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EventTwo ANC members convicted of terrorism training
… to undergo military training in Angola, Zambia and other places. They were also accused of transporting weapons of …
EventFirst mines are proclaimed in Johannesburg
… 1852 and mining activities started successively in various places on the Witwatersrand (meaning Ridge of White Waters), …
Pretoria the Segregated city
… centre, which made it difficult for people to get to their places of work. At this point, the government had not … According to the Separate Amenities Act …
BiographyKing Dingane ka Senzangakhona
Dingane ka Senzangakhona was born in 1795 to father Chief Senzangakhona and mother Mpikase kaMlilela Ngobese who was Senzangakhona's sixth and ‘great wife'. [i…
EventOlaudah Equiano, enslaved person and writer dies
… and sold into slavery. The slave trade took him to places such as South America, the Caribbean islands and the …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
… At every level ANC activists must be built as leaders, in places of residence, in schools, places of worship, in the work-place, on the sports-field, in ……
Statement of Acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh Award Bestowed on the ANC by the World Peace Council by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, 15 December 1986
… World Peace Council to present this award to our movement places our organisation in the midst of such vital forces for …
Statement by Oliver Tambo of acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh award bestowed on the African National Congress by the World Peace Council, 15 December 1986, Luanda
… World Peace Council to present this award to our movement places our organisation in the midst of such vital forces for …
References and links: Local History
… documents and displaying and interpreting the heritage of places and people. Museum Box, (2013), “Create your own …
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe…
BiographyErnest Cole
Ernest Cole was born on 21 March 1940 as Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole, in Eersterust, Pretoria. He left school when Bantu Education was introduced, and…
BiographyJohn Taolo Gaetsewe
John Taolo Gaetsewe was born in 1916 at Maruping village in Ga-Segonyana, Northern Cape.His father was a migrant mineworker. He left a mission-run secondary…
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant parents, became a radical socialist, fiercely opposed to racism…
BiographyChris Hani
Thembisile Chris Hani was born in the rural village of Sabalele, in the Cofimvaba region of the former Transkei. He was the fifth of the six children of…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… place is in the kitchen, and very often unconsciously places her there.” To address this issue, the organisation … one. It is a kind of problem that…
PlaceQueen’s Tavern, 16 Stamford Hill Road, Durban
… Sporting and Dining Club. It had old newspapers from places like Cairo and Calcutta. They were collecting … http://www.zulu.org.za/places-to-go/durban-metro…
BiographyDr. Neil Hudson Aggett
Neil Hudson Aggett was born in Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy Aggett. He began his schooling in Kenya, and when his…
BiographyKing Mpande kaSenzangakhona
Mpande was king of the Zulu nation from 1840 to 1872, making him the longest reigning Zulu king. He was a half-brother of Shaka and Dingane, who both preceded…
BiographyGille De Vlieg
Gille de Vlieg was born Gillian Ruth Hemson in Plymouth, England in 1940 during a Nazi bombing raid on the city. After losing their home in a later bombing…
BiographyElizabeth Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…
BiographyDr Essop Essak Jassat
Dr Essop Essak Jassat, the second of three children, was born on 5 October 1932 in 11th Street Vrededorp, Johannesburg. Both of his parents came from India…
BiographyDirk Johannes Coetzee
Dirk Johannes Coetzee was born in 1945. The son of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and Generals Jan Viktor and Jac Buchner started…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, Beperkt (The Co-operative Wine Growers' Association of…
BiographyGovin Reddy
Govindasamy Reddy (Govin Reddy) was born on 16 June 1943 in Kranskloof, a farming area next to Claremont on the outskirts of Durban, Natal (now known as…
Document 48 - “The Anti-C.A.D. and the Trade Unions”, The Torch, 1 April 1958
… Disputes Act of 1953, which destroys the right to strike, places the African workers under the Native Affairs …
EventForced Removals commence from District Six
… were destroyed, and the only buildings left standing were places of worship. Over a period of 15 years, non-White …
EventBartholomew Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea
… Dias sailed down the African coast, landing in among other places present-day Angola and Walvis Bay, Namibia. During …
Women at the start of the 20th century
… camps and remove people to locations, far from their places of work. Women took it upon themselves to fight these …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the first Triennial Conference of the Methodist church of South Africa Durban, 17 July 1998
… of simply being a spectator. In our schools and our places of worship, people should be encouraged to share in …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… popularising this manifesto of our democracy, in our work-places;in our schools and universities;in our communities and … and economic life;in our…