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A Tswana village
… detailed information about the Iron Age way of life that African farmers followed. …
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… biography. Adichie is a young writer, whom the foremost African Storyteller, Chinua Achebe, has described as having … her studies at Yale University where…
Document 65 - Z. Sanders (Zena Susser), “Aspects of the Rural Problem in South Africa”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 1 December 1952, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 1, 21 February 1953 [....]
… expansion of Native Trust policy, and obviously no South African government based on the present electoral could or … freedom must lead quickly to complete…
EventAndre Botha, South Africa’s bodyboarding champion saves a life
… End Notes [i] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 237. ↵ [ii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African…
Recommendations of Commission on undesirable publications - Interview: Albert Luthuli, 1 September 1957
… said Chief A. J. Lutuli, President-General of the African National Congress, in an interview with New Age. "The … to conscience, above all liberties." "On…
PlaceBotshabelo
… started work in the north eastern part of the South African Republic in 1860. There were unsuccessful early … Schwellnus and Eiselen, contributed to the…
`We will come back with Msholozi`- erupts Pondoland, 12 December 2008
… Great Place hall as crowds sang their hearts out to greet African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma on … by the ANC-led Government. Issued by:…
South Africa: Basic Education Hosts 2016 Inkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Programme, 4 to 7 October
… year will see the learners rub shoulders with the South African liberation stalwarts such as Sophie de Bryn and Dan … of the Department of Basic Education …
PlaceSeychelles
… Food Crops; Cotton and Sugar Cane, very similar to South African agriculture in Eshowe and the Province of … Herminie is the current President (2026/04/16). …
PlaceRosebank, Cape Town
… The Irma Stern Museum , named after the South African Artist who received International and National … media. The gallery also displays other contemporary…
PlaceIrma Stern Museum
… ) There are regular exhibitions by contemporary South African artists, exhibited! The beloved Irma Stern Museum … Firs, where it occupied the home-and-studio…
PlaceLiberia
… formerly known as the Grain Coast, is one of the few African countries including Ethiopia that were not colonised … the European Countries. The country was…
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… to the court's opinion, delivered in July 1950, the South African mandate was still in force. However, after the … the Organisation terminated the mandate in…
EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… started on 26 June 1952 as a joint venture of the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). From this date planned acts …
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… pay a heavy fine. Bailey went on to participate in South African politics and upon Rhodes' death in 1902, served as … buried in the hills of Muizenberg. Sir…
EventCarl Niehaus is sentenced to 15 years in prison for high treason for being a member of ANC underground
… the apartheid system. He joined and became a deacon in the African Dutch Reformed Church in Alexandra and also became an active member of the African…
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… and was succeeded by Desmond Tutu as the head of the South African Council of Churches (SACC).Having witnessed the … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) …
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… responded by detaining several members of the South African Student Organisation (SASO), banning the organisation … AZASO was disbanded in 1986 when it…
EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… the wake of renewed attacks on the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). NUSAS was a federation of students … at the centre of the controversy…
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… place to maintain white domination in all aspects of South African society. Apart from the legislation implemented to … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds…
EventThe Boipotong massacre takes place
… where battles between Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC) raged. In 1989 more than 90% … negotiations indefinitely and…
EventAllan Boesak’s plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… an extra-marital affair with a white employee of the South African Council of Churches. He later divorced his wife to … was the ANC Western Cape president…
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… of Narainsamy Thumbi Naicker , a banned member of the African National Congress (ANC) who was also under house … Criminal Court. Pillay is co-founder of the…
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… the age of 87. References: Feldberg Leon (1976), South African Jewry, (Fiedhill Publishing Company), p.283| … Cecil & Malherbe Fana (1977), 'Jack Penn', in…
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… of conflict between Colonial Administrators and autonomous African chiefdoms. The death of Cetshwayo in Eshowe in 1884, … movements that were superseded by…
PlaceBergtheil House, 16 Queen’s Avenue, Westville
… as well as the role of these settlers during the South African War (1899-1902) and the First and Second World Wars. … reference library with a considerable…
PlaceThe Fountain and Garden of Remembrance, Chatswood-Sydney. Willoughby Park Centre
… their lives in the service of the Empire, during the South African Boer War of 1899-1901.’ The marble Memorial is … lives in the “Service of the Empire”…
PlacePampierstad
… established under apartheid by the funds from the South African Development Trust (SADT) for people evicted from … the other was to create a pool of labour…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… as the historic 1956 anti-pass march by thousands of South African women. Visit our feature 'History of Women's struggle … ' for further information about…
EventSuppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 approved in Parliament
… date. The Suppression of Communism Act, banned the South African Communist Party and gave the government the power to … take down of liberation organizations…