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EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… former President Nelson Mandela at his inauguration in 1994. It has been suggested that Mbuli's life came under … campaigning. Attempts were allegedly made…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African National Congress Activities
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 11. A. M. … National Congress is a fundamental feature of a stage in the evolutionary…
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
… was 'founded' by the American Colonisation Society (ACS) in 1822 and was to serve as the home of freed slaves from the … to as Americo-Liberians emerged as…
The First South African side to play in the sub-continent: Boer Prisoners of War in 1901 (Part 1 of 2) by Arunabha Sengupta (Cricket Country), 12 October 2015
… and the Boer prisoners-of-war who played a two-day match in July 1901. Back (left to right): Phillipus Ooosthuizen … had been very popular and exquisitely…
EventAll African People Conference is held in Accra, Ghana
… Kwame Nkrumah the All African People Conference was held in the capital city Accra in December 1958. Nkrumah felt that Ghana independence would … African…
EventFourth Nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara
… April 1961, France conducted its fourth nuclear bomb test in the Sahara Desert. Adding to the tension of the time, was … to lead Europe and potentially…
EventFrance’s war in Morocco ends with Treaty of Tangier.
… In August 1844 French forces under General Thomas Bugeaud defeated the Moroccan army in the battle of Isly. The battle was a result of the French ……
EventAnton Hammerl, South African photographer, is killed in Libya
… survived without medical attention. Consequently, he died in the desert. Hammerl and other frontline journalists were … the rebels’ attempt to oust Muammar…
History Wars, Wars in history & other Southern African histories
… In the prologue to The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley claimed that … differently there”. That is certainly true for 1914, for in that year southern Africa was…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… The biographical essays are selected from students in a South African history survey course that sought to put … through pen and paper Jonathan Ansumana…
ArchiveA survey of race relations in South Africa: 1951-1952
… A survey of race relations in South Africa in 1952 and includes chapters on: The functioning of South … affairs and events outside the Union; Rising tensions…
EventSir James Liege Hulett dies in Durban, South Africa
… Sir James Liege Hulett was born on 17 May 1838 in South Yorkshire, England. In 1857, at the age of 19, he came to South Africa. Sir … Exchange, listed…
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape on 6 April 1814 as Governor with a mandate to … salary of the town secretary of…
BiographyLucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles
… Lucy Mary Wiles (Mullins) was born in Johannesburg, 1920. Wiles originally trained as a nurse. … art work were signed as Lucy Wiles until her marriage in…
EventThe National Anti-Corruption Forum is launched in Langa
… Forum was launched by former Deputy President J.G. Zuma in Langa, Cape Town. The forum was born of a cabinet decision following the National Anti-Corruption…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… approximately half of the entire African workers employed in Durban, had come out on strike. South Africa’s Apartheid … the beginning of a turning point in…
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… When the system of apartheid was implemented in South Africa in 1948, certain laws had to be put in place to maintain white domination in all aspects of…
EventFormer Tennis player, Kevin Curren, is born in Durban
… In 1976, a year after passing matric (now Grade 10), Kevin … Texas, United States of America. He obtained a BCom degree in sports management at the…
PlaceClearwater, Now Known as Griquastad- in the Northern Cape
… In 1801, William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer , of the … at Leeuwenkuil . The site proved too arid for cultivation. In about 1805 they moved the Missionary…
EventThe Du Preez brothers appear before Judge Faan Hanke in Bloemfontein High Court in connection with the murder of two soldiers
… and Petrus du Preez appeared before Judge Faan Hanke in Bloemfontein High Court in connection with the murder of two soldiers, Michael … De Brug to Ladybrand…
PlaceStatue Of Cecil John Rhodes, in the Company's Gardens
… The Statue of Cecil Rhodes was erected at Company’s Garden in Cape Town in 1908. It features a full body replica of Rhodes wearing a … hand raised and…
EventJoachim Ammena van Plettenberg is born in the Netherlands
… Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg was born on 8 March 1739 in Leeuwarden, Friesland in the Netherlands. He came to the Cape as an employee of the Dutch East…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… National Students Congress (SANSCO) The emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the adoption of its … against Apartheid that changed…
ArchiveA survey of race relations in South Africa: 1953-1954
… Survey of race relations in South Africa in 1953 and 1954 and includes chapters on: Politics and … activities of non-European organizations and those working…
EventG7 meeting on world finance kicks off in London
… 8 after the inclusion of Russia), opened a two-day meeting in London that, while unlikely to yield any major changes in exchange rate policies, offers fresh…
EventAn intricate prisoner exchange takes place in Maputo, Mozambique
… An intricate prisoner exchange takes place in Maputo, Mozambique, involving 133 Angolan soldiers, … and Major Wynand du Toit, a South African officer…
Document 4 - ‘Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering’: report in the ‘South African Worker’
… any other section of the white community must surely know in the very core of their beings, if they were unaware of the … the freedom they yearn for with all…
EventElectric lights are installed in Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… Street is possibly the most historically rich street in Cape Town. It gets its name from the man who vehemently … Today the street is a main attraction for…
EventSir John Herschel, British astronomer, arrives in Cape Town
… astronomer, mathematician, chemist and photographer. In 1833, he embarked on a journey to South Africa to … and other objects of the southern skies. He…
EventANC command structure in the Western Cape is arrested.
… a group of Afrikaners led by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert in Dakar, Senegal. In July 1987, at the initiative of the Institute for a … of 62 people, mainly…