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PlaceAbraham Fischer Men’s Residence, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
… was designed by Frank Taylor and was officially opened on 16 October 1909 by the then Prime Minister of the Orange … hostel and the main building were the…
EventNIC calls for Passive Resistance against Ghetto Act
… Naicker, met in an emergency session in Durban and decided on a hartal on 13 June, which was designated "Resistance Day" to mark the … previous day. Click…
EventANC member, Henry Fazzie sentenced to 20 years in jail under the Sabotage Act
… to receive training in guerrilla warfare in Ethiopia. On his return to South Africa, their movements and … was later transported to South Africa to stand…
EventStudents protest at the University of Fort Hare
… at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, Eastern Cape on 7 August 1973. The students’ organization, the South … held responsible for the protest. Further…
Call for United Front by Albert Luthuli, 5 November 1961
… make up our South African population: five years of living on the brink of States of Emergencies; five years of … people, who will reject anything less than…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… African Trade Unions (COSATU), required more creativity on the part of the exiled organisations. With the CEC … meetings in 1981, established three…
6. Tonight, have your door open
… This deposition, taken from Goolam Khader, a free Indian, on 16 August 1878 is long and complicated. But it contains a … 1387/1878, Natal Archives. Goolam…
PlacePosthuys
… early photographs of the Muizenberg area and some material on the Battle of Muizenberg. First recorded on a map in 1687, the actual origins and history of…
Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
… Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 At 1 a.m. on Thursday, 9 December 1982, Lesotho was held captive by the … the South African Defence Force in…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… name of the Xhosa chief Langalibalele, who was imprisoned on Robben Island in 1873 for rebelling against the Natal … completed and officially opened in 1927…
3. The Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International
… and the return of land to indigenous people as a stage on the way to socialist revolution. The Native Republic … shifts in Comintern policy would have a…
PlaceRhodes Memorial, Vredehoek- Table Mountain
… Situated on the Northern slope of Table Mountain is a must see … oceans can be seen. Built from Cape granite quarried on Table Mountain, the Thodes memorial…
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner meet in Bloemfontein to discuss the franchise question
… On 30 May 1899 President Paul Kruger and the British High … to talk about the franchise question. Six days later, on 5 June 1899, the conference ended…
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
… Set in the Roodepoort Civic Centre on Christiaan de Wet Road, the Roodepoort Museum capably … the changes brought about because of the Discovery of Gold on…
EventJacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the WBO world champion title
… Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala was born on 8 January 1962 in Soweto, Johannesburg. He began his … Matala overwhelmed him to claim his first WBO title on an eighth…
EventPatrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shot
… The independent Republic of the Congo was declared on 30 June 1960. The complete breakdown of order immediately … down, and Lumumba was ousted in a coup led…
EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and … that they wanted to shorten the war. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed as many as 140,000 people,…
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
… On 1 January 1972, for the first time in the history of the … their basic training at the police College in Pretoria on 1 March 1972. On the surface this…
EventTwelve ANC supporters are killed in eSikhawini
… Twelve ANC supporters are killed in an IFP attack on houses and hostels in eSikhawini. The political rivalry … in the Esikhaweni location in KwaZulu Natal in…
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… On 5 November 1987, Govan Mbeki , member of African National … liberation movements were unbanned he resumed his duties on the ANC’s national committee…
EventSimon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean Court to attempting to purchase dangerous weapons
… Location: back to this day in history search archive On 28 July 2004, Simon Mann, a British citizen, pleaded … in Zimbabwe. Mann, together with others, was…
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… gave the order in 1988 for the SAP to blow up Khotso House on 31 August 1988. The building was the headquarters of the … the allegations implicating him in…
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… Afrikaner state, favoured a federation. The Convention, on which the government and opposition parties of the colonies were represented, settled on the terms…
EventQueen Victoria of Britain approves Charter for Rhodes
… On this date the British Colonial Secretary addressed a … then called); the first being the granting of the charter on 29 October 1889. The Charter granted…
Event200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
… the Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on 25 March 1807. It outlawed slave trade within the British … transporting slaves was fined £100…
EventSouth African Communist Party leader, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo dies
… Communist Party (SACP) , Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo died on 19 September, 1983, after having lapsed into a coma. The … metres away from the grave of Karl Marx…
EventSir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape, dies in London
… responsible for annexing the whole of British Kaffraria on his own initiative and introducing the African poll tax as … by forcing them to lie down before…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Address by President Jacob Zuma, Gallagher Estates, 29 June 2012
… We have met during a significant week in our history. On the 26th of June the historic Congress of the People … against the background of the Freedom Charter…
Place'Boekenhout' Farm in Rustenberg
… Click on image to enlarge South African Republic president Paul …
EventZimbabwe and England draw in a Bulawayo Test Cricket match with England needing one run to win
… and England drew in in a Bulawayo Test Cricket match on 22 December 1996. England was the favorites to win the … the match unexciting and blamed mediocre…