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PlaceThe Free State National Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein
… The Free State National Botanical Garden dates back to 1965. During the 1963 Kirstenbosch Jubilee Year Tour it was decided that the Free State warranted a…
The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… Back for the 17th year in a row! Magnet Theatre in patnership with The UCT Drama Department, The UCT College of Music and The Michaelis School of Fine … The…
EventColoureds are removed from the voters roll
… The South African parliament, which was dominated by the Afrikaner nationalist majority, embarked on a series of campaigns to remove Coloured people from the…
PlaceAmalienstein, a Mission Station in the Western Cape
… Former Mission Station of the Berlin Missionary Society , 22 km East of Ladysmith . … German Missions . Amalienstein is on Route 62 , at the Entrance to the …
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
… Following the adoption of a Programme of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC began the 1950s with mass action campaigns marked by … The Defiance…
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… The United Democratic Front (UDF) was formed in August 1983, and was one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements, comprising of … 400 workers', church…
EventFinal legal note on the SS Mendi
… A brief report appeared on the 13th of November in the Times, which was the last of the legal conclusions around the sinking of the … Final legal note on the…
The South African Congress of Trade Unions
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and … Schreiner Anyway all this time I was still working with the Food and Canning Workers' Union…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… You are invited to the 2017 TB Davie Memorial Lecture, where Professor Mahmood Mamdani will speak on “Decolonising the Post-Colonial University”. The lecture…
ArchiveBlack Peoples Convention: Minutes of the 4th National Council Meeting held at the St. Anscars LP studios from the 16th to 17th March 1974
… Minutes of the 4th National Council Meeting of the Black Peoples Convention held at the St. Anscars LP studios from the 16th to 17th March 1974 … Black…
EventCongress of the People starts in Kliptown
… The historic multi-racial convention called The Congress of the People started in Kliptown, near Johannesburg. The … ANC The Freedom Charter and the United…
EventThe South African Air Force is established
… On 1 February 1920, the South African Air Force was established. This made it the first air force of the Commonwealth, with Lt-Col. Pierre van Ryneveld…
EventThe Berlin Airlift comes to an end
… The Berlin Airlift provided tons of supplies to war ravaged Berlin. Under the aid program known as the Marshall Plan, the USA supplied aid to the Western…
EventNigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom
… Nigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom on 1 October 1960. And an Executive … of conservative parties, and it came into power on the back of…
EventThe Birkenhead runs aground with 638 passengers
… An English troop carrier, the Birkenhead, under Captain Robert Salmond, stranded on a reef opposite Danger Point, the southern point of Walker Bay, at…
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… Coup. Major General Mohammad Siyad Barre took control of the country's government and established strong ties with the USSR and other Soviet-bloc nations. In…
EventSelf government is granted to the Transvaal
… The Transvaal Colony, former Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek … granted self-government status by Britain, according to the terms of the Vereeniging Peace Treaty,…
EventThe South African Reserve Bank is established
… The South African Reserve Bank was established in terms of the Currency and Banking Act, 1920 (Act No. 31 of 1920) in … South African commercial banks issued…
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… Following the National Convention held by four British colonies, namely, Transvaal, Orange, Natal and Cape, the draft South Africa Act was signed in…
EventManuel Pinto da Costa becomes the president
… of transitional government Dr Manuel Pinto da Costa, the leader of the Committee for the Liberation of São Tomé and PrÁncipe(CLSTP) became the … Manuel…
EventWork is stopped at the Kimberley mine
… On 4 August 1914, work was stopped at the Kimberley mine after 43 years of operation. The mine became uneconomical to operate as it reached a depth … a…
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
… Numerous attempts were made by the local government to clear informal dwellings at Crossroads in close proximity to the Cape Town International airport. The…
ArchiveLetter from S.E. Corrie Assistant Manager of the Standard bank to the partners of Media Training workshop
… Letter from S.E Corrie Assistant Manager of the Standard bank to the partners of Media Training Workshop regarding their current account as from the records…
EventSan involvement in the Battle of Chrissiesmeer
… The Battle of Chrissiesmeer (Lake Chrissie) during Anglo-Boer … War 2 started with an attack by General Louis Botha on the British forces under General Smith…
ArchiveSelf rule in the Transkei: a monstrous fraud
… The Bantu Authorities in Transkei have accepted a constitution, which the Unity Movement is unhappy about; to which this document ensures continued…
Appeal to the British public by Dube
… APPEAL TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC ABOUT THE NATIVE LAND ACT, 1913 by John Langalibalele Dube … South African Native National Congress [This extract from the…
EventThe Angolan-Namibian peace plan is accepted
… The Angolan Civil War began in 1975, with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. This civil war was raged between two major factions, the Communist MPLA …
ArchiveThe philosophy tenets and traditions of NEUM
… A presidential address delivered at the 9th Conference of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM).It is noted that this conference has been convened at the…
EventHendrik Witbooi, Chief of the Nama, dies
… Nama. Witbooi's grandfather and father were both chiefs of the Nama group, which was a title that Hendrik inherited upon the death of this father. After a…
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
… King Leopold II of Belgium handed over the Congo to the Belgian state on this date. Previously he held it as a … private project undertaken to extract rubber…