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”Draft Declaration of Unity” [including 10-point Programme]. Statement Approved by the Continuation Committee of the Preliminary Unity Conference of Delegates from the AAC and the National Anti-C.A.D., December 17, 1943
… Unity” [including 10-point Programme]. Statement Approved by the Continuation Committee of the Preliminary Unity …
Remarks by President Thabo Mbeki at the Consultative Meeting of African Governors on Voice and Participation of Developing and Transition Countries in the Bretton Woods Institutions: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, 12 March 2004
… Remarks by President Thabo Mbeki at the Consultative Meeting of …
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… Tambo collapsed suffering from a stroke, Kaunda intervened by organizing a plane that carried him from Lusaka to London. … a country can bestow on its…
PlaceKronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay.
… was probably built after 1777 when the property was bought by Jacobus Bierman. It was declared a National Monument under … Kronendal under renovation during…
PlaceKirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town
… 1913 to promote, conserve and display the extraordinarily rich and diverse flora of Southern Africa, and was the first … of : "nine National Botanical…
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
… history. “Fordsburg was always a working class suburb,” Rich in History and bearing the scars of its past with pride, … to a rebellion against the Government…
EventBotswana gains independence from Britain
… leadership of Seretse Khama. Khama was elected president by the National Assembly in 1966 and then reelected for two … terms, until he passed away in 1980…
ArchiveClothing Workers Union: we demand jobs and a living wage for all
… Bible: "Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit His kingdom? He promised those who loved Him? Is it not the rich who are…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… trial heard that some of the tape recordings secretly made by police during several Boeremag meetings may be usable. … and Herman van Rooyen after they were…
References and links: Local History
… (Protea Book House). Allen, V. & Meiring, H., (2007), Kruger's Pretoria: Buildings and Personalities of the … can create their own local history museum…
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… during the 1970s, ending its shipping services altogether by 1977. While this signaled the end of an era, Union … it's great ships are still fondly…
EventChina promises to increase imports from Africa
… the African continent. Coupled with this is an undertaking by the Chinese to not only import raw materials from Africa, … the industries to capitalize on the…
East Cape Update
… East Cape Update, published by East Cape News Agencies in Grahamstown, aimed to provide a … and analysis of the Eastern Cape region. This region had a rich…
PlaceLoeriesfontein, Northern Cape
… electricity. 61 Turbines have been installed already by May 2019 and connected to the grid. They have a height of … only two Windmill Museums. This is called…
ANC Gauteng Province pays tribute to Comrade Lawrance Phokanoka,15 July 2005
… passionately raised on the importance of maintaining the rich culture and tradition of robust debates in the ANC and the alliance. In his passing away, he…
’We are of the world and the world is with us’, Address by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… ’We are of the world and the world is with us’, Address by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… The next section will discuss the state of Southern Africa by 1860, as well as indentured labourers from India working … The new immigrants, mainly Moslems,…
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… of Oliver Tambo. [vi] Endnotes [i] Cameron-Dow, J. 2007. A Newspaper History of South Africa. Wynberg: Don Nelson Publishers, p. 131. ↵ [ii] Cameron-Dow, J…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… economic order. 27 April, The national flag was designed by a former South African State Herald, Mr Fred Brownell, and … with helping to finance a failed…
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… his grandmother Albertina Sisulu was constantly harassed by the security police for her political activities. Lungi … the generation whose schooling was…
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… Operation 'Agreement', raid by British, Rhodesian and New Zealand troops on Tobruk, … oasis and Caravan on Barce – which were to be carried out by the Long…
PlaceRwanda
… formation of several smaller Kingdoms in the 1100s; and by the 1500s a larger and more centralised kingdom known as … of various crimes in the Gacaca courts …
EventElectric lights are installed in Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… Adderly Street is possibly the most historically rich street in Cape Town. It gets its name from the man who vehemently opposed a proposal by the British to…
PlacePilanesberg Game Reserve
… in the unspoiled Wilderness. Situated in the ecologically rich, transition zone between the Kalahari and the Lowveld , … of the Kalahari and the wet Lowveld…
PlaceMapungubwe Cultural Landscape, Joining South Africa with Zimbabwe and Botswana
… Africa , Botswana and Zimbabwe ', gives tangible proof by way of the rich fossil deposits , Bushman rock art and gold artifacts of … Bird, Reptile,…
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations Organisation (UNO) in 1948. It is the … system of apartheid clearly did not…
EventGold Coast (Ghana) gains independence
… of the Commonwealth of Nations and was led to independence by Kwame Nkrumah who transformed the country into a republic, … The flag of the newly independent…
EventIan Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia
… Rhodesia was subjected to anti colonial struggles led by Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU). By 1977 ZANU’s…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, Addis Ababa, 27 July 1987
… Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the …
Statement by President Thabo Mbeki, President of the Republic of South Africa, on the occasion of the United Nations Security Council High-Level Debate on Peace and Security, United Nations, New York, 16 April 2008
… Statement by President Thabo Mbeki, President of the Republic of South …