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EventElsa, the lioness made famous by Joy Adamson’s book Born Free, dies in Kenya
… Elsa the lioness was one of three orphaned lions whose mother was killed in self …
Dawn
… The official policy of the African National Congress was one of non-violence. However, after fifty years of …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… to as the ‘Mother of the Nation’, she was a nurse and one of the most important leaders of anti-Apartheid …
EventZola Budd, former SA athlete and World Record holder, is born
… Afrikaans family on 26 May 1966 in Bloemfontein. She was one of five children. Budd was especially close to her older …
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… regime. The campaign of defiance against unjust laws was one of the greatest non-violent passive resistance campaigns …
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… in 1999. A talented writer, she wrote several books, one of which is her autobiography, Call me Woman. The book …
PlaceWhite Horse Stones, Naval Hill, Bloemfontein
… PAVED AREA, it's a National Monument. Make sure to do this one between 08:00-17:00. These stones are on the East side of …
EventExpress train derails in Ethiopia, killing an estimated 400 people
… An express train carrying seven cars and an estimated one thousand people destined for Addis Ababa, derailed when …
PlacePhansi Museum
… which was built in 1898 and was home to Esther Roberts, one of South Africa’s first female anthropologists. The …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the South African Communist Party Policy Conference, 27 September 2008, Randburg Towers
… conference for the SACP, as it takes place at the end of one of the most momentous weeks in the history of our … in order to succeed we will need to unite…
PlaceTunisia
… places and mosques and modern-style office buildings into one of the most handsome and attractive cities, in the … of the population—most of them in the…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
… conference due in December of that year. Whilst one might have expected this latter period to have been one in which interviewees sought to bolster old myths…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… musicians — all of them black — and were able to record one session together before the country's brutally racist apartheid government forced them into exile…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… George Padmore, a Trinidadian pan-Africanist who was one of Garvey’s fiercest critics In London, Abrahams linked … in Johannesburg during the 1920s and 1930s…
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
… Madikizela-Mandela to the murder of Dr Abu Baker Asvat. One of the two men convicted of the killing of Dr Abu Baker … a prosecution, their statements often…
PlaceLimpopo Province
… was for many years to come. Mapungubwe is also the name of one of South Africa’s highest orders of merit, a very special … the biggest Baobab in the world…
PlaceBenin
… other than their own, before supporting a candidate from one of the two southern regions. At the time of the slave … from within and without from its…
81. The People’s Candidates Party and the Lenasia Management Committee
… ”¦ We reject autonomy on two fundamental grounds: one is ideological and the other is the economic effects on … must be seen in the light of two fundamental…
First National Consultative Conference: Extracts from the Political Report of the National Executive Committee, 25 April 1969, Morogoro
… leadership, both among the people and internationally are one of the main objects of the psychological warfare … and maintenance of spurious stooge…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… Education Department regulation that Afrikaans be used as one of the languages of instruction in secondary schools. … 'The Star', immediately tried to set up…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… that it is not the intention of African states to change one master (western imperialism) for another Soviet … Africans throughout the continent that their…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… is formed at conference of French-speaking heads of state One-party state is adopted in Tanzania Wole Soyinka's first … 1970 End of civil war in Nigeria,…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… is formed at conference of French-speaking heads of state One-party state is adopted in Tanzania Wole Soyinka's first … 1970 End of civil war in Nigeria,…
PlaceNederlandse Hervormde Kerkgebou, Pretoria
… was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the independent churches started by the … light green and the wall behind the pulpit was…
Call to A. N. C. Ranks by Albert Luthuli, 1 November 1954
… and happily carrying an extra load of work and sacrificing ones time, possessions and ability. "This Conference will … incapacitated. "We must demonstrate…
PlaceHole in the Wall, Coffee Bay- Wild Coast
… Hole in the Wall is one of the most impressive landmarks along the entire South … cut off from the sea by a mighty cliff, was seen by one of the sea people…
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
… Boer leader Paul Kruger to be pulled down and replaced by one of Winnie Mandela. The call is part of an ongoing … past have been hotly debated before and…
PlaceMahaking, formerly known as Mafikeng
… a proclamation that divided Mafikeng into two sections, one for the Barolongs and the other for European settlement. … of the heritage and history of the…
Document 118 - Johannesburg District Communist Party, Call to a Non-European United Front!
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew CALL TO A NON-EUROPEAN … to allow European Landowners to vote for…
Address by President Mandela to the Meeting of Directors-General Establishing a Forum of Directors-General Pretoria, 18 August 1998
… from election and ongoing interaction with civil society. One of the lessons we draw from our own experience and that … blueprint for meeting this challenge…