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Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Toast Remarks by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, on the Occasion of the State Banquet, Palais Du Peuple, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 30 November
… Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Toast Remarks by His Excellency, the President of the …
ArticleKey sites
… Cafes A number of notable restaurants arose in the Grey Street … Naidoo who brought overseas and local jazz musicians to perform there. Patel’s Vegetarian…
Say It out Loud - The 1907 Presidential Address, Outdshoorn, Cape, 7 January, 1907
… that some people wondered at the reason of the conference. A Cape Town paper had stated that to all intents and purposes the Coloured people were looked ……
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… In 1912 Enoch Mgjimia , a lay preacher and independent evangelist, broke away from … Church and joined the Church of God and Saints of Christ, a small church…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… The Mfecane (a Zulu word which translates to “the crushing”) or Difiqane (a Sotho word which translates … the 1820s, while other Griqua settled on mission…
PlaceKomatipoort
… been discovered under rock ledges, that date back from a hundred to a thousands of Years ago. The Town of Komatipoort came into … power utility said the…
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … a departure from Marxism. We are told that it is…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… confronting the apartheid regime which had come to power in 1948 and had enacted a series of racist and repressive laws. Over 8,500 volunteers … orders…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… independence from the British. It was decided suitable for a new Town to be founded on the Mpumalanga / KwaZulu Natal border . The … dairy. 'Majuba' is one…
Pedi
… South Africa’s 11 official languages, and consists of up to 30 different dialects, one of which is Pedi. Much … According to research by Peter Delius,…
BiographyLouis Botha
… was the son of Voortrekker parents and was brought up on a farm in the Free State, and was educated at the local … with natural gifts, yet his training was…
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… life and education Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born to a Hindu family on 2 October 1869, in Porbandar, Gujarat, … father and his father's fourth wife…
BiographyShanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo
… 1954. After the death of her father in 1953, she worked as a clerk in the office of the Congress of Democrats , an organisation of progressive Whites allied…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… The youngest of three brothers, Scott was somewhat of a disappointment to his mother who had wanted a daughter. In 1911, his … outbreak of World War II,…
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… the British confiscated their farm so the family trekked to the Lichtenburg district in the western Transvaal. Like many others, as a young man he took up…
Mme Makwena Matlala
… Matlala’s consultative style of leadership and opposition to state initiatives did not endear her to apartheid … banished to Hammanskraal, [Transvaal, now…
PlaceColigny, North West Province
… The town lies 193 km due west of Johannesburg on the road to Lichtenburg, which is 29 km away. Originally named … the name was changed to honour Admiral…
BiographyKgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa
… Kgosi [Chief] Abram Ramotshere Pogiso Moiloa, a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s, took office in 1932 at the age of 22. He went up ‘to…
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
… known as ‘Thoko’, was born on 6 May 1933 and raised in a village situated about 110km from Polokwane, Northern Transvaal (now known as Limpopo), at a place…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… Gujarat. She was the daughter of Gokuldas Makanji Kapadia, a wealthy merchant. Kasturba had two brothers, one younger and one older than her. Her father was…
BiographyDoman
… In about 1657 Doman, a Goring-haiqua Khoisan, was sent to Batavia to learn to become an interpreter. But having … indigenous people to positions of servitude…
BiographySonja Schlesin
… Sonja Schlesin was born in Moscow on 6 June 1888 to Isidor Schlesin and his wife Helena Dorothy (nee Schloss). … Johannesburg, and therefore required the…
BiographyEla Gandhi
… water supply and no electricity. The Gandhi home was a basic family homestead, a wood and iron house where she lived in for the first six … her at home. “I…
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… who became an 1820 settler, and his wife Elizabeth Brooks, a Quaker. Shepstone's father was entered as a stonemason on the 1820 settler's list. Their first…
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… who became an 1820 settler, and his wife Elizabeth Brooks, a Quaker. Shepstone's father was entered as a stonemason on the 1820 settler's list. Their first…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… an offshoot of the Hlubi tribe. He traces his roots back to a small town near Alice , where his ancestors most likely … Mtutzeli Naphtali Mfenyana, was born…
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… in Roodepoort, was the eldest son of three children born to Jessy (nee Turner) and Percy John Hodgson. An immigrant from Yorkshire, Jack’s father died in a…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… John Gumede, and his mother were Christians and, according to their grandson Archie Gumede, were only the third Ngwane … about Josiah’s mother and his early…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… on June 18 1942, in Mbewuleni (meaning ‘place of seed’), a tiny village in Idutywa in Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His … later renamed the SACP). His father,…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… Alfred Milner, a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of … of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal Republic to war, oversaw the war…