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EventPresident F. W. de Klerk announced the opening of four hitherto Whites-only residential areas to mixed settlement
… settlement. They included two districts in Johannesburg, one in Durban, and Cape Town's District Six, which had been a …
EventPiet Retief is baptized in Drakenstein, Western Cape
… Piet Retief was one of the leaders of the Great Trek that introduced …
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Beyers Naude is born
… NaudÁƒÂƒ©, a founding member of the Broederbond. He was one of eight children and was raised in the heart of …
EventJames Sebe Moroka is born
… Moroka I of the Barolong Boo Moroka at Thaba Nchu. Today one of the municipalities on the Mpumalanga highveld is named …
PlaceErmelo
… District in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. It is part of the Msukaligwa Local Municipality within that … Various artifacts have been discovered in…
PlaceNorthern Suburbs of Cape Town
… , in a North Easterly direction through the Eastern part of the Suburb. The Story of the Liesbeek River : It is … Farms stretched along the River’s banks…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Opening Address by President Jacob Zuma, Midrand, 26 June 2012
… and effective ANC branches. The ANC should also as part of renewal, fast-track the political development of … the legacy of President AB Xuma and the…
ArchiveSouth Africa Advisory Committee Report, 10 February report to Secretary of State
… which dealt with United States policy toward South Africa, one of the provisions of the Executive order directed the …
ArchiveDialectic of Higher Education for the Colonised: the case of Non-White Universities in South Africa
… to two-fold functions, a conservative and a progressive one. It can be viewed as a custodian of societal values or …
ArchiveThe birth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… One day in July 1968 a group of students formed a separate …
PlaceUWC - Robben Island Mayibuye Archives
… of the Western Cape (UWC) campus. The Mayibuye Archive is one of the largest archives of liberation struggle materials …
PlaceOld Anglican Church, Rustenburg
… result of the efforts of John Pilkington Richardson and is one of the oldest Anglican Churches in the Transvaal. It was …
PlaceMill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico
… and cast-iron machinery drove a set of millstones, and is one of the few such structures surviving in the old …
EventThe North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is founded.
… reason was to encourage European political integration. One hundred and ten thousand military personnel are engaged …
EventSculptor Lucas Sithole is born in KwaThema
… used to give an explanation why he made his sculptures. As one of South Africa's best known sculptors internationally, …
EventMugabe announces the merging of ZANU and ZAPU
… Zimbabwe African People's Union), are to be merged under one command after the political affiliation of the two groups …
EventThe ‘Afrikaner Volksfront’ is founded
… Afrikaner Volksfront flag A new coalition made up of twenty-one right wing parties, known as Afrikaner National Front …
EventMargaret Mary Smith, SA artist and ichthyologist, is born
… 'Sea fishes of Southern Africa', which is regarded as one of the most comprehensive books on fishes in the world. …
EventIEC extends election dates
… Electoral Commission (IEC) to extend polling by one day in areas plagued by voting problems. These included …
EventBotswana gains independence from Britain
… resources like diamond and today the country has achieved one of the highest per capita income rates in Africa. …
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique begin discussions which lead to the creation of a cross-border conservation park
… upheld his vision of a protected wilderness. It is now one of the largest conservation parks in the world. …
ArticleThe Khoisan
… They moved according to the seasons and only stayed in one place for a few weeks. This meant that they had to be … the name of a place where they had stayed…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… as patient rights. June, Azapo health secretariat holds one day free health clinic in Brandfort, Free State, run by … Dr. Asvat’s death and the death of…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… between the European inhabitants of the Union on the one hand and any other section of the inhabitants of the … that a farmer could expel the entire tenant…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka
… resolve to bring about majority rule, under a system of one person one vote, in a united South Africa as they are clear about … since January 8, 1912, when…
Behind the Narrative of the Abuse of State Power was a Larger Goal by Thabo Mbeki, 8 February 2016
… made that I intervened with the relevant state organs in one instance to prohibit the prosecution of the late former … and purposes broken down, with these…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, Lusaka, 8 January 1987
… resolve to bring about majority rule, under a system of one person one vote, in a united South Africa as they are clear about … since January 8, 1912, when…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… Seeking SOYA members there, I discovered that all but one had dissociated themselves from SOYA and had joined an … that the bus boycott was a spontaneous act…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… on with other children ‘as a team of twenty men moving as one, swung a steel railway line off the ground, into the air, … an eruption, with incandescent lava…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 106th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 13 January 2018
… which was quashed by the colonial authorities, was one of the earliest instances of organised multi-racial … have the effect of keeping men in psychological…