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Tribute by Comrade David Makhura delivered at the funeral service of Comrade Chilly Magagula, 16 October 2010
… towards making this world a better place than he found it. I would like to add a few pages of my own testimony to … about the work of veterans in preserving…
Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
… shape a generation August 15 1977 was the final occasion I had of speaking to Steve Biko. He was on the phone from his … At Fort Hare, we had him as a guest…
Address at the National Council of Provinces, Cape Town 12 October 2000
… and construction of this system of governance. I believe that it would be fundamentally wrong for us to … honourable members are aware, the majority of our…
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
… our government and the people of South Africa as a whole, I am honoured to welcome you to the Union Buildings, the seat … of arrest and torture at John…
Report of the Joint Planning Council of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress, November 8, 1951
… laws such as segregation in trains, post offices, railway stations, etc. (e) Group Areas Act - if and when possible. … (a) General apartheid segregation in…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… source So what do we know about the tour? This is what I have so far discovered. Between 1891-1893 a group of young … Jubilee Singers, they were a Christian…
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 …
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 … by University of Chicago Press, pp…
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
… and scholars - April 1961 by Nelson Mandela Dear Friends, I am writing this letter on the instructions of the All-in … will have made an important…
Covert operations
… SHERIFF, TRANSVAAL SECOND RESPONDENT FOUNDING AFFIDAVIT I, the undersigned BUTANA ALMOND NOFOMELA do hereby make oath and state: 1. I am a 32-year old male…
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
… Nomathamsanqa Mzaidume (Gertrude), was a science teacher. [i] Her parents desperately wished Winnie had been born a boy … and then went on to study at…
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
… back in 1877 and was not very impressed with the place. I am sure things have improved since then! For a while it was …
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 delegation of the African National Congress, and I particularly, feel specially honoured by the invitation … the country. Armed guards were posted to…
Community histories of Rustenburg
… In 1875, a German missionary from the Hermannsburg Mission Society in Germany, Lutheran Minister Ferdinand … German laymen in 1889, and they established an…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… Again in October 4 men left Cape Town for Transkei on a mission to kill Matanzima. They were intercepted by police in … groups left at different times headed…
PlaceTygerberg Hospital
… the University of Stellenbosch 's Health Science Faculty Mission . This Hospital strives to provide affordable world …
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…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… 1870 The death of the King of the Baostho Moshoeshoe I. 1878 Sekhukhuni at war with the Transvaal and British … and the British. c1880 Makgatho enrols at 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 …
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 … nothing more than “extra employment”. In…
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
… as we would be supplied with firearms to carry out the mission,” recalled Dlamini. According to Cebekhulu’s … house. “He told Mrs Mandela that he did not…
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 … South Africans, especially the poor and most…