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EventOn 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town
… anti-Apartheid protests, after he was forcefully removed from Wynberg, Cape Town, under the Group Areas Act. [i] By … of the removal of the Coloured…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.4 Nov-Dec 1979
… Writers Speak, CHILDREN'S SECTION: Stories and Drawings from Masinga by Nkunzi, Mboma, Mdidiyeli, Linda. NEWS FROM PEN CENTRE Gallery AND Graphics, Mpathi…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.3 Jul-Aug 1979
… Zeke Mphahlele, STAFFRIDER WORKSHOP Poems and criticism from Mafika Pascal Gwala. REVIEWS Jean Marquard reviews The … and the Inqola Competition by…
ArchiveAcceptance of Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award, by Nelson Mandela, 1 November 2006
… That I am being honoured by Amnesty International members from around the world is a joy, and knowing that the honour - … justice and humna rights, for long…
PlaceFirst & Second River Temple's
… agreed that the new Temple should be rebuilt further away from the banks of the river, and the current location in … murtis,(as Hindu images of the deities…
PlaceLusikisiki near Port St. John's
… Lying on Route 61, just inland from the beautiful coastal villages of Port St Johns and … country’ or Pondoland. The little town gets its name from the sound…
PlaceDan Pienaar, suburb of Bloemfontein
… banks ... For the shopping enthusiast, Mimosa Mall is 4km from Dan Pienaar. It is one of the Free State’s most … and Oranje Meisieskool, all wImage…
PlaceKenilworth
… Across the railway line and south of Main Road, away from the mountain , Kenilworth still offers good value for … Heritage. The many visitors that descend on…
PlaceSoccer City (FNB Stadium) -Johannesburg
… Centre of Historic Events, starting with the First Speech from Former President Nelson Mandela in 1990 , a few days after being released from prison where he…
PlaceBo-Kaap Museum
… These people were known as Cape Malays, and were brought from Malaysia, Indonesia and the rest of Africa to work in … opened as a museum on 22 April 1978, by…
PlaceKirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town
… (Leucospermum spp.) and Heaths (Erica spp.). Plants from all the diverse regions and biomes of Southern Africa … is a custom-built glasshouse to grow and…
PlaceOost-Eind Primary School, 70 Meintjes Street, Trevenna, Pretoria
… be sent back and be told I should wait for communication from the school but nothing has been communicated to me,” … those starting their first year at…
PlaceFort Schanskop
… station with Fort Klapperkop, and running water came from the Apies River in the Fountains Valley. The garrison … tendered to purchase Fort Schanskop …
PlaceKruger House Museum
… in Europe, the Kruger House Museum lies just a few blocks from Church square, where his bronze statue takes centre … was renowned internationally for his…
PlaceSouth African National Museum of Military History
… children with the visual spectacle of its displays, from planes to trains. Tours are provided for schools and … involvement in the Angolan Civil War. Various…
PlaceLiberia
… Scherbo Island off the west coast of Africa, but many died from malaria. In 1821, a U.S. Navy vessel resumed the search … Island group moved to this new…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Mandela, to the International Solidarity Conference Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… Today is such a moment for me. For you are the friends from five continents who kept hope alive. You took the plight … are here to help us transform all this…
”Joint Declaration of Cooperation.” Statement by Dr. A. B. Xuma of the ANC, Dr. G. M. Naicker of the Natal Indian Congress, and Dr. Y. M. Dadoo of the Transvaal Indian Congress, March 9, 1947
… removal of all discriminatory and oppressive legislations from the Union's Statute Book. This Joint Meeting is … Charter. This Joint Meeting further resolves…
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … greater number of signatures would probably be obtained from persone hitherto outside any…
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
… the Archduke was heir, had annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina from the declining Ottoman Empire in 1908. As a Serbian … Nations, which hoped to prevent a conflict of…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… was signed, in which Mozambique agreed to expel the ANC from its territory, in exchange for South Africa's withdrawal of support from RENAMO. Samora Machel…
EventAll African People Conference is held in Accra, Ghana
… A year after Ghana gained Independence from Britain under the presidency of Kwame Nkrumah the All … the Algerian armed struggle to achieve its independence…
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… From the 1920s to the 1940s J.C. Smuts , J.B.M. Hertzog and … as his deputy. The coalition received strong opposition from a section of the Afrikaner…
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… domination in all aspects of South African society. Apart from the legislation implemented to ensure the separation of … Political History: a chronology of…
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… with the ANC. In 1990 Nelson Mandela was released from prison and in February that year, the ANC and other … major strategic and organizational questions…
EventPaedophile Gert van Rooyen and mistress commit suicide
… The girls have never been found. Their last victim escaped from Gert van Rooyen's house at 227 Malherbe Street, Capital … determined that the bones found at…
EventThe possessions of Piet Retief are auctioned
… but had one condition: that they retrieve cattle stolen from him by Chief Sekonyela. Retief, accompanied by 69 men, … then granted the Voortrekkers the land…
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… in history. The Tsunami traveled at 500 miles per hour from its epicenter causing serious damage and deaths as far … occurring at Rooi Els in South Africa,…
EventCourt approves same-sex couple's right to marry
… years, including the right to adopt children and inherit from their partners' wills. The ruling African National … Congress, which under Nelson Mandela led…
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… police. Some hours after the Soweto blasts, the detonator from another bomb exploded at a Buddhist temple in … the beginning of the end of the ANC government…