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EventThirty people die in a 5.7 magnitude earthquake in Algeria
… have ravaged the country before and after this specific one. The latest earthquake to hit the country was in 2012, … on the Richter Scale and claimed 20 000…
PlaceSchanskop Fort, Pretoria
… Pretoria against possible attacks. Fort Schanskop is one of the four Forts constructed during 1897 and completed … attacks from all directions. Fort…
PlaceSoweto Theatre
… with the structures of the community. [ii] The project was part of a larger redevelopment plan for Jabulani and the …
Message to the Special Committee against Apartheid on its 20th anniversary from O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 April 1983
… solidarity committees throughout the world who are taking part in this solemn occasion. The Pretoria regime has stepped …
Message from Oliver Tambo to the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid on its 20th anniversary, 02 April 1983
… solidarity committees throughout the world who are taking part in this solemn occasion. The Pretoria regime has stepped …
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… are infiltrated into the African National Congress and are part of a network which is being used to frustrate our …
SABC CEO Jimi Matthews quits: ‘What’s happening at the SABC is wrong' (Tmg Digital), 27 June 2016
… is happening at the SABC is wrong and I can no longer be part of it.” Controversial Hlaudi comment quoted at Icasa …
PlaceAlberton, Germiston
… centre. It has large Industrial Areas, and has become a part of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, together …
Ubuntu Awards 2018
… about our interconnectedness. Being human means being part of a community. In other words, to be human is to …
PlaceCote D’Ivoire or Ivory Coast
… the scramble for Africa. In 1904, Ivory Coast became part of French West Africa until 1960 when the country …
EventSouth African athlete, Sergio Motsoeneng, admits to cheating in Comrades Marathon
… since his ban from the Comrades Marathon, Motsoeneng took part in the marathon again. He finished third, only to be …
EventPatrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, is assassinated
… who became Prime Minister after the death of Lumumba, took part in the plot. …
EventSA experiences a monetary crisis due to the heavy drain of gold from the country during the Great Depression
… farms and limited their amount of production. Although part of the mineral sector was badly affected, it was the …
EventThe British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announces that a mysterious epidemic (AIDS) is causing increasing concern in the United States
… by the disease do not have access to these drugs. This is part of the reason that AIDS-related campaigns in countries …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… was also a member of the Congress of Democrats and formed part of the defence team for the leaders of the movement …
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… Before his execution, Nofomela confessed to being part of the Security Police 'hit squad', which was headed by …
EventWolraad Woltemade drowns at sea after saving 14 people from a sinking ship
… Bravery. The Woltemade Cross was discontinued in 2002, as part of the move towards establishing a new South African …
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… nature and that critique voiced by both Black and White is part of a ploy by the West to re-colonise Zimbabwe. This in …
EventEarly jewellery, a set of shell beads estimated to be 75 000 years old, is discovered in South Africa
… earlier than previously thought, said Brooks, who was not part of the research team. Anthropology professor Sally …
EventA United Nations team finally arrives in Mbandaka, Congo, to investigate alleged massacres of refugees
… escalated, leading to the outbreak of war in the eastern part of the Congo, where thousands of Hutu refugees had fled …
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… the colony was handed over to South Africa to govern as part of a Mandate of the League of Nations. In 1917, the …
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army’
… and importance to the British Colonial Office. As part of the British efforts to gain control of South Africa, …
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… have since been restored and the settlement now forms part of Inanda Heritage Trail. …
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 26 April 2013, Queenstown
… Chris joined it and therefore he can be described as one of the first MK combatants who were willing to lay down … He was a veteran of MK who earned his…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic This part describes the nature of housing and shows how it was … Housing in the towns We must therefore…
EventLesotho celebrates independence from Britain
… Lesotho is one of the smallest countries in the world, with just over 30 … above 1000 metres in elevation. It is also unique in being one of a few countries…
EventSouth African tenor opera singer, Siphiwo Ntshebe dies
… only 35 and was only days away from what would have been one of the highlights of his career. Former South African … President Nelson Mandela had selected…
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
… a layer of parasitic middlemen sprang up overnight. One local manufacturer contacted by amaBhungane requested … a 100-million FFP2s on hand, by Friday you…
PlacePanorama Route, Mpumalanga
… Panorama Route in South Africa’s Mpumalanga Province is one of the Continents great Natural Wonders and one of the … Road Conditions on the Panorama Route…
De Klerk pays tribute to Mandela’s ‘unique contribution’
… Former president FW de Klerk says South Africa has lost one of its founding fathers and "greatest sons". Former president FW De Klerk said South Africa lost…