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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…
Regarding the white male gaze in South African photography by Daniel Gallan, 14 Jun 2017
… afford. Last week, the first feature-length documentary on photographer David Goldblatt made its world premiere in … associated with being white, I’m not…
PlaceVredefort Dome, Free State Province
… – the remains of the largest impact crater still visible on Earth, but the Town that is most commonly associated with the Dome is Parys on the banks of the…
PlaceOpera House, Port Elizabeth
… and was built by the firm of Small & Morgan. It was opened on 1 December 1892 by the Mayor, Mr J McIlraith. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC…
EventThe hijacking of an Egypt Air passenger jet to Malta ends in bloodshed.
… the captain to divert to Malta, where the plane landed on a remote runway of Luqa Airport, near the capital, … During the resulting stand-off the plane…
PlaceTsolo
… a station of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel on Foreign Parts. It was located on the Inxu river, near the capital village of Chief … an elderly…
PlaceCookhouse, Eastern Cape
… The Village of Cookhouse was located on the Farm; 'Roodewal', near a River crossing. It probably … North of Port Elizabeth and 25 km East of Somerset East,…
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…
Chapter 14. Rebuilding the Union-Constitution
… suffered badly from victimisation. The union resolved on two lines of action. First, we started injecting life and … the employers offered a five per cent…
ArchiveMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
… the Rivonia trial, and again in his autobiography, drafted on Robben Island in 1974. There he describes what he learned … at the Thembu Great Place at…
Luthuli House to be auctioned over R25m debt?, 20 August 2017
… services to the ANC during the 2014 national elections. On Friday, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said the … this week. However, a source said…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) Johannesburg, 21 November 1997
… democracy and national unity - all these also depend on the delivery of infrastructure and social services. The … infrastructure. Your activities will have a…
Lobenguela’s izinDuna by Martin Plaut (Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa ), 2016
… This photograph of two Ndebele leaders is entitled on its reverse: ‘Chiefs “Babyon” & “Omjaam.” Babyan was … answerable for the assassination of Alan Wilson…
Nelson Mandela Regrets, Nostalgia and Dreams:
… castle in the air. 26 June 1976 My arrest for treason on 5/12/56 and the lengthy proceedings that followed worsened … the family. 28 June 1980 I had a long…
President Jacob Zuma arrives in Moscow to attend the commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War
… On 8 May 2015, President Jacob Zuma visited Russia. On 9 May 2015, he joined a number of world leaders at the … and implementation of the Intergovernmental…
President Jacob Zuma arrives in Moscow to attend the commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War
… On 8 May 2015, President Jacob Zuma visited Russia. On 9 May 2015, he joined a number of world leaders at the … and implementation of the Intergovernmental…
President Jacob Zuma arrives in Moscow to attend the commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War
… On 8 May 2015, President Jacob Zuma visited Russia. On 9 May 2015, he joined a number of world leaders at the … and implementation of the Intergovernmental…
President Jacob Zuma arrives in Moscow to attend the commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War
… On 8 May 2015, President Jacob Zuma visited Russia. On 9 May 2015, he joined a number of world leaders at the … and implementation of the Intergovernmental…
ArchiveLeadership and conflict in Bushbuckridge: struggles to define moral economics with the context of rapidly transforming political economies (1978-1990)
… This thesis analyses the effects of state interventions on chiefly, ethnic, gender and generational relations in … how social forces attempt to impose moral…
EventPresident Zuma visits Russia
… Zuma arrived in Russia on the 8th, on the 9th he joined a number of world leaders at the Russian … and implementation of the Intergovernmental Committee on…
ArchiveThe birth of the African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… This pamphlet clearly describes, with some background, on the political state of the country before the birth of APDUSA. The NEUM called on the leadership of…
Desmond Tutu: External Video and Audio Archive
… Life, October 8, 2010 (video) Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Forgiveness, no date (video) Archbishop Desmond Tutu, … Laureate Message of Support for July 25…
EventSoweto students begin protest against the compulsory use of Afrikaans
… at Soweto schools was noticed by government authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the Minister of Bantu … and Development and of Bantu Education, M. C…
EventSouth Africa win the most medals at the 7th All African Games
… in Johannesburg for the 7th All Africa Games, which opened on 9 September 1999. By 18 September South Africa had gained the most medals on the log with 180,…
EventLanga, Nyanga and Gugulethu students march through the Cape Town CBD
… public declaration through the Cape Town CBD unhindered. On 2 September the ban on public gatherings throughout the country was re-imposed … and subsequently…
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
… historian Shula Marks about Allison Champion’s influence on workers in the years leading up to his banning in 1930. The first of this two-part series focuses…
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… 700 to 1075. The Malinké Kingdom of Mali had its origins on the upper Niger River in the 11th century. Expanding … which became fully independent within the…