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EventButhelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders
… called for talks between himself and Nelson Mandela in his capacity as the leader of IFP to find ways and means of … Buthelezi because he felt that the ANC…
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… from Balliol College in Oxford in 1981. After writing his law examinations in 1893 he joined the Department of … Revenue in 1893. Duncan came to South Africa…
PlaceBeaufort West, Cape Town
… Charles Somerset , Governor of the Cape, 1814-1826. After his father, the fifth Duke of Beaufort. It became a … however, one was totally destroyed in a flash…
EventGeneral Louis Botha dies
… by a cold that had developed into pneumonia while on his farm Rusthof. Very ill, he returned to his home in Pretoria where he died. He was buried in the …
Place'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay
… Bartholomew Dias and his crew landed with his men on 3rd of February 1488, but Mossel Bay's History can … sought shelter in Mossel Bay after losing most of…
Celebrating 62 years of struggle, 10 September 2006
… a difference. We honoured Lucas Radebe with an award for his leadership of Bafana Bafana, and his sterling example on patriotism throughout his soccer…
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… resided in the Colony is twelve years and four months. 4. His trade or calling is attorney's clerk. 5. Your petitioner … to the value of about £200. 8. Your…
Trade Unions in South Africa by Ari Sitas and Bianca Tame
… serious challenges that continue well into the post-Apartheid period. Key words: migratory labour system; labour …
EventJomo Kenyatta is elected Prime Minister of Kenya
… been sentenced to hard labour and was restricted following his arrest in 1952 related to allegations of his complicity in the Mau Mau rebellion. He was…
EventHarold Cressy is born in Rorke’s Drift
… African College, now the University of Cape Town . During his studies, having been denied entry to the Rhodes … now the University of Stellenbosch , because…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida, 29 March 1986, Maputo
… has departed from our midst. A seeming void occupies his space, the air so still without his voice. Like the pure note of a bungle, that voice rose ……
Statement at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida by O. R. Tambo, Maputo, 29 March 1986
… has departed from our midst. A seeming void occupies his space, the air so still without his voice. Like the pure note of a bungle, that voice rose ……
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… in 1888. Reunert was a Family Man, with four Sons (one of his Sons had the Family Name of; Jameson, so one knows where his Political sympathies lay). In 1896…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… Union Government to suggest a round-table conference. In his reply to the telegram, the Union Governor General states … Bar Act) , provides certificates of…
Re-membering Krotoa and Autshumato by Deela Khan (poem)
… Swift as an air-slicing pestle, he was not re-captured but his land had already slipped into Dutch hands. Robbed of …
PlaceSuurbraak, a Settlement in the Overberg Municipality
… Stations in the country. Following Helm’s death in 1848, his son, Daniel Helm, continued the mission work. Seidenfaden remained there until 1825, after which…
PlaceMalay Quarter, Cape Town
… incursions from commercial development and the threat of Apartheid legislation. It is one of the oldest parts of Cape … incursions from commercial…
EventAnti-SAIC political rally ends in Lenasia
… in which the South African Indian Council (SAIC), an apartheid-created body established in 1968 as the Indian …
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
… as a condition for freedom and peace. The struggle against apartheid was an act of building unity amongst the oppressed …
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… The organization saw the capitalist system rather than apartheid as the main oppressing force in South Africa and …
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… mounted on the South African government to dismantle apartheid, and township protests erupted in the 1980s, the …
EventCourt approves same-sex couple's right to marry
… Congress, which under Nelson Mandela led the country from apartheid to democracy, said that the developments confirmed …
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… affected by landmines that were largely supplied by the apartheid government to the rebel movements they sponsored to …
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… from different political organizations detained by the apartheid government. In her first case, after starting her …
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… translated means ‘eye opener’.Land was bought by the Apartheid State during the early 1960s and first used at the …
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… later, in 1956, some 20 000 women, protesting against Apartheid laws, undertook a procession to the Union Buildings …
ArchiveInterview with Mr H Molooi
… in Durban, South Africa, in which he discusses his acquaintance with Mrs Ngcobo, and his experiences as a labourer at that time. Mrs Ngcobo was …
EventKing Goodwill Zwelithini is born in Nongoma
… eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon and his second wife, Queen Thomo was born in Nongoma, Zululand … instruction in traditional Zulu customs while…
EventNP wins by election
… The by-election was the result of Mulder's fall-out with his constituency after the Information Scandal of 1978, that brought his political career within the…
EventSifiso Nkabinde is shot dead by assassins
… Congress (ANC) in the Natal Midlands and at the time of his death secretary-general of the recently formed United … a self admitted 'warlord' terrorising the…