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EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… she was too Black and she was then raised in an Anglican mission orphanage. She was granted Botswana citizenship in …
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
… stone to colonialism, Kaggia returned to Kenya with a mission to Africanise religions. He started his own church, …
Document 71 - Spartacus Club October Revolution Celebrations Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Street, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
… Spark" "7th November" (in Xhosa) "The Earth is Good" ACT I Scene 1. At a Dutch farm, Transvaal, 1913, just after the … Judge. Song: "The Spark" ( 1st Verse)…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… around him barking orders and he just kept repeating, “I am a conscientious objector – I am here against my will and I have made my position known … in exile…
PlaceConcordia
… Mining Company. The 1875 census indicated that Concordia mission station had a population of 961. The railway line …
EventHenri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris
… as a part of a six year trip across Southern Africa with a mission to examine rock shelters and rock art. Most of his …
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… in 1961 Tambo was given the mandate to establish ANC mission offices in exile. He started both the UK/Ireland and …
PlaceClarkson, Eastern Cape
… A Moravian Mission Village in the former Humansdorp District, 26 km …
PlaceDurban Natural Science Museum
… emphasis on Biodiversity Conservation, and Ecology. The mission of the Durban Natural Science Museum is to acquire …
EventUN spokesman comments on Mugabe’s eviction campaign
… had no information that there was a problem regarding the mission. …
EventHendrik Witbooi, Chief of the Nama, dies
… Nama family in 1830. He was educated at a Lutheran Mission and was fluent in a number of European languages, as …
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… October 1881, Pixley ka Isaka Seme was born at the Inanda mission station in Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). Seme was a …
Message from Dr. AB Xuma, President-General of ANC, to the United Nations, 22 January 1946
… Only 40 per cent African Children accommodated in Mission Schools. 95 per cent africans are imprisoned under …
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… 1893, the Colony of Natal sent a deputation consisting of L. Mason and H.Binns to India to negotiate a new agreement … Prime Minister of Natal stated that…
PlaceZithulele Hospital, Mqanduli
… serves a population of 130,000 people. Originally a Mission hospital, known as Zithulele Mission Hospital. It is situated in a deeply rural part of … https:/…
ArchiveLetter to Petros Sipho Mkhize from his father in Macambini, KwaZulu-Natal
… Secondary School, Nyoni (Macambini), with "Bethel Mission" struck through and a "P.O. Box 104" correction. The …
ArchiveThe ANCs first armed military operation: the
… the Zambezi River on 31 July 1967 into Rhodesia. Their mission was twofold: the ANC's military wing, Umkhonto we …
EventGerard Bhengu SA artist, is born in Natal
… Gerard Bhengu was born at an outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station at Centecow, Bulwer district in Southern …
EventA South African Defence Force Capt. Wynand du Toit is captured in Angola
… unit evacuated successfully. According to sources this mission was part of an operation to confirm the existence of …
PlaceMjanyana Hospital
… Propagation of the Gospel on Foreign Parts established a mission station and lazaretto there, from that developed a …
9. In search of better employment
… 1891 whether the Protector knew of any vacancy. Source: I.I./1/134, 738/91, Natal Archives. The undersigned begs to … S.S. Umtata in April 1890. I was…
ArticleAbout South African History Online (SAHO)
… About Mission & Values Projects Education & Internships Conferences … research and accessible storytelling. SAHO's Mission SAHO seeks to break the silence on…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… 15 when he was appointed as “pupil-teacher” at the Pniel mission station where he’d completed only three grades of … speaking English to a lady in the…
Speech at the Funeral of M.P. Naicker, London by O. R. Tambo, 8 May 1977
… land of his birth - South Africa... He died whilst on a mission on behalf of our movement. Like those forces that …
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… and Mozambique. He returned to South Africa in 1977 on a mission to help students commemorate the 1976 demonstrations. … His final words are reported to be,…
EventLuthuli Combat Detachment crosses the Zambezi
… Africans in different sections of the country. The other mission was to set up military bases, together with ZAPU …
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… Khotso House as an attack on the heart of the Church, its mission and being.” Click here for van der Merwe's TRC …
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… to change the non-White franchise provisions, but the mission did not succeed in its purpose. The draft South …
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… age by his oldest brother. His earliest education was at a mission school in Graaf Reinet. After completing Standard 6 …
PlaceColigny, North West Province
The town lies 193 km due west of Johannesburg on the road to Lichtenburg, which is 29 km away. Originally named 'Treurfontein' (well of sadness), the name was…