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Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… the "noise Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was making about his nephew who is allegedly being held by the ANC.] It is a …
SABC CEO Jimi Matthews quits: ‘What’s happening at the SABC is wrong' (Tmg Digital), 27 June 2016
… Matthews tweeted a picture of his resignation letter to SABC board chair Professor …
PlaceAmandelboom, Town in Northern Cape
… Brigade leader Major Cyril Swart says every time his band marches, 'two or three join our flock'. The local …
PlaceEritrea
… since 1993. President Afwerki Isaias has always expressed his disdain for western-style democracy. Some interesting …
PlaceHaarlem
… father of Coenraad de Buys, the battling giant who left his legend – and offspring – all the way from the Cape …
PlaceNapier
… Napier was established in 1838, when Michiel van Breda and his neighbour, Pieter Voltelyn van der Byl, could not agree …
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… Kessler's bid was successful and in 1841 he built his first steam locomotive, the Badenia for the Grand Duchy …
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… report. 20. The Acting President-General's report on his tour. 21. Revision of the administrative work of the …
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… action in scabbing is driving the native to look upon his fight as between black wage-workers on the one hand and …
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
… reference in the account by Hanno the Carthaginian of his voyage through West Africa around 470BC. During the 5th …
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
… had unbanned the organisation in the Transkei. Moreover, his opposition to the homeland system and the holding of a …
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… of South Africa and leader of the National Party, launched his "Total Strategy" in response to what he saw as the "Total …
EventCharles Darwin and the HMS Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands
… in the Galapagos would be the principle inspiration for his work, On The Origin of Species, one of those rare …
EventSlavery is abolished at the Cape
… (starting in 1835) from the Cape Colony. Piet Retief, in his famous manifesto to the Grahamstown Journal, wrote: “We …
EventThe Directors of the Dutch East India Company propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possible area to settle some Dutch families
… it 'T'Houtbaaitjen' (Dutch for 'Bay of Wood'), noting in his journal that its mountainous slopes held 'the finest …
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… This has resulted in Mugabe declaring that criticisms of his regime is racist in nature and that critique voiced by …
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… would begin its work. After a seven month trial, Malan and his co-accused were cleared of all charges on 11 October …
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… J L Labuschagne, twice walked into the street, threw out his arms and cried, "Shoot me!" The second time, when the …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The British evacuate Rustenburg to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek
… Girl Guides movement, which began partly as a result of his observations of children during the siege of Mafikeng and …
PlaceRaadsaal, 95 St George’s Street, Bloemfontein
… raising for the Government a sum of £900 and, at his request, was allowed to use half of this money to build a …
Introduction
… they were quick to learn the complexity of the man and his message. The 1908 compromise was interpreted by one …
ArchiveStatement fron Anant Singh on the 30th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison
… from apartheid to freedom. I met Madiba two weeks after his release in Durban, where I spent an exceptional hour with him. His gentle, caring and modest…
EventVan Zyl Slabbert is elected as the leader of the PFP
… from the Pietersburg Afrikaans High School in 1958. His political career blossomed during his academic studies at the University of Stellenbosch, … leader of…
EventLegendary artist Johnny Clegg dies
… On 16 July 2019, Jonny Clegg died at the age 66 years at his home in Johannesburg , Gauteng after he was diagnosed … the social cohesion of young South…
EventLegendary photographer Sam Nzima dies
… in Bushbuck Ridge, Limpopo . He grew up in a farm where his father worked and his family lived. Nzima’s teacher had a camera and he was … against the…
Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas to James Ramsay MacDonald,
… that each member should be free to follow the dictates of his own reason and conscience. At that Annual Conference the … of the founders of the S.A.L.P. He…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1980 - 1989 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… that: Allah is our God, Muhammad is our nabi, our way is his sunnah, our religion is Islam, and our life constitution … for the birth of the Republic marks…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… 19th century. Wihelm Bleek first used the word 'Bantu' in his 1862 publication Comparative Grammar of South African …
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… to the tactics which were being employed by Gandhi and his followers in the South African Indian community. …
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… Source: www.mieliestronk.com/ khoisan.html Shortly after his arrival at the Cape of Good Hope Jan van Riebeeck …