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EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… (RENAMO). The ambush happened on a Saturday on the main road, 32 kilometres from the Mozambique capital Maputo. …
EventA strong delegation of the ANC NEC members arrives at Caculam, Angola
… Executive Committee (NEC) members arrived at Caculama, the main training centre of the ANC’s military wing, Umkhonto we …
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… in Cape Town and had premises on both sides of the Lower main Road. On the one side feed and pigeons and on the … would become Observatory. The area from…
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
… around the country. Cuttings were then sorted into some 89 main subject headings (from Africa & Agriculture to the World …
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… Radicals, 1939-1946 4. War Issue In February 1933, the two main white political parties, the Nationalists and the SAP, … on Britain being victorious…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… the National Party, and to lay down its principles. The main aim was to direct the people’s ambitions and beliefs … groups made the SAP's rule more difficult…
Indian Community
… lived in cramped yards, sharing a communal toilet. The main areas that Indians occupied were beyond the Umgeni … Act meant the expropriation of Indian…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… especial before Walter was imprisoned, it was not her main connection to political activism and there were other … league, she also played an integral role…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… in action. The anti-war camp was itself divided into two main tendencies: those who espoused neutrality, and those who … Herzog but the “Purified” National…
EventNational Arts Festival celebrates 37 years in Grahamstown
… running for 10 days in June and July. It consists of a Main programme and Fringe programmes, all of which are …
EventMembers of the ANC and SACP are detained due to Operation Vula
… an underground operation called Operation Vula. The main objectives of this operation were to smuggle freedom …
EventF.W. de Klerk clamps down on KwaZulu
… to the failure of constitutional procedures as the main reason for the declaration of the emergency. …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… Native Congress (NNC) is officially inaugurated. “The main aims of the Congress were to cultivate a political …
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… and coffee”¦we planted this bomb at the door of the main office of the pass office in Ordinance Road. When we …
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… at all, but in the band of conglomerate which formed the main reef. Since then these rocks have produced 40% of the … at all, but in the band of conglomerate…
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… influence on him in his early years. Anglicanism was the main focus of his Aunt’s life. Although he claimed that his … and an epicenter of politics, jazz,…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… of importance on religion. This makes sense since their main purpose in traveling to South Africa was to spread the … it consumed the teachers’ entire lives,…
PlaceGordonia Division
… which joins the Orange River just north of Augrabies. The main industries are stock-farming (cattle,Karakul and other …
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
… in the harshest and most threatening of situations.The main focus of Cole’s photography was his commitment to …
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… report on the 1962 Paarl Riots. The report analysed the main causes of the riots, and included information on Poqo, …
EventThe Bethal Treason Trial resumes
… Mothopeng and seventeen others). The defendants faced two main charges under the Terrorism Act, and a number of …
EventRobert Mugabe assures the SADC that the 9-10 March election in Zimbabwe would be free and fair
… violence broke out largely against the MDC which was the main opposition. The rising tensions in Zimbabwe after the …
EventThe siege of Mafeking starts
… Northern Cape (now North West Province), situated on the main railway line to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and the Bechuanaland … Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo-Boer…
PlaceHout Bay, Atlantic Seaboard- Western Cape
… Mountain . Its beautiful heavily wooded Valley became the main source of timber for the building and repairs of ships …
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… database of southern African science, s2a3.up.ac.za/bio/Main.php, as on Tuesday 06 May 2008. …
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… is dried and worked into rolls ( roltabak ). The other main products of the area are dried fruit , dried beans and …
National Arts Festival 2017
… Cape, 130km from Port Elizabeth. The Festival comprises a Main and a Fringe programme, which are both administered by …
BiographyLouis Botha
Louis Botha was born near Greytown in Natal in 1862. He was the son of Voortrekker parents and was brought up on a farm in the Free State, and was educated at…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… context) takes up memorisation and commemoration as a main theme. Many monuments are photographed, obviously with a … caption, this visual presentation sums…
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… on the Equator in the Gulf of Guinea. It consists of two main islands—São Tomé and Príncipe—and several rocky islets, … Centuries! São Tomé Peak , the…