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PlaceMagwa Waterfall, Lusikisiki-Port St. Johns
… R61. "The Magwa Waterfall is pretty impressive!" It is one of few Waterfalls on the rugged Wild Coast that is …
PlaceKweneng, District of Botswana
… Kweneng is one of the districts of Botswana and is the recent historical …
PlacePhiladelphia
… Not the Philadelphia one attributes to the Eastern parts of North America, this …
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… of Indians in South Africa. During that time she was the one of the most prominent women leaders in South Africa. She …
EventFearon Fallows, the first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born
… 1821. He investigated possible sites and after choosing one the construction of the observatory began in 1825. …
PlaceOnderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute
… the historical core of what is widely regarded as one of the largest and most important veterinary research …
PlaceWierda Bridge, Six Mile Spruit, Pretoria
… intersection with Wierda Road, this steel girder Bridge is one the first of its kind to be Built in South Africa. It was …
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… and selling of goods by the local and district farmers. At one time a bell was placed in Market Square and was rung …
Document 45 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Left Opposition to Cape Town comrades, 23 October 1932
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 45 - Letter from …
The Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition 2014
… HISTORY COMPETITION MULDERSDRIFT, 03-06 OCTOBER 2014 DAY ONE (Friday 03 OCTOBER 2014) Afternoon arrival at Misty Hills …
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… was later performed by the Jazz singer Miriam Makeba. One of his best known poems was “The Children of Nonti” which … Gwala's poetry 'a powerful force' With…
EventPope Paul VI proclaims 22 new African saints. The saints, known as the Blessed Martyrs of Uganda, were a group of converts who were persecuted and martyred from 1885
… those prisoners who had not already done so were given one final opportunity to renounce their faith. It's not clear …
EventThe Berlin Airlift comes to an end
… The Soviet blockade of Berlin was finally lifted at one minute after midnight, on 12 May 1949, and the first …
EventAmy Johnson, a female aviator, lands in Cape Town in record time
… became the first aviators to fly from London to Moscow in one day. They also succeeded in setting a record for flying …
EventForces of the White Rhodesian regime (UDI) attack a nationalist guerrilla base in Mozambique
… Rhodesian regime retaliated by attacking guerilla bases. One such attack was carried out in Mozambique on 18 October …
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… in favour of "reformism" among remaining Nationalists. One result of this was the new tricameral South African …
EventAir France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda
… killed, 48 Ugandan soldiers, three hostages killed and one Israeli commando, Yoni Netanyahu, the oldest brother of …
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… formed in protest to the Tricameral Parliament. It was one of the most significant anti-apartheid movements, and …
EventThe Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire
… the signing of the memorandum started on 15 March. One of the most prominent issues discussed at the talks was …
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… Africa came under South African control after World War One and then under UN Trusteeship. Namibia finally gained …
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… such as the danger of Germans re-armament after World War One. His warnings against Hitler were largely ignored, but at …
EventProf. James Smith, who identified the first coelacanth found in South Africa, is born
… obtained permission from Prime Minister DF Malan to use one of the air force's Dakota planes to fetch the specimen …
PlaceFicksburg
… Ficksburg is a gateway to the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho. One of the most exciting ways of crossing the rugged Maluti …
EventIFP proposes a truce with ANC
… were unlikely for as long as the Frontline States were not part of any negotiations. The IFP consistently maintained …
ArticleCOVID-19 Timeline 2019-2020
… a man from KwaZulu-Natal who had travelled to Italy as a part of a group of 10 people. 6 March- As global Covid-19 … Rahbar dies from the coronavirus, as the…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
… of the Gold Coast’s (present-day Ghana) film industry. One of the Colonial Film Unit’s “Mobile Cinema” mobile units. … regime, 1957-1966, the Ghanaian film…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… ANC, after defeating A.W.G. Champion. In 1952, he became one of the leaders of the Defiance Campaign, a departure from … the point that the African National…
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… faced by women under all Western bourgeois democracies. One or two serve in the White racist parliament and probably … the European electorate increased from…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Bantu and the Gospel
… simplicity of these dogmas is insidious because on the one hand they appeal to the bucolic backveldter as obvious … reply was " -No, I forgot to go to the…
IV - The Death of Steve Biko
… and removed to a hospital? The statement contained one germ of truth when it said that on 7 September 'Mr. Biko … then the district surgeon said, 'Man, send…