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EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… encouraged the struggle against apartheid to continue. In his speech he stated that: "Throughout these long years the …
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… the British aministration, Frederick's brother, Hans, and his neighbour Hendrik Prinsloo, organised an uprising …
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
… Free State and Lord Gladstone would not agree to withhold his assent to the act because he claimed that it was not …
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… office from 1910 to 1919. Botha appointed Jan Smuts as his Minister of Defence. It was under Botha's government …
EventThe decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the First Matabele War (Ndebele), Zimbabwe
… the defeat at Bembesi but not before deciding to burn his capital Bulawayo to the ground rather than allow it to be …
PlaceCurry's Post
… is still in existence today, this where George Curry and his rather large extended family lived - he went on to have …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… hands of White Settler farmers. With no means to finance his land reform policies, Mugabe's supporters then went about …
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… would sweep all White people into the sea. Sarhili ordered his subordinate chiefs to obey the injunctions. The first …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… to be launched in South Africa in 1963. At the time of his claims, the PAC, African National Congress (ANC), the …
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
… how many people he thought died unnecessarily under Mao. His guess (and it was just a guess) was 1 million. The actual … seating under a tree, told stories…
Address at The Official Opening of The Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, 28 June 2003
… a bustling cosmopolitan port, Percy Bysshe Shelley said in his poem, Hellas: "The world's great age begins anew, The … I, and I am sure many of us here, are…
51. The ‘Satyagraha’ campaign ends
… Its provisions are permissive. No one is obliged to have his or her marriage registered. As for those coming from … been removed, it is not necessary for any…
Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner
… Simon Majara addressed this issue in the opening pages of his novel Liakhela. Here Majara remarks quite … tenants who could live on peri-urban farms. Taking…
Extract from a speech by the Honourable the Prime Minister during the Cape National Party Congress at East London on 3 September 1975
… sets, since that policy can be decisive for the future of his country and his people, more so today than ever before. And from the … policy which, where…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… fullest confidence in Mr. Sachs and deepest gratitude for his services to garment and other workers in the past … visited me. My four-year-old son, Andrew,…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 4 February 1974 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… in South Africa - as far as the ordinary man is concerned, his wage and his salary have more than kept pace with the increase in the … want to make it very…
Say It out Loud - The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923
… picture of the days of Johan van Riebeeck. For in his days the problems, which now concern us, had their origin. On his landing as the Cape of Good Hope he…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… Diocese of Johannesburg. 9 During the early years of his life, he was a committed socialist and a leading member … many years Vice-President of the Natal…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Budget Vote of the Presidency: National Assembly, 12th June 2007
… months from today will be the 30th anniversary of the death of one of South Africa's young heroes who at the age of … Steve Bantu Biko demonstrated during…
PlaceGoodman Gallery
… artist Brett Murray painting The Spear as part of his solo exhibition Hail to the Thief II exhibited in … Jacob Zuma in the pose of Vladimir Lenin, but with…
PlaceGardens Shul in Cape Town
… male-blinkered records do not mention the women)! Met in his new house, Helmsley Place, in Hof Street, and held a … Abraham Horn, a Rhinelander, who died in…
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… congregation and taught the Khoisan to read and write. His good works came unstuck, however, when he began baptising … under developed and degraded Village…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… Congress for twenty years (from 1920s to 1940s), was his uncle. Young people in 1930s were fighting his conservative leadership. [He was one of the founders…
69. ‘Moderate Indians’ form the Natal Indian Organisation
… the two Governments to hold discussions and report. On his return from UNO he had suggested that passive resistance … Joseph of the liquor and catering trade…
Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… and, eighteen months later, when Schoeman saw that his efforts had failed, he gazetted it. On May 6th, 1949, I … days later, the Chief Immigration Officer…
PlaceUmlazi
… A year later, Sir Theophilus Shepstone , a settler in his capacity as a diplomatic agent to the Native tribes of … the British colonial authorities,…
PlaceKwaNojoli, formerly Somerset East
… a long career as an artist devoted to the study of man in his environment, first in the context of Africa and Rock Art, later, in the interpretation of his…
PlaceTolstoy Farm, near Johannesburg
… South Africa that Gandhi developed, between 1910 and 1913, his Satyagraha philosophy of passive resistance, and it was on Tolstoy Farm that he and his…
EventDr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
… care centre at the age of 82, following a stroke. Early in his life, as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, Koornhof wrote a … on August 2, 1925. In 2001, Koornhof…
EventAmichand Rajbansi threatens non-cooperation with the James Commission
… himself. The commission of inquiry revealed that he used his offices to offer his close allies liquor licenses, influence the civil service … against the…