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PlaceTable Mountain, Cape Town
… 1503 the Portuguese navigator Antonio de Saldanha anchored his fleet in Table Bay and named it ' Aguada de Saldanha ', …
PlaceHamilton Primary School, Visagie Street, Pretoria
… and lead every primary school learner to develop to his or her full potential. Mr W J Berg (Headmaster 1969 – …
PlaceRissik Street Post Office, Johannesburg
… was the building contractor and was especially praised for his work. During this period the component parts of the clock …
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… Minister who has justly earned an international fame for his genius in statesmanship, will find a solution to the …
Document 20 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the Secretary, Communist Party of South Africa, 22 September 1930
… a request for reinstatement, and never replied to by him), his defiance of the Party since, amounting to very serious …
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… Afrikaner culture. The South African prime minister based his policy on a system which became known as apartheid by …
PlaceSprings
… is that he wanted to name it after himself, but because his name (Brooks) resembled the Afrikaans word ' broek ' …
Document 68 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 February 1937
… by the detective in charge withdrawal of charges and his job back at higher pay if he would scab. He refused. The …
An interview with Dorothy Molefi: Hector was ‘always smiling’
… so he left a message with neighbours. He said I must go to his place, so I went there. When I got there I saw women …
Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
… and progressive education calculated to prepare him for his responsibilities as a fully fledged citizen, the African …
PlaceLadysmith
… War’. Lieutenant General Sir George White made Ladysmith his centre of operations after having to retreat from a …
PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
… to the Heeren XVII, asking for Slave Labour. He wrote in his letter; ‘if it could be agreed upon, however, it would be …
PlaceGriqualand West
… immediately petitioned the British for the annexation of his lands to the Cape Colony . As a result, on 27 October …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first democratic President
… F.W. de Klerk as President. Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the Robben Island Prison. In June …
EventDjibouti and Cote d' Ivore strengthen diplomatic ties with SA
… to Nigeria by the state president, F.W. de Klerk, and his foreign minister Roelof "Pik" Botha a number of other …
Kaunda to be discharged from hospital, 25 September 2012
… director Lackson Kasonka told AFP. “We are consulting his family to know where he will be accommodated, because he …
EventIan Roberts is born
… on this day in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. It was his character of Boet in a series of television …
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
… A civil service where the phones just ring!" He ends his personal testimony with these words: "It is infinitely … of corruption in our prisons. He then gave…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… educator, Booker T. Washington, and said to his black audience: "I want to give you niggers a few words … man's country' and the nigger, the inferior race,…
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… Star, and a member of the Native Voters Association, like his neighbour who was Venda, Xhosa, Tswana, Sotho, etc. Such … impoverished Afrikaner ex-farmer of…
Justice Arthur Chaskalson: President of Constitutional Court interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 2 February 2000, The Braamfontein, Johannesburg
… was something that appealed very much to me. I, Lorraine (his wife) and I talked about it afterwards and then the … political cases. Taylor: Mmm. I mean…
PlaceSoebatsfontein, Northern Cape
… has it that a man named Hendrik Stievert pleaded for his life here, but was subsequently murdered by a group of …
EventJan van Riebeeck is born
… 6 April 1652 in order to create a settlement for the DEIC. His arrival therefore opened South Africa for white …
EventThe Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces the lifting of the '72-hour curfew'
… regulations that restricted black people's movement. In his statement he said that the curfew requiring blacks to …
ArchiveDemocracy and the Left in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ben Turok interviewed by Carilee Osborne
… corruption efforts by former president Jacob Zuma and his allies, making him a target for the latter group. He has … interested to see that even a person…
ArchiveCHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
… the accompanying battles over who could legitimately claim his mantle, was to endure into the 1990s. Gandhi as historic … to “cross swords” with Buthelezi,…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
… struggle for liberation both because of the longevity of his service in the ranks of the ANC and for his outstanding stewardship during the most difficult…
Archive2009 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 3 June 2009 (After National Elections)
… State of the Nation Address by His Excellency JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South … who will go to bed with a hungry stomach just because his/her…
Chapter 6
… 1936, p. 4083). In the same year he redoubled his assurances: "The Government wish once more to give the … Native peasant. He must get only enough land to…