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PlaceOak-Villa Cottage, Baviaanskloof Road
… Oak Villa is one of the first townhouses in Hout Bay and the first to be … front facade is symmetrical with a central front door. The one gable contains a…
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… scaffold a second time and the sentence was carried out one by one, using a single rope. Only sixty border farmers supported … emotional response, causing it…
EventXhosa hero Maqoma dies on Robben Island
… his wife Katyi were banished to Robben Island for twenty-one years. In 1869 they were released but he was sent back to … without his wife. Opinions on Maqoma…
PlaceMaphikela House
… forced removal from Waaihoek. Thomas Mtobi Maphikela was one of the founder members of the Executive Committee of the … that is where the party was founded…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… between the European inhabitants of the Union on the one hand and any other section of the inhabitants of the … by government. October, The Feetham…
EventNational Party adopts five year programme
… (ANC) said that it would consider nothing less than a one-man, one-vote system. …
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. …
The Spirit of Bandung - Address to the International Conference in Support of the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979
… Rhodesian and South West African questions will be settled one way or other within the next six months and an evaluation … of relations between the People's…
ArchiveBiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Sierra Hussey
… taking place around the Suez Canal in Egypt. In 1956, one year after Nawal el-Saadawi married, the new President … in the war. Her husband however was…
Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural session of the Twelth Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries Durban, 2 September 1998
… over which we preside in which the very poor prey on one another with knives and guns, in which we have to contend … its foundation and remain its principal…