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EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… General Jan Christian Smuts started his first term as prime minister … of South Africa after the death of General Louis Botha on 27 August 1919. Smuts was a…
Zastron
… Republic from 1864 to 1888. Zastron was laid out in 1876 on Jan Hendrik de Winnaar's farm Verliesfontein and became a …
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… 1806 Sir John Barrow indicates on a map that gold is to be found in the approximate vicinity … be sold for 5 to 10 years with a monthly rental of 10s; Jan…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… died in a road accident in the 1990s. The Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) was founded by … with European anti-apartheid movements to…
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… In 1981, Dirk Coetzee, Jan Viktor and Jac Buchner began Vlakplaas, a parliamentary … existence of the unit was first revealed publicly in 1988 on the eve of…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… Africa’s Apartheid regime, which officially lasted from 1948-1994 (Thompson, 1990). Millions were affected by … years after the apartheid's inception. A…
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
… Union be interpreted according to the narrow and illiberal spirit which was read into it by some of the political … Responsible Government, but, sad to say,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to parliament 6 February 1998
… being made to meet our mandate. We are resolved to build on the solid foundation that has been laid over the past … of whether our programmes are positively…
Archive1998 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 1998
… being made to meet our mandate. We are resolved to build on the solid foundation that has been laid over the past … of whether our programmes are positively…
Address at the National Summit of Unity and Reconciliation in Rwanda Kigali 19 October 2000
… had been declared dead through our independence movements on the continent and yet which continued to govern us and influence and shape our lives well into…
Address at the National Summit of Unity and Reconciliation Kigali, Rwanda, 18 October 2000
… had been declared dead through our independence movements on the continent and yet which continued to govern us and influence and shape our lives well into…
ArticleSouth African Film
… of us modelled our kissing, or our idea of being “tough” on the way we saw it done “in the movies?” And how many of us … not produce many feature films…
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… National Museum of Military History. The museum, located on an 80ha site next to the Johannesburg Zoo, houses weapons … in 1947 by South Africa’s then Prime…
PlaceJansenville, Eastern Cape
… Laid out on the Farm, Vergenoegd in 1854, it was proclaimed in 1855 … in 1881. Said to have been named after General Jan Willem Janssens (1762-1838), the…
EventBomb meant for Kangaroo Court judge, May Ledwaba kills sleeping William Ledwaba
… William Ledwaba (16) was killed during a bomb attack on his home in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. In evidence … had been the target of the attack. The fourth…
PlaceCamdeboo was called Aberdeen, Eastern Cape
… permission for the establishment of a new congregation on 10 September 1855. The Farm 'Brakkefontein' had been bought for this purpose by Jan Vorster. A…
EventNigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road
… in 1991 and announced as the winner of the Booker Prize on 22 October 1991. The book addresses the co-existence of the spiritual and material worlds through…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… demonstrate how the vision of the historical Jesus centred on a notion of the intrinsic value of the person. This … chanting " filumuntu ufesidikiza" (Man…
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
… This burgher took a liking to his brown companion and on the very day of his release handed in a written testimony … to another. He was so harshly treated…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… Apartheid , was a community representative of diversity on a number of levels – language, religion, economic class, … inaugurated by the National Party…
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… Afrikaans text, Zamenspraak tusschen Klaas Waarzegger en Jan Twyfelaar. Some years later, an Arabic Afrikaans Islamic … use of Afrikaans in the Dutch…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… as the Transkei. The historical record shows Xhosa lived on the banks of the Buffalo River in 1686 and settled at what … In the 1770s, Whites settlers…
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban, South Africa on August 30, 1928. She first attended the Durban Girls’ … May 04, 2020, from https://www.theguardian…
Chapter 18. Disrupting the Trade Unions
… Party, politicians and press, launched a vicious campaign on a nation-wide scale against the existing trade union … by the Nationalist Party and its stooge…
EventBill Flynn, popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg
… On 11 July 2007, South African actor Bill Flynn, 58, passed … away, allegedly due to a heart attack. Flynn was born on 13 December 1948, and was educated at…
PlaceHoward College Building and the Memorial Tower Building, University of Natal
… and Davis donated £140000 for a building which was built on 50 acres of land in the Stella bush. Howard College was … in WWII. The building, which cost …
Call for the observance of Human Rights Day: Albert Luthuli, 12 December 1959
… is done, should be done in a non-sectarian way and spirit and should be a joint undertaking embracing all … area. To do otherwise would be contrary to the…
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… Charles van Onselen was born on 14 August 1944, in the South African town of Boksburg, … He chose to centre his already well documented research on the…
”Policy of the Congress Youth League.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in May 1946
… huge and enormous sums of money are lavishly expended on propaganda against nationalism which is dubbed, designated … or rebirth are noticeable on the far…
ArticleSilverton and Soekmekaar trial
… On 14 April 1980 the nine accused appeared in the Pretoria … attack the Port Natal Administration Board; and an attack on the Soekmekaar police station. The…