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PlaceAlicedale a Village in Albany District
… main Railway Line between Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. From here a branch line leads to Grahamstown. The town was a … training facility during the…
PlaceAlbertinia, Mossel Bay- The Garden Route
… and became a Municipality in 1920. The name is derived from the surname of Johannes Rudolph Albertyn, 1847-1920. He … Two factories in Albertinia extract…
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
… Bakwena Southern Sotho sub-tribes. The word Qwaqwa hails from the San language meaning ‘whiter than white’ which was … up most of the homeland’s rocky…
EventAnnesu de Vos, SA poet, is born.
… the Eugene Marais prize, a prestigious literary award from the South African Academy for Science and Art. Since then widely anthologized selections from her…
EventDr Ben Ngubane is born
… in President Mandela's Government of National Unity from 1994 until August 1997. In March 1997, Ngubane was … his long-term relationship with the IFP when he…
EventSA artist Sydney Khumalo is born
… 1964, when he became full-time artist, receiving guidance from Edoardo Villa. In 1967 he visited the United States of … in 1979 and the USA again in 1985. He…
EventThozamile Botha breaks banning order
… he was advised to flee to Zambia. He stayed in Zambia from 1983 until 1986 and continued serving in the National … has an MA in political science and public…
EventTranskei breaks all diplomatic ties with the Republic of South Africa
… of South Africa.This included a unilateral withdrawal from the non-aggression pact between the two governments, and … over disputed land. References: O…
EventTranskei Defense Force topples Transkei Bantustan leader George Matanzima, but denies coup
… Bantustan, was toppled by his military and forced to flee from the Transkei after a bloodless coup led by Defence Force … Holomisa also announced that…
EventNigeria cuts its diplomatic missions
… by half. Nigeria hoped that this measure would save it from further economic decline. The cut came after the military regime of Buhari, which took power from…
EventDisaster strikes as Portuguese ship São João sinks
… Johns) with 600 people on board. The ship was returning from her voyage to India when she was stranded. She had left … the coast. The leader, his wife and…
EventThe first weather forecast for the Union is issued
… was issued by A.G. Howard of the Union Weather Service from the branch office in Cape Town a few days later. The … assistance in simultaneous meteorological…
PlaceClumber, Eastern Cape
… 1820 to Dr Thomas Carlton, leader of a party of settlers from Nottinghamshire. In October 1893 its name was changed to … called Clumber was established on a…
EventThe first Boer Trek to Angola that started in 1874 reaches Lake Ngami (Thirstland Trek) in 1875
… to the exodus of Boer/Afrikaans families, most of them from the districts of Pretoria and Rustenburg, through … ideas. The movement comprised of several…
EventGhanaian President Kwame Nkrumah calls on world leaders to impose “total economic and political sanctions” on South Africa
… government, and South African aircrafts were prohibited from flying over the rest of the continent. In addition, the … to convince the United Nations (UN) to…
EventThe British government closes its consulate in Angola
… closed its consulate and evacuated British citizens from Angola. This was a subsequent to increasing tensions in … government in the mountainous region of…
EventUN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis
… troops followed Patrice Lumumba’s request for assistance from African countries and the United Nations. The secession … happened shortly after the country…
EventThe condition of Edwin Smith, the youngest baby in SA to undergo open-heart surgery, improves
… Smith, Edwin was less than a day-old when he suffered from a congenital heart problem which preventing the smooth flow of blood from the heart to the lungs…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn page 3 Article: Response to a Crisis
… deploys its strategies in every other field, stretching from blatant bribery to political blackmail, from naked military aggression to parliamentary reforms…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu
… These papers are selected from a number of essay and address published from time to time and are here brought together after the …
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… story about a gothic heroine, Nomsa Ntobeko, who migrates from the Eastern Cape to work as a teacher in the Karoo. BODY … about a gothic heroine named Nomsa…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… in South Africa: Past and Present (Wits University Press), from which this edited extract of the editors’ introduction … to a significant piece of…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… relative wealth of share-cropping families who returned from Lesotho with their flocks and herds at the end of war. … precipitated the eviction of hundreds…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 8
… From the book: A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African … The lights had just gone off in the cinema as he ran back from the pavement to the entrance…
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … work which represents a radical and decisive departure from all the histories hitherto written on…
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… An immigrant from Lithuania, the young Charles Back I, landed on these … responsibility for the farm upon his father’s passing. From the start, Charles…
PlaceCircle of Kramat's, Cape Town
… Legend goes that it is this circle that protects Cape Town from earthquakes and National disasters. Kramats or Mazaars, … is in the Muslim cemetery in the Bo…
Briefing to organisation of African Unity Kampala, September 8, 1990
… were prowling around the country. There was also violence from the state agencies. As a result of the failure of the … these elements, there was a widespread…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… Commons I never set foot in the place except to spit at it from outside on the pavement. But as I was listening to the … a boycott, Macmillan didn't support…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… writing and storytelling that span societal issues from race, identity and love to reformist-feminism. … coups and counter-coups that rocked the Nigerian…