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The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… I ask you to re-main loyal to the King and General Smuts, his government and South Africa, your land of adoption. In … rule. However, by 20 September, Rama…
Local Government
… the Landdrost was supported by a military ‘Commandant’ and his ‘Field-cornets’, a Market Master, a Pound Master and a … to serve as a mouthpiece for…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… Adv. Vorster once referred to this speech as his "political confession". 1 It was in his second year as Prime Minister that Adv. Vorster made this … Minister…
EventSouth African cricket player Jonathan ‘Jonty’ Rhodes is born
… Kwazulu Natal) on 27 July 1969. Better known as “Jonty”, his diving run-out of Pakistani’s Inzamam-ul-Haq during the …
PlaceKruger chairs (Die twee Krugerstoele) in the Paul Kruger Church (Geref. Kerkgebou) in Church Street, Pretoria West.
… in Pretoria . This church still has the chairs Paul and his Wife used to sit on during services, with the same Dutch …
EventManne Dipico resigns from parliament
… Dipico, resigned from the National Assembly to concentrate his effort on the upcoming local elections scheduled for 1 …
EventSouth Africa will subscribe to the UDHR
… inaugurated state president, Nelson Mandela, announced in his first State of the Nation Address to Parliament that …
EventSouth African Cricketer, Dave Nourse ,is born in England
… country. A bowler and left- handed bats man, Nourse made his first-class cricket debut for natal two years later. …
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 ……
Archive`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement
… going to remain silent and neutral in a matter of life and death to my people, to our people? For my own part I have …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinning, St. Georges Hotel, City of Tshwane, 27 September 2005
… part of the African history to die, because such a death would mean erasing an important link to our glorious …
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 8 - The Impracticality of Realism
… in South Africa, the whites are preparing to fight to the death for the right to own a second car. They are arming …
ArchiveAre there South Africans? by Sir Keith Hancock
… delivered by Sir Keith Hancock in which the title of his talk questions the integrative or disintegrative trend of …
ArchiveBiography of Naphtali Mbuti Nkopane
… August 1944 on a farm near Nigel in the Transvaal. In 1949 his family moved to Evaton in the Vaal, in August 1984 …
EventForeign Affairs Deputy Minister Pahad is born
… 1985. A banning order was served on him, which restricted his movements and prevented him from attending public …
ArchiveClothing Workers Union: we demand jobs and a living wage for all
… the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit His kingdom? He promised those who loved Him? Is it not the …
Chapter 3: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… of nationalism. For a very long time the native devotes his energies to ending certain definite abuses: forced … reassures the ordinary citizen, but rather…
PlaceRainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club, Durban
… night before was banned. By 1994 Billy Mthembu had sold his shares in the business to Ben Pretorius and for Ben … it was a time to reflect on the past and…
2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup is a tribute to Africa - ANC, 21 May 2010
… with nostalgia of the day when Nelson Mandela made his official public speech at the same stadium after his release from prison on the 20th February 1990…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Helen Stoilas, 30 May 2017
… in West Bromwich to bring the project to the UK. His new subjects include Adellah Snape, a woman from … of the freedom of expression,” Goldblatt says. He…
PlaceKronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay.
… in a blue top, grey pinafore and a bonnet. He remarked to his wife: “What a funny hat that woman is wearing.” He … and had dressed up to play a practical…
South Africa After Soweto - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to World Marxist Review, February 1978
… equal to the number of guerrillas who died the death of the brave in the same period in Zimbabwe and … people". But to carry out these plans, Vorster needs…
EventDavid Kramer was born on this day
… is born on this day. He is especially well-known for his musicals about the Coloured communities and the ways in …
ArchiveThe Freedom run
… Speakers. Artwork of a man running, with an AA logo on his T-Shirt. Artwork of african people, singing, in the …
EventSA Police Commissioner, Lt. Gen. H.J. du Plooy to take drastic actions against police who call Africans “Kaffir”
… with ‘World’, a non-White newspaper, du Plooy said that his policy on Africans was one of “leniency and extreme …
EventTennis champion Frew Mcmillan is born in Springs
… and Wimbledon tennis champion, was born in Springs. On his own, McMillan also won two pro single titles, and with …
EventBenjamin Tyamzashe receives an honorary degree
… Festival, Tyamzashe was again honoured posthumously for his immense contribution to the field of music. …
EventAlexander Kerr dies
… Fund (now Alexander Kerr Memorial Fund) was started in his memory by the Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa to …
EventIdi Amin dies
… at the age of 78 as a result of multiple organ failure. His eight-year rule in Uganda had been characterised by …
EventAlexander Kerr is born
… Africa started the Dr Alexander Kerr Bursary Fund in his memory to provide financial assistance in the form of …