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Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… The other things that categorised a person as White were his habits, speech, education, deportment and demeanour. … used as political weapon to create chaos…
PlaceKruger House Museum
… Street, this was the home of President Paul Kruger. It was his personal property as the ZAR did not have an official … Museum lies just a few blocks from…
EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
… resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape, and his staff to Sulenkama where they were massacred, during a … It was at this moment that the six men…
Photographer Juda Ngwenya was the face of Reuters in Africa and a special friend by Siphiwe Sibeko (Mail and Guardian), 25 Oct 2016
… soon and we are all still grappling to come to terms with his departure. Juda had respect for everyone, regardless of … Juda, but even before that I knew of…
PlaceTsolo
… appointment of Hamilton Hope as resident magistrate for his district. A second magistrate, Alexander Welsh, was … whose village was on the Xokonxa river…
ICA launches 2017 Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series with Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o
… He burst onto the literary scene with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National … 1964 followed by a second novel, The River…
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… a talented graphic artist and a political activist. Due to his political activities, Mnyele was forced to leave his family in Alexander, becoming exiled in…
EventHendrik Andries Hanekom, SA actor dies in the Strand, Cape Town
… Hendrik Hanekom and his wife Mathilda were pioneers of Afrikaans professional … on *14 January 1952 in the Strand, Cape Town. Throughout his career, Hanekom…
EventDr Joosub Ebrahim is born
… Class 1: Gold from the state president in 1992, for his contribution as businessman, philanthropist and … by the University of South Africa, in recognition…
EventCetshwayo, travels to London to request that he should be restored as a king of the Zulu Kingdom
… of Zululand, visited Queen Victoria of Britain. Prior to his visit to Britain, he was exiled to the Cape after losing … of Ulundi, during the Anglo Zulu War…
EventIvorian Footballer Didier Zokora is born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
… footballer born in Abidjan on 14 December 1980. He started his career in his home country’s team Académie MimoSifcom. His younger brother, Armando was also a…
Archive4. The conscientious objectors
… of two posters with drawings of Philip Wilkinson at his trial. Quote from part of his speech to the judge at his trial. …
ArticleThe History of Al-Shabaab
… the capture of leading TFG politicians in the city, but his orders were defied by another important figure, Abu … who granted safe passage to several TFG…
EventKhoikhoi warriors defeat Portuguese thieves
… to the Portuguese State of India from 1505 to 1509. Upon his successor taking over he sailed back to his homeland with a fleet of three ships – Garcia, Belèm…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu leaves for the USA to meet with American President Ronald Reagan
… Archbishop Desmond Tutu is known around the world for his vigorous stand against injustice. More particularly, he is renowned for his involvement in the…
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… opened a cafe. Though exposed to politics at a young age - his father was a Cape voter and his cousin, Sol Plaatje, a founder member of the African ……
EventANC sacks its chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, after finding him guilty of sexual harassment
… on the evening of a birthday party that was held in his home. Goniwe and the assistant, Nomawele Njongo, … by bringing three charged against Goniwe: abusing…
EventAllen Kwela was born on this day
… African music, both of which were important in shaping his musical style. When he moved to Johannesburg during the … Mashiyane performed. However, he…
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth in 1939. As result of his tireless efforts to improve the quality of schooling and … Elizabeth's African Townships' in 1973…
EventIvorian Footballer, Arouna Kone, is born in Anyama, Ivory Coast
… in Anyama, CÁ´te d'Ivoire on 11 November 1983. Kone began his football career as a player for his hometown team Rio Sport d'Anyama. In 2002 he was signed ……
Rafique Mayet
… the African Photography Festival in Bamako, Mali and had his first solo exhibition at the NSA Gallery in Durban. It …
The National Flag
… or behind, a speaker at a meeting, it must be on her or his right-hand side. And when placed, elsewhere in the hall …
Independent Electoral Commission
… and fair elections in which every voter is able to record his or her informed choice. MISSION STATEMENT The Independent …
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
… himself in books, but today we find opportunity to talk to his wife, Mrs Sobukwe. Let us start this way, Mrs Sobukwe, … were four years old at the time. We…
PlaceBotswana
… Khama was elected the first president and served until his death in 1980. Democracy in Botswana married Tswana …
Address by Nelson Mandela to the closing session of the 50th National Conference of the ANC Mafikeng, 20 December 1997
… about to dictate to us that we should walk the valley of death again and again before we reached the mountain-tops of … with the people. During that period,…
Artscape: Legacy Exhibition
… About Legacy Alexander’s inspiration is spurred by his many years as a pastor to the exiled and destitute in the … sacrifices of some can make all the…
EventHenri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris
… a mission to examine rock shelters and rock art. Most of his research in South Africa was conducted with Dr Robert … interest in Paleolithic art began when…
EventCecil John Rhodes, South African statesman, is born
… was sickly as a teenager and suffered bouts of asthma. His family sent him to Natal, South Africa, to live with his older brother in the hope that the hot…
EventLuc Montagnier, virologist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus, is born
… sciences at the University of Poitiers and received his license of sciences from the University of Paris in 1955. In 1960 he qualified for his doctorate in…