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EventBartolomeu Dias reaches present Mossel Bay
… Bay. Here he took in fresh water and bartered live-stock from the Khoikhoi. Due probably to a lack of understanding, a … one of the Khoi. The Post Office…
EventMandela confirms Kerzner’s contribution to the ANC
… within the ANC. Holomisa demanded a public apology from the ANC, but a bitter and clearly agitated Mandela … the ANC's Disciplinary Committee ousted Holomisa…
EventGandhi leaves South Africa
… of Passive Resistance in this country, finally left from Cape Town by ship for England, from where he would return to India in January 1915. … Sparknotes,…
EventCullinan diamond is cut into two
… 9.50 carats of unpolished pieces. The largest stone cut from the Cullinan, the 530.20-carat Star of Africa, was set into the British royal sceptre. The other…
EventHerero people defeat German Forces
… German troops. Von Glasenapp's forces were also suffering from typhus, rendering them ineffective. After a month his forces were withdrawn from active duty…
EventThe BSAC flag is hoisted in Bulawayo
… led by Major Patrick Forbes, drove the native Ndebele from the town. The flag consisted of a Union Jack emblazoned … badge in the centre. A mining concession…
EventAlan Charles Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian is born
… In 2009 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Lincoln and the following year from the University of Kingston. … Rusbridger, A.,…
EventDr. Neville Alexander and four others are found guilty of sabotage
… Along with Namibian activists Kenneth and Tilly Abraham from the South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo), he … their political ideology’. In 1974,…
EventThe Esso Oil Company closes its business in South Africa
… Esso South Africa withdrew business from South Africa on 31 December 1986. The country was at the … was one of the many companies to withdraw their business…
EventDr Kenneth Kaunda, former president of Zambia, is born
… for the Northern Province. In 1959, Kaunda broke away from the ANC and formed his own party, the Zambian National … power until 1991, when he stepped down…
Bantu Authorities Act of 1951
… deposed. For example, Chief Albert Luthuli was deposed from his position as Chief when he refused to resign from the African National Congress . …
PlaceRwanda
… into the Belgian colonial empire as part of a mandate from the League of Nations (later United Nations). The … Hutu, Twa and Tutsi [vi] . Rwanda gained…
Some Observations on HIV and Mortality in South Africa: 2007, 2008 and 2013 by Thabo Mbeki, 14 March 2016
… the basis of documentation (‘death notices’) it receives from the Department of Home Affairs. This is because this is … The Report on Mortality in 2008 says:…
Address at the National Summit of Unity and Reconciliation in Rwanda Kigali 19 October 2000
… for the complete emancipation of the African people from the shackles of colonialism and neo-colonialism has been the struggle to free ourselves from the…
Address at the National Summit of Unity and Reconciliation Kigali, Rwanda, 18 October 2000
… for the complete emancipation of the African people from the shackles of colonialism and neo-colonialism has been the struggle to free ourselves from the…
Closing Address by President Nelson Mandela in the Debate on the State of the Nation Address Parliament, Cape Town, 10 February 1999
… too natural for us to appreciate the depth of the abyss from which, as a nation, we had retreated. Five years ago, … Humanity wants us to succeed. Able as…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
… her rebirth, cleansed of a horrible past, matured from a tentative beginning, and reaching out to the future … politician, but the workplace in which…
Nelson Mandela ‘Release Us or Treat Us as Political Prisoners’, 22 April 1969
… Letter addressed to the Minister of Justice from Robben Island Prison Dated 22 April 1969; Published by … have requested me to write and ask you to release…
ANC statement on more lies inside the Cape Town story, 14 May 2011
… the hallmarks of a party desperate for electoral support (from the formerly oppressed section of our society) and incapable of distinguishing between right…
Pravin Gordhan on a leash by Daniel Silke (Politics Web), 16 May 2016
… a broader implementation paralysis. Inefficiencies abound. From tragically weak educational outcomes, to moribund state … – already regarded as a choice…
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
… And so it was that a group of 106 eager young girls from the Staats Model School walked hopefully to their new … in Visagie Street. Here they would receive…
PlaceSouth End Museum, Port Elizabeth
… Museum Trust was started in 1999 when a group of people from the disadvantaged communities of Port Elizabeth and who … its aim is to depict the tragedy and…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
… its formation in late 1979 and mid-1981 when it moved from a commitment to Black Consciousness towards a Congress … army and police and the detention of…
Say It out Loud - The 1909 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 13th April 1909
… From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1909 … much as, if not more than, other sections of the community from the want of work and the…
If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016
… peoples’ visions of political and spiritual liberation from colonial forces, both formal and informal. The northern … memories. The name “Adwa” always…
Call for United Front by Albert Luthuli, 5 November 1961
… pistol clubs for the White womenfolk and added expenditure from an already strained budget to arm almost the entire … cannot live in a vacuum - it cannot…
ArchiveA History of Botsotso by Allan Horwitz
… and performances are similarly embraced. The transition from a closed, authoritarian society to a pluralistic and … lives with a freedom that has not existed…
Address on the occasion of the Launch of the Final Report of the World Commission on Dams 16 November 2000, in Cabot Hall, London Friends Honoured Guests Ladies and Gentlemen
… of the strange phenomenon of the Minister of Education from a certain country far down south on the African … few thousand specialists in the ir field, at…
Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … aristocracy of Labour. Natives are debarred or discouraged from entering these Unions and are in the…
Document 7 - Draft declaration of unity provisionally adopted at Unity Conference, Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … social organisations and parties of all shades of opinion from every walk of life, have met together…