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PlaceEmoyeni, Parktown, Johannesburg
… through the decades. Built for the Honorable Henry Hull to host lavish parties for the Rand Lords of the day, Emoyeni … luxury of this English Renaissance…
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
… in Lingelethu West. Mapongwana and her husband woke up to the sound of shots being fired from the front and rear … men run from the burning house and jump…
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… Fischer told the court that transport which was suppose to bring the accused to the court, had broken down. The adjournment came as a … of any situation. The…
BiographyGuy Tillim
… of images entitled: Congo River - journey from Kinsangani to Kinshasa. His work has been included in many exhibitions … The South African National Gallery…
EventThe first SARS case is suspected in South Africa
… with no signs of being ill but after seven days he started to show flu-like symptoms and cough. When the doctors conducted tests the results came back…
Say It out Loud - The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923
… brief period so many great events of tragic importance to us have occurred that it will be quite impossible for me … farms and factories in full swing. They…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… the country without a permit and for inciting people to go on strike at the end of May 1961. At the outset, I want to say … - of the day when they would…
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… Khama the Good, ruler of the Bangwanto people. Subsequent to his father’s death Khama was considered the rightful heir to the Ngwato chieftaincy in Botswana …
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… Mancoba was born in Boksburg, Transvaal. He left for Paris to further his studies in 1938. Mancoba never returned to live in South Africa again, but visited…
EventXhosa hero Maqoma dies on Robben Island
… 1858 after the Cattle Killings, ranging from August 1856 to February 1857. The slaughter of cattle was incited by … famine and looting and convicted of…
EventThe Trojan Horse Massacre
… the incident, Security and Railway police worked together to crush a gathering of youth who were protesting against the … South African Railways truck was…
18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child
… who worked for a Port Shepstone sugar mill, wrote to the Protector on 7 September 1907 asking for help in … seems that nobody had told him that his wife had…
BiographyBarney Simon
… director from its opening until he died. He was the first to stage many of Athol Fugard’s plays, directed a film for … of musicians, professional actors and…
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… attracting acclaim and awards. By 2000 Sipho had moved back to KwaZulu-Natal, where he taught music and performed for … he produced a number of albums, his…
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… flow towards a meaningful victory. Our anniversary happens to occur in a year punctuated with important Jubilees which, … workers and as black women workers…
BiographySteve Dyer
… was born in Pietermaritzburg in 1960. He taught himself to play the guitar at the age of eleven. He studied music at … and Wilson "King Force" Silgee, and…
Hangula Shonyeka
… He had been detained under the 180-day clause.In reply to a question put to him before parliament on 29 March 1983 on Mr Shonyeka's …
Document 48 - “The Anti-C.A.D. and the Trade Unions”, The Torch, 1 April 1958
… beginning the Anti-C.A.D. Movement has been very concerned to get the organised workers to take their proper place and to play a full part in the … of…
PlaceNewington Road Victorian Houses, Port Elizabeth
… in the late 19th century, and survives largely unaltered to the present day. It was declared a National Monument under … include quaint Victorian cottages…
Remember Khwezi beyond the Zuma rape trial, says Marianne Thamm (Cape Talk) , 10 October 2016
… Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (known to many as Khwezi) has left a legacy behind for young female activists to continue, says the Daily Maverick's Marianne Thamm…
PlacePrestwich Memorial and Garden
… Town in 2003, old bones were uncovered! These were decided to be unmarked graves of slaves, dating from the 17th and … garden. The building has been…
The Lessons of the Transition Era, Inequality and the Politics of Universal Health Care: Re-visiting the Proposals of the Macro-Economic Research Group (MERG) and the Reconstruction and Development Programme by Robert Van Niekerk
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … on the macro-economic policy debates as it related to social policy in…
Chapter 6
… be permanently frustrated. The people had been persuaded to take a wrong turn that led them into a political desert. … all sections, the Non-Europeans…
EventJohn Lawrence, Winnie Mandela’s bodyguard, dies after a shoot
… Lawrence had an altercation with a pedestrian. According to a police spokesperson, Lawrence allegedly pointed his … pistol at and slapped the pedestrian. …
PlaceHout Bay, Atlantic Seaboard- Western Cape
… 1867 when a German immigrant , Jacob Trautmann, began to Farm and fish in the Area. Its name dates back to 1653, and relates to the quantity of excellent…
BiographyBonisile John Kani
… for his role in My Children My Africa! On his return to South African from touring overseas, Kani began to tour rural areas of the country with Sizwe Banzi…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… his arm, confronts the SA forces during their attempts to break up a demonstration. Photograph by Shadrack Nkomo © … She defied her banning order and in…
EventWilhelmina Johanna (Wilma) Stockenström is born
… her the Rapport-Oscar. Wilma has contributed extensively to Afrikaans writing in general, but it is mainly for her … married her husband, Ants Kirsipuu. In…
EventPaul Kruger is elected president
… time. He won the election against Joubert with 3 471 votes to 1 171. Kruger was sworn in on 9 May 1883 as state … British in the 19th century. The struggle…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… circles for its unrepresentative character. Relative to the earlier period's infiltration of Umkhonto we Sizwe … She defied her banning order and in August…