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EventIFP proposes a truce with ANC
… The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) proposed a truce with the African National Congress (ANC) as an effort to distil … ANC and itself. The IFP blamed the…
PlaceTaj Hotel, Cape Town
… as the Board of Executors, built in 1890, and the South African Reserve Bank building, on St. George's Originally home to the South African Reserve Bank and…
Interview with Dr Vanitha Chetty by Ms Rajes Pillay,University of Durban Westville,13 June 2002
… much younger age. In fact, my mother and all of us went in 1955. I’ve spent a couple of months in India. I was sent off … jubilant on her return because…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… that this was indeed what was thought. Thanks to our African initiative - I am still grateful that I said what I … visitors on a reasonable scale. In spite…
PlaceThe Dakawa Arts and Crafts Centre
… as the Dakawa Development Centre, it began as a project of African National Congress (ANC) exiles during the time of … Morrow, Sean. Dakawa Development…
PlaceGreatmore Studios
… and in 1988, with the assistance of Loder and South African veteran artist, David Nthubu Kolaone , Greatmore …
Death of ANC Education Secretary, Seretse Choabi, 29 August 1991
… The African National Congress regrets to announce the untimely …
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… As a matter of crude shorthand, the South African photographer David Goldblatt might be described as …
SABC CEO Jimi Matthews quits: ‘What’s happening at the SABC is wrong' (Tmg Digital), 27 June 2016
… August local government elections. On Friday‚ the South African National Editors’ Forum said it was “shocked by the …
PlaceAlberton, Germiston
… is still a very exclusive Area, some of the famous South African's who live there are: Japie Mulder (Springbok rugby … New Dictionary of South African Place…
PlaceHaarlem
… these mountains. Then came the small livestock farmers of African origin, to be followed by a particularly tough … New Dictionary of South African Place…
PlaceElim
… and fig trees. This town is one of the few surviving South African mission stations . It was founded in 1824 as the … cottages and fig trees, is one of the…
Beyond the Apartheid University?
… University? Interrogating the transformation of the South African Higher Education landscape. Sub-themes to be …
PlaceLoftus Versveld Stadium, Hatfield
… extents and hear about its history and future in the South African sporting world. Loftus Versfeld is situated in …
PlaceFreedom Park
… common humanity. Freedom Park was established as the South African government's response to the Truth and Reconciliation …
PlaceOld gaol, Seventh Avenue, Roodepoort
… used as holding cells for a short while before the South African Red Cross Society moved in. The building was declared …
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… add "also delegates (European and Coloured) from the South African Trades & Labour Council and the Furniture and Garment …
EventPansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, announces her resignation
… parties such as the United Democratic Movement (UDM), the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), Congress of the …
Event90-Days Act comences
… enables authorities to align Umkhonto We Sizwe with the African National Congress (ANC) and Poqo with the Pan … Liebenberg, B. J. & Spies, S. B. (eds)(1993)…
EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… have been the centre of the largest known kingdom in the African sub-continent. The civilization thrived as a …
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… for attacks on one another. Mozambique agreed to expel the African National Congress (ANC) from their country while …
EventWolraad Woltemade drowns at sea after saving 14 people from a sinking ship
… 2002, as part of the move towards establishing a new South African honours system. … Schirmer, P. (1980) The concise illustrated South African encyclopaedia …
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… in Eastern Cape. In Cape Town he launched the South African Public Library in the Cape through a proclamation in …
EventMother Teresa is buried
… 1988. Further reading: Feature: The Nobel Prize and South African Winners of the award. Feature: Mohandas K. Gandhi …
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… regime, Eugene de Kock was a colonel in the South African Police force. He acted as the commander of a … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999)…
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… active role in the uprising. On 15 March 1992, the South African government's artillery bombarded the strikers' … : Human & Rousseau|SAHO, The Rand Revolt ,…
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… in chief of the Orange Free State forces in the South African War (1899-1902) and was a leader in the Afrikaner …
EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
… of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War. A British woman, Emily Hobhouse became the …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… community to the forthcoming elections for the South African Indian Council (SAIC). It was decided that the …
65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… colonies in the world. Any attempted solution of the South African Indian question that ignores Natal Indians is bound …