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PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… Building was used for 70 years for harbor administration by the South African Railways and Harbours, in Port … announced the name change. The foundation…
Famous Gatsha Buthelezi Editorial in SASM Newsletter, April 1973
… much super. When Chief Buthelezi was invited to Holland by four World Organisations, he accepted the invitation. … to undertake this trip, he was game. Again…
EventOver 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
… overthrown in a bloodless military coup and was replaced by Lieutenant Moussa Traore. Continuing with economic reform, the new government was constantly…
EventUSA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
… War broke out with the German invasion of Poland in 1939. By 1941, the Japanese had launched a military strike on the United States by attacking their naval…
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu was executed by the Apartheid regime for being part of an abortive attempt by African National Congress (ANC) members to…
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… of the talks. Towards the end of 1974, Vorster, backed by President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, had started to … This was the third in a series of three talks…
EventFree, compulsory education for Black children
… were called school building funds. The subsidy received by Black schools was still lower than that given to White … that would undermine the struggle against…
EventEnforcement of military conscription for all white males in SA
… It was renamed as the South African Defence Force (SADF) by the passing of the Defence Act (No. 44) of 1957. … (ECC) was formed to end compulsory military…
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… the most prosperous countries in French West Africa, but by the 1980s was crippled by world-wide recession and Houphouët-Boigny's reckless … threefold, crime…
EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… years the struggle has been waged inside South Africa, by the people of South Africa. It has waxed and waned. There … played an important role in the…
EventVan Riebeeck lands at the Cape
… On 24 December 1651, accompanied by his wife and son, Jan van Riebeeck set off from Texel in … Goede Hoop, Van Riebeeck was accompanied by 82 men and 8 women…
EventRenewal of land acquisition programme in Zimbabwe
… farmers for the land confiscated for resettlement by Black peasant farmers. Mugabe defended this move by stating that the land was never bought by the…
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… region in 1886. The Boers made use of guerrilla tactics by sabotaging British supply wagons, while the British responded by burning down the farms that the…
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… during South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War) by a military notice. The initial aim of the establishment … to be refugee camps, becoming instead…
EventThe decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the First Matabele War (Ndebele), Zimbabwe
… Bulawayo to the ground rather than allow it to be captured by the British. The British captured the ruined Bulawayo on 4 … him across the Shangani River but…
PlaceFirst Raadsaal
… building of dung floors and a thatched roof was erected by Major Warden in 1849 as a school. It was the first school … River. It served as a church until…
First National Consultative Conference: The Freedom Charter revolutionary programme of the ANC, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… and tenacity our people were defeated on the battlefield by the superior arms and organisation of the Europeans. … and Indian people are, like the Africans,…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the General Assembly of the African Ombudsman Association (AOA): Misty Hills Conference Centre, Muldersdrift, Johannesburg: 11 April 2005.
… today, I would like to speak about three stories related by three great writes. The first is by the Russian writer, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Fyodor Dostoevsky ……
PlaceThe AVA Gallery
… in trust and formed a board of trustees. This was done by means of the South African Art Gallery Act. Then in 1924, … focus of AVA. Renovations to the…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… introduction, therefore, feeling not a little fettered by their histories and the complex responses they engender, … of [Afrikaner] self-government '. The…
The Role Of The Indian People In The South African Revolution: An Interview In 1968
… front, contrary to the whitewashing accounts put out by the South African press and radio, indicate that the … duty to ask them to respond unreservedly to…
PlaceMiddle Campus, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
… 'main campus' The Campus as it stands today was laid out by architect J.M. Soloman in 1918 when the South African … incorporating buildings from the early…
EventMass arrests in Pondoland
… a key part of those detentions. This was supported both by the submissions handed to the Commission by Kairos and by literature on the Pondoland Revolt. …
EventBafana Bafana play 2-2 draw with Cameroon
… date. The match, which ended in 2 all draw, was preceded by two matches in which the South African team won 1 and lost 1. Bafana Bafana goals were scored by…
EventDemonstrators strip to deter bulldozers
… women stripped to the waist and confronted bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes at Dobsonville in … in Soweto. Residents of Sophiatown were…
EventZola Budd breaks a world record
… athlete Zola Budd broke the 5 000 metres world record set by Ingrid Kristiansens of Norway by more than ten seconds. Budd also stunned the sporting…
EventFormer Cabinet Minister Dullah Omar dies
… in 1983, which led to him being closely watched by the Apartheid government. In the period nearing Nelson … South Africa and was later appointed Minister of…
EventTobacco Products Control Ammendmant Bill passed
… The National Assembly votes by 213 to 106 to pass the Tobacco Products Control Amendment … passage of the anti-smoking law is greeted with outrage by…
EventMxenge murder accused Dirk Coetzee found guilty
… and his Security Police 'hit squad' was investigated by a Commission of Inquiry ordered by President F.W. de Klerk. The Commission led by Judge Louis Harms…
EventMandela confirms Kerzner’s contribution to the ANC
… make a contribution to the ANC electoral funds as alleged by Bantu Holomisa, but stated that he has told no-one else in … confirmation vindicated Holomisa…