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EventSouth African Library Week is held from 22 - 27 March 2010 to make people aware of the value of libraries
… in South Africa. In 2001, LIASA initiated a drive to have one week recognised by the South African Government as …
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… refined in a new edition in 1966 by Dr. Cornelius Pama, one of the founding members of the Genealogical Society of …
EventLiberia is established
… of its bond with the United States (US). The country was one of only two countries in sub-Saharan Africa, along with …
EventFormer Springboks player, Naas Botha is born
… 12 year international rugby career. Botha is regarded as one of the best South African rugby players of all time. He …
EventElsa, the lioness made famous by Joy Adamson’s book Born Free, dies in Kenya
… Elsa the lioness was one of three orphaned lions whose mother was killed in self …
Dawn
… The official policy of the African National Congress was one of non-violence. However, after fifty years of …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… to as the ‘Mother of the Nation’, she was a nurse and one of the most important leaders of anti-Apartheid …
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… regime. The campaign of defiance against unjust laws was one of the greatest non-violent passive resistance campaigns …
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… in 1999. A talented writer, she wrote several books, one of which is her autobiography, Call me Woman. The book …
PlaceWhite Horse Stones, Naval Hill, Bloemfontein
… PAVED AREA, it's a National Monument. Make sure to do this one between 08:00-17:00. These stones are on the East side of …
EventExpress train derails in Ethiopia, killing an estimated 400 people
… An express train carrying seven cars and an estimated one thousand people destined for Addis Ababa, derailed when …
PlacePhansi Museum
… which was built in 1898 and was home to Esther Roberts, one of South Africa’s first female anthropologists. The …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the South African Communist Party Policy Conference, 27 September 2008, Randburg Towers
… conference for the SACP, as it takes place at the end of one of the most momentous weeks in the history of our … in order to succeed we will need to unite…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
… conference due in December of that year. Whilst one might have expected this latter period to have been one in which interviewees sought to bolster old myths…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… musicians — all of them black — and were able to record one session together before the country's brutally racist apartheid government forced them into exile…
Event3 students from Johannesburg are the first to climb 'Devil's Tooth' in the Drakensberg Range
Location: back to this day in history search archive The Drakensberg is the highest mountain range in South Africa, with Thabana Ntlenyana the highest peak in…
PlaceNederlandse Hervormde Kerkgebou, Pretoria
… was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the independent churches started by the … light green and the wall behind the pulpit was…
Call to A. N. C. Ranks by Albert Luthuli, 1 November 1954
… and happily carrying an extra load of work and sacrificing ones time, possessions and ability. "This Conference will … incapacitated. "We must demonstrate…
PlaceHole in the Wall, Coffee Bay- Wild Coast
… Hole in the Wall is one of the most impressive landmarks along the entire South … cut off from the sea by a mighty cliff, was seen by one of the sea people…
Document 118 - Johannesburg District Communist Party, Call to a Non-European United Front!
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew CALL TO A NON-EUROPEAN … to allow European Landowners to vote for…
Address by President Mandela to the Meeting of Directors-General Establishing a Forum of Directors-General Pretoria, 18 August 1998
… from election and ongoing interaction with civil society. One of the lessons we draw from our own experience and that … blueprint for meeting this challenge…
Address by President Mandela at the opening of the 36th Annual World Boxing Council Convention Johannesburg, 26 October 1998
… for its significance on what boxing controlling body one was talking about. While some do claim that there are … role-models for the youth of South Africa…
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
… longer possible. As the persecution has been inflicted by one racial group upon all other racial groups, large-scale … your church, union, lodge, or club to…
Appeal to the British public by Dube
… comfortable in your bright and wealthy homes, just give one thought to the hundreds of native families, men, women, … are unreasonable or impossible... You…
The start of mass campaigns
… so many campaigns that time it is hard to remember each one. It was a very exciting time. A lot of our campaigns were … in Port Elizabeth we worked very…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin
… concerned with Indians in South Africa the period was one of hope. The Indian community was united. The office … Hindi-speaking descendants of indentured…
PlaceJunction Avenue Theatre
… scripted their own plays and wrote many of the songs, and one of the plays which was widely discussed was Marabi … other plays produced during the apartheid…
PlaceMapungubwe
… to the point where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet . One thousand years ago, Mapungubwe appears to have been the … occupation. Mapungubwe Hill is 300m…
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… Cape Town is South Africa's oldest University! UCT is also one of Africa's leading Teaching and Research Institutions, … under half of the student body was…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
… Act to legally and actively subjugate those against them. One of the prominent resistors of apartheid in the 1950s and … organizations that forged alliances…