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EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… on 21 October 1945. Kajee had come under criticism for his moderate politics and close ties with Prime Minister Jan …
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… continuing as Prime Minister and Smuts functioning as his deputy. The coalition received strong opposition from a …
EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… become State President in 1978, was forced to resign after his alleged involvement with the Information Scandal. This …
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… a system of banning. A banned person was restricted to his/her home and could not be seen with more than one person …
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 …
PlaceNhlangakazi, the Holy Mountain of the Shembe
… she was not a religious person. After Shembe's birth, his uncle Nhliziyo, gave him the name Shembe and his father named him Mudliwamafa meaning 'my inheritor…
Address to the Nation by President Thabo Mbeki, 21 September 2008
… made by countless numbers of our people, which included death. In this context it is most unfortunate that gratuitous … made by countless numbers of our…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… hoping that Germany and Russia would bleed each other to death. The major Allied war effort opened in the West only … hoping that Germany and Russia would…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… decree and the Bantu education system– as well as the death of the influential Steve Biko in 1977 –which somehow …
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London
… apartheid aggressor now demands a high price for ending his aggression. Even as it was escalating its aggression the … Despite severe repression, torture,…
Address to the Anti-Racist Day Meeting of the Greater London Council by O. R. Tambo, London, 21 March 1984
… apartheid aggressor now demands a high price for ending his aggression. Even as it was escalating its aggression the … Despite severe repression, torture,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…