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EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… scheduled for around 11am with the arrival of Mbeki and his visiting Indian counterpart Abdul Kalam. R7, 3 million …
EventUnited Nations World Summit starts
… South African President Thabo Mbeki, who delivered his five minute speech on 7 September. …
EventBafana Bafana wins over Ghana
… reduced to ten-men after midfielder Eric Tinkler was shown his second yellow card for a trip on Kwame Ayew, three …
EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… in 1989. He secured more than 70% of votes. In addition, his National Patriotic Party (NPP) won an overwhelming …
EventUnited Nations appoints Kofi Annan as secretary
… Ghali, whose term of office had expired. He assumed his duties on 1 January 1997. After accepting office, Annan, …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… left South Africa in 1959 and while in exile he published his only and much acclaimed book Blame Me on History, which …
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… and Coloured people in the struggle for liberation. His family arrived in South Africa in the 1890s, three …
EventLesotho’s deputy Prime Minister shot
… Mokhehle appeals for South African intervention, but his request is turned down. Despite South Africa's refusal of …
EventSamora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
… to cooperate with apartheid security agencies and betray his comrades. …
EventZimbabwean politician and trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai is born
… Mugabe’s policies and broke away from ZANU-PF to form his own party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The …
EventAlbertina Sisulu’s banning order is renewed
… by Nelson Mandela in March 1968 to organize a protest when his name was due to be struck off the roll of attorneys. As …
EventSir de Villiers Graaff and Theo Gerdener jointly express their agreement to form a new party
… On 5 October, 1977 Sir de Villiers Graaff announced his retirement from politics, having been leader of the … 14 February 2013]|SAHO, ‘Sir de Villiers Graaff…
EventThe prolonged hearing of the dispute over the constitutional position of South West Africa is resumed
… Germen colony. It was called German South West Africa. In his book, “Troubled Waters” Joseph Diescho refers to Namibia …
EventDr JT van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician, dies
… and was interested in alleviating their economic plight. His advocacy for the Khoi Khoi to have equal opportunities …
EventBantu Holomisa deposes Stella Sigcau as President of the Transkei
… with General Holomisa as Chairperson. Holomisa and his accomplices later applied for amnesty to the Truth and …
The National Arts Festival
… innovation across the arts. Tau performed by One Man and His Dog and The Market Theatre Photograph by Jan Potgieter …
ArticleHermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline
… Zuma delivers the eulogy. He hails Loots for sacrificing his tertiary education in order to join MK, thereby putting …
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2016 submissions
… in pursuing law school after graduation. Some of his hobbies include: cooking, debating, watching or going to …
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… President General of the African National Congress. His dark face was softly etched in the lamplight, … Albert Luthuli had come into the political field late…
FREEDOM IN OUR LIFETIME, Durban, December 12-14, 1958
… apostle or apartheid determined "to keep the native in his place." He is not the type to hesitate when he deems it … the Union he regards as the preserve of…
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… road and is named after Sir Clermont, a farmer who sold his land. It was the only place in Durban where black people … the mission station of…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… Science at Columbia University, New York. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1974 and specialises in … violence in Darfur; the post-9/11 era; and…
ArchivePhotography pundit David Goldblatt takes ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Matsepo, 2 June 2017
… in West Bromwich to bring the project to the UK. His new subjects include Adellah Snape, a woman from … life on both sides of the racial divide, and the loss…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… member of PAC provincially, and is still an activist in his community in Langa. He is also an executive member of the … arrest in Kimberley was also…
PlaceKuboes, Northern Cape
… Reverend Johan Hein, teacher and evangelist, began his work here in 1844. The local School, once situated under trees, still bears his name. Since most of…
ArchiveLetter to Zuma by David Goldblatt (Mail and Guardian), 25 November 2011
… society to alter draconian clauses within the Bill. Read his letter to President Jacob Zuma stating his reasons. Dear Mr. President, On March 29 2011 I was …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around birthdays and anniversaries
… addition, observed with cards and letters. Nelson recalls his and Winnie's wedding day in the following extract: Nelson … Jubilee where and how? Till we meet…
12. The pickled money-order receipt
… difficulty in tracking down the money order sent by his son Cooppan. There are many similar documents that … Your two sisters and bothers, also Davasagayam…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Acknowledgements
… 65years. We dedicate this book to A. P. Mda. He dictated his foreword to this volume in 1991., a year before he died. … youthplay in renewing and challenging…
PlaceElgin
… named Oak Valley Estate in the Elgin valley in 1898. Among his farming achievements were the purchase of the first … fruit trees. These were initially grown…