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EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… and insurgency began with the primary targets being power stations and government buildings. For instance, an …
Letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by O. R. Tambo, 21 July 1986
… H.E. Sir Geoffrey Howe Secretary of State for Foreign and … remain valid. We are convinced that the idea of the mission was conceived in London in the…
Letter from Oliver Tambo to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 21 July 1986
… H.E. Sir Geoffrey Howe Secretary of State for Foreign and … remain valid. We are convinced that the idea of the mission was conceived in London in the…
EventDutch Reformed Church in Africa talks with the ANC
… The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) decided to start its own mission work under Black South Africans at its first synod … formed for non-White members, called…
Petros Mulaudzi of Nthabalala village
… of our New Coat of Arms and the other the Vision and Mission statements of the Municipality of Makhado. Needless …
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… on people to leave their passes at home, march to police stations and surrender themselves up for arrest. Despite the … focusing their assault on strategic…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… happening. The sales of radios and the numbers of radio stations skyrocketed. Churches, Universities, Newspaper … are silicon chips which contain multiple…
PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
… a Farm from the Natal Colonization Company and Marianhill Mission, was Built on this land. The Church also brought … allowed to Buy or Lease Land, at St…
Pedi
… Swazi, Merensky was then granted consent to build three mission stations in Sekwatis territory, namely Gerlachshoop, …
PlacePacaltsdorp
… and active Missionary from the London Society, commenced a mission to this people, and continued with them till his … ..." In 1822, the Reverend William…
EventEdenburg is founded
… town revolves around sheep and cattle farming. The oldest mission station of the Berlin Mission Society north of the Orange River is located 16km …
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… Publicity of the African National Congress (ANC) External Mission, Marimuthu Pragalathan Naicker (M.P.) died at the age … journalist for the ANC journal…
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… is appointed as priest-in-charge of the Community’s Mission in Sophiatown , South Africa. 1949 Appointed …
EventSouth African invention lands on the moon
… African product ever to go to the moon. The Apollo XI mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. Launched on 16 July 1969, it …
PlaceSun Valley Estates, Ladysmith
… by Whites. The land initially formed part of the Berlin Mission’s land holdings. In 1924 this fragment of land was … The people, who occupied the farm long…
PlaceCape Maclear, Malawi
… Maclear, at the Cape of Good Hope. In October 1875, a new mission, "Livingstonia", was set up by a group of members of … fly, meant a more suitable base had…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… the British unsuccessfully attempted to settle the San on mission stations where the San would have control over their own … and Xhosa groups, for example…
EventMother Teresa arrives in SA to establish a missionary home for HIV/AIDS sufferers
… After teaching at St. Mary's High School, she left the mission to work in the slums of Calcutta. In 1950, she … visited South Africa for the first time. She…
15. My son Gyapershad was decoyed
… the said Gyapershad my son at any of the intervening stations available to the S.S. Pongola in transit from …
ArticleList of SADF raids into Neigbouring Countries
… on Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe during Commonwealth EPG mission to South Africa; 3 deaths 1987 Livingstone, Zambia; …
The National Anthem
… was composed in 1897 by Enoch Sontonga, a Methodist mission school teacher. The words of the first stanza were …
ArticleSilverton Siege
… allegedly on their way to carry out a planned MK sabotage mission on petrol depots at Watloo near Mamelodi. En route, … The Trio die on the scene. The…
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… and his wife Charlotte established one of the earliest Mission Stations and school at Groutville outside Stanger. He … children of the area, the owner of the…
EventProf. Hudson Ntsanwisi, former Chief Minister of Gazankulu, dies in Johannesburg
… Hudson William Edison Ntsan’wisi was born in Shiluvane Mission Station in Tzaneen on 11 July 1920. He was the eldest … as a teacher at Lemana Training…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… number of educated ‘blacks’ were emerging from the mission education system, and this challenged the notion that … as the South African delegation – known as…
PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
… was to purchase land to grow maize for the society’s main mission station at Bethelsdorp and to spread the gospel. For … in 1822. Two years later he founded…
PlaceButterworth, Wild Coast
… Kei River and was established originally as a Wesleyan mission in 1827. These missionaries had great fortitude as … the wars between settlers and tribes,…
PlaceOrange River
… of River flows. Eskom operates hydro-electric power-stations at both the Gariep and the Vanderkloof Dams . The …
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… there he joined Edward Motaung’s Zion Apostolic Faith Mission and was ordained as a bishop of the ZAFM for the …
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
… Lydenburg Republic and allowed Alexander Merensky and C H T GrÁƒÂ¼tzner to begin evangelical work in his territory. … the kingdom and established Botshabelo …