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PlaceMelrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… Durban, made his fortune in the diamond rush in Kimberley by establishing a successful coach transportation business … remained in the Heys family until 1968…
PlacePretoria Correctional Service Museum
… The first prison building in Tshwane, built by Alexander Anderson at the corner of Pretorius and Paul … and purposes, and was sentenced to a year of hard…
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… of Indian people. A campaign of passive resistance by Indians to this residential segregation law, led the … incident in which an African youth was allegedly…
EventPeter Mokaba is born
… Africa. After his capture in 1977, which was preceded by his attempt to evade arrest, Mokoba was banned from attending school by authorities. Nevertheless,…
EventParliament convenes to consider the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki
… An objection to the resignation of Mbeki was raised by a Member of Parliament (MP) from the Freedom Front Plus … overwhelmingly with 299 votes against the…
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, have been marked by sharp debates both within and outside of the ANC over the … of the production and utilization of…
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… that they intended to settle on was already inhabited by the Zulu people. Thus the Voortrekker leader, Piet Retief … 1960, where peaceful protesters were…
PlaceMariammen Temple, Pretoria
… later the characteristic Southern Indian Gopuram was built by Parasuraman GOVENDER and Krishna. Besides forming the main … the Northern site wall…
2018 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2018
… vision of a democratic, just and equitable society. Guided by his example, we will use this year to reinforce our … a country where a person’s prospects are…
Address at the South African Millenium Trust Launch, Kyalami 19 November 1998
… while out of time's pestilence comes a literature written by flies." These words of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda speak … wars fought for ignoble purposes,…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education African National Congress. Address to the Nation by ANC President…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 76th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1988
… This continued campaign of terror has been carried out by the apartheid regime precisely because we, together with … the racists have sought to increase…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… that causes Aids made the jump from animals to people by 1940 during a war in the West African country of …
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
… of the vigilantes were wounded. Staggie tried to escape by car, but was prevented from doing so. He was shot and …
The French Revolution Activity
… monarch in the neighbouring country next to you was killed by his own people, how would you feel? Why do you think the …
Work and education
… very worrying issue is that of sexual abuse against girls by male teachers and boy students. This places girls and …
Prehistory of the Nelspruit area
… ( see prehistory of Durban ), that is, people related by blood (the male cattle area) versus marriage (the female …
EventDie Burger publishes the term 'Apartheid' for the first time
… On 26 March 1942, an article was published by an Afrikaner political correspondent of the Nationalist … ideology of Apartheid to appeal to White interest. By…
PlaceEerste Rivier, Cape Town
… Line from Cape Town reached Eerste River. It was acquired by the Cape Government on 1 January 1873. The Village of … great piety and culture who was exiled…
ANC mourns the passing on of Mama Regina Nzo, 27 September 2011
… The ANC is deeply saddened by the news of the passing on of Mama Regina Nzo who was the … congress movement. May her soul rest in peace. Issued by: Jackson…
PlaceAllanridge, Free State Province
… North of Welkom. It was founded in 1950 and administered by a village management board. Named after Allan Roberts, who … plates from NBL 27404, which served…
ArchiveSouth African political prison-literature between 1948 and 1990: the prisoner as writer and political commentator
… This thesis examines works written about imprisonment by four South African political writers who were incarcerated … on the manner in which they were,…
EventUnFreedom Day
… the poor”[1] and to replace the usual “pompous speeches” by politicians to “be reminded ‘how far we have come’” with … UnFreedom Day rallies have since been…
We are no longer in France - Book Launch
… Algerian nationalist movements. The analysis is enriched by comparisons with the South African communist movement. … PCA’s pluralist vision was shattered…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems
… in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, who was subsequently a student of … field of philosophical investigation; but was…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.4 Jul-Sept 1959
… Contents: Dear Sir Roy. Emigrant Ship by Reginald Reynolds. The Senate Farce, Stanley Uys with a … Failure: Sir Roy Welensky, Frank Barton with illustration…
PlaceOld Arts Building, University of Pretoria
… on 03 August 1910 and the building was officially opened by General Jan Smuts in August 1911. The designer of the Old … Union Buildings. The sandstone…
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
… groups in South Africa is passed. The law was introduced by the apartheid government and part of its overall policy of … outside of the country. It was…
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… Sisulu was abducted at his home in Soweto, Johannesburg,by four armed White men who wore balaclavas to conceal their … emerged that Sisulu had been detained…
EventSouth Africa holds a referendum to decide if SA should become a republic
… The South African government led by National Party (NP) held a referendum in which white … majority. Natal (now kwaZulu Natal), which was inhabited by more…