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EventRestitution of Land Rights Act is signed
… Rights Act, restoring the rights of those dispossessed by discriminatory land legislation dating back to the 1913 Land Act, was passed by Nelson Mandela and…
EventStruggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island
… a quasi-nationalist movement among the Western Xhosas, led by the 'prophet' Makana, which led to a renewal of the civil … Gaika and Ndlambe. The Xhosa…
Descom Bulletin
… tried to support those that were detained without trial by the government. Due to the conditions under which the … be allowed to see detainees. This request…
EventUnion of South Africa officially ceases to exist
… the Union of South Africa, which was established in 1910 by the British government under the premiership of Louis … The country was criticised for its…
EventBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala, SA artist, is born
… Skotnes at Jubilee Art Centre in 1964. He was also guided by Ephraim Ngatane in the mid 1960s, and was a pupil of Bill … pastel on paper, and his work has…
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… after the suppression of political and cultural renewal by the ANC and the banishment of nine members of the ANC at … ANC communities at Dakawa and Mazimbu…
PlaceBloemfontein City Hall
… Is a large stately sandstone building which was designed by the well known, Sir Gordon Leith. The Bloemfontein City … House in New Delhi, India. This can be…
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… (which means-Baboon Ravine) and was established in 1738 by the young Moravian missionary, Georg Schmidt . He arrived … had been given decades before when she…
PlaceVoortrekker Monument
… on 13 July 1937 with a sod turning Ceremony performed by Chairman of the SVK, Advocate Ernest George Jansen, on … Hill. On 16 December 1938 the cornerstone…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… , the Communist weekly. [He left for England in 1945, by the first Liberty ship which sailed after the end of the … in the establishment of the South Africa…
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The All-African Convention came into being as an answer by the Native People to the…
!U’S STORY - Photographs 16 - 19
… time of a wedding the first marriage is usually arranged by the parents. The boy must bring an animal that he himself … and then followed him home. But,…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
… Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education acolyte – an assistant or … for people convicted of political…
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… rights violations were prevalent Apartheid was declared by United Nations as a crime against humanity, and therefore … was approximately 80 Million rand and…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph At long last 1962 arrived and I could say to … to any designated place and not to leave it again except by…
ArchiveGeneral History of Africa Collection
… and describes the research methodology employed by historians. It also deals with the development of … Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century This period is…
PlaceGroutville
… Empangeni. Whilst at Inkanyezi Mission , he was threatened by King Mpande who dispatched his ' Amabutho ' to launch a … of Groutville was formerly a mission…
Celebrating 62 years of struggle, 10 September 2006
… celebration would be in honour of the indelible mark left by the founding members of the ANC Youth League, hence the … more of our youth in celebrating this…
PlaceSudan
… centuries. Egypt had conquered all of the Sudan region by 1874 and encouraged British interference there. This … which lasted until 1898, when these forces…
PlaceDarling, West Coast
… Products to be tasted at Darling Olives and Het Bos , (by appointment). The Top End of the Main Road boasts an … Kitchen. A San Centre (link in FURTHER…
PlaceThe Mead and Meadway, Pinelands-Cape Town
… Garden Cities Trust in 1919 and was capitalised in part by a member of the trust, namely Richard Stuttaford of … Christian churches of the suburb. Pinelands…
PlaceSharpeville, Gauteng
… Day, for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination by the United Nations. The Memorial displays remembrance of … An Area where Blacks and Indians could Live…
PlaceRissik Street Post Office, Johannesburg
… this period the component parts of the clock were stored by Messrs. List Brothers. The official starting of the clock … guidelines, regulations and public…
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… towards the end of the last century, they were encouraged by the State to settle in South Africa and make this country … the welfare of the country at large…
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… sports. SAFA managed to retain its membership of Fifa by renaming itself Football Association of Southern Africa … Fifa to put more pressure on the South…
PlaceEgypt
… Tombs of the Pharaoh's! Separated from the Middle East by the Red Sea , a very important trade route! From 1852, … It has been the capital of Egypt, from…
PlaceTable Mountain, Cape Town
… it are many beautiful Valleys, Bays and Beaches bound by the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the West and the … Tariq Mellet is: "It is granite and…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Larger Map The betterment planning program was initiated by the Department of Bantu Affairs through Proclamation 31 of 1939 and regulated by Proclamation R…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 78th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1990
… historic campaign of mass defiance which was characterised by our refusal to submit to repression and state terrorism, … that pervades our country today. So…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… action. Now and again there are slight differences, but by and large the ANC pursues the position that whatever we … The war will end when the Nazis of our…