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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 … www.nelsonmandela.org [Accessed 23 November…
PlaceSarepta
… Uniting Reform Church, which took over from the Rhenish Mission church, is a Landmark in Sarepta. The first Rhenish … In 1829, the first Congregation of…
Letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by O. R. Tambo, 21 July 1986
… and Commonwealth Affairs London. Sir Geoffrey, I am most grateful for your kind letter of 18 July 1986 which … remain valid. We are convinced that…
Letter from Oliver Tambo to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 21 July 1986
… for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs London. Sir Geoffrey, I am most grateful for your kind letter of 18 July 1986 which … remain valid. We are convinced…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… happening. The sales of radios and the numbers of radio stations skyrocketed. Churches, Universities, Newspaper … the Apollo missions in the 1960’s. 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…
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…
Pedi
… and the Tubatse. The area is named after Sekhukhune I, the son of Sekwati. Before this, the Pedi polity under … Swazi, Merensky was then granted consent to…
Petros Mulaudzi of Nthabalala village
… much of this is disappearing within the New South Africa. I have been working off and on for almost thirty years on a … man named Petros Mulaudzi and his…
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…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… in 1819 and reported that: "In no part of the colony did I observe a greater alteration or improvement than at the ( … and active Missionary from the London…
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 …
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 … Killing of 1856/7 known as the…
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…
15. My son Gyapershad was decoyed
… bound for Natal, and that he wanted him returned. Source: I.I./2/7, 207/1905, Natal Archives. Most humbly and … the said Gyapershad my son at any of the…
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… and his wife Charlotte established one of the earliest Mission Stations and school at Groutville outside Stanger. He … school called "Whites" which was later…
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…
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, … and microphone. Captain C.J. de…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… the British from exterminating the Boers. By this, I mean that the British realised that for racial domination … number of educated ‘blacks’ were emerging…
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…
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…
PlaceOrange River
… of River flows. Eskom operates hydro-electric power-stations at both the Gariep and the Vanderkloof Dams . The …
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… churches in the 1990s is the Zion Christian Church [i] . Its members, estimated to number between 2 million and 6 … there he joined Edward Motaung’s Zion…
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
… the kingdom and established Botshabelo (place of refuge) mission place. It was during the Anglo-Pedi war that …