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EventPort Natal is renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D’Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 1837
… of Fynn (rewritten from memory 20 years after he had lost his original copy) and another settler Isaacs constitute the …
EventHouse of Representatives impeaches American President Bill Clinton
… were brought against him. Clinton was able to complete his term of office and was given an opportunity to redeem …
EventFreak storms create havoc in the Eastern Cape and President Mandela narrowly escaped injury
… injury when he was visiting a local pharmacy to buy his special Oteleum soap. The roof collapsed and the force of …
PlaceAddo Drift, Sunday's River in the Eastern Cape
… post. In 1832 he sold the inn to Joseph Hubbard who, in his turn, sold it to Samuel Webber in 1837. Webber already …
The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994
… 12H15 for 12h30 – 13H30 Hugh Macmillan will discuss his recently published book (Jacana: 2013). Drawing from …
Document 35 - “New Tactics Proposed for N.R.C. Boycott: Xuma’s Address to African Congress”, The Guardian, 18 December 1947
… The Guardian, 18 December 1947 BLOEMFONTEIN. - In his presidential address to the annual conference of the …
PlaceBantu Dramatic Society, Johannesburg
… received extreme criticism which then led Dhlomo to write his own version of the story. Figures such as Sol Plaatjie …
PlaceSt George’s Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town
… Gray. However, he didn't like it. Both Bishop Gray and his successor William West Jones wished for a grander …
EventNational Party refuses to serve on Buthelezi Commission of Inquiry
… Commission of Inquiry. The NP government acknowledged his right to institute a commission of inquiry into the … seeking to establish new constitutional…
PlaceVictor Verster Prison
… of these grounds was Victor Verster, who, after selling his farm to the government, became a commissioner within the … Prison on Robben Island in 1988, in…
EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… became active in underground structures of the ANC until his arrest in 1964. He was charged with sabotage and … the PAC. He was sent to Robben Island where…
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… out the cost of the battle and told him he had to “ask his friends to pay.” The United States also reactivated the … this point that President Botha had to…
UCT Summer School 2020
… century sociocultural landscape of South Africa. Today his descendants, a hybrid community of some 300 individuals … act at home and on the international…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… white farmer is making more use than he did originally of his farm and the farm is becoming too small for himself, his children and the natives. As land…
Restrictions on the media
… had not been hospitalised until he began coughing blood in his cell. But when Nelson Mandela contracted tuberculosis in … There are reports that Botha,…
PlaceDe Vlugt, Garden Route
… is what remains of the dwellings of Andrew Geddes Bain and his son, Thomas, their Outbuildings and the Concentration … labored to Build the Pass, the early…
PlaceHermanus
… Africa. He visited Hermanus and eventually retired there! His photographic studio was located next to his House on the present site of; the Post Office and…
EventSalman Rushdie's visit is still on
… other governments such as India and South Africa censored his book Satanic Versus. Many Islamic groups, including South … for committing blasphemy against…
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg
… and more. And I used to confront, you know, Colonel Vaz, his diaries were captured in the Tete province in Northern … go to the Nkomati Accord and you…
ArchivePrison letter from Petros Sipho Mkhize to Zondi, Soweto, addressed to Miss Jumaima Mbele
… 1967 (written from Pretoria Central Prison during his imprisonment; the letter carries no legible date, so this is the period bracketed by his sentencing and…
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… some of the most extraordinary works of the 20th century. His most influential work is Things Fall Apart (1958), which … and the English Premier League club…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… outskirts of Queenstown. This was after Enoch Mgijima and his followers refused to move from land they had ‘illegally’ … of making more land available to…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… and it is generally he who represents the interests of his family in any community disputation. On the other hand, … marriages where the husband is expected…
Zweli Mkhize denies Redi Tlhabi’s book allegations, says he hasn’t read it, 18 - September - 2017
… her drop the case. In a lengthy statement he offered his version of events, saying he had in fact been concerned … written by Redi Thlabi had ever tried to…
Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921
… of South Africa, Mr. Selby Msimang (president) delivered his annual address. He began by congratulating the visiting … standard wage for men at 10s., and for…
ArchiveChief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021
… Albert Luthuli, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize. I say this because I … to use Albert Luthuli's name in vain…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… held the position until independence was gained in 1990. His deputy was Salomon Hawala, who also served as chief of …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… was announced by Jacob Zuma during which he announced in his ‘State of the Nation' address in 2010. GNP recognised …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… (Walker 1991:195). Neither the prime minister or any of his senior staff was there to see the women, so as they had …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg just hours after his presidential inauguration on 10 May 1994. On 3 February …