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EventJoost Van Der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born
… 20 February 1971. Van Der Westhuizen was at the height of his career during the mid 1990’s and early 2000’s. He played … for the most capped springbok of…
EventFormer Springboks player, Naas Botha is born
… African under-20 rugby team. At the age of 22 he played his first international rugby match against South America, marking the start of his 12 year…
The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga by Ingrid Jonker
… The child is not dead the child raises his fists against his mother who screams Africa screams the smell of freedom … the locations of the heart under siege …
EventLucas Ntuba Radebe, SA soccer hero, is born in Diepkloof, Soweto
… legend was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. At the age of 15 his parents sent him to live in Bophuthatswana so could be … the political violence of the 1980’s…
EventThomas Pringle, journalist and editor of Cape newspaper Commercial Advertiser, dies in London
… Scotland on 5 January 1789. Pringle sustained an injury to his hip as a result of being accidentally dropped by his nanny when he was three months old…
EventThe possessions of Piet Retief are auctioned
… prospect of negotiating a land deal that would have led to his group being allowed to settle Natal. Following talks … Dingane appeared ready to grant land to…
EventKing Mswati III buys another luxury car
… himself a luxury Maybach 62 sedan worth $500,000 despite his country's economic problems, the dire poverty of the … population and the HIV pandemic affecting…
EventDavid Frost wins the South African Open golf championship in Stellenbosch
… golfer who turned professional in 1981. In 1983, he had his first professional win. He has won several tournaments throughout his career, including the …
EventSteve Tshwete is born
… - 2002) was born in Springs on 12 November. He spent his childhood in the village of Peelton, and later in King William's Town and East London. His parents…
Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, “Presidential Address to the All-African Convention Conference”, Edendale, 14 to 16 December 1958
… who will submit to "traditional Bantu Principles" in all his professional and commercial dealings. In other words a … of the Herrenvolk policy; for rather…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Debates and Relations with Other Organizations
… Inkululeko, 9 September 1944. Hitler is rapidly losing all his supporters in Europe. The rats are leaving the sinking … he now says in the above letter, but…
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… University. A year later he began to write fiction, with his first book, Dusklands, being published in 1974. Following … 1999, Coetzee won the Booker Prize a…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… girl. Sobukwe was exposed to literature at an early age by his oldest brother. His earliest education was at a mission school in Graaf … of the PAC’s anti…
EventSir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape, dies in London
… during the time of the Frontier Wars and was remowned for his autocratic tendencies. He was responsible for annexing the whole of British Kaffraria on his…
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… Mokoape, the Late Strini Moodley and I were moved to his B-Section single-cell block from the C-Section isolation … that was given to black African prisoners…
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… Bishop of Johannesburg, returned to South Africa from his long leave spent in England. Reeves was not welcomed back … struggle against oppression and…
EventKing Mswati III is born
… in Masundini Swaziland to King Sobhuza III and one of his younger wives Ntombi Tfwala. Mswati was Tfwala’s only child. When his father,King Sobhuza, died…
EventLéopold Sédar Senghor resigns after twenty years as Senegalese president.
… in Paris where he got acquainted with Aimé Césaire. After his studies, Senghor remained in Paris and earned his citizenship. He later joined the French army…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… plucky action of Reverend Scott, a white clergyman, and his equally white fellow-workers, who have undertaken to … of a worthy father, the late Parsee…
EventDr Robert Broom is born
… he was fascinated by the origin of mammals and used his medical profession to support his travels around the world. In 1897, Broom settled in South … College…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
… us on Freirian pedagogy. I remember specifically his statement that has lived with me for all my life and that … quality and safe public transport, shouting…
David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa
… presented to him at a ceremony in April 2012. In his email, Goldblatt writes: “I profoundly regret to inform … conscience. Possibly most famously, John…
EventIgnatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell, SA satirical poet, is born in Durban.
… High), where he counted literature and outdoor life among his first loves. Campbell founded the magazine, Voorslag, … Plomer – a satirical publication, after…
EventAndré Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born
… Phillipus Brink was born on 29 May 1935. Brink obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature at the University of Potchefstroom in 1955. 1n 1958 he…
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
… of South Africa’s apartheid regime to make it happen. For his part, John Vorster gambled that cooperating with the American plan would earn his regime the…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… protests by Indians against racial discrimination. His philosophy of non-violence strongly influenced the ANC in … declared. 18000 activists arrested. Denis…
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… for their release the world over, Nelson, together with his comrades Govan Mbeki, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, … he has taken reasonable steps to ascertain…
Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
… into centuries, has been nothing but tension, conflict and death. In a sense we do not know the meaning of peace except … to walk this road with us, and…
Address to the International Labour Conference Geneva, 8 June 1990
… who refused to succumb to tyranny, who refused to fear death, who refused to be enslaved. It is thanks to their … the initiative of the ANC, we met President…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… carried reports that sabotage would be punished by death. If this was so, how could we continue to keep Africans … of a group of Africans who had gathered to…