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PlaceAloes Railway Station, Port Elizabeth
… Prime Minister John Molteno of the Cape Colony commenced work on connecting Port Elizabeth to the developing National …
EventWilhelmina Johanna (Wilma) Stockenström is born
… is a significant and gifted female Afrikaans writer, whose work has been translated into several other languages. Wilma …
EventPublic places of recreation for whites only, are proclaimed
… where members of one specific race alone could live and work. Group areas were created for the exclusive ownership …
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
… equality of opportunity in employment; equal pay for equal work; equal rights in relation to property, marriage and … South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid,…
EventBotswana President, Seretse Khama dies
… Botswana. He was born on 1 July 1921 at Serowe, Botswana. His grandfather was Kgosi (King) Khama III, (also known as Khama the Good) of the Bangwato people…
EventKing Mwanga of Uganda signs a contract with the British East Africa Company
… was Kabaka of the kingdom of Bungada after the death of his father, Muteesa I in 1884. Upon ascending to the throne, … mwanga expelled all Christian…
Document 21 - ANC National Consultative Conference: resolutions for the coming year
… of unprecedented mobilisation of the country against the apartheid regime. The power of organised workers, under the … This was particularly ambitious in the…
ArticleKKNK – Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
… and indeed, defend, the place of Afrikaans culture in post-apartheid South Africa. Barrow was the chairman of the …
List of deaths in detention
… Detaining and imprisoning those who went against the Apartheid state was one of the many weapons that the …
ANC Statement on the 40th anniversary of Chief Albert Luthuli`s death, 20 July 2007
… the ANC political discussion journal Umrabulo dedicated to his life and memory. The special edition contains tributes … by a train at a lonely railway…
EventInitial experiments on the body of Egyptian King,Tutankhamen, conclude he is a fifteen year old boy
… King around the age of nine or ten after the death of his father Akhenaten. DNA analysis of Tutankhamen’s mummy … It is believed that he is the son of…
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
… African regional differences have been fostered by the apartheid system. Irrespective of whether they arise from ethnic factors or vested interests nurtured…
Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981
… Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700", gives some details of his life, although it tells us nothing of his farming activities in Stellenbosch. The parts she…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… among the Kikuyu chiefs, was assassinated near Nairobi. His death prompted celebration amongst Mau Mau supporters and … some districts – in one case as many…
South African Prime Ministers from the National Party
… below). P. W. Botha became the new State President, until his resignation in 1989, when he was replaced by F. W. de …
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… Abe Bailey was born in Cradock, Cape Colony, in 1864. His father, a wagon maker and wool merchant, later moved with his family to Queenstown. When Bailey was…
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… Ndevasia Muafangejo died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Katutura Township, Windhoek. He was 44 years old. … Angola. He came from the Kwanyama…
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… on this day in Pittem, western Belgium. After completing his studies, he immigrated to South Africa in 1946 as a … He served primarily in Bloemfontein,…
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… arson and demolishing of trains. Scheepers admitted during his trial that he had committed acts of arson, but claimed that he had acted at all times on the…
EventBlack Wednesday, the banning of 19 Black Consciousness Movement Organisations
… Internal Security Act in Modderbee Prison. Further, the apartheid regime declared illegal 19 Black Consciousness … Act. This move was done in terms of…
ArchiveUnited Nations Security Council Address on Arusha Peace Process, by Nelson Mandela, 29 September 2000, New York USA
… of the great Mwalimu Nyerere and continue the sterling work he had done up to that point. We could do so in the … a constant source of support and…
Address to the United Nations Security Council on the Arusha Peace Process 29 September 2000 Mr President Honourable Members of the Security Council
… of the great Mwalimu Nyerere and continue the sterling work he had done up to that point. We could do so in the … a constant source of support and…
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… CÁ´te d'Ivoire gained independence in 1960, he returned to his home country. Unhappy with his post- colonial new reality, Kourouma expressed his grievances…
81. The People’s Candidates Party and the Lenasia Management Committee
… for registering our protests against the injustices of the apartheid system. ... However, the announcement of the 'new … separate units will in effect become…
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… in the outskirts of Grahamstown on 18 August 1977. During his detention in a Port Elizabeth police cell he had been … been stripped naked and kept in leg…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… made little attempt to either educate the public about its work or to solicit seriously the views of important interest … government contaminated with the…
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
… of Ian Bernhardt. The Union was formed in response to the apartheid government’s restrictions on creative freedom for …
A Dialogue in Partnership with Kaya FM - MyConstitution Exhibition
… negotiated transition, one that turned a country under apartheid into a modern and peaceful democracy. The …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.1 Oct-Dec 1958
… de Crespigny. The Village and the Castle, Owen Williams. Apartheid in Nursing-a Challenge, an African Nurse and Fr. …
EventPrime Minister opens SA's first atomic reactor
… The former Prime Minister of South Africa and apartheid mastermind, Dr H.F. Verwoerd opened South Africa's …