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The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note
… in Southern Africa that she set about writing her one great published work "The Role of the Missionaries" as it is … Her ideals and her ideas live on in her…
EventPiet Retief is baptized in Drakenstein, Western Cape
… Piet Retief was one of the leaders of the Great Trek that introduced Afrikaner settlement to the …
EventJames Sebe Moroka is born
… 1952, was born in Thaba Nchu, Orange Free State. He was a great grandson of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong Boo Moroka …
ArchiveNotes on the migrant labour system in Lesotho
… control policies. Furthermore McDowall records that the great involvement of Basotho in the migrant labour practice …
PlaceGroot Brakrivier, Mossel Bay Local Municipality
… Great Brak River (Afrikaans: Groot-Brakrivier) is a Coastal … D'Almeida, Dana Bay, Glentana, Fraaiuitsig, Friemersheim, Great Brak River, Hartenbos,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… By 1934 the racial character of Pageview had changed a great deal by becoming racially mixed as a result of the … passive resistance struggle in South Africa…
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… capital was at Gao, a city surrounded by a wall. It was a great cosmopolitan market place where kola nuts, gold, ivory, … trade and migrations. The Atlantic…
EventGroote Kerk pulpit is officially inaugurated
… NMC legislation on 28 September 1962. Beside the church’s great architecture, the other attraction that it possesses is … pulpit, which rests on a pedestal…
PlaceButterworth, Wild Coast
… the apartheid years). Butterworth is situated north of the Great Kei River and was established originally as a Wesleyan mission in 1827. These missionaries…
EventConstruction on the Aswan Dam starts in Egypt
… Egypt. The Dam contained 18 times the material used in the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The Dam is 11, 811 feet long, 3215 …
PlaceCarlisle Bridge, Eastern Cape
… Cape!. The original bridge was built in 1863 over the Great Fish River, but destroyed in 1874 by Floods! The …
The Indian People In South Africa: Facts: About The Ghetto Act
… The great majority of the South African Indians are descendants … a gallant band of over 2,000 men, women and children in a great march from Newcastle to…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 67th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1979
… are strictly numbered. Today, sixty-seven years after the great inaugural conference in Bloemfontein, the tasks which … the African National Congress by the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 67th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1979
… are strictly numbered. Today, sixty-seven years after the great inaugural conference in Bloemfontein, the tasks which … the African National Congress by the…
PlaceAmikoob, a Plain in the Willomore Area; (Vogelstruisleegte)
… They sleep under the stars and travel the byways of the Great Karoo, South Africa's outback. They call themselves …
EventDr Ernst Gideon Malherbe, SA educationist, is born in Luckhoff, OFS.
… the the University of Natal. He is considered one of the great educators to emerge from South Africa. He died in …
Document 54 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935
… groups our opinion in a comradely manner. We all place great significance on the development of the South African … of plundering against Abyssinia reveal…
South African cricketers walk out in protest against apartheid after just one ball is bowled by Arunabha Sengupta, 3 April 2013
… brothers, Mike Procter, Barry Richards and a host of other great Protean cricketers stood up against the politics of … African government rejected the idea…
PlaceVoortrekker Monument
… (Granddaughter of Andries Pretorius), Mrs. K.F. Ackerman (Great-granddaughter of Hendrik Potgieter) and Mrs. J.C. Preller (Great-granddaughter of Piet Retief…
Document 37 - “Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision”, The Guardian, 8 January 1948
… Indian peoples, Parliament cannot be representative of the great of the population, but must perpetuate the present … Services plan. The conference was…
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… blessing and goodwill of a united people. They expected great things of their Convention. So far the All-African … full organisational strength. It is true…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… At the end of 1938, with centenary celebrations for the Great Trek , Afrikaner nationalism became increasingly …
EventBritain refuses Uganda’s request for independence
… the British Indian Army had been deployed to Uganda at a great expense. To make up for this cost, taxes had to be … was granted greater economic…
PlaceCookhouse, Eastern Cape
… derived its name from a small stone structure, over the Great Fish river which, until 1819 was the Eastern boundary … and 25 km East of Somerset East, on the…
58. Congress has sold our rights
… I and my brother Indian farmers have been reading with great interest the exposure made by you and by Mr. P. S. … settlers in the country, we say that the…
PlaceMalawi
… long stretched country in south eastern Africa in the Great Rift Valley on the western shore of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi), the most southerly lake in the…
EventUganda gains independence
… The East African country Uganda gained independence from Great Britain as a parliamentary democratic monarchy with …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Durban
… share in our salute to one of India's and South Africa's great creations, the Satyagraha, and pay undying tribute to a truly great human being. Our…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… suddenly the ruling party were these very people, it was a great shock. Instead of South Africa becoming a more … Post saying, "Please send us photographs"…
OR Tambo lecture by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa
… Date: 01 October 2015 Time: 16:00 Venue: Walter Sisulu Great Hall, Mthatha The media is invited to the event. …