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EventF.W. De Klerk is inaugurated
… Botha in August. President De Klerk started South Africa on the road to full democracy. In February,1990, he freed … the support of the White electorate in…
EventThe NPA does not pursue charges against Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert of the SADF
… weapons expert of the South African Defence Force (SADF), on the charges originally quashed by the Pretoria High Court. … NPA spokesperson, said that their…
EventSouth Africa concludes an agreement with the Marconi Company for a high
… radio proved problematic, but five Marconi installations on naval cruisers in 1900 proved successful. By 1912, there … South Africa, which was then part of…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister JG Strijdom dies
… National Congress (ANC), was endorsed. A year later, on 9 August 1956, twenty thousand women, of all races, marched on the Strijdom government at the Union…
EventBarry Hough, SA literary critic and successful author of mainly teenage books is found dead
… (now University of Johannesburg) in 1970 and went on to obtain an MA in English. Hough held several positions … a finalist in the Sanlam Youth Story…
EventHamilton Naki, a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christian Barnard, dies
… training. He would often perform amazing surgery work on animals quite effortlessly. After his death, it was claimed that he had assisted Dr Chris Barnard on…
EventStruggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island
… Nxele known by many people as Makana, was later imprisoned on Robben Island for leading an attack on Grahamstown in 1818. On 25 December 1819, Makana,…
EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
… and continued to live there for many years. She went on to become one of the first African female writers and … she felt, issues of identity and the impact…
EventBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala, SA artist, is born
… State (now Free State). As a young boy he tended cattle on a farm in the Free State and drew on rocks with stones. He was largely self-taught, although he ……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…