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PlaceCentral African Republic
… gather wild rubber, hunt for ivory and animal skins, and work on plantations. Unable to cultivate their own fields … food shortages and famine. Because they…
PlaceKwaZulu-Natal Literary Trails (under Heritage Routes)
… programme also formed part of the bid. Believe me, much work lies ahead for the city. Let’s pray that in a city known … because I will never get promoted for…
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
… difficult questions on which he wanted adÂvice bypassed his officials and secretaries and sent for Moses because he … had so much confidence in Kotane that…
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s press statement on the Bisho Massacre King William’s Town - 8 September 1992
… makes its troubled transition from the autocracy of apartheid to democracy. From this day, Bisho will rank … the repressive structures built up over the…
PlaceCape Town International Airport
… the then, South African Prime Minister. With the fall of Apartheid in the early 1990's, the Airport came under the … Town International Airport. Rapid growth…
PlaceUniversity of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN)
… of: “education under protest” . This sought to transform Apartheid Institutions into: 'Sites of struggle'. Student … The College Campus in Westville was a…
EventThe Dutch Indiaman, the Nieuwe Haerlem, is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay
… crew and cargo. He waited for about a year before he and his crew were taken on board by the homeward-bound fleet … Geleynsz de Jongh. During the waiting…
43. Resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of the Natal Indian Patriotic Congress, 1909
… rejection of candidates for admission, and requests that His Excellency the Governor be pleased to direct the … the nature of class legislation, respectfully…
EventPeter Lindenberg, South Africa’s powerboat champion
… European Barefoot Water-Skiing title in 1977.[i] Peter won his first South African powerboat racing title, as well as … from Formula One powerboat racing 18…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… suicide here on the 29th of March 1936, and a cairn in his memory has been erected on the farm, at the site of his suicide. The house enjoys a beautiful…
Document 30 - Letter from S. P. Bunting fo E. R. Roux, 9 January 1929
… were now trying to finance elections. Wolton came out with his attack on the party, very poisonous & diseased, but in … reply he was induced to stop till…
PlaceBrackenfell, Cape Town
… In 1901, Andries Brink sold a portion of his farm: 'Kruispad', to George Henry Walton. He was a … who then renamed the farm: 'Brackenfell', in honour of his…
EventIsmael Mahomed became first black judge appointed to the Supreme Court of South Africa
… to the Supreme Court of South Africa. At the time of his appointment the South African government and liberation … Mahomed was born in Pretoria in July 1931…
EventJames Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry, dies
… the Free State, Sojane moved to Johannesburg to stay with his sister in Orlando East. He got a job at a clothing … a car. He operated the car as a taxi and…
EventMac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrive on Robben Island prison
… prisoners, Nyanda received news that he had 'won' his case on appeal and that his sentence was shortened. He was removed from Robben …
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… formed government a year later on 12 February 1951, after his party, the Convention People's Party (CPP), won the 1951 … until the country achieved…
EventChris Hani is born
… to enter priesthood, but because of the disapproval of his father he was moved to study in Matanzima Secondary … in Cala, Eastern Cape. Hani’s political…
EventMaria Groesbeek is hanged for the murder of her husband, Christian Buys
… husband for a divorce. When he refused, Groesbeek laced his food with arsenic. Ten weeks after murdering her husband, … murdering her husband, stating that…
EventMarais Steyn dies
… died of heart failure at the age of 83 in Stellenbosch. His political career started in 1948, when he stood for the … later tourism and Coloured affairs as…
EventHunter and politician Johannes Viljoen dies
… no other Whites had ever been. Many people, as well as his relatives, assert that it was on one of these trips that … Falls. During the civil war in the…
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… Bhambatha succeeded to the throne after the death of his father and uncle, at the age of 25. He quickly … focus on Dube's attitude to Dinizulu as indicated…
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
… Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). When Nkosi was three years old his family moved to Dukathole near Germiston in the Transvaal … He attended school in Germiston…
EventSA Prime Minister, J.B. Vorster, vows to fight against terrorism
… Vorster confirms that there was no prior consultation with his government over Rhodesia's closure of its border with Zambia, but that his government will…
EventTrevor Manuel, Minister in The Presidency: National Planning Commission, is born
… the Labour Party Youth in 1969 at the encouragement of his father. In 1983, he became one of the founding members of … secretary. In 1985, Manuel was…
PlaceClarkson, Eastern Cape
… A red haired man who stood over 6 feet tall, he spent his long adult life working to abolish the Transatlantic … in London, in the Lake District and then…
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… Spendiff were killed, said Jones: 'On Spendiff was found his membership card of the Communist Party. Thousands of …
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… as the former movements. These new immigrants went to work in small factories doing manual labour in exchange for … (the stated occupation of the applicant…
Indian education in Natal
… the Free Indians. 1 August, The Board felt that Dunning?s work/report was unsatisfactory and gave him three months … workers in country places were too tired…
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… Nkohla received South African Rugby President’s Award for his contribution in rugby. Furthermore, in 2014, Welile … Rugby Museum in Cape Town. Welile…
EventCharles Nqakula , Minister of Safety and Security and Chairperson of the SACP, is born
… born to a poor family in the Eastern Cape. Nqakula, like his peers, developed political consciousness in the 1970's … Zabantsundu in King William's Town. He…