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PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… landing place to an invading military force. Consequently, towards the end of the 18th century, the area saw the …
EventMoïse-Kapenda Tshombé becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo
… elected to the advisory provisional council of Katanga and towards the end of the 1950s he became president of the …
EventHeadman Tshabalala, founding member of the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed
… their first album was released, reaching gold status. Towards the mid-eighties, Ladysmith Black Mambazo had become …
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… African people were put into separate concentration camps. Towards the end of the war approximately 116 000 Boer women …
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… The conference will cover the following topics: v Towards the Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and …
EventAmina Lawal’s sentence upheld
… branded the sentence inhumane and discriminative towards women. According to some interpretations of Sharia …
Document 65 - Z. Sanders (Zena Susser), “Aspects of the Rural Problem in South Africa”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 1 December 1952, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 1, 21 February 1953 [....]
… forces of our capitalist economy are gradually driving towards the breakdown of restricted mobility and restricted … the needs of these workers and migrant…
EventField-Cornet Jan Potgieter’s commando burns Chief Sikhobobo’s kraal at Qulusini
… looted cattle and grain, and drove the inhabitants towards Vryheid. This attack on the Qulusi was avenged within …
EventCongo administration is handed to the Belgian government
From the beginning of colonialism in the 1880s following the 'scramble for Africa', Congo had been regarded as King Leopold II's personal fiefdom. Leopold's…
EventField-Cornet Jan Potgieter's commando burns Chief Sikhobobo's kraal at Qulusini
… looted cattle and grain, and drove the inhabitants towards Vryheid. This attack on the Qulusi was avenged within …
EventSouth Africa's first democratic elections
… changed the history of South Africa. It paved the way towards a new democratic dispensation and a new constitution …
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… and discussion. The ideological leaning of the club was towards the Pan-Africanism of Marcus Garvey, as espoused by … witness the disadvantages of a welfare…
Address to Beijing University Beijing, 6 May 1999
… South Africa is committed to working with China towards these goals. But we must also elaborate our … that we safeguard the advances that the world has made…
"Racial Problems in South Africa": Speech at the Second Pan-African Youth Seminar by O. R Tambo, Dar es Salaam, 5 August 1961
… that arises is, at what point during this progression towards the present does the element of race enter the … themselves as racial antagonism and attitudes…
A Future Free of Exploitation - Address to the First Congress of MPLA by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, December 1977
… the liberation wars ensured that the people's advance towards social emancipation would not be halted. Thus it is … Congress, it blazes a new trail out of…
”Racial problems in South Africa”, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the second Pan-African Youth Seminar Dar Es Salaam, 5 August 1961
… that arises is, at what point during this progression towards the present does the element of race enter the … themselves as racial antagonism and attitudes…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the National Council of Provinces Cape Town, 7 August 1998
… is therefore of critical importance in finding the way towards a national consensus around a strategy for sustained … and the social partners are working…
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… defeat, therefore, weakened the party considerably. Towards the end of 1945, it seemed as if South Africa was at … condemned in no uncertain terms South…
Document 61 - A. Mon [M. N. Averbach] 4 , “A Comment on Trotsky’s Letter to S.A.”, Worker’s Voice, 1, 3, July 1945 […]
… in this sense, peasants by aspiration only. They aspire towards becoming a peasantry, but are not a peasantry in … proletarians and their dependents. The…
Zuma to grow ANC membership in tribute to Madiba, 17 July 2011
… ANC President Jacob Zuma in officially launching the drive towards the one million membership, on Monday, July 18, at …
PlaceVenda
… the Kruger National Park with Gazankulu, another Homeland, towards the Southeast. Its capital was Thohoyandou and it was …
EventSekonyela, chief of the Batlokwa, dies in the Wittebergen Reserve, Herschel district.
… battle of Khoro-e-Betloa against the Basotho, which ensued towards the end of 1853 (between October and November), …
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… B.J. Vorster joined the final stages of the talks. Towards the end of 1974, Vorster, backed by President Kenneth …
EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… He first began to campaign actively for peace in Rhodesia towards the end of 1974 and succeeded, with the help of …
EventNelson Mandela meets President P.W. Botha to begin negotiating the end of apartheid
… the opposite side of his grand office PW Botha walked towards me. He had planned his march perfectly, for we met …
EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… military aggression by the South African government towards other Southern African states. …
EventJacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist and his daughter Augusta leave on an exploration of the interior
… Sutherland and Tulbagh. They then turned eastwards towards Swellendam and Mossel Bay, proceeding to Algoa Bay …
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… women and black people were put in concentration camps. Towards the end of the war there were more than 40 camps …
EventANC sacks its chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, after finding him guilty of sexual harassment
… her to sleep with him. The allegations were made public towards the end 2006. Goniwe was defiant, claiming that the …
ArchiveThe Final Prize: Family - chapter 1
… of the assembly. A few onlookers turned their heads towards me, but the meeting continued as if nothing untoward …