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Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
… At Fort Hare, we had him as a guest speaker at the Campus Mission we held in August 1968. This mission led to a student protest days later, which resulted ……
Address at the National Council of Provinces, Cape Town 12 October 2000
… honourable members are aware, the majority of our voting stations will be based on school premises. As has happened in … patriotism and selflessness by…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… of arrest and torture at John Vorster and other police stations, because of fear of assassination at Vlakplaas and … society can assist with ideas as to how…
Report of the Joint Planning Council of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress, November 8, 1951
… trained persons to go into action in the big centres, e.g., Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth and … laws such as segregation in trains,…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… Jubilee Singers, they were a Christian choir on a mission to raise funds for a technical school in Kimberley in … Colony (South Africa). The trip was…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… been 1898. At some point in his early years, a Scottish mission was established in Kasungu, and many have speculated …
PlaceMossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
… and is the earliest navigational marker in South Africa . Mission accomplished , Da Gama returned to Portugal and was …
PlaceHamilton Primary School, Visagie Street, Pretoria
… and sporting activities are the basis of the schools mission to nurture and lead every primary school learner to … The school badge has been improved by…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
… rural KwaZulu Natal in 1909, and went to Gordon Memorial Mission School. At the school, Linda was exposed to different …
PlacePeddie
… Officer Commanding the 72nd Highlanders. In 1837 the mission of St James was established on a nearby site by the …
Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
… will have made an important contribution to the historic mission of transforming our country from a white-dominated …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… London, via friendly African states, to set up an overseas mission of the Congress Alliance. Frene Ginwala informs … Congress where they establish the ANC…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… and then went on to study at Shawsbury, a Methodist mission school at Qumbu . It was there that she matriculated …
PlaceThe SAS Somerset Museum
The SAS Somerset is stationed at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (V&A Waterfront), Cape Town. The SAS Somerset is a bar-class boom defence vessel, a type of…
PlaceHeidelberg, Gauteng
The Ueckermann family features prominently in the history of Heidelberg, Gauteng. Heinrich Julius Friedrich Christian Ueckermann (1827-1883) is widely regarded…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years' imprisonment
Founding member and president of the Pan Africanist Congress, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for incitement of Blacks to…
PlacePorterville
Before the arrival of Europeans, the area was inhabited by San and Khoikhoi peoples. In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck established a small colony on the Cape of Good…
Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
… the country. Armed guards were posted to protect power stations and other sources of essential services. Saracen … Africa and so were Rhodesian Air Force…
Community histories of Rustenburg
… War). In 1882, a town council was established with J.G.C. Wagner as first chairperson and S.Q. du Toit as first … In 1875, a German missionary from the…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… of the Department of Bantu Administration (DBA) J. H. le Roux and the senior clerk, Ngcukana that earned it … Again in October 4 men left Cape Town for…
Covert operations
… Mxenge's car where they informed Coetzee of completion of mission. Next Coetzee and Nofomela drove to Piet Relief, … weapons development. Privatised…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… and the British. c1880 Makgatho enrols at the Wesleyan Mission Teacher Training Institution of Kilnerton at …
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… Empire (including the recovery of the USA) was a global mission to be achieved, no matter the price. In his own … He even advocated forming a secret society…
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
… A sensational prison interview with M&G reporters uncovers new evidence linking Madikizela-Mandela … as we would be supplied with firearms to carry out the…
PlaceMooi River, a Town of the Midlands Meander- Natal
… access to emergency services such as ambulances and police stations. The Bridge also promotes pedestrian safety …
PlaceTygerberg Hospital
… the University of Stellenbosch 's Health Science Faculty Mission . This Hospital strives to provide affordable world …
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as 'Long Cecil' is test fired for the first time
The 104mm field-gun designed by American George Labram and manufactured in the De Beers workshop in Kimberley, known as 'Long Cecil' after Cecil John Rhodes,…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Pretoria East
… with the establishment of the DRC in Africa (NGKA), the NG Mission Church (these churches donated in 1986 to the United …
Address by President Mandela to the Meeting of Directors-General Establishing a Forum of Directors-General Pretoria, 18 August 1998
… within departmental planning and activities, its mission was achieved. It has been succeeded within the …
Address by President Mandela at the opening of the 36th Annual World Boxing Council Convention Johannesburg, 26 October 1998
… all the discipline of athletes to keep to your principal mission of attending to the business of the WBC! We are …