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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…
Arise! Vukani!
… Lenasia, Eldorado Park, Riverlea, Bosmount and Fordsburg, all in the the Transvaal Province. Coverage and analysis was of liberation struggles taking place,…
EventThe first legal photograph of Nelson Mandela released.
… Congress and a famous black political prisoner in South Africa. In 1964 Mandela was convicted of sabotage in the … was produced by the Bureau of information,…
EventJosiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the LWF
… movement, the main building at the headquarters of the All Africa Conference of Churches in Nairobi, Kenya is named …
EventBafana Bafana play 2-2 draw with Cameroon
… Johannesburg on this date. The match, which ended in 2 all draw, was preceded by two matches in which the South … The South African team was coached by one…
EventTutu and Mkhatshwa join solidarity fast
… the State of Emergency be lifted throughout the country, all political prisoners be released, and the South African … strike drew sympathy from different…
EventDr Alexander Logie du Toit, South African geologist, is born in Cape Town
… His work raised him to prominence and he became South Africa’s most important geologist. Du Toit studied both … supercontinents collided and formed Pangea…
EventKing Mswati III is born
… HIV/AIDS, abducting and marrying underage girls have all sparked outrage and disapproval in his country and … and 24 children. He is the last absolute…
Fosatu Worker News
… of South African Trade Unions and was distributed amongst all union members with the aim of uniting workers in the … struggle for fair and equitable labour…
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 … …
WhatsYourHeritage
… In commemoration of Heritage Day, we are celebrating South Africa’s diversity and our cultural heritage. We have … university an inclusive African university…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Documents, Articles and Papers
… All our archival material on this subject are found here: …
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…
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…
'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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
… Several hundred artists and activists from South Africa living in exile and within the country, as well as … and Afrapix, a documentary photographic agency,…
European Societies in the Middle Ages
… wikipedia A new era: changes in Europe bring about changes all over the world After the Middle Ages in Europe, the … eventually permanent European…
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…
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…
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…
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…