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PlaceUniversity of the Free State, Main building, Bloemfontein
… The cornerstone of the building was laid on 19 December 1907 by Sir Hamilton Gould-Adams, and was officially opened on 16 October 1909. The North and South…
PlaceAliwal North, Eastern Cape
… Town on the banks of the Orange River, some 195 km from Bloemfontein, on the road to to East London. It was founded in 1849 and … over the Sikhs under Runjet…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… [The following was a reply by Mr. Tambo to a question on Radio Freedom concerning the "noise Chief Gatsha Buthelezi … Buthelezi is rather unfortunate in so…
SABC CEO Jimi Matthews quits: ‘What’s happening at the SABC is wrong' (Tmg Digital), 27 June 2016
… letter to SABC board chair Professor Mbulayeni Maghuve on Monday morning. In it he wrote: “It is with great sadness … prevailing‚ corrosive atmosphere has…
EventJoyce Mashamba passed away
… which have not yet been disclosed to the public. [i] Born on 25 September 1950 in Mulamula, Limpopo, Mashamba was … Mashamba, who had been a political…
EventProVerb, the South Africa hip hop artist, television and radio presenter is born
… stagename ProVerb was born in Kimberley, [i] Northern Cape on 12 April 1981.[ii] He is a on-air radio presenter, radio technical producer, television … In…
EventRiaad Moosa, the South African comedian is born
… Riaad Moosa was born in Cape Town on 18 June 1977. He has won numerous awards as a comedian, … South African Comic’s Choice Awards. Riaad also featured on…
PlaceXanadu Nature Estate, Hartebeespoort
… beautiful Xanadu Nature Estate , in Hartbeespoort, is set on 240 Hectares and overlooks the majestic Magaliesberg … Springbuck and Black Wildebeest'. These…
PlaceOld Town House, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… station next to Greenmarket Square. A vacant lot facing on the square was acquired early in the 18th century and the first Burgher Watch House was built on…
PlaceElim
… Moravian mission station in the Cape. Today it is halfway on the dirt road between Bredasdorp and Gansbaai . Elim is a … populated area, but it has recently…
EventDelagoa Bay railway line is officially opened
… On 8 July 1895 the Delagoa Bay railway line was officially … opened by Paul Kruger. Its link to Pretoria was completed on 20 October 1894.The railway line…
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 6 April 1936. (Note the National Monuments plaque on the side of the loco.) The engine weighs…
PlaceOld gaol, Seventh Avenue, Roodepoort
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 September 1988.The property together with the Old Goal … Record’s Historic Hauntings team…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… of Agricultural Labourers. 15. Review discussion on Sanitorium for the Natives Workers on the Mine 16. Revision of the Constitution and to decide as … into…
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… to look upon his fight as between black wage-workers on the one hand and white workers and capitalists on the other. Were the white workers to adopt the…
Event90-Days Act comences
… Act of 1964 (passed in 1963) or the 90-Day Act, commences on this day. It is dubbed the 90-Day Act as it provides for … to be detained, without trial, for 90…
EventPatrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, is assassinated
… a secret for years. Lumumba was forcibly restrained on the flight to Elisabethville on 17 January 1961. On arrival, he and his associates were conducted…
EventSA experiences a monetary crisis due to the heavy drain of gold from the country during the Great Depression
… The Great Depression had a profound effect on economies around the world and South Africa was no … especially hard, as the lack of demand destroyed prices on…
EventIFP agrees to participate in 1994 elections
… by demands and counter demands from political parties on a wide variety of issues. The African National Congress … escalating political violence in Natal and…
EventSt James Church massacre
… APLA attacks and was followed later that year by an attack on the Heidelberg Tavern in Observatory in which 4 people … were subsequently arrested and charged…
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… (FRELIMO). In turn, this led to the Nkomati Accord, signed on 16 March 1984. In this agreement both countries resolved … their countries to be used as…
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… as the commander of a counter-insurgency group located on the outskirts of Pretoria, known as Vlakplaas. De Kock … Cradock Four. His application for amnesty…
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… a rebellion led to his capture at Waterbury near Vryburg on 20 November 1914. He was incarcerated with other rebel … convicted of high treason in the…
PlaceNgcobo
… On 1 November 1859, a day known in the Christian calender as … soon thereafter the All Saints mission station was founded on the site under the leadership of…
PlaceCradock Division
… declared a sub-drostdy of the district of Graaff-Reinet on 21 January 1814, and on 12 March 1825 it was transferred to the new district of Somerset. This was…
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… of land and was purchased by Gandhiji in 1904. It was on this Settlement that Gandhi started his journey of … passion for liberation, nonviolence and…
Document 9 - First letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… exists which, if there is a demonstrable readiness on the part of the Pretoria regime to engage in negotiations … to negotiate an end to the apartheid system…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… making nearly everything they needed. Societies that rely on themselves in this way are known as subsistence societies. … Part 1:Background information and…
Address at the Opening of Parliament, National Assembly, Cape Town, 25 June 1999
… and High Commissioners, Distinguished guests: We are on course. Steadily, the dark clouds of despair are lifting, … masses we owe the obligation to recommit…
Archive1999 - President Mbeki - State of the Nation Address, 25 June 1999 (After National Elections)
… and High Commissioners, Distinguished guests: We are on course. Steadily, the dark clouds of despair are lifting, … masses we owe the obligation to recommit…