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EventDr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in Pretoria
… his sights on the steel industry and established the South African Steel and Iron Corporation (Iscor). Van der Bijl died …
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… 1989, ex-mutineers in exile considered resigning from the African National Congress (ANC). This came after the …
PlaceStatue Of Cecil John Rhodes, in the Company's Gardens
… Company’s Garden on a secondary axis of the Iziko South African Museum . The original plan was to use the Statue as a …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Peace and Stability, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… and control of the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service be implemented so that the … Special Operations (Scorpions) be located within…
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
… the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague insisted we walk from our office in … Among the books on display were volumes of…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… system of racist oppression of the blacks. New Order The African National Congress of South Africa has remained … represent the unbreakable will and…
Address at a Banquet at the Guildhall London, 13 June 2001
… We cherish a real hope of success, in company with other African nations working tirelessly for the same cause. We are hard at work on an African Recovery…
XI - The Verdict
… Nobody can say. But I didn't know . . . Every South African must now answer to his own conscience ... and submit … English language broadcast for abroad on 5…
27. Transvaal Indians respond to the 1895 arbitration decision
… put forward by Her Majesty's Government or by the South African Republic, or to lay down such interpretation of the … Majesty's Government and of the…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… “minerals-energy complex” lies at the heart of the South African economy. In their book, written in 1996, they argue … through an agreement with Sir William…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… Mgqibisa, the daughter of a prominent minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She died in 1929, in … On 8 January 1912, at the first meeting of…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
… Documentation Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, who in 2011 awarded us … F. Maingard, which appeared in two…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… of all the practices, policies and laws of the South African State. For our people therefore, the adoption of the … Declaration was inevitable. The…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… to seven years in prison for his activities in the African Resistance Movement, a small group of activists that … in London in 1974 as Bandiet: Seven Years…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Cape Town Cape Town, 27 November 1997
… achievement. It is rather a tribute to our whole South African nation. I humbly accept it in their name. Cape Town's … cultures, priceless threads in the…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… could start the snowball rolling in setting off general African resentment against the passes. This could catapult … falling off of popular support for the…
Document 29 - Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations
… and that it must truly reflect the will of the South African people. In this light, we want to believe that these … be prescribed to by outside interests. It…
ArchiveChapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg
… countries. They told me they tried to conceal their South African origin to avoid embarrassment. I was not sure about … were the innocent passers through or…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… According to some authors it became "defiantly African." The ICU, on the other hand, had close ties with the … of foodstuffs. In the course of the strike,…
"What I think of Macmillan`s speech": Article by Albert Luthuli, 1 March 1960
… and responsibility. He entertained no fears of the rising African consciousness, but rather saw it as a natural … emerging, it is a path of wisdom to win the…
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… 'Estate of Eloff', on 25 August 1925 by the South African Government , who its restored the interior to its … in 1896. Paul Kruger was State President of…
PlaceSudwala Caves, Nelspruit
… concerts including the 2012 Innibos performances by South African artist Chris Chameleon along with the stunning … deposits too. Following the end of the…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… prosperity and purity of the Afrikaner culture. The South African prime minister based his policy on a system which … the late 1980s to 1993, culminating in…
EventThe Dutch Indiaman, the Nieuwe Haerlem, is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay
… to the creation of a new state on the southern part of the African continent. The captain of the Nieuwe Haerlem … record of the region that was to become…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… 1963-'64, in which Nelson Mandela and other leaders of the African National Congress were convicted and sentenced to … Multiparty Negotiating Forum. He was a…
PlaceCity Hall and Francis Farewell Gardens, Durban
… recently. Siyanda Khumalo, a rifleman with the South African National Defence Force, described it as a, “great … the centenary. Mikhail Peppas, a member…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… members of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), were ambushed and killed by the South African security forces on the…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… Introduction Benjamin Magson Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle … Cape Town. His father, a factory…
PlaceGriqualand West
… to the low rainfalls and seasonal grazing of the southern African interior, it also facilitated the dispossession of … officially by Kobie Coetsee on 22…
Part 3: Ahmed Kathrada and Arun Gandhi - Gandhi Satyagraha Tour SA
… Laloo “Isu” Chiba and Shirish Nanabhai. Archived by South African History Online with acknowledgement to the original …