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Address by President Nelson Mandela North West stadium Welkom, 27 August 1995
… the pernicious apartheid laws under which we lived for so long. Local councilors will have the duty to ensure that all … communities that they represent. 3.5…
EventPoqo members arrested
… National Congress recorded them as eight instead of the long-held view that there were seven. …
EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
… people who have endured and suffered so much for so long". The chairperson of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, …
EventSA Olympic team leaves for Barcelona
… 1994. This was South Africa's first participation after a long ban by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for its …
EventBritish troops establish their camp at Isandlwana
… The sprawling camp covered an area of half a mile long and 300 yards across, with space for over 250 wagons and …
”A House in Harrington Street”, photographic exhibition by Nicholas Eppel
… reflects three years in the life and household of long-time Harrington Street resident, Elizabeth Barrett, and …
EventSA jazz singer, Letta Mbulu is born in Soweto
… the tour Mbulu returned to South Africa, but did not stay long because of the apartheid government policies. She …
EventOldest part of Johannesburg, Marshalltown, is planned
… and mappingdid not believe that the gold would last for long, and mapped out a small triangular piece of land and …
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… wages were different.” Furthermore, Abrahams felt that the long hours they worked and the problems of childcare were of … that affected the women working in…
EventJames Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry, dies
… East. He got a job at a clothing factory and before long, managed to buy himself a car. He operated the car as a …
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… (now Mpumalanga), recruited workers were expected to work long hours on farms in extreme weather conditions, receiving …
EventDavid Kitson released
… never disclosed exactly what he had done to deserve such a long sentence. He had grounds for appealing against his …
EventMoses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart dies in Moscow
… away in Moscow, Russia where he was hospitalised after a long illness he suffered since 1968. In 1931 Kotane became …
EventSouth African Police (SAP) is founded
… police assisted the SAP where necessary. Not very long after the establishment of the SAP, mineworkers’ strike …
PlaceAgate Terrace, Port St. Johns
… of the river, where you can take a walk along the beach (Long Beach) or the road. …
PlaceClarkson, Eastern Cape
… A red haired man who stood over 6 feet tall, he spent his long adult life working to abolish the Transatlantic Slave … A red haired man who stood over 6 feet…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… a hundred soldiers under 24 year-old Lieutenant Walter Long were left in Lydenburg. Although Long improved the fort's defences the water supply ran low by 23…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… worked closely the Gandhi family in organising a week long vigil at the Gandhi Settlement in Phoenix, bringing together African and Indians in prayer and a…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… inequalities - the legacy of apartheid still casting a long shadow on the new democracy, after almost 5 decades of … in the country. Conclusion While South…
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… civilised European powers sleepwalked into after the “long peace” of the 19th century – a catastrophe whose … in the west today is greater than at any other…
EventDesmond Dube was born on this day.
… well known films including: Hotel Rwanda, Honeville and Long Run, the latter in which he starred opposite the …
ANC statement on the passing of Epainette Mbeki, 7 June 2014
… Her passing has made South Africa poorer given her long history of activism and her contribution in the struggle …
PlaceAddo Heights, Uitenhage
… pass, other than it's vertical profile. Despite its very long length of 18,7 km and a respectable altitude variance of …
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… of age in Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth, after a long battle with cancer. Nkohla was born on 22 February 1946. …
PlaceSteve Biko Bridge, East London
… during the apartheid era. Steve Biko himself served a long period of solitary confinement here in the mid-70s. The …
EventBafana Bafana legend Philimon Raul Masinga dies
… died at 49 years old in a Johannesburg hospital after a long battle with cancer. Masinga was born on 28 June 1969 in … which secured the South Africa’s…
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… Nations Centre Against Apartheid in New York. Mandela’s long-term incarceration began when he was captured in Cedara, …
EventJoyce Barker, SA soprano, is born in Mooi River, Natal.
… in 1963. Joyce Barker passed away on 23 May 1992 after a long illness in Johannesburg. …
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… 1989, five of the eight African National Congress (ANC) long term political prisoners were released from Robben …
EventDiscovery of the wreck of passenger liner SS Waratah
… Eastern Cape coast. This was the culmination of an 18 year long search for him. The wreck was found in an upright …