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EventHeadman Tshabalala, founding member of the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed
… band Ladysmith Black Mambazo and sang alongside many of his relatives. The group was first only known in the … Tshabalala was shot dead on *6 December 1991…
EventButhelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders
… called for talks between himself and Nelson Mandela in his capacity as the leader of IFP to find ways and means of … Buthelezi because he felt that the ANC…
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… from Balliol College in Oxford in 1981. After writing his law examinations in 1893 he joined the Department of … Revenue in 1893. Duncan came to South Africa…
PlaceBeaufort West, Cape Town
… Charles Somerset , Governor of the Cape, 1814-1826. After his father, the fifth Duke of Beaufort. It became a … however, one was totally destroyed in a flash…
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
… Kennedy of the United States visited South Africa to show his anti-apartheid support to the South African people. He … of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, Bishop…
EventGeneral Louis Botha dies
… by a cold that had developed into pneumonia while on his farm Rusthof. Very ill, he returned to his home in Pretoria where he died. He was buried in the …
Balfour Declaration 1926
… (WITH SUBJECT INDEX) [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] Printed for the Imperial … VARIOUS PARTS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 2 …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1947
… the community. He had abandoned the community long ago and his politics now consisted of corridor and parlour discussion' his Rotary speech was something of…
Place'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay
… Bartholomew Dias and his crew landed with his men on 3rd of February 1488, but Mossel Bay's History can … sought shelter in Mossel Bay after losing most of…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… prints and relatively little contact with those who study his texts in a European context; and because of the angle of … terrain. I also thank most warmly…
PlaceGroutville
… father Reverend Aldin Grout who arrived in Natal with his wife Charlotte in 1836. Reverend Aldin Grout was part of … the American Board of Commissioners for…
"What I think of Macmillan`s speech": Article by Albert Luthuli, 1 March 1960
… about. Some of us, fearing that he might be manoeuvred by his host, the Union Government, to act and speak in support of apartheid, advised him that…
Celebrating 62 years of struggle, 10 September 2006
… a difference. We honoured Lucas Radebe with an award for his leadership of Bafana Bafana, and his sterling example on patriotism throughout his soccer…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… The last that South African intelligence, or most of his ANC comrades, had heard of him - in 1988 - was that he … regular three-way communication between…
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… resided in the Colony is twelve years and four months. 4. His trade or calling is attorney's clerk. 5. Your petitioner … to the value of about £200. 8. Your…
Address at Conference on Southern Africa of the Socialist International and the Socialist Group of the European Parliament with the Frontline States, ANC and SWAPO by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 September 1984
… to express our appreciation of the initiatives taken by His Excellency Mwalimu President Julius Nyerere both as … objectives for a change in those objectives…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Noticias, 05 August 1983, Maputo
… criticised for the explosion in Pretoria because of the death of innocent civilians, including the death of black … objective, and now Pieter Botha wants the…
EventJomo Kenyatta is elected Prime Minister of Kenya
… been sentenced to hard labour and was restricted following his arrest in 1952 related to allegations of his complicity in the Mau Mau rebellion. He was…
EventHarold Cressy is born in Rorke’s Drift
… African College, now the University of Cape Town . During his studies, having been denied entry to the Rhodes … now the University of Stellenbosch , because…
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… of the White Man's Burden in Africa, was arguably at his finest in his 1972 novel, The Sunbird. In it, he narrates the allegory of Great Zimbabwe as his…
PlacePageview
… if they were all one big family,” writes Nazir Carrim in his book Fietas. This forced people to “thoroughly enjoy … began in Sophiatown, where he was born in…
36. The fault of Indian immigrants is their poverty and their skin
… attention to what appears to us to be the one fault in his otherwise unexceptionable summary of the year's work in … that the officer in question may have…
ArticleGandhi and the burning of passes
… Smuts did not repeal the Black Act as he had promised. His breaking of the agreement angered the Indian community …
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… He organizes an Indian ambulance corps of 1100 men during his service in the Boer War 1906 He organizes …
Glossary: Learning from Leaders
… Ambassador A person who officially represents his or her government in another country. Banish Send someone …
ArchiveInterview with Mr H Molooi
… in Durban, South Africa, in which he discusses his acquaintance with Mrs Ngcobo, and his experiences as a labourer at that time. Mrs Ngcobo was …
EventKing Goodwill Zwelithini is born in Nongoma
… eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon and his second wife, Queen Thomo was born in Nongoma, Zululand … instruction in traditional Zulu customs while…
EventNP wins by election
… The by-election was the result of Mulder's fall-out with his constituency after the Information Scandal of 1978, that brought his political career within the…
EventPik Botha is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs
… Department of Foreign Affairs immediately after completing his law studies. He also served as South Africa's permanent … Nations (UN). Read more about Botha…
EventP.W. Botha appears in court
… the documents, which were handed over by the TRC for his involvement of the gruesome apartheid killings of black freedom fighters allegedly arranged by his…