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In the Battle of the White Umfolozi, the Voortrekker commando is ambushed and nearly overpowered by a Zulu impi. Alexander Harv
George Mzimvube Matanzima, Prime Minister of the Transkei, 1979 and younger brother of Kaiser Matanzima, is born at Qamata, Tr
In Sharpeville sixty-nine Blacks are shot and 152 wounded by police during a demonstration. (The official report of the Commi
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
I would like to state in my preliminary remarks that the overthrow of the hated and criminal policies that prevails in South Africa requires first that the…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
I would like to state in my preliminary remarks that the overthrow of the hated and criminal policies that prevails in South Africa requires first that the…
Op-Ed: The Zuma rape trial and its bearing on the post-Zuma era by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick) ,17 August 2016
The lessons of the Zuma rape trial have a bearing on the type of future leadership we must seek. In the normal course of events someone acquitted of a criminal…
Breyten Breytenbach writes to the editor of the Daily Maverick on vanishing UCT artworks and blank minds, South Africa, 11 April 2016
Please allow me yet again to react to the spasms of abject annihilation of sense, meaning and self-respect being played out around the question of the…
Interview with Oliver Tambo in Luanda after summit meeting of Presidents of frontline states and Southern African Liberation Movements, 01 March 1977
Question: How did the Luanda summit go? TAMBO: This has been a very important meeting for a number of reasons. The consultations of British Foreign Secretary…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who Escaped from Prison in South Africa, Lusaka, 2 January 1980
The African National Congress has in its ranks people who are fighting together across the race and colour line, and who sacrifice together in that struggle…
Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town. He was a political prisoner on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he c
Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in District 6 in Cape Town. While incarcerated on Robben Island as a political prisoner between 1964 and 1971, he completed…
Judaism
… is celebrated during Passover. He also promised the Jews a land of their own where they could live forever. After many years of wandering through a desert…
PlaceSani Pass, KwaZulu Natal
… the Sani tour. (They now have however switched to Toyota Land Cruisers.) The Sani Pass covers a portion of the …
PlaceKing Shaka International Airport, La Mercy-Durban
… King Shaka . King Shaka Airport stands on- iLembe District land, which is Culturally significant to the Zulu people. In … King Shaka! King Shaka Airport…
PlaceMoorreesburg
… little town, about 100 kilometres from Cape Town . The land has been used for large-scale wheat farming for most of … The land has been used for large-scale…
PlaceKgodumodumo Dinosaur Interpretation Centre
… for Centuries. Through their deep connection with the land, early BaSotho communities discovered fossil bones and …
PlaceKleinmond, Western Cape
… worth a visit. Hermanus, where some of the world’s best land-based whale watching is possible, is only 20 minutes’ …
PlaceBloubergstrand, Tableview -Cape Town
… Frederick Louis Stadler became the owner of almost all the Land that forms the Area of, Bloubergstrand. The famous …
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
On the morning of 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck off the Northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The earthquake deformed the…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 17 May 1983, Volume 70 and Volume 71
Transcript of evidence (continued from 9, 10, 11 and 16 May 1983) from Wolfram Kistner, Director of the Commission of Justice and Reconciliation in the SA…
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
A group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black 'homeland'. The dissidents…
Joint Communique of the Meeting of the National African Federated Chambers of Commerce and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 27 May 1986
During the weekend of 24th to 26th May, 1986, delegations of the National African Federated Chambers of Commerce (NAFCOC) and the African National Congress…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… compensation. He quit the job and acquired a few acres of land on lease from a White private landowner, in the district …
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
Beerhalls have always been at the centre of the waves of political turmoil in Johannesburg's African townships. The Johannesburg City Council JCC) opened a…
EventHealth Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
On 20 May 2002, South African Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, announced at a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva that South Africa was…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 16 May 1983, Volume 68 and Volume 69
Transcript of Volume 68 and Volume 69, continued evidence from Wolfram Kistner, of the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches (SACC),…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 23 May 1983, Volume 77 and Volume 78
Transcript of evidence (continued from 17, 18, 19 and 20 May 1983) from Bishop Desmond Tutu, to the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 19 May 1983, Volume 74 and Volume 75
Transcript of evidence (continued from 17 and 18 May 1983) from Bishop Desmond Tutu, to the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 10 May 1983, Volume 64 and Volume 65
Transcript of evidence (continued from 9th May 1983) from Wolfram Kistner, Director of the Commission of Justice and Reconciliation in the SA Council of…
1947-Joint Declaration of Cooperation
… the Industrial Conciliation Act. 3. The removal of all land restrictions against non-European and the provision of … and industrial rights, the removal of…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… Capitalism. The essence of Capitalism is the ownership of land, mines, factories, machinery and all other means of … where the mass of the people have been…