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Yet another Myth: Mbeki and the Monopolisation of Power by Thabo Mbeki, 25 January 2016
… South Africa, Thabo Mbeki had “wielded power as if it was his due…The Union Buildings – the seat of the presidency – … arrogance and aloofness. Above all,…
Closing Remarks to the 53rd National Conference of the ANC by President Jacob Zuma, December 2012, Mangaung
… December 2012. Tata was admitted for tests in keeping with his age and health status. We were informed by his medical team, which consists of the best…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… conference on Palestine in 2006, just two years before his untimely death at the age of seventy. His distinguished career; his vast range of knowledge and …
ArchiveWorld Press Photo Exhibition 84
… with red Arabic writing on it. Small photo of man on his chest. Grey poster with black lettering. …
EventRadical politician, journalist, teacher and co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC) branch in Cape Town, James Thaele passes away
… He was born in Basutoland (Lesotho) in 1888. Thaele lost his ANC Western Cape leadership position to A.V. Coto in the …
ArchiveThe South African Reality
… of Churches, to students at the University of Natal. His speech covers subjects such as foreign investments, …
The Polly Street Era
… and teach in Sophiatown. Sekoto on the other hand paid his own way to Paris but due to financial pressure was unable … had received some tuition from Judith…
Upcoming events at the Book Lounge
… of South African politics. He will be here to talk about his memoir. Allister will be in conversation with John … radicalisation of its critical project…
PlaceClearwater, Now Known as Griquastad- in the Northern Cape
… erected near the Town's Hospital. Dr. Robert Moffat and his wife Mary, on their way to the Town of Kuruman , were … of the murders of Northern Cape farmer…
PlaceParow
… for the Captain. Parow died on 4 December 1910 , in his house in Cassibelle, Maitland. His wife, JW Timmerman, died ten years prior. They did not …
PlaceOld House Museum, 31 Diakonia Street, Durban
… it was purchased by John Goodrick who, with the help of his son, built a two-roomed wattle and daub cottage upon it. … The following year, it was sold to a…
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… off from the world. In 1979, Macias was overthrown by his nephew Teodoro Obiang Nguema. By the time Macias' rule … had either fled Equatorial Guinea or been…
EventSADF officers dismissed
… Pierre Steyn. On 18 December General Steyn presented his preliminary findings to President De Klerk and senior … of Steyn's provisional findings. As De Klerk…
EventRaymond Dart completes work on Taung skull
… was the first early human fossil found in Africa. With his find, Dr. Dart upset orthodox scientific thinking, … to two million years ago. When Dr. Dart's…
EventBelgium annexes the Congo Free State
… was determined to possess a colony. He undertook this in his personal capacity by recruiting Stanley to exploit the … organization, but in reality it only…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
… down to the Cape Colony. It was during this campaign that his Commando, as the Boer military formations were called, … had free reign of the surrounding…
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… to the mine at De Beer's, which marked the beginning of his dominance of the diamond mining industry in South Africa. … Trading Company (DTC) in 2000. Harry…
PlacePhillipton
… and supporter of the rights of indigenous people, his book "Researches in South Africa", published in 1828, … first missionary was James Read who devoted…
Document 31 - The Negotiating Forum: resolution on the transition process
… C. Rossow entertained me very hospitably, sometimes at his home, but neither he nor his family could speak anything but German. They had at that …
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… my Head of Department had tried to remove me entirely on his own initiative, and this led to his academic career rather than mine collapsing a short while ……
Chapter II - Partners in protest
… Then it might be days, weeks, before a man could reach his family and his home again. African women feared, with good reason, that … benefits the passes…
ArchiveNatal and the 1960 Republican Referendum
… of History, University of Natal, 1990. The author focusses his research with an interest in "secessionism" and the …
ArchiveImperialist conspiracy in Africa
… political events in South Africa, covering eleven years of his exile from 1963 to 1974, in keeping the flow of the …
ArchiveExcerpts from long interview given by President O R Tambo to Associated Press correspondent, Mr Nicky Hanks on 7th June 1980 in Lusaka
… 1980 in Lusaka. Discusses actions of Gatsha Buthelezi and his stance on school boycotts, malnutrition in South Africa …
EventButhelezi boycotts first session of CODESA
… leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), announced his intention not to attend the first session of CODESA. He …
EventAfrikaans linguist H J Terblanche is born
… language. He died on 23 March 1977 and shortly afterwards his autobiography, Jare van Storm en Drang , was published a …
EventLord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War
… came to nothing, resulting in Kitchener changing his military tactics and setting up barbed wire and block …
EventOscar Pistorius South African sprint runner is born
… which is a congenital absence of the fibular in both legs. His legs were amputated below the knee when he was eleven …
ArchiveDon listen to the evil talk of the troublema
… first half of title, showing man with snakes coming out of his mouth and boys listening to him. Artwork on right hand …
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 2 - 15 by Carol Hermer
… were waiting in the road to see if he was genuinely at his own house or just running from them. To get back to the … raided during the shebeen crackdown, but…