women as well as children under the age of six years old. Other citizens are charged according to …
PlaceBrandfort, Free State
… Florisbad Skull , an early hominid from the Middle Stone Age, was found here. The first aeroplane built in Africa was … p. 149. Haig, Theodore Josina. The…
PlaceNahoon River Point Nature Reserve
Nahoon River Dam is a reservoir and is located in Eastern Cape, South Africa. The estimate terrain elevation above seal level is 168 metres. The most popular…
PlaceKlerksdorp- Matlosana Local Municipality
… was found. Opposite on the Eastern bank, lies the “new town,” dating from 1888. An important grain-producing, … greatly in the second half of the 20th…
EventEducation Minister, Sibusiso Bengu warns Stellenbosch University that it can’t to be exclusively Afrikaans-speaking
… be an exclusively Afrikaans-speaking University within a new democratic South Africa. This followed the University's refusal to comply with the new…
EventEducation Minister, Sibusiso Bengu warns Stellenbosch University that it can't to be exclusively Afrikaans-speaking
… be an exclusively Afrikaans-speaking University within a new democratic South Africa. This followed the University's refusal to comply with the new…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… A Language of Rebellion Reading Gwala’s poetry gave me a new language, a new set of bold ideas that were smart, radical, and poetic. … ammunition regarding…