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Document 10 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Flyer announcing Third Annual Conference, 17 January 1923
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 10 - Industrial and Commercial … ago you knew nothing of a "Labour…
EventCecil John Rhodes is forced to resign
… in the infamous Jameson Raid and forced to resign by the British government. The raid failed because of swift reaction by the forces of the Zuid-Afrikaansche…
PlaceGrey College Complex, Bloemfontein
… The main Grey College Building was designed by Architect WH Stucke, and its cornerstone was laid by President Reitz on 16 May 1894. Hamilton Hall was…
PlaceFort Wonderboompoort, Wonderboom-Pretoria
… Completed on 4 September 1897 by the Krupps firm, Von Dewitz and Weiner, the fort cost £49 … fort to improve defence. Intially, the forts were manned by the…
PlaceThe Struben Mine Shafts, Kloofendal, Roodepoort
… The Confidence Reef was discovered by the Struben brothers on 18 September 1884. This sparked … in 1886. The first payable gold on the Rand was extracted by…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Bantu and the Gospel
… From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu There are two current platitudes which have … there is a great deal of work…
PlaceErica Girl’s School Building, Richmond Hill, Port Elizabeth
… Erica School for Girls in Port Elizabeth was begun in 1884 by Miss Mary Anne van Wyk, who initially gave lessons in the … decided to erect a new school…
2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup is a tribute to Africa - ANC, 21 May 2010
… Congress (ANC) has declared the event a tribute to Africa by adorning ANC headquarters, Chief Albert Luthuli House, … participating in the event. We are…
Restrictions on the media
… figure whose seventieth birthday had just been celebrated by millions of people throughout the world would have made it … the fact was a British Sunday paper…
PlaceOld Fort, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg
… Following the invasion of the ZAR in January 1896 by a troop of cavalry led by Dr Leander Jameson, the Executive Committee of the … mining town of…
PlaceSt Michael and All Angels Anglican Church, Boksburg
… has been proclaimed a Provincial Heritage Site. Designed by Sir Herbert Baker, the Anglican diocesan Architect, and … Anglican Church, Parsonage Street is…
EventThe Table Mountain cableway, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, is inaugurated
… Town, was inaugurated. The official ceremony was opened by the Mayor of Cape Town, the Rev. A. J. S. Lewis and attended by more than 200 people. By the…
EventKhotso House is bombed
… which resulted in nineteen people injured, was executed by police led by Colonel Eugene de Kock. During the 1996 Truth and … Botha. Both Vlok and Van der…
EventThe Afrikaner Broederbond is formed
… rigorous selection process was maintained and membership - by invitation only - was restricted to white, Protestant, … name,Afrikanerbond made a resolution…
EventOver a thousand people are detained under state of emergency following the Sharpeville massacre
… under South Africa's state of emergency that was declared by the South African government on 30 March 1960. The move by the government to declare the state…
EventIdi Amin is deposed as the President of Uganda
… in 1979 he suffers the same fate when he is overthrown by a military coup launched by rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces. In October 1978 Amin…
EventZimbabwe is suspended from the commonwealth
… after the country’s 2001 elections were found to be flawed by electoral observers. The elections were marred by politically motivated violence. The…
PlaceDie Nederlandse Reherformrde Kerk (Paul Kruger Church) Pretoria
… Rijsse was hired as architect and in April 1896 the tender by Daanen & Dorlas was accepted. The corner stone of the church was laid by Paul Kruger on 10…
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… the Kimberley Central Diamond Mining Company - managed by Barney Barnato. Diamonds were discovered in 1860 on De … Selling Organisation (CSO), which had also…
PlaceThe Free State National Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein
… site was the most suitable and it was purchased in 1965 by the Bloemfontein City, which transferred control to the … the National Botanical Gardens. The…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education homelands ”” those territories … issued in terms of South African…
Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… referred to above I informed you of the resolutions passed by the All-In African National Conference in Pietermaritzburg on 26 March 1961, demanding the…
Paper prepared at the request of the Special Committee against Apartheid, June 1968
… Africa, steeped in the doctrines Hitler sought to impose by force on mankind, seized political power from another … of human rights for all black people, and…
In the name of art - A reflection on fine art
… vibrant and independent non-racial culture has been forged by artists and cultural activists working in alternative, … direct political engagement have…
EventThree Zimbabwean intelligence officers stand trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house
… and their sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court. All three prisoners were former … intelligence and security forces. The…
EventSouth Africa closes its borders with Lesotho
… under government of Basutoland National party (BNP) led by Chief Leabua Jonathan who came to power as Prime Minister … The suspension of impending elections…
EventFormer Ivorian president is extradited to the ICC
… Criminal Court (ICC) following an arrest warrant issued by the Office of the Prosecutor for Gbagbo's involvement in … which he lost to Alassane Ouattara…
PlaceThe Queen’s Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… Henry Warden, came under threat of a Dutch commando headed by Andries Pretorius. As a result Warden ordered a set of … and a new fort was built in a more…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New Times, 05 January 1980, Moscow
… of elections in Zimbabwe. The imperialists, headed by Britain, are running a campaign to portray the ceasefire … and a return to the policy of a "voluntary"…
86. Non-racial sport
… A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The South African … portions of the 22-page document. Source:…