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How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg
… to resign over millions of rand of improper state spending on his private home in Nkandla, the 73-year-old’s grip on power seems like it should be weaker…
Tell no Lies, Claim no easy Victories by Thabo Mbeki, 4 April 2016
… Last year on December 15, Max Boqwana, the CEO of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation (TMF), posted a Notice on this Facebook Page that starting in January this year,…
PlaceKnysna, Garden Route- Western Province
… in 1770. But it was George Rex who really put Knysna on the map. This larger-than-life personality bought the … occupation, married a widow with several kids…
Chapter 12 - Certification of the final constitution
… with the Court for its consideration. The Court was intent on dealing with the certification expeditiously. It was also … a guarantee that the final ConstiÂ…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… around the time of Union, a Labour Party had been formed on the basis of the organised white minority of the working … in South Africa needed to base their…
PlaceBattle of Muizenburg Monument, Muizenburg
… to the sea and it would have been difficult to pass on the mountain side of the fort. The one disadvantage was that it was in range from the sea. On the 7…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… of processes and events that were to impact significantly on the nature of the liberation struggle in South Africa. On the one hand, there was the emergence…
PlaceRichmond
… The Village of Richmond was established in 1844 on a portion of the Farm Driefontein, owned by P J van der … of Colesberg, and was proclaimed a separate…
Document 69 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 March 1937
… The strike was originally undertaken by the workers on these terms: either we will force up wages or else we will … are still without jobs since the word …
The curious case of the missing ANC members – and the crisis plan to win them back by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick),14 October 2015, South Africa
… did not renew their membership? Whatever spin the ANC puts on it, system glitches cannot account for 450,187 members … is desperate to win members back, with…
Document 134 - The Impending Strike of African Miners: A statement by the African Mineworkers’ Union, 7 August 1946
… 1.At a conference of the African Mine Workers' Union held on the Newtown Square, Johannesburg, on Sunday August 4, 1946, and attended by over one thousand … …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… presented here ”” Nelson Mandela’s statement from prison on being offered conditional release ”” within its historical … culminating in one of the country’s…
86. Non-racial sport
… (SACB), which is affiliated to the South African Council on Sport (SACOS), submitted a long memorandum to the … benefit equally. (f) There must be no…
National Arts Festival 2017
… The National Arts Festival is an important event on the South African cultural calendar, and the biggest annual celebration of the arts on the African…
Zuma to grow ANC membership in tribute to Madiba, 17 July 2011
… launching the drive towards the one million membership, on Monday, July 18, at the historic Lilies Leaf farm in … Zuma will also be paying tribute to the…
Placem'Bashe Lighthouse
… The m'Bashe lighthouse lies on the Wild Coast , part way between East London and Port St … originally recommended putting up a few beacons on the coast East…
PlaceLions Bridge, Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria
… JJ Kirkness and was officially opened by President Kruger on 11 June 1894. It is the oldest existing bridge over the … were hunted in that area at the time…
PlaceNewington Road Victorian Houses, Port Elizabeth
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 15 July 1983. Newington Road is found in one of the most … of the houses here still have…
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… On 14 November 1961 Katangan President, Moise Tshombe, and … ex-premier Patrice Lumumba in a UN report. Lumumba died on 13 February 1961. It has always been…
EventDr Chris Barnard performs the world’s first human heart transplant
… On 3 December 1967, South African doctor, Dr Christiaan … of Denise Darvall, a young woman who was run over by a car on 2 December and had been declared…
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… which promoted the increase of the French population on Ivory Coast. Houphouët-Boigny ruled Ivory Coast … parties. He also spent exorbitant amounts of money…
Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
… striking South African Transport Services (SATS) workers, on their way to a union meeting, were accosted by several … knobkieries and were toyi-toying and…
EventThe first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
… Pieterson Museum, the first museum in Soweto, was opened on 16 June 2002. The Museum is situated on Kumalo Street in Orlando West, and is named after Hector …
EventSA colonies meet to consider and adopt the South Africa Act, which leads to the Union of South Africa
… the 1908 National Convention, which met for the first time on 12 October 1908. By February 1909, a draft of the South … Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony…
EventANC sacks its chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, after finding him guilty of sexual harassment
… in the ANC's parliamentary office. The incident occurred on the evening of a birthday party that was held in his home. … in the unity of the party. Goniwe…
PlaceAfrica South Art Initiative (ASAI), University of Cape Town
… company, specializing in research and publication on the visual Arts in Africa. ASAI began in 2005, concerned … artists, Art Historians and Curators with…
Chapter IX - Triumph of disunity (1)
… that much of the history of the north from the thirties on to the sixties revolves. Griqualand, too, on the banks of the Orange River, was a centre of…
ArchivePenal reform and race relations
… Memorial Lectures. This is the first public statement on the report of the Penal Reform Commission, on which Mrs. Hoernle served. Her report consists of…
PlaceBoshof House, Boshof Avenue, Newlands
… The building was erected on a portion of the historic Boshof Farm, owned by Alexander … was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 15…
EventBlacks are making bonfires of their “passes” in Johannesburg
… On 28 March 1960, Natives began making bonfires of their … to normal. Chief Albert Luthuli burned his reference book on Saturday where he issued a call to…