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EventFormer SA Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, dies
… aircraft which crashed into the Outeniqua Mountains in the Southern Cape. Cronje was on his way home (Fancourt Estate) … on 25 September 1969. He made his…
PlaceMariammen Temple, Pretoria
… the most impressive Gopuram among Hindu buildings in South Africa, (A Gopuram or Gopura or Vimanam, is a monumental … usually ornate, at the entrance of a…
Statement at the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, Havana, Cuba by O. R. Tambo, 3 - 9 September 1979
… racism, fascism and brutal exploitation in South Africa. The delegation of the African National Congress … challenge is unbounded. Mr. Chairman, for the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
… Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa. This is a meeting which the ANC and the people of … indicated, there will be peace, security and…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
… Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa. This is a meeting which the ANC and the people of … indicated, there will be peace, security and…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - 1. The linguistic classification of Kora
… or four main families that make up the collectivity of the Southern African Khoisan languages. The chapter concludes –in … KHOE family and certain languages…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… us contextualise the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa in the 1970s. Also, it is impossible to understand … States wanted to end slavery but the…
EventThe Prince Imperial of France dies in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
… D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 40. …
EventBartolomeu Dias reaches present Mossel Bay
… Bartolomeu Dias discovered that he had sailed past the southern-most point of Africa. A strong wind had driven him so far south of Cape … D.J. et al. (eds) …
EventCape Colony Prime Minister opposes War
… D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9. …
EventPresident Paul Kruger authorises the construction of the railway line to Delagoa bay
… The discovery of various rich mineral resources in Southern Africa saw the construction of various railway lines. Of note …
EventZambian journalist, Fred M’membe is born
… M’membe is the third recipient of the Media Institute of Southern Africa's Press Freedom Award in 1995. That same year, he also …
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… emancipation of the oppressed black majority in South Africa, and indeed southern Africa as a whole. This is for two essential … emerges above? The…
PlaceLamont-Hussey Observatory
… funds for the construction of an observatory in the Southern Hemisphere, so Hussey could continue his research in … done on the mapping and cataloguing of…
EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… the White body of the Football Association of South Africa (FASA) as the sole governing body of soccer in South Africa. One year later, professional soccer…
EventVerney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa
… to explorer David Livingstone, who was lost in eastern Africa and also to explore on his own. Cameron arrived too … papers at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika. While…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… and existence of the African National Congress of South Africa. And, let there be no mistake, it has not been sixty … a radical transformation of the system…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… depicting the Witwatersrand after the gold rush in South Africa in the 1880’s. Image Source (Accessed on 18 November … of gold) occurred in areas in America,…
ArticleKora
… speak Dutch, ride and shoot. External links: 1. South Africa West Coast History: The Forgotten People from … the section on 'raiding'. 3. Hunters and…
EventThe Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor
… six other co-examining colleges of the University of South Africa, which included TUKS. In 1958, in its 50th year, UP … opened by Dr. E.G Jansen, the…
Message by Oliver Tambo on the twentieth anniversary of the Tanganyika African National Union, 01 July 1974
… and all members of the African National Congress of South Africa, I convey warm greetings and profound feelings of … deepening crisis of the white minority…
Message on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Tanganyika African National Union by O. R. Tambo, July 1974
… and all members of the African National Congress of South Africa, I convey warm greetings and profound feelings of … deepening crisis of the white minority…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… The African National Congress and the peoples of South Africa are inspired by the fact that today we are linked with … and the independent States of Africa,…
PlaceAha Hills, Northern Cape Border With Namibia and Botswana
… isolation. When the sun sets, the characteristic sounds of Southern Africa are absent, though the resulting stillness is near …
EventItaly invades Ethiopia
… A border clash at Wewel (also referred to as Ualual) in Southern Ethiopia along the border of Somaliland increased … with Eritrea and Italian Somaliland to…
EventThe Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative
… Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key … Liebenberg, B.J. & Spies, S.B. (eds)(1993)…
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… in World War 2 and member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of … Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L…
EventSkipper Bertie Reed passes away
… whose yacht sank after hitting a submerged iceberg in the Southern Ocean during the 1990/91 BOC Challenge. For this … he received the Wolraad Woltemade…
EventJoshua Nkomo’s freedom of movement and association in Southern Rhodesia is restricted
… that affects his freedom of movement and association in Southern Rhodesia. This came after Nkomo failed to persuade … the African National Congress (ANC)…
EventSA and British governments clash over interpretation of the Simonstown Agreement
… The British claim that all the arms that South Africa requested and listed when the agreement was drawn up … naval agreement for the defence of sea routes…