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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…
EventFreak storms create havoc in the Eastern Cape and President Mandela narrowly escaped injury
… winds ripped through Hobbiton on Hogsback where 50 youths from disadvantaged backgrounds were enjoying a rare visit to … Mr. Mandela's bodyguards had…
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… Natal). She provided legal defense for political activists from different political organizations detained by the … Master of Law and in 1988 a Doctorate of…
EventWorld War I begins
… 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…
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… determined to carry out the task of collecting taxes from Bambatha's subjects. When Bennet arrived in Bambatha's … against him, fled north and sought refuge…
PlaceAddo Drift, Sunday's River in the Eastern Cape
… crossing of the Sunday's River to be encountered inland from the sea, and was frequently used by visitors travelling from the coast into the South African…
EventPallo Jordan opens the Mbuzini Samora Machel Public Library
… at Mbuzini. Machel and his compatriots were returning from a meeting in Zambia. A total of 34 people perished in … Organization. Both Russian and Mozambique…
EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
… words were: "[The government] has either entirely changed from what it was doing a few years ago, or it must be … of which we have been in a continual state…
EventJoe Slovo dies
… Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) away from away from Black Nationalism to a doctrine of non-racialism. Over … 7 January 1995|moreorless, …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around property and land
… back at his home in Bloemfontein and our friend, Japan, from O. East. In both cases the plan was drawn by the … But up to now I have received no…
PlaceBergtheil House, 16 Queen’s Avenue, Westville
… matrimonial attire. Also on exhibition are artefacts from Umkomaas, Msinga and the Tugela areas including … other archaeological specimens such as the…
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… for the Governor General of the Union of South Africa from 1942. In 1947, King George VI, his wife and two … was officially named Oliewenhuis, the name…
2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South … They are both living together about a mile and a half from Pietermaritzburg and my wife is conceived…
PlaceTransvaal Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History
… fossils, amphibians, fish, reptiles, birds and plants from the Karoo. The Museum has a discovery centre for … Accommodated and the Museum is well used by…