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EventThe Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembly
… Buthelezi and King Zwelithini. For the better part of the 1970s Buthelezi and Zwelithini were often at loggerheads. …
ANC statement on the state of readiness for celebrations of 101 year celebration of the ANC, 9 January 2013
… of the second centenary. The ANC will this year hold its main anniversary celebrations in KwaZulu-Natal at Kings Park … ready to accommodate overflow in the…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa in the 1970s. Also, it is impossible to understand what happened in … picture') towards the end of the 1980s…
PlaceAha Hills, Northern Cape Border With Namibia and Botswana
… there are few animals or birds and only a few insects. The main attraction of these Hills is their solitude and … unofficial camping is allowed within 100 m…
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National … of the ANC even before he joined the…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… Oppenheimer met regularly for lunch or dinner and the main corporations of the Minerals Energy Complex (MEC) met … later given the additional privilege of…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… was to favour republicanism and the United Party (UP), its main opposition, did for a time provide a home for those … those that did not. He declared that in…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… the last five months of 1984. At the November meeting the main focus was however the form and direction of the UDF, not … UDF, formed the Transvaal Regional…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… the very farmers who defeated them over a century ago. The chronology of Ndebele wall art therefore places it firmly …
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… in which Nelson Mandela played such an important role. The main questions that will be addressed will be: Why did the … was completed and smuggled out of…
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’s Camp to the main group of gold reefs by a son of the widow Petronella … the owner of a farm at Langlaagte, on…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… of internal resistance during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It has a wide ambit and covers a period from the 1870s to the mid-1970s; from early colonial…
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… established in Cape Town in 1977. Originally located at 17 Main Road, Mowbray, the facility moved to the old St. Philips …
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… right to vote. 1915 Second general election in which the main issue was South Africa’s participation in World War I. …
ArticleWorld War I
… major historical event became known as The Great War. The main belligerent European countries involved in the War were …
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. St. … Anglican Church, which is situated at the…
The Colors of Resistance in Apartheid South Africa: Black Consciousness Poetry and the Racial Elusiveness of Wopko Jensma
… The article analyzes Black Consciousness poetry of the 1970s and 1980s South Africa alongside the protest poetry of … The article analyzes Black…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… government contractor, supplying beef to the troops. 1815 Main Street is laid out. 1820 10 April, Arrival of the … of a whale fishery. October, A plot of…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… of Pretoria will host a colloquium on South Africa’s ‘long 1970s’, defined as the period stretching from the death of …
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
… trade unions in Natal (now kwaZulu Natal) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the increasing activities of the …
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… Belgium. Makeba toured various parts of the world in the 1970s and 1980s and continued to speak out against apartheid …
ArticleTswana
… similar dialects, beliefs and society structures and the main distinctions between the three groups were only … In fact, most archaeologists presume the…
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… levels of deprivation as the wild-cat strikers of the 1970s and 1980s whose actions shaped our current labour … (or visible only to some) external, third…
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
… The character of the Garden is shaped by the two main rivers that cut across it, namely the Crocodile and Nels … are visible. When in bloom the Clivias at…
PlaceGeorge Harrison Park
… been removed and is on display in the mining district in Main Street, in downtown Johannesburg. On view are two … to commemorate the official discovery of…
EventSan involvement in the Battle of Chrissiesmeer
… on the British forces under General Smith-Dorrien. Botha's main aim was to cripple the advance of Smith-Dorrien into the … on the slopes and were not able to…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… Smuts, causing Hertzog’s National Party to split into two main groups.7 A consequence of this was that the Broederbond … of the organization’s history, noted…
EventThe Castle of Good Hope, oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, is completed.
… of Good Hope for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The main reason for building the castle was to provide protection … 26 April 1679, and the five bastions…
The New Generation
… Fuba Academy, Johannesburg 1979 Nyanga Arts Centre, Nyanga 1970s Mofolo Art Centre, Soweto 1983 African Institute of Art … it was Polly Street Art Centre,…
PlaceDiep River
… with effortless gardens and homes. Closer to the Main Road and the Railway Line lies the Industrial area, give … than many other suburbs, and, it has Martins…