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ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… was embroiled in controversy, on 29 February 2012, his public statements had gotten him suspended from the …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… the country will be plagued by continued unrest. Smuts in his famous address in May 1917 at the imperial institution in …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… Community Health Programme. 1970'S - Steve Bantu Biko with his son, Samora. Steve Biko was the Black Conscience leader, …
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… Shortly after they were elected, Mbeki clashed with his superior in Dar-es-Salam, James Hadebe over SASA’s …
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… 1945: Cold War begins 1946: Winston Churchill delivers his ‘ Iron Curtain’ speech 1947: Marshall Plan is announced …
PlaceOppermansgronde, Free State Province
… It all began on 5 July 1825, Frederick Salomon Opperman and his 4 daughters were sold at a slave auction in Graaff-Reinet. His wife and his son were not sold…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… South Africa. By taking human excrement from Khayelitsha, his action sought to make a connection with the lack of human …
ANC Election victory party, 19 May 2010
… expected to attend the event. The president will use his speech to thank the millions of South Africans - the huge …
Letter from Oliver Tambo to Ayatollah Khomeini, 13 February 1979, Iran, Maputo, People`s Republic of Mozambique
… His Excellency Ayatollah Khomeini, Teheran Islamic Republic …
Introduction by Oliver Tambo to a message from Nelson Mandela, smuggled out of prison, 10 June 1980
… fresh and valid and should be presented to our people. His call to unity and mass action is of particular importance …
Letter to the Chairman of the Special Committee against Apartheid by O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 October 1975
… We shall be extremely grateful if Your Excellency will use his good offices to inform Member States at the United …
Introduction to a Message from Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Smuggled Out Of Prison, 10 June 1980
… fresh and valid and should be presented to our people. His call to unity and mass action is of particular importance …
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… both nationally and internationally. He chose to centre his already well documented research on the social, economic …
EventCricketer Omar Henry born
… sanctions against the country’s national sides. With his inclusion into the South African national side, Henry …
ArchiveThe ANCs first armed military operation: the
… 1967. The Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, invited his South African counterpart John Vorster to send South …
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
… and the banning of torture Appendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand … account of the sacrifices—such as life imprisonment…
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
… Banned and harassed by the security police, Hjul and his family left South Africa for Britain on an exit permit in …
PlaceBensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg
… For example, a very early Daguerre camera - bought by his English rival, WH Fox Talbot, in 1839, the year that the …
PlaceRhodes Cottage, Main Road, Muizenberg
… events in the rest of South Africa kept Rhodes away from his home, and it was only in 1902 that he finally moved here. …
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… Harvard University in the US but the government rejected his application for a passport. This forced him to leave the …
EventThe Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill
… Prime Minister Robinson, and Attorney-General Escombe. In his telegrams Ghandi requested the postponement of …
PlaceOld Government Building, Church Street, Boksburg
… 1902 to 1958 the building housed the local magistrate and his staff, but after they were moved to a new building, it …
Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930
… written to Comrade Bunting, asking him to supply us with his version of the case. The following telegram was sent to …
EventPolitical Activist and Advocate, Dumisa Ntsebeza, is born
… 70’s and served time in prison, during which he completed his law degree. Ntsebeza emerged as a commissioner in the …
EventSouth African man walks from England to France through Channel Tunnel
… between Folkenstone in England and Calaise in France in his flip flops. Trains travelling at speed of 100 mph pass … (2005),' Man Walks To France Through…
EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
… led closer to Mannie and he was forced into hiding while his family went into exile. The prison break came roughly two … 8 August 2013]| African National…
EventMayor of Welkom, in the Free State, is tarred and feathered
… to sources, the National Party mayor, ran foul of his White constituency when he proposed the opening of a taxi …
EventFearon Fallows, first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born in England
… in the profession of hand-weaving. However, Fallows spent his spare time studying, especially subjects like …
EventCharles Swart, a student ranger from Mangosuthu Technical College, is killed by a leopard
… easy targets. In 2010, the Bengal tiger Panjo escaped from his owner's bakkie. He was found two days later after an …
PlaceCape Maclear, Malawi
… found the Cape, and named it "Cape Maclear" after his friend, the astronomer who was Her Majesty's Astronomer … found the Cape, and named it "Cape Maclear"…