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EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… On 31 December 1989, ex-mutineers in exile considered … nine members of the ANC at Dakawa and Mazimbu in Tanzania on 28 December 1989. The banishment came…
PlaceStatue Of Cecil John Rhodes, in the Company's Gardens
… North. The Monument is located in the Company’s Garden on a secondary axis of the Iziko South African Museum . The … concern was that the Statue could have a…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1946
… Indian Parliament last week. "A similar call was made on Mr. Churchill, the late Mr. Roosevelt and Generalissimo … Committee of the Transvaal Indian Congress…
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
… Mbete, the poet and veteran leader, is making things worse on her own. born with each determined kick and move with each ripple on my stomach like the anger…
Silent Cries from a Beloved Country by Ken Johnson, 20 August 2009
… In an image of a man watering his lawn, it is painted on the side of a small white building down the street. Elsewhere a sculptural version is erected on a…
EventHistory of December 16
… the Vow (Day of the Covenant). Counter events and protests on 16 December From 1910, Africans who felt excluded from the … the end of the South African War…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by A. P. Mda
… In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede When I reflect on my memories of Lembede, two things stick out in my mind ”” … to further his education at Adams…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Helen Stoilas, 30 May 2017
… in their own words. Goldblatt has previously focused on ex-offenders in South Africa and worked with the arts … In HM Prison Birmingham, around 40 images…
PlaceGriquatown
… population of 401. By 1904 this number had risen to 1,244. On 17 November 1899 Griquatown was captured by Boer forces … forces under Lt-GenSir Charles Warren…
PlaceOld Post Office, Fleming Street, Port Elizabeth
… contains 4 conjoined buildings. The complex is situated on erf 3787 but officially referred to as erf 5645, which … the Parliament Buildings in Cape Town…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… Queen Victoria, at Osborne House, the royal residence on the Isle of White in 1891. here Image source Others … Jubilee Singers, they were a Christian choir…
PlaceDoornfontein, Johannesburg
… proclaimed a public diggings after the Discovery of Gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886. In the late 1880's, Thomas Yeo … of a key route of the Rapid Transit…
Work In Progress
… trade union movement had not yet emerged as a major actor on the scene. In September 1977 popular political resistance … 'stimulating and provoking responses…
PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 December 1985. Although fortifications were a … during the 1780's when the VoC , fearing a…
PlaceHamilton Primary School, Visagie Street, Pretoria
… when the declaration was made in the Government Gazette on 25 February 1977. The status of National Monument was … giving us three mini buses to transport…
Document 20 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the Secretary, Communist Party of South Africa, 22 September 1930
… which I enclose an extract, not of course for publication. On the request for financial assistance the same formula had … in the position of a person being…
EventSteve Tshwete is born
… Steve Tshwete (1938 - 2002) was born in Springs on 12 November. He spent his childhood in the village of … to a banned organisation and sentenced to 15…
PlaceSprings
… The Town of Springs, East of Johannesburg, is on the East Rand, or what is now known as the Metropolitan … Such an odd piece existed between three…
Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
… by Nelson Mandela Dear Friends, I am writing this letter on the instructions of the All-in African National Action … by the All-in African Conference held at…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… The opening act of the revolutionary drama occurred on September 3 in the Vaal townships of Sebokeng, … was called in Soweto to support the Vaal residents…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… The opening act of the revolutionary drama occurred on September 3 in the Vaal townships of Sebokeng, … was called in Soweto to support the Vaal residents…
PlaceRondebosch Common, Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch.
… Rondebosch, was granted the right to graze his cattle on the land. At the same time two pieces of land adjoining … was declared a National Monument under old…
EventAdolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
… supremacist ideology. Berlin won the bid to host the Games on 26 April 1931, before the Nazis came to power, beating … body, Lang personified Hitler's Aryan…
ANC hits back at Jimi Matthews
… former SABC Acting CEO Jimi Matthews after his resignation on Monday, saying they expected better conduct from him. Matthews says his exit was brought on by…
PlaceConcordia
… of 961. The railway line from Brakpits reached Concordia on 23 April1889. On 4 April 1902 a Boer force of about 25 men led by Generals … J.C. Smuts,…
Amulets & Dreams by Omar Badsha and Guy Tillim
… This book covers civil strife and its effects on the society in 6 African countries namely Angola, … and generations of broken promises. Dreams etched on…
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… Sauer, who combined a medical practice with prospecting on Cecil Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’s Camp to … Petronella Oosthuizen, the owner of a…
EventAttempted coup in Equatorial Guinea sees fifteen arrested
… On 8 March 2004, 15 suspected mercenaries were arrested in … Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark Thatcher. The day before, on 7 March, Zimbabwean authorities…
EventRecord of Understanding is agreed to by the SA government and the ANC
… who had committed offences with a political motive on or before 8 October 1990 shall be carried out in stages. … scores of people were killed by the Ciskei…
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
… in 1959. He was sentenced in the Queenstown Circuit Court on 11 February 1960. His name was kept a secret by Justice P. … future. Other convicts who were…