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EventGriffiths Mxenge is buried
… political activist murdered on 19 November, was buried at his home village of Rayi, near King William's Town. More than …
EventANC member, Henry Fazzie sentenced to 20 years in jail under the Sabotage Act
… to receive training in guerrilla warfare in Ethiopia. On his return to South Africa, their movements and whereabouts …
EventSchabir Shaik is convicted on two corruption charges
… to ponder opening a corruption charge against him. In his verdict Judge Squires announced that there was a corrupt …
EventCecil John Rhodes is forced to resign
… minister of the Cape Colony, was severely censured for his involvement in the infamous Jameson Raid and forced to …
EventPretoria’s first Black mayor
… Mamelodi. A street in the Pretoria CBD has been named in his honour. …
Michael Mosoue Moerane, pianist, choirmaster and composer, is born in Gumtree, Basutoland (now Lesotho). He died in Gumtree in
… Eastern Cape. He died in Bloemfontein in January, 1980. His siblings included Manasseh Tebatso Moerane and Epainette …
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Apartheid, Reflected in an Inventory of Simple Objects by Sarah Boxer (The New York Times), 24 July 1998
… David Goldblatt sold his family's menswear business in South Africa to become a … the Natal region showing a house with an African man and his son standing…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
… is as relevant today as it was one-and-half centuries ago. His famous description of the 1845 settlement on Algoa Bay, … he who ventures to walk through…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
… is as relevant today as it was one-and-half centuries ago. His famous description of the 1845 settlement on Algoa Bay, … he who ventures to walk through…
ArchiveChapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg
… the police were waiting for George with no possibility of his evading capture. No warning was given to George’s driver, … that I had been involved but…
Chapter 3
… the Black man, depriving him of the last vestige of his rights and reducing him to the status of a baggage animal … of citizenship and render him a foreigner…
ArchiveAfrican languages should be at the center of educational and cultural achievement by Abdi Latif Dahir (Quartz Africa)
… At his farewell speech as the chairman of the African Union in … Joaquim Chissano surprised African leaders by delivering his remarks in Swahili. At the time…
EventIan Roberts was born on this day
… on this day in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. It was his character of Boet in a series of television …
PlaceAlverstone, a Railway Station near Drummond
… permitted to choose which was "closest" to Sandown, one of his favourite Locales) …
EventSouth African Actor, Henry Cele , dies
… Henry ”Black cat” Cele was a revered actor, most famous for his chilling portrayal of the Zulu King, Shaka in the 1985 …
EventPercy Montgomery, Springbok rugby player of the Western Province, is born.
… first player to earn a hundred caps. Montgomery announced his retirement from international test rugby in 2008 and has …
EventJudas Mahlangu, South African graphic artist, is born
… corporate and private collections contain examples of his work. …
EventUN Tribunal on Rwanda sentences Jean Kambanda
… all counts of genocide pressed against him in May. Despite his cooperativeness, Kambanda's Defence Counsel Oliver …
EventMinister of Constitutional Development Roelf Meyer set to resign
… Development Minister Roelf Meyer would resign his Cabinet post on 1 March 1996 to become Secretary-General …
EventBafana Bafana wins against Algeria
… FNB Stadium, Johannesburg. The defender, Mark Fish, scored his first goal in international soccer, while John "Shoes" …
EventViolence escalates in German South West Africa during Herero Revolt
… were killed. Samuel Maharero allowed missionary Eich with his small party of German women and children safe passage …
EventLord Milner leaves England to return to SA
… administrator for the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. His other responsibility was to negotiate a peace treaty that …
EventHeroic act by boer soldier Windvogel
… of bullets he helped him into the saddle and he covered his retreat, dismounting several times to shoot at pursuers. …
EventFormer ANC president, Z.R. Mahabane, is born
… Kroonstad (OFS), where he had lived and worked for most of his life, in September 1971. …
EventChurch bombing kills 15 people in Nigeria.
… On 3 June 2012, a suicide bomber forced his car, filled with explosives, through a checkpoint and …
”On this night a bedraggled Winston Churchill knocks on the door of the manager of Delagoa Bay Collier, pleading for something
… Delagoa Bay Collier, pleading for something to eat after his escape from Pretoria the night before. The manager, John …
PlaceNarainsamy Temple, Newlands, Durban
… built by Chris Kristapper Reddy, and probably represents his major contribution to the temple architecture of this …
Professor H. W. van der Merwe: former Director of the Centre for Intergroup Studies interview with Rupert Taylor, 23 November 1999, 6 Cambridge Road, Observatory, Cape Town
… and he was trying to get hold of this new institute under his own auspices, and the only way they could keep him out of … Town. That situation changed…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… Act passed by the government. Dr James Moroka gave his first public address. The ANC called for a May Day …
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… Trialist , who left the country without a passport after his acquittal, attended the AAPC on behalf of the ANC. Also …