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ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… in the west and Bantu speaking people in the east. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape with 90 soldiers to … 1946/47 Strikes by African mineworkers were…
ArchiveWhose hands?
… White poster with black outline of two hands with red blood on palms dripping down to a pool of blood. Black lettering. … killing machine. Wednesday 24th…
PlaceAmandel, a Railway Siding in the Eastern Cape
… Railway Siding, 8 km West of Lady Grey, on the route between Aliwal North and Barkley East. The name … The European almond was cultivated at the Cape by Jan…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… But it’s pitched as much to the mind as to the heart. On the one hand, it’s a grand narrative of stirring sights: … place encounter and partake of both and…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… social change through non-violent methods was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther shaped … Party under D.F. Malan was introducing…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… subsequently sacked by the BaVenda. 1871 Discovery of gold on a farm near Marabastad 1877 Annexation of the Transvaal by … areas 1939 September, Outbreak of…
EventPrime Minister Smuts set to replace Pegging Act
… Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts announced the intention of the … new legislation to replace the Pegging Act, due to expire on 31 March, prohibiting…
PlaceSt Margaret’s House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 5 November 1976. St Margaret's was built in 1905 and is … Out the front, over looking the…
Nelson Mandela Family Tree
… 1945, died 13 July 1969 aged 24) Makaziwe Mandela (died 1948 aged nine months) Magkatho Lewanika Mandela (born 1950, …
Toast Remarks by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, in honour of His Excellency, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Joseph Kabila and Madame Kabila, on the occasion of the State Banquet, Tuynhuys, 14 June 2007
… Republic of Congo (DRC), Joseph Kabila and Madame Kabila, on the occasion of the State Banquet, Tuynhuys, 14 June 2007 …
Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Toast Remarks by his Excellency the President of Chile, President Ricardo Lagos Escobar, on the occasion of the State Banquet, at the Palacio de la Moneda, Santiago, Chile: 7 June 2005
… the President of Chile, President Ricardo Lagos Escobar, on the occasion of the State Banquet, at the Palacio de la …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
… volksraad for the last time before being forced to travel on the Delagoa line to Machadodorp, where he lives on his train carriage. 11 September, Accompanied…
Yarra Yarra, St Georges Street, Simonstown
… the Studlands estate which had been granted to JP Eksteen on 5 May 1779 for the erection of a wijnhuis. After the property had been purchased by Jan Gysbert…
ArticleRock Art
… Most researchers who study rock art tend to focus on technical aspects, such as the material and techniques … in the art. Lewis-Williams argues that previous…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… when the discovery of diamonds at Kimberly and of gold on the Witwatersrand spurred the industrialisation and … is made to give influx control offenders…
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… women as members at the Congress's 1943 conference and in 1948, the ANC Women's League was formed. The first official … books from January 1956. A…
PlaceWinnie Mandela Drive, Johannesburg
… date that the main access to the township, namely via Jan Smuts Avenue and Ferndale, using: ' William Nicol Drive … most familiar and upmarket areas -…
South African Government of National Unity (GNU) – 1994 – 1999
… The GNU contributed immeasurably in improving the spirit of reconciliation in South Africa. Government of … of National Unity with effect from 30 June 1996…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… of the coloured community in Cape Town, the war was fought on premise of freedom, democracy. This was highlighted when … the system of racial segregation in…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… famous political prisoner— Nelson Mandela —who was held on the tiny Robben Island in Table Bay . Roughly 300 Million … late eighteenth century, whose…
EventFirst formal school opens at the Cape
… Jan van Riebeeck, commander at the Cape, wrote in his diary … to their owners. This school was founded by Commander Jan van Riebeeck for the slave children…
BiographyDiana Ferrus
… activist for marginalised groups, Diana Ferrus, was born on 29 August 1953 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western … writing poetry at the age of fourteen…
BiographyTerry Bell
… born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa on 12 September 1942. He married his fellow exile, Barbara, … exile to Zambia in 1965 and worked as…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… the Cape Colony from 1653 until 1822. The changes wrought on African societies by the imposition of European colonial … centralised states came into being…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… 1980 Publishes Waiting For The Barbarians, which focuses on a government magistrate who begins to question the motives … Master of Petersburg 1996 Publishes…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… during the era of the [44] . The indigenes encounter Jan van Riebeeck Image source In colonial marketplace … access to ‘mainstream Afrikaans cultural life’. …
Biography of Abdullah Ibrahim by Chance Overby
… own jazz band known as the Dollar Brand Trio. He would go on to perform with other well-known African artists such as … Mecca. Ibrahim has two children,…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… Introduction In 1948 the National government was voted into power and … of the Pretoria Central Premises There are six prisons on one premise each built at…
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
… is in the annual Minstrel Festival which takes place on 2 January, and is also referred to as Tweede Nuwe Jaar … which they could construe their environment…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
… more assertive and forthright methods especially after 1948. 8 Nelson Mandela in his autobiography echoes this view … of the Indian community but would also …