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PlaceThe Struben Mine Shafts, Kloofendal, Roodepoort
… Guided or Self guided walks: Walks can be self guided or one can join one of the excellent trails lead by a qualified Field Guide. …
Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo on S.A.F.N.T.U. (1930)
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 19 - Communist … at Feneira Street Johannesburg) were…
EventAdolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
… vision. Owens on the other hand was an African America, one of ten in the US team. Lang and Owens had become friends … around Owen's neck. Owens' gold medal…
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… African National Congress (ANC) in 1923, in Bloemfontein. One hundred delegates attended its inaugural meeting, where Seme was the keynote speaker, and…
EventThe first Gay Marriage in South Africa
… the first same sex couple to legally wed in the country, one day after President Thabo Mbeki’s government legalized …
PlaceAlverstone, a Railway Station near Drummond
… he was permitted to choose which was "closest" to Sandown, one of his favourite Locales) …
PlaceAan de Doorns, Western Cape
… Worcester on the R 43 to Villliersdorp. Aan de Doorns has one of the largest Wine Cellars in the Worcester region! A … Worcester on the R 43 to…
Culture in the New South Africa by Robert Kriger and Abebe Zegeye
… One of the many issues confronting post – apartheid South …
EventSouth African Actor, Henry Cele , dies
… him international acclaim and the series would prove to be one of the most iconic television series. After Shaka Zulu, …
EventPercy Montgomery, Springbok rugby player of the Western Province, is born.
… became the first Springbok to score 800 test points and at one time, was the most capped Springbok player in the …
EventIndian people march in Durban to protest against the Ghetto Act
… or Ghetto Act takes place in Durban. The Asiatic Bill was one of the many anti-Indian legislation bills passed by the …
EventThe Democratic Party is founded
… The Democratic Party officially came into being at a one day conference held in Johannesburg. The conference, …
EventRamzi Yousef, alleged mastermind of World Trade centre bombing goes on trial
… is of Pakistani descent. Yousef was later suspected to be one of the planners of the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing. …
EventJohn Davidson Rockerfeller, US philanthropist, donates $10 million towards the building of a museum in Cairo, Egypt
… the Standard American Oil Company. Rockefeller family is one of the richest families in the world and are said to be …
ArchiveWomen in the ANC-led underground by Raymond Suttner
… cast as heroes. Much of this controversy relates to how one theorises the relationship between feminism and national …
EventHenry Morton Stanley’s expedition reaches Fort Bodo, Congo
… with the task of finding explorer David Livingstone. No one had heard from Livingstone since he left for Africa in …
EventInternational Literacy Day highlights the importance of literacy in areas such as health and education
… on this day. According to UNESCO, “a literate person is one who can, with understanding, both read and write a short …
Document 6 - Africans’ claims in South Africa
… up street committees, doing house-to-house organizing one night. The next day on 13 June 1986, while I was working …
14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… reproduced (a) a medical report by Richmond R. Alien on one Ramaiya, (b) report by the employer, Mr. A. C. McEwan, … the thumb of each hand. He had evidently…
Closing speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… I must confess I never thought that the two of us would one day compete for the same position in the ANC! however, … to be anxiety regarding the existence of…
14. Suicide among indentured
… reproduced (a) a medical report by Richmond R. Alien on one Ramaiya, (b) report by the employer, Mr. A. C. McEwan, … the thumb of each hand. He had evidently…
Chapter 8 - Survivors
… Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 In the accounts that follow no one was killed. They were told to me at the time and I place … girl. If my memory serves me well,…
Chapter 10. Cleaning Up the Clothing Industry - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… of work to be made up at home. But firstly there was no one to enforce the Act and secondly, like all South African … the entire wage registers in the…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
… your potential. Yet, at the same time, there is another part to our reality. It is the reality of a youthful … improved. They are signs of progress. Our…
PlaceGroote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town
… Groote Schuur is one of Cape Town's premier tertiary Academic Hospitals and …
EventThe town of Bethlehem, Free State, is founded
… in the Maluti Mountains in the Free State Province and is one of the towns that grew rapidly after it was founded. The …
EventA.W.G. Champion, outspoken opponent of apartheid dies
… was elected to the Native Representative Council (NRC) - one of the most outspoken members against apartheid in the …
EventMozambique gains independence
… the country to independent in 1975. Machel established one-party state form of government. …
EventANC promulgates its constitutional proposals
… by the South African Communist Party (SACP). During Phase One an all-party interim government council would be …
EventPotgieter barters land from Chief Makwana
… Commandant Andries Hendrik Potgieter, one of the leaders of the Voortrekkers, obtained the …