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Address by President Mandela at the Seoul University Seoul, 6 July 1995
… that higher institutions of learning such as this one are not merely production houses of uncaring and one-dimensional graduates. We are at one with you that…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
… existing between the Soviet Union and its allies on the one hand and major Western powers, particularly the USA, on … complacent – uncritically satisfied…
PlaceZululand District Municipality
… heart of Zulu villages like Shakaland and Dumazulu where one can visit a ' Sangoma ', watch a rural wedding ceremony … 70 birding spots in the area on 14…
EventYouth has been burnt to death in Mahwelereng Township
… public violence. At the time the police reported that no-one had been arrested for the death of Mr Molifi …
PlaceThe Old Durban Prison
… Dr AB Xuma St (formerly Commercial Road), and it is now one of thirty sites on Durban's Struggle Heritage Route. Some …
PlaceMagistrates Court, Main Road, Simonstown
… its first occupant. Admiral Lord Nelson is presumed to be one of his first visitors after his arrival in Simons Town on …
EventA Dakota air-liner, Paardeberg, crashes into Ingeli Mountain
… One of SAA’s early aircrafts, a Dakota, crashed into the …
EventSA poet Sydney Vernon Peterson dies
… Sydney Vernon Petersen, one of the prominent South African poets and educationist of …
EventSA signs Nuclear Non
… South Africa was one of the countries that signed the Nuclear …
EventFirst ANC Conference in SA in three decades
… first Consultative Conference in South Africa after thirty-one years from 14-16 December 1990. It was considered by the …
EventSchabir Shaik is convicted on two corruption charges
… Shaik was found guilty on two counts of corruption and one count of fraud by retired Judge Hilary Squires at the …
Adapted from De Rietfonteyn: Founding of Grahamstown By Elron Kleinhans
… post and permanent barracks for the soldiers who formed part of a system of posts along the Fish River established to … whence he had a complete view of the…
PlaceKhami Ruins, Zimbabwe
… of Great Zimbabwe and the later Zimbabwe period. It is one of the few Zimbabwe sites that were not destroyed by … fabric. Khami has retained its authenticity…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… of land. Land policy in South Africa over the past one hundred years actively supported the emergence of White …
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… the interests of specific groups in civil society. One of these was the Women’s Rights Peace Party. Others seem …
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… Luderitz, a harbour town in southwest Namibia lying on one of the least hospitable coasts in Africa, was an …
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… were held in January 1960 in Tunisia followed by another one in Egypt in March 1961. As more African countries became …
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… for the first time that all matches would be played in one country. South Africa participates in the tournament for …
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… to the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB). The organisation had one main aim: to further Afrikaner nationalism in South …
The oldest forms of human communication
… communication through ages, click here to view Drums were one way to send signals to neighbouring tribes and groups. …
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… White settlers at the Fish River in the 17th century as one group moved south and the other north. Archaeological …
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… the ANC underground in South Africa. 1983: Elected as one of the Vice-Presidents of the United Democratic Front in … by remaining in South Africa in order to…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… of apartheid. As a lawyer, Griffiths played his full part in defending many patriots brought before the racist …
PlaceSophiatown
… in Sophiatown were moved to Meadowlands, which formed a part of Soweto, where the NP established a housing area based …
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born and she would become one of the premier freedom fighters in the struggle against … stated that, “The arrest of Dorothy…
PlaceSaldanha Bay
… a particular character to the bay. This largely unspoilt part of the world is also home to seagulls, cormorants, Cape … terns that tend to outnumber humans…
PlaceBethlehem, Free State
… Live the spirit of Adventure! The Bethlehem Museum is one of Cultural History and is housed in the old Nazareth … You will find a number of historical items…
Insurrections III: The Storming
… at the Homecoming Centre have generated two CDs. The first one with the eponymous title Insurrections was released in 2013 in Delhi and Cape Town. The second…
PlaceKommetjie, Cape Town
… childhood sweetheart, Ines Mattiello, and rapidly became one of Cape Town's largest building contractors Kommetjie is … to participate democratically. Most…
PlaceRondebosch Common, Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch.
… people of Cape Town. It is also a National Monument and one of the best-known Landmarks in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town. It Conserves one of the only…