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EventIgnatius Iggy Mthebule remembered
… a restaurant in Hillbrow , Johannesburg in January 1987. His whereabouts are still unknown to this day. Mthebule’s …
EventKing Sekhukhune is defeated by the British in war
… was murdered shortly afterwards on 13 August 1882 by his half-brother Mampuru. Click here to read more about the …
EventField-Cornet Jan Potgieter's commando burns Chief Sikhobobo's kraal at Qulusini
… a party of men outside the town to try to recover some of his stolen cattle. That night a Qulusi impi of 300 men …
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… to be identified with known persons, so he contributed in his own name but also used several pseudonyms, including …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa kingdom by defeating the Cirha and Jwarha groups. His descendants expanded the kingdom by settling in new …
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… the willing buyer, willing seller system "not working" in his February State of the Nation address . Although the …
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… to revive the old Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC). In his closing speech at the conference, Dr. Allan Boesak, who …
Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… complication is that Hamson is only half hearted about his Cape Flats campaign, and in fact is going to England too …
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… to transfer Goniwe was part of a plan to remove him from his community as he was seen as a strong opponent and …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… often demanded tax which was paid to him for living under his protection. Roles of men, women and children Men and …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… the entire tenant family if any one member defaulted on his or her labour obligation. The Act had additional elements …
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… the passive resistance campaign. In reaction, Gandhi and his supporters withdraw from the meeting and form a new body, …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… employment were allowed to reside in urban areas. In his examination of circumstances leading to the massacre that …
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… River Sovereignty (1848) . Rivalries between Potgieter and his fellow leaders Andries Pretorius and W.F. Joubert … the Transvaal’s forces in the war, Gen…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the launch of the UNDP 2006 Human Development Report, Kirstenbosch, National Botanical Gardens: Cape Town, 09 November 2006
… III who was the Administrator of the UNDP in 1990, said in his Foreword to the very first Human Development Report that: … outgoing United Nations Secretary…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening Ceremony of the 23rd Africa Regional Conference of the Food and Agricultre Organisation: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, 4 March 2004
… of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In his book “Globalisation and its discontents”, the Nobel … not follow the Indian example, if Chaudhury is…
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… to Pieter Swanepoel, a labourer-fitter on the railways. His wages were about £6 a month, but we got a free railway house and he also earned about £6 a month,…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… Boards was that the "Native's" cash wage packet was not his sole source of income but was supplemented and subsidised … the figure of 300,000 who will be…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
… who helped restore and rebuild the vibrant community of his home town. Modern Graaff-Reinet is based on tourism, game … the Graaff-Reinet Club. Named after…
EventElsa, the lioness made famous by Joy Adamson's book Born Free, dies in Kenya
… her three cubs. Adams took the cubs home and together with his wife, Joy, raised them. The two older cubs were later …
Archive2015 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 19 February 2015
… Special Investigating Unit, Adv Vas Soni, will be leaving his post at the end of February due to personal challenges at home, in particular the health of his…
Address at the National War College Abuja, Nigeria 8 December 2003
… that, when asked whether he still believed in God after his experience in the Rwanda genocide, he replied: "I know … handed over the Presidency of the…
Statement of the ANC Veterans League Inaugural National Conference, 6 December 2009
… Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, we discussed and agreed with his concerns over the dangers of the two evils, those being … Tata Mandela, on behalf of all the…
"If I were Prime Minister": Article by Albert Luthuli, 2 December 1961
… so much land as he can cultivate himself with the help of his family. This, I believe, is the policy in India. … and technology to every day uses of man, and…
Document 28 - Letterfrom E. R. Roux to the Central Executive, Communist Party of South Africa, 25 September 1928
… modifications in its concrete form), as contrasted with his own unbending opposition. Whether there is anything in … whites. It is a mere subterfuge to say…
O. R. Tambo Interview with Mayibuye on the Current Situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in General 1984
… with the constitution which we reject, was an attempt on his part to get out of a crisis generated by the growing … The President's Council was rejected. He…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye on the current situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in general, 01 March 1984
… with the constitution which we reject, was an attempt on his part to get out of a crisis generated by the growing … The President`s Council was rejected. He…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1947-Press Reports on the Campaign
… Dr Naicker and Dadoo were received in audience by His Excellency, Azzam the Secretary-General of the League of … Drs Naicker and Dadoo were received in…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… that the Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa and his delegation to the Peace Conference will represent the … from different parts of the country was…
PlaceKumalosville, Kwa Zulu Natal
… been told to bring £5 (R10) with him, and how each man put his money into one of a pair of enamel dishes, until both …