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ArticleMapungubwe
… to the point where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet. One thousand years ago, Mapungubwe appears to have been the … occupation. Mapungubwe hill is 300m long…
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… a diverse people and as a united nation, we will celebrate one of the greatest of human achievements. We will celebrate … environment and improve conditions…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… National Executive Committee decides to call a national one-day stay at home protest on 26 June. May 28, The African … Bunting attends the World Youth…
EventRiaan Cruywagen was born on this day
… his career as a journalist in 1965 when he started working part time at the SABC in Cape Town. He is best known for his …
ArchiveThe migrant labour system
… system that did not recognize 'homelands' or 'reserves' as part of the Union of South Africa, hence employment seekers …
EventEmperor Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia dies
… his kingdom to include areas that were previously not a part of his kingdom. He was also passionate about modernising …
EventThe Excelsior, biggest diamond till then, is found in the Jagersfontein mine, OFS
… which has been described as a colossal mistake on the part of the cutters. In its original form it had measured 970 …
EventNelson and Winnie Mandela travel to Canada.
… his release from 27 years of imprisonment. The visit was part of a six week tour of 14 nations in Africa, Europe and …
EventVerwoerdburg is renamed Centurion.
… between Pretoria and Midrand (Johannesburg), that forms part of the Tshwane Metropolitan. …
EventJudgement is handed down in a landmark case
… apartheid laws regulating movement and torture, and became part of the process of chipping away of apartheid policies. …
EventEnd of the road for the Union Jack in Africa
… reconciliation between Blacks and Whites and agreed to be part of the Commonwealth countries in the process. …
EventConstant Viljoen announces his resignation from AVF
… FA on 14 March 1994, Viljoen led his party the FF to take part in the historic first democratic elections in South …
EventEgyptian women files divorce under new law
… women to prove physical or psychological harm on the part of their husband. Gabr, from the northern area of Tanta, …
EventPolitical activist and lawyer A. P. Mda is born
… held in Port Elizabeth in June 1949. He was also part of the breakaway group from the African National …
EventWorld’s largest diamond at the time, the Cullinan, is found in South Africa
… was given as a gift to King Edward VII and now forms part of the British crown jewels. Experts have valued this … Telegraph Media Group, (2009), One of the…
EventCommunity leader James Sofasonke Mpanza is born
… for Johannesburg's Blacks, was born in Georgedale, today part of Cato Ridge. Mpanza was the only member of the Orlando …
EventPriscah Jeptoo is born in Nandi Kenya
… in marathons in Paris, Turin and London. In 2011 she took part in the Discovery Kenya Cross Country Marathon and won. …
Chapter 6 -The making of a black Bolshevik: Gumede and the League Against Imperialism, 1927
… formed such a strong alliance with the CPSA in the latter part of the 20th century, an alliance which continued right … debt and that they (APS) had never…
PlaceLeliefontein
… in the Namakwa District Municipality. It is regarded as one of the hidden treasures of the Namaqualand Area , … of which is its frantic footwork. It’s…
PlaceKalahari Desert
… , the eastern third of Namibia , and the Northern most part of Northern Cape Province . In the South West it merges … of much greater precipitation, but by…
PlaceCape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal
… team of professionals. “Which include an expansion of one of the existing runways and other aeronautical facilities … training and charter flights in the…
Chapter 16. Coloured and Indian Members - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… We called them into the office individually. The first one to come was a young Coloured girl and, after years of … the reply came promptly, as she had been…
ArchiveRecollections of the Resurrection of Women’s Day, 40 Years Ago by Julie Wells
… with people inside South Africa. Being passed on from one person to the next via word of mouth actually worked … 1980, I was based in Durban, still doing…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… those who came to the fore in the 1940s — played no small part in the injection of a more radical and more militant … I read three pamphlets brought from…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… head-on confrontation between state and security police on one hand, Mandela, Sisulu, Mbeki and their colleagues on the … holds a special place in the tale…
PlaceGhwarrie Poort
… village in the country that is a National Monument from one end to the other. The town benefits from its proximity to … nothing short of spectacular. Lundean…
PlaceMcGregor, Western Cape
… with "Behave! Or I'll send you to McGregor!" and no one can deny that McGregor is somehow a little different. … etc. which relate to life in the area from…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… points in Soweto to John Vorster Square Police Station. One group of students was stopped by a police cordon outside … 16 June 1979, two parallel services…
PlaceFouriesburg
… at the same time. The people of the Area were mostly part of the Ficksburg Congregation. They collected money so … the Church Ground. In 1980 it was moved to…
ArticleInsurrections I: Tracks and Lyrics
… bayonets of silk as the sun beats down its rays all worn a one and a two, a lean hungry ten the red and the black the … nothing...nothing to tell. Sixth day,…