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The ANC Gauteng condemns violent protests and ongoing disruption of schools in Gauteng Province!, 7 September 2011
… We have directed all the local and regional structures to work together with all ANC-governed municipalities and … are therefore a platform to get the ANC in…
EventSA poet Sydney Vernon Peterson dies
… poets and educationist of the 1940s, died in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English, Italian, Russian and … novel, As die son ondergaan (When the…
PlaceCentlivres, a Railway Siding-16 Km from Uitenhage
… Commissioner of the Uitenhage District from 1849 until his retirement in 1863. He was a renowned cartographer, … statistician and author. He was best known…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1946-Press Reports on the Campaign
… Prime Minister, expresses its grievous disappointment at his refusal to abandon the proposed legislation and to … General Smuts has seemed to think it fit to…
PlaceAtlantis
… as a “model industrial node”, within the framework of Apartheid spatial Development Policies. These policies were … was developed for people designated as …
Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner
… brought me closer to my father, but never close enough to his killer. It has brought me all too close to the kind of … given the circumstances, this was a…
EventANC flag raised at the funeral of John ‘Hennie’ Ferus
… who died in a car crash the on Monday 20 April 1981. His funeral, in Worcester, was the first "political funeral" … Robben Island for three years and two…
Speech at the Funeral of M.P. Naicker, London by O. R. Tambo, 8 May 1977
… here to pay our last respects to a man who because of his belief in the freedom of the people of his country was robbed of the citizenship of the land of his…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… 1976 after the student demonstrations of 1976. He received his military training in Angola and Mozambique. He returned … commemorate the 1976 demonstrations…
EventMarien Ngouabi, President of Congo dies
… of the Congo was assassinated. Ngouabi, who started his career as the Commander of the first Paratrooper … unstable, in part due to Ngouabi purging any…
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
… 1989, Acheson allegedly gunned Lubowski down outside his house in Windhoek. Neighbours claimed that they first … found a piece of paper with numbers that led…
EventA vagrant from Johannesburg, Tim Singiswa on a one
… Tim Singiswa, a vagrant from Johannesburg, protests on his own and draws more interest than the questions of the … asked them for their reasons. Singiswa got…
EventPieter Willem Frederik Wenning, SA painter, is born in The Hague, Netherlands
… liking to the Cape; which became the subject of most of his paintings. In1916, Wenning moved to the Cape, became a full time painter and started working on…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… to death a fisherman, Onimbo Haulu who refused them use of his canoe for escape. Haulu’s action imperilled the escapees as his refusal could jeopardise the…
EventWilliam Selborne Dies
… Transvaal and Orange River Colony, dies at the age of 82. His predecessor was Lord Milner. He first retired in June … River Colony was granted self…
EventBenjamin Tyamzashe dies in East London
… and organist, dies in East London. Two years before his death, Tyamzashe was awarded an honorary Masters of Arts degree from University of Fort Hare in…
EventArtist and boxer Ephraim Ngatane dies
… Hospital, Soweto. Ngatane used water colours and oil for his paintings and held a yearly solo exhibition throughout his career, except for 1970. As an…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Celebrations of the Bicentenary of the Independence of Haiti: Port-AU-Prince, 01 January 2004 Your Excellency, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
… a duty to join hands in mutually beneficial solidarity, to work in partnership to defeat poverty, underdevelopment, … the leadership and people of Haiti, we…
EventAKA, the Prince of South African hip hop is born
… Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, popularly known by his stage name AKA was born in Cape Town on 28 January 1988.[1] He started out his hip hop career as part of a…
PlaceBezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
… we know today. Barend Christiaan Viljoen (1807-1859) and his wife Judith Cornelia Theresa (nee Booysen 1807-1861) … based on G. R. Allen from the history…
EventMswati III becomes King of Swaziland
… Dlamini), became King of Swaziland when he succeeded his late father King Sobhuza II, who had died of pneumonia in … regents until Makhosetive, who was…
EventPastor Sekano Ntoane is born
… of the University of the North. He is remembered for his good human relations and his positive leadership when the DRCA was still trying to find its feet,…
EventSouth African cricketer, Hashim Mahomed Amla, is born
… of Indian descent to reach the national squad. Amla began his professional cricket career with the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins in 1999. He had his Test debut in…
EventMadalitso Muthiya becomes the first Zambian to play in the prestigious US Open Golf tournament
… of six. After he broke a bedroom window while playing with his father’s clubs, his father decided to buy him his own. When Muthiya was fifteen, he caught the…
Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… Schreiner has said, and being amongst the most loyal of His Majesty's subjects, as Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Alfred … when once he has accepted a certain…
Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… Schreiner has said, and being amongst the most loyal of His Majesty's subjects, as Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Alfred … when once he has accepted a certain…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The era of … broken down. An atmosphere of profound mistrust…
EventDeath of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… president of the African National Congress Youth League. His ideas about Africanism formed the basis of the political … philosophy of the Pan Africanist…
EventP.W. Botha offers to resign
… P.W. Botha offered to resign amid speculation regarding his involvement in the Information Scandal of 1978, if his accusers could prove that either he, or a…
EventKing Dinuzulu dies
… also saw to it that he received a farm to live on, died on his farm Uitkyk in Middelburg district, Transvaal. At his own request he was buried with his…