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… between Angola and South Africa. Includes a letter from R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the Minister … Republic of Cape Verde, confirming the key points arising from the meeting. …

… first and only church of the Dutch Reformed Church formed from three churches! When on 22 June 1950,  the mother church … by the governor. Rev. Cornelis Mol who was an Afrikaner from birth. In 1823, however Rev. Mol, for some reason … many years.   Ds. Daniel Joshua Pienaar came in 1887, from Aliwal North to Uitenhage . During the Synod of 1915 he …

… into an important chapter in the history of our struggle from a different viewpoint because the racist dogmas of apartheid dictated that he would be incarcerated apart from his Black comrades and colleagues. That segregation … But, true to himself and the cause he had espoused from his youth, he bore it with courage and an immense …

… fort, as it is in a situation where any persons passing from North to South would have to go just below the fort. The … of the fort. The one disadvantage was that it was in range from the sea. On the 7 August the British made their move. They began marching with infantrymen and sailors from Simon’s Town towards Fish Hoek and Kalk Bay, with the …

… everybody was convinced that Oom Hansie was a coloured oke from the Cape Flats or Eersterust in Pretoria. Some maintained that he was from Bosmont or neighbouring Wesbury in Johannesburg. On the … There was also Neville Nash, that soulful crooner from Eersterust who sang like a dream. And who among my peers …

… From the book:  A Documentary History of Indian South … notice to the inhabitants each time the Boer gun was fired from the Umbulwana Hill. General Buller's despatches, … was that the country was dotted with Asiatic Offices, and from that time up to today, the Indian community has known no …

… BY 300 SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS, OF WHOM 120 CAME DIRECTLY FROM SOUTH AFRICAN AND 180 AS EXILES FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD 'BEFORE DAWN' IS A CO-PRODUCTION …

… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Preston Mareka, a reporter for the Daily Dispatch; …

… the Secretary of State together with other representatives from the United States Government about the situation on the South African border including Cuban withdrawal from Angola and financial assistance to South West Africa …

… Don't Pay for Apartheid; if you vote, MPs will get R43 000 from GST, Tax, Cabinet Ministers will get R75 000 from GST, Tax, and GST Up, train fares up, food prices up, …

… to Marie-Louise Baricako, a prominent gender activist from Burundi, is what life is like at the moment for that … of Africa,” she told Daily Maverick. Baricako was speaking from New York. She was forced to flee Burundi along with more … Even though the situation in Burundi may have slipped from the headlines, the situation has not improved, although …

… The U-plan structure with a thatched hip Roof dates from 1830 and is one of the oldest Houses in the Historical … Mess but came into the possession of the Grossouw family from 1921-1985. It was declared a National Monument under old …

… The Tribal Model of DemocracyIn his speech from the dock, at his 1962 trial for inciting African workers … Mandela returns to this theme more briefly in his speech from the dock at the Rivonia trial, and again in his … Robben Island in 1974. There he describes what he learned from the proceedings of the tribal meetings at the Thembu …

… likewise in time came into the churches in large numbers. From 1850 the Methods were at work in the Orange Free State, while from 1860 German Lutherans laboured among the Pedi of the … different denominations of European origin, census figures from the twentieth century provide a rough guide to trends, …

… Cape Province and like so many young Africans he migrated from the poverty-stricken countryside to the city. He lived in Cape Town in a “native location”. He floated from one job to another, as so many did. There was little … seemed to listen to his opinions. Archie Sibeko , who came from the same village, slowly won his confidence and drew him …

… From the book:  Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of … to labour for the settlers, and slaves were imported from outside the Cape. The first group of slaves arrived in … slavery to end and be replaced with immigrant labour from Europe. Another Council member argued against it; he did …

… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Abednego Bartholomew Clement Xaba, Chairman of the …

… Message of goodwill and solidarity from His Excellency Dr Kenneth David Kaunda, President of the Republic of Zambia from the chairman of the preparatory committee regarding the …

… Notice of a conference on women's struggle in South Africa from 6th to the 18th January 1990 at the bottom. Quote from Phyllis Jordan. The song Malibongwe is dedicated to the …

… From the book:  The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by … stronger. British tactics, however, were totally different from those the Dutch. They weren’t just looking for grazing … Philip recorded that: "The institution of Theopolis has from its establishment . . proved equivalent to a military …

… wooden partition wall, the corpse could be seen suspended from the roof inside. I broke open the door and found the deceased hanging from a beam by a rope in the centre of the room quite dead. … so as to completely arrest the circulation of blood to and from the brain, thus causing death by apoplexy. Appearance of …

… I had of speaking to Steve Biko. He was on the phone from his home in Ginsberg, King William’s Town, and wanted … held. A few days before Steve’s funeral, I was removed from Baakens Street Police Station, and driven to Alexandria … farewell to a dear friend and comrade. Later, I was moved from Alexandria to Grahamstown. I was thus kept in detention …

… Large size and medium. Then and now (dates range from 1965 to 2008). The images sprawl over the extensive, and … in any of them could easily fit in others. One group, from which the show takes its title, pairs black-and-white photos from the apartheid era with more recent color images. “A baby …

… University of the Witwatersrand, March. Extracts taken from various sources: Here are documents from the months and days before the start of the Pan … branch of the Pan Africanist Congress dissociated itself from that campaign, through its chairman, Mr Josias Madzunya, …

… conditions bordering on crisis. We have been excluded from the Commonwealth, and condemned 95 to 1 at the United … with the Government. None of us can draw any satisfaction from this developing crisis. We, on our part, in the name of … our call. Support for a National Convention has come also from the bulk of the English language press, from several …

… on the shore in the late afternoon; eight thousand miles from where, last night a little after twelve, a gunman called you to the door. This morning, when I came in from the beach, a neighbor asked, "You're from South Africa, did you catch the news about a doctor …

… was enrolled. By February 1918 the enrolment had increased from 295 in 1916 to 386.  The staff then consisted of three … of Education.  All efforts to trace records of the school from 1942 to 1971 have proved in vain. The W J Botha Hall was … was made to the Department to alter the name of the school from Plumstead Primary to Timour Hall Primary which became …

… by squatters to obtain Legal Property Rights and reaction from existing Property owners in Hout Bay forced the … The majority of the Community are Black Xhosa speakers from the Eastern Cape . There are also a number of Coloured people who hail from the traditional Squatter Communities. There are reputed …

… above seal level is 1226 metres. The railway line from Kimberley reached Fourteen Streams on 1 December 1890. … South Africa Company, who undertook to build the line from Kimberley to Fourteen Streams and thereafter to Vryburg, … force of 270 men under Police Inspector Snow withdrew from Fourteen Streams to Kimberley, and the following day a …

… On this day in 1980, Southern-Rhodesia gained independence from the British, taking the name Zimbabwe. The day marked … Smith made a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from Britain. This was after the British government had made … majority rule a condition for the independence of Rhodesia from Britain. Smith followed the UDI by declaring Rhodesia a …