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Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education
… that occurred prior to the arrival of Europeans in South Africa - farming and globalisation. These were not sudden … specialisation, accumulation of wealth…
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA’s involvement in WW2
… 829 signed petitions, which were handed to him. They were all united in their request that South Africa should withdraw from the war. The first Afrikaner … …
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South Africa, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, and chair of the … of his part in the transition to…
EventRaymond Dart completes work on Taung skull
… child. The skull was the first early human fossil found in Africa. With his find, Dr. Dart upset orthodox scientific … the ''missing link'' between apes and…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… and brutal moments of popular violence that engulfed South Africa in the decade between 1984 and 1993. Beginning in … Townships, popular violence spread…
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
… We came representing the hopes and aspirations of all South Africans. We were strengthened by the presence and … here "in order to review the past and reject…
EventThe Blue Bulls rugby team wins the South African Currie Cup at Loftus
… Cup is the premier domestic rugby competition in South Africa, dating back to 1889. The iconic gold trophy was first … British Isles touring team on their…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… in Springs, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng).One of South Africa’s most prolific novelists she has written non-fiction … of years, the changing response to…
PlaceMauritius
… the waters of the Indian Ocean , between the continents of Africa and Asia, it is situated below the equator, it is … camp of Aapravasi Ghat which was the…
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
… was not until the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal recognition as … them from rights regarding children and…
ArticleWomens Rights
… was not until the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal recognition as … them from rights regarding children and…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… as one of the largest civilian acts of bravery in South Africa. Tin Town The Springfield Flats area, rich in alluvial … His wife, children and other members…
Press Conference in Maputo: Comments by Oliver Tambo on South African offer of territory to Swaziland, 5 March 1982
… statements on this affair, in spite of the fact that we all feel very strongly about it." However many statements had … a move against our struggle and…
Press Conference in Addis Ababal: Oliver Tambo, 02 July 1987
… the white community. But we see it as in the interests of all the people of South Africa that they hear what the ANC has, as an alternative to … Africa…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… Sol T Plaatje’s ground-breaking work Native Life in South Africa was published 100 years ago in 1916. Janet Remmington, … humanity, modern citizenship and…
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
… Miss Edith Aitken. Miss Aitken had come to South Africa to found a girls’ school modelled after the North … entertainments and festivities were postponed so…
Tribute To Michael Harmel: Oration At Funeral In Prague, June 24, 1974
… dedicated to the struggle of the people and who devoted all his adult years to the cause which was dear to him above all others: the cause of liberation,…
PlaceLamont-Hussey Observatory
… inch lens finally obtained. The first expedition to South Africa was slated for October 1926 and the telescope was also … of Dr. Rossiter, Mr. H.F. Donner…
PlaceCurries Fountain Sports Development Centre
… and cultural environment in Durban and South Africa. The historical and socio-cultural experiences of all the people that used Curries Fountain, created … in…
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
… border. Relations between the Transkei and South Africa were strained, since Holomisa openly supported the … to decide on the possible reintegration into…
EventReported arrest of London bomb mastermind, Rashid Aswat
… of the bomb attacks in London on July 7 hid in South Africa for several weeks before being arrested in Zambia last … of Investigation (FBI) wanted to arrest…
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… the nomadic, Khoikhoi groups in Namibia, then South West Africa. The Bondelswarts, a nomadic Khoikhoi group who … 1906. Germany was defeated during World War…
PlaceSouth End Museum, Port Elizabeth
… of the suburb of South End. The elections of 1994 in South Africa gave many formerly disadvantaged people opportunities … the Diversity of Religion, Language…
ArchiveEulogy at funeral of Dr Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang, by Jacob Zuma, 22 December 2009, The Cathedral of Sacred Heart, Pretoria
… government, we then established a new Republic of South Africa. We introduced one sovereign, democratic State founded … Bill of Rights in our Constitution…
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… the Franchise Amendment Bill proposed to give the vote to all Whites at the age of twenty-one years, whilst Non-White … of separation of the Cape Province…
Chapter IX - Return to my faith
… I was in India and a few times when I first came to South Africa, I did go to church to please friends, and it would … obdurate, behind the wall that I had…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon of the conference of editors 6 September 1994
… ANC in particular - that such a storm will not come. South Africa should not again experience conflict based on racial, … nation apart. Reinforced by the…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… since his coronation as Isilo (King) of the Zulus of South Africa. Zwelithini (literally, “What does the world have to … lifestyle paid for by the KwaZulu…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… African History Online. The African National Congress, Africa’s oldest and most famous liberation movement, and home … of South African History Online. Where…
PlaceJohannesburg Botanical Garden
… which houses family groupings of plants and trees of South Africa and the rest of the world. The gardens contain an … Dams above it, which are home to many…