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PlaceMatjiesfontein
… in a little cemetery 10 kilometres from Matjiesfontein. His tomb is located next to the grave of George Lohmann, a famous English cricketer who spent the…
PlaceTanzania
… Vasco da Gama explored the East African coast in 1498 on his voyage to India. By 1506, the Portuguese claimed control … coastal strip, Omani Sultan Seyyid…
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… struggle against apartheid sports from the mid-1970s - on his forthcoming 60th birthday on 27 January and take this … were celebrating. The photograph of …
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… religious occasions. This is how a Jewish tailor described his everyday life in a tailoring "sweatshop": When I enter … no more power to prevent a Jewish…
PlaceOppenheimer Gardens, Kimberley
… sculptor who was born in Hungary in 1906. Throughout his life, which ended in 1970, he created a number of scenes from the Bible. Other significant themes of…
EventAnatii, the South African rapper is born
… DJ Khaled in 2014;[6] and “Feeling on Me” in 2015. His hit single “The Saga” featuring AKA won the “Best Music … at the 2015 South African Hip Hop Awards…
Khoisan leader given state funeral despite last wishes by SAPA, 1 July 2012
… of Kruiper, Petrus Vaalbooi, addressed the delegates in his own language He reprimanded government for the bad social … would have preferred the money [to be…
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
… to the manufacture of explosives, Mandela's diary of his African tour and copies of a draft memorandum, 'Operation … and Wolpe later managed to escape from…
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… and killed a man and a woman before being repulsed. In his report Snyman expressed alarm at his discoveries regarding Poqo and called for immediate …
EventDr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt
… 1977, however, Mulder was involved in scandal that brought his political career to an end. It was revealed that Mulder, … of this charge by the Supreme Court…
EventJohn Lawrence, Winnie Mandela’s bodyguard, dies after a shoot
… to a police spokesperson, Lawrence allegedly pointed his pistol at and slapped the pedestrian. Lawrence then got … figures within the ANC were not uncommon…
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
… windows and set furniture on fire. Mr Mapongwana dragged his wife and children into the kitchen and hid underneath the table until the shooting stopped, when…
EventDiplomatic office of the ANC in Stockholm is bombed
… information on activities of the ANC overseas stated his activities were "...to understand the whole dynamic … for the bombing of the ANC's offices in London…
EventWriter J.M. Coetzee is awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
… "We were very much convinced of the lasting value of his contribution to literature. ... I think he is a writer … civilization. The Nobel Academy praised…
EventAnton Hammerl, South African photographer, is killed in Libya
… that South Africa was doing its best to find him and bring his body back home so that his family could give him a decent funeral. The Hammerl … Fabricius P. …
EventBafana Bafana, SA’s National soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final
… South Africa and African soccer at large. Clive Barker and his team became national heroes. The match was attended by … then President Nelson Mandela, who…
Presidential address by Alberth Luthuli to the Annual Provincial Conference of the Natal Branch of the African National Congress, 5 July 1956
… supreme sacrifice," declared Chief Albert J. Lutuli, in his presidential address to the annual provincial conference … Congress, held last weekend. Chief…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… is that many did not survive, especially the children. Death came from poverty undernourishment, poor water supplies … of the tin. For example, author…
37. Deputation to Lord Selborne, 1905
… except after a delay of months. Everyone, no matter what his status may be, has to make an application on a special form, give two references, and put his…
Chapter 27. The Police State in Action
… House whenÂever he spoke. To secure public support for his monstrous Bill, Swart concocted a fantastic story of … poison the wells of South Africa. The Act…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
… was detained for three weeks for refusing to disclose his sources Apr 5- Torch and New Age banned. (Merrett:44-45) … Act 56 of 1955 for three periods…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… the first to publish authors such as J.M Coetzee, after his manuscript had been rejected by several other publishers, … Ravan Press and founding Staffrider…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… was taken to a narrow empty solitary confinement cell on death row in the isolation wing. There was a steel outer door … for a third time under the Terrorism…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… morning we are talking to Swaminathan Gounden at his home in Pastoral Road. Swami, thank you so much … elephant to the zoo and ever since…
35. Colour legislation in the Orange River Colony
… past legislation, it is for the worse. Mr. Chamberlain, in his despatch to Lord Milner in reply to his demand for Asiatic indentured labour, dwelt upon the ……
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… on the political, economic, cultural and moral fronts. His ideas about love, truth, soul force (‘brahmacharya’) and … of colonialism. These years also…
Say It out Loud - The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1st January, 1912
… Reformed Church, banned from facilities for educating his children, banned from the privilege to be imposed on all citizens of joining the standing army of…
Chapter 13 - The public participation process
… among them animal rights, abortion, pornography, the death penalty, and the seat of Parliament. Of the submissions … freedom of expression, traditional…
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… at the Hendrina-based mine for almost 12 years. He says his salary has been paid irregularly for a year now and … Shortly after Ramaphosa became president in…
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… UNITA stronghold at Mavinga, the strategic key to his base at Jamba near the Caprivi Strip. At first the … led the party delegates to Angola. It was agreed…