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EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
… the basement of COSATU House in Johannesburg. Although no one was killed the badly damaged building was declared a …
EventPeter Nchabeleng President of Northern Transvaal UDF dies
… in Pietersburg, gave a different version from the one given by the police. Maurice testified "he was told by a …
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… Africa. He received the award in spite of the fact that one of his biggest achievements still had to come - the …
EventNelson Mandela is voted the greatest South African
… included a number of writers, actors and singers, but only one painter, J.H. Pierneef at 99. Athol Fugard came in as the …
EventThousands are killed after terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington
… in total, two were flown into the World Trade Centre, one into the Pentagon and the fourth crashed into a field in …
EventMore than 100 miners are crushed to death near Orkney
… The mining industry in South Africa remains one of the most hazardous professions, this despite the …
PlaceBethulie Bridge across the Gariep River
… related to the Anglo-Boer War. The town is home to one of the largest concentration camp sites from the war, as …
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 …
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…