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Statement by Olive Tambo at the freedom rally organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 26 January 1979, Dublin
… Convention goes further to say: "The States Parties to the present Convention declare criminal those organisations, … improve the lives of our people but…
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… equitable social order. What then, are the challenges the present generation has to grapple with? What kind of youth … Indeed, what are the characteristics…
Cape Town Launch of A to Z of Amazing South African Women
… honours the contribution of women to South Africa's past, present and future. Using short, easy to read biographies and …
PlaceGroote Schuur Campus, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
… A part of it, known as Japonica Walk, survives to the present day. A second building known as The Woolsack , is an …
PlaceBurkina Faso
… by the French who rewrote the borders, according to these present borders. The country marched towards independence …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the opening of the African Cup of Nations Tournament Johannesburg, 13 January 1996
… Tournament in South Africa is the best gift Africa could present to our sporting community and, in particular, to the …
Document 62 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 3 April 1936 at 8.20 p.m.
… President Street, Johannesburg, 3 April 1936 at 8.20 p.m. Present: Comrades Phashe, Gosani, Sapire, Freislich, Kahn , …
Document 61 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 25 March (1936) at 8.30 p.m.
… Street, Johannesburg, 25 March (1936) at 8.30 p.m. Present: Freislich. Kahn . Phashe, Gosani, Pompey, Sapire, …
EventJohn Thomas Baines, South African painter, traveller and writer, is born
… South West Africa (Namibia) and then to Victoria Falls in present-day Zimbabwe . Ten years later, Baines led an …
A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen)
… their own church building in 1691, which was near to the present day church building in Simondium. Simon also …
Hendrik Verwoerd’s response to the ‘Winds of Change’ speech
… of Africa who brought civilisation here, who made the present developments of black nationalists possible. By …
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA 23 March 1991
… the University Community I am honoured to be invited to be present at this graduation ceremony, especially as it marks … too late for Medunsa to lay a key…
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… 1928 General Secretary C.P.S.A. Dear Douglas, I am at present attending the science congress here, having just … were not founded on opportunist deviations…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… Congress in London ( John Tengo Jabavu and Walter Rubusana present). Mines and Works Act No 12: Permitted the granting … is the chairman of the meeting and…
PlaceBredasdorp, Overberg
Located on the Northern edge of the Agulhas Plain, about 160 kilometres South-East of Cape Town and 35 kilometres, North of Cape Agulhas. The Town was named…
Message to the Rally to Relaunch the ANC Women's League by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 9 August 1990
… League is of the utmost importance. Some of you were present at the conference of ANC women held outside South … in South Africa, reemphasised the fact that…
Peace Treaty of Vereeniging - transcript
… of their respective BURGHERS Desirous to terminate the present hostilities, agree on the following Articles. 1. The … and ORANGE RIVER COLONY, and all…
ArchiveFederation
… of their respective burghers Desirous to terminate the present hostilities, agree on the following Articles. 1. The … and orange river colony, and all…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Introduction
… understood why the herrenvolk should distort history and present a false picture of what actually happened. Having … that they are inferior, wipe out their…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… and of African Affairs, and is currently the Desmond Tutu Professor in the Faculty of the Social Sciences at the … about the ANC from its formation in 1912…
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… [...] the author attempts to explain not only how the present South Africa evolved out of the past, but how the … sees in history the key to the…
ArticleKey sites
… and vegetables in the Gardener Street area, behind the present Post Office. From around 1900, the market moved to … allow for the freeway to be constructed…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… building the official residency at the top end of the present St George Street. While this was being done, Warden … namely; two in Waaihoek, one in the…
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… World War I and II, the conflict in South West Africa (present-day Namibia) as well as items relating to the armed …
PlaceLodge de Goede Hoop, Stal Square, Cape Town
… this housed the Cape Parliament from 1854 to 1884 when the present House of Assembly was completed. In February 1892 the …
PlaceNapier
… shares were issued but it had a very short existence. At present the town has a population of 2 554 and possesses a …
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… on the floor, but after all even if there were 600 people present what a flea bite that is out of [remainder missing]. …
EventPatrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, is assassinated
… that President Tshombe and two other ministers were present, with four Belgian officers under the command of …
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
… colony known as the Province of Senegambia with covered present day Senegal and The Gambia. It's capital was St. …
EventSouth Africa, Cuba and Angola Sign formal peace agreement, allowing Namibian independence from South Africa
… colony, occupied the German colony of South-West Africa (present-day Namibia). In 1920 the newly established League …