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PlaceCastle of Good Hope, Castle Street- Cape Town
… landed at the Cape on 6 April 1652, under the leadership of Jan van Riebeeck . They erected a Fort built of sods on a site in the Table Valley, near the…
EventMemorial service for the victims of mining disaster
… A memorial service for the 177 miners, who died as a result of an underground fire in a tunnel at the Kinross gold mine at Evander, south of Johannesburg is…
ArchiveAddress on the role and future of NUSAS
… Address given by John Daniel at a National Union of South African seminar on the future of the Union. Includes analysis of the student scene in South Africa…
ArchiveTasks of the ANC in the present period
… Memorandum listing the tasks of the African National Congress. Covers the nature of our society, the character of the struggle, the forces of transformation…
PlaceUniversity of the Free State, Main building, Bloemfontein
… The cornerstone of the building was laid on 19 December 1907 by Sir Hamilton … residence, President Steyn, completed 1945 | Faculties of Law, Education, and…
A Survey Of Race Relations In South Africa 1973
… party has been faced with increasing manifestations of black dissatisfaction and anger. The Black Conciousness … appears to be gaining strength, despite the…
EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
… In July 1939 at a meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg under the chairmanship of E. I. Asvat, a decision was taken to…
EventSouth African Police announce arrest of serial killer
… The South African Police in Pretoria announced the arrest of Moses Sithole, named the country's most wanted man at the time. Sithole, thirty-one years of age…
The role of business in South Africas future
… ANC report of Group B, Commission 5 of a meeting between the ANC and big business on the role of business in South Africa's future. Includes summary of … The…
EventArchibald Lamont, ex-mayor of Durban, passes away.
… Archibald Lamont was one of seven children born to Alexander Lamont, a master-mariner … an MA degree (cum laude) in Ethics at the University of Glasgow…
EventYouth rage follows the funeral of Victoria Mxenge
… Political violence by the youth began after the funeral of assassinated Victoria Mxenge, a civil rights lawyer, who was respected and liked by the Congress…
EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
… cover. In 1990 Shilowa was elected the Vice Chairperson of the United Democratic Front (UDF) on the Witwatersrand. He went on to hold a number of important…
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… state president, Thabo Mbeki, opened the second sitting of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) for the first time at its … parliament was established in March…
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… president in absentia. The organisation developed out of a situation of racial exclusion and discrimination under the new Union of South Africa. SANNC…
EventThe First Draft of the Constitution is published
… Constitution. On 19 September the first consolidated draft of the new Constitution was ready, but the first refined … 22 November 1995. The 63-page document…
EventTafari Makonnen proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
… or Haile Selassie, as he was later known, was born the son of Ras Makonnen Wolde Michael, the Governor of the region of Harrar. He is credited for…
EventUnion of South Africa officially ceases to exist
… In March 1961, at a Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers held in London, the South … Monarchy to a Republic. Subsequently, the Union of South Africa,…
EventHouse of Representatives impeaches American President Bill Clinton
… the White House. This was during Bill Clinton's first term of office. A relationship developed between the two later in … confide in her co-worker, Linda…
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool
… The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool. The book takes us back to the late 19th … and Abdurahmans. The context is Cape Town, South Africa of the 1930s…
ArchiveOptions for a redefinition of NUSAS structure and functioning
… Paper delivered at the 51st Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 8-15 July 1974. Discusses…
ArchiveMinutes of NWEC Meeting, 11 - 15 April 1989
… Minutes of the African National Congress National Women's Executive Committee meeting. Meeting to discuss the state of organisation of South African women,…
EventMinister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA
… in history search archive Two years after the formation of Poqo and a year after the formation of Mkhonto we Sizwe (MK), liberation armies of the Pan…
ArchiveText of telex received from Rev Frank Chikane
… Telex from Rev Frank Chikane, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches to the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA,…
EventOldest example of written Afrikaans appears in a poem
… artillery fire from British warships. In the aftermath of this battle, an anonymous poet composed what is considered one of the oldest examples of written…
ArchiveLetter from Moses Mabhida, General Secretary, SACP, to the Central Committee, Communist Party of the United States of America
… Letter from Moses Mabhida to the Communist Party of the United States of America rejecting the announcement that sanctions against … Secretary, SACP, to the…
ArchiveDraft theses: The Workers Party of South Afr
… The theses is written on the basis of both the economic and political conditions of South Africa and serves as a programme for the Workers' Party of South…
Statement of ANC National Working Committee, 5 September 2011
… The National Working Committee of the African National Congress, met today in its regular session to deal with organizational matters. One of the issues that…
ArchiveLetter from J L J van Vuuren, Chief Director of the Northern Cape Administration Board to the Secretary of the Ciskei Commission
… to the Ciskei Commission supplying population statistics of the Xhosa people residing in the Northern Cape, for a population survey of the Xhosa people…
ArchiveSport: Threat to the security of the state
… interference in sports in line with apartheid ideology of white dominance. Instances of harassment of people and events connected with the South African…
ArchiveA Survey of race relations in South Africa: 1973
… A survey of race relations in South Africa in 1973 and includes … Indian and African population groups matters; Commission of inquiry into certain…