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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 …
ArchivePreface by Denis Goldberg
… back home in my homeland, South Africa. It has taken me a long time to find my ‘voice’ though friends will tell you … pass. I have sometimes been obsessively…
Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
… come in. Surely this should not be. It has taken us many long years of grim and bloody struggle to persuade the … any other event before, this Conference has…
Forming the Federation
… Conference From the time I joined .the ANC we spent a long time organizing the women. When I joined there were only … drove the car all the way from East…
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…
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…
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 …
EventDr Louis Luyt resigns as president of the SARFU
… After a month-long controversy including charges of racism, nepotism and … rugby unless they did so by May 7. On Sunday, 10 May 1998, Luyt resigned from his…
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… On 6 October 1902 the 3200km long railway line between Cape Town, South Africa and Beira …
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… The peace deal, called Lusaka Protocol, which ended the long and ravaging civil war in Angola, was brokered by the …
EventAthlete Mathews Motshwareteu enters the annals of the country’s athletics history after only five weeks of track athletics
… He remained one of the country’s greatest middle- and long-distance runners until a hamstring injury at the age of …
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… Nations Centre Against Apartheid in New York. Mandela’s long-term incarceration began when he was captured in Cedara, …
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…