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Awards of Recognition to Honourable Early Associates of Gandhiji and Phoenix Settlement 1904-1914
… (the sole surviving daughter - living in India) - This family is well known in the north coast as members of the … in Indian politics serving as the…
EventThe district of Uitenhage is founded in the Eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
… a need to improve the colonial administration of the Cape areas. The new district of Uitenhage was then founded and was … Volkswagen factory which is the…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… has undergone many transformations in the eye of the South African public as well as in the global imagination. He has … and beyond. He was part of the group…
PlaceBrandfort, Free State
… died in the Brandfort concentration camps during the South African War. Winnie Mandela had been banished to Brandfort on … were erected in early 1901 during…
EventCosatu calls for three days national protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (LRA)
… At its Special Congress in May, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) called for three days of … largest stay-away (5 - 7 June) up to that time…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… In July 1990, five months after the South African government had unbanned the ANC, security police in … nom de guerre of Gebuza, Nyanda had headed the…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
… better protection than mountains and forests. In the rural areas which become the main theatre of guerrilla operations … active hostility towards it from…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) abandoning its traditional … The period 1950 -1952 began with a commitment to militant African…
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… and then to apply what we learn to an account of South African society. " A "society" is a number of people in a … points to the factual dominance of an…
PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
… of cleaning themselves has been allowed them.’ The proper Housing of Slaves, in Cape Town presented the Dutch with a … Office, and the Women’s Auxiliary…
BiographyJohn Mtini
… in 1936 and many subsequent campaigns. He was a veteran African Congressman, and he was over seventy years old at the …
ANC pays tribute to the late Arthur Goldreich, 26 May 2011
… breeds of revolutionaries that changed the course of South African history. Not only did he sacrifice his privileges as a white South African but bore the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Cross-roads of Native Policy
… believer in social equality that he married an African woman; on the other side there were Dutch fanners who … also number about two millions; thirdly, those…
PlaceShangana Cultural Village
… of forest and grassland and are open every day. A bustling African market Village forms the centre of Shangana, where … the necessary etiquette to ensure the…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Acknowledgements
… Lesotho, and we began a running conversation on South African society that continues to this day. We found that we … and Economic Research at Rhodes…
BiographyMpush Makambi
… In a fierce battle between Apla cadres and the South African Defence Force (SADF) near the Botswana border, … In 1999 he was voted King Korn boxer of the…
BiographyColin Gardner
… In 1989, he was a member of a delegation of South African academics who met with the African National Congress (ANC) in Lusaka, Zambia. A year …
ArticleEarly civilisations
… Many of these major civilizations were located in fertile areas near large rivers. Most of these civilizations were …
BiographyKuben Naidoo
… Prema Naidoo and others were detained in 1981, the South African press published a photograph of his ten-year-old son, …
Address to the Parliament of Ghana, Accra 06 October 2000
… unless it is linked with the total liberation of the African continent." Immediately, the beating drums sent this … live under squalid conditions in both…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… the Amersfoort , Pieter Kemp. It seems that Angela and her family were taken by slave raiders somewhere in the Ganges … The VOC Commander Pieter Kemp bought…
PlaceAlberton, Germiston
… is still a very exclusive Area, some of the famous South African's who live there are: Japie Mulder (Springbok rugby … to the major Population centre. It has…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba's mutilated body is found
… that the special branch wanted to destroy the whole family, as Dweba's death was becoming a matter of public … Dweba was suspected of being a courier of guns…
EventFormer Springbok rugby captain, Franscois Pienaar, is born
… as Gauteng Province). Born into a working class Afrikaner family, he captained the South African national rugby team, better known as Springboks from ……
EventKaiser Matanzima of Transkei announces his intention to retire from the Presidency
… in February 1982, to devote more time to traditional and family affairs. However, in 1986 Matanzima was forced by the South African government to retire from…
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… his political activities, Mnyele was forced to leave his family in Alexander, becoming exiled in Botswana. He became very active in the African National…
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… historic move, Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National…
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… the eldest of five children. At the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, the family moved to Estcourt in Natal . It is here that she … thirteen schools…
BiographyGabriel Dichaba
… in the Defiance Campaign and was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) between 1954-1956 and …
BiographyW Mati
… Born in 1923, Mati worked as a clerk. He joined the African National Congress in 1946. He was active in the 1949 … Member of the African National Congress,…