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A Tale of Political Conspiracy and Incomprehensible Judicial Imaginings by Thabo Mbeki, 15 February 2016
… by President of the ANC, Cde Jacob Zuma, to have his case, once more, struck off the roll…The judgement … wrote: “It is a surprise…that Mbeki did not employ…
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 …
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
… Back in the mid-1970s, when the writer was still feeling his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, … and who wrote Move Your Shadow, an…
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…
EventThe Trial of strength between the Conservative Party and the National Party begins as three Members of Parliament resign
… Waterkloof respectively, after which he would relinquish his seat in Soutpansberg. Botha together with Langley and … of this electoral challenge was that PW…
EventSouth African Prime Minister, John Vorster resigns
… 1966, John Vorster , shocked the nation by announcing his resignation from office, at the request of his colleagues, on the grounds of ill health…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… and lively. I would also like to thank Ted Chamberlin for his limitless support, dependable council, and sagacious good … not have agreed with much that I…
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…
EventNigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is inaugurated
… Yar’ Adua’s inauguration ceremony was successful despite his rivals’ disputing the April election’s results. His main rivals were MuhammadBuhari of the All…