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EventBuilding of Delagoa Bay railway line is completed
… the restoration of the Transvaal Republic after annexation by Britain in 1877. This rail link between Transvaal en … transport-riders used ox wagons to…
EventHlubi Chief Langalibalele becomes one of the first Black activists to be tried and banished to Robben Island
… and sent to Pietermaritzburg where he was put on trial by a kangaroo court which consisted of substantial procedural … Lieutenant-Governor Sir Benjamin Pine…
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… the long and ravaging civil war in Angola, was brokered by the United Nations (UN). According to the terms of the … Despite this peace accord and several…
EventBritish explorers, John Speke and J.A. Grant announce that Lake Victoria is the source of the Nile
… to Africa was in 1856 when he accepted an invitation by Richard Burton to search for the great lakes of Africa. … expedition would be a difficult one. They…
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
… Numerous attempts were made by the local government to clear informal dwellings at … group of men known as ‘witdoeke’ executed the evictions by setting…
EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… Cooperation. Matshikiza missed South Africa and was pained by the fact that he was banned in his own country. He died in 1968 and was survive by his wife and…
EventThe Organisation of African Unity is formed and Africa Day is declared
… in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The organisation was founded by thirty-two countries, a further 21 states have joined … May 25th. In 2002 the OAU was dissolved and…
EventConstruction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed
… The brainchild of Cecil Rhodes, the bridge was designed by George Andrew Hobson. It crosses the Zambezi River and the … Falls Bridge. It is reputed to have…
PlaceFreshford House Museum, 31 Kellner Street
… exists in Bloemfontein. The house was designed and built by the architect John Edwin Harrison for himself and his … this period in Bloemfontein. The house…
PlaceQueens Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… to the present. The Fort was originally erected in 1848 by Boer forces to help withstand attacks by local Basotho tribes. This Museum overlooks the City and …
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… moved on 12 February 1955, but the government caught them by surprise. The forced removals were part of the … event that took two days. In 2006 Sophiatown…
EventAfrican bus boycott lasting ten weeks is initiated in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
… After months of walking to work and constant harassment by police, the commuters and the company finally reached a … a permanent solution is reached…
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… protest and the killing and injuring of student protesters by the indiscriminate use of firearms by the police, the government was faced with a looming …
POLICY AND POLITICAL PROCESSES TOWARDS 51ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Parktown, 13 August 2002
… Statement by Cde Jeff Radebe at the breakfast briefing The African … and build a caring society. The policies adopted by the 1997 and 2000 conferences are…
Address at the National Council of Provinces, Cape Town 12 October 2000
… It is clear that some voters will be inconvenienced by the fact of our holding the elections on the particular date announced by the Minister. I would like…
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
… A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The South African … The tremendous volume of work which was…
Challenges of Leadership in the Current Phase, 1 July 1997
… of the movement. Such discussions should be informed by the strategic tasks of the organisation and the challenges … there should be contest among…
Archive2016 - President Zuma: State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2016
… It is also the 50th anniversary of the declaration by the National Party regime that District Six would be a … also marks the 20th anniversary of the signing…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke THE MILITARY DEFEAT of the Africans was followed by their political and economic…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 77th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1989
… tailored to maintain and intensify white domination by every conceivable means. The most urgent challenge, at the … mow ed down in the streets of Pretoria…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… our very eyes. The 80 years of uninterrupted struggle led by the ANC are about to bear fruit. The founding conference … different ethnic units. Their heroic…
A message to the African people and their allies in the struggle for freedom in the Union of South Africa, June 1953
… this day has not been fixed as a statutory holiday by the white parliament of the country. It is a day which has … people and their allies, because it was…
PlaceNyanga Township
… up mostly of informal settlements where people live cheek-by-jowl;(close together; intimately), in shacks made of zinc, … 'Abalimi Bezekhaya' are promoting a…
Chapter VIII - The Mandela’s – family extraordinary
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The main street in a small country town in … to make their purchases lest they offend white customers by their…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Three days before the … are also people. This name was…
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
… organizations (NGOs) complained at the time. By then, 85 French companies were operating in South Africa. … African anti-apartheid writer Ruth First, who was…
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… years Windybrow has been Restored. The team has been led by Christine Smith McDonald, Ismail Mahomed and Jennifer van … the Original family Inhabitants. This…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The State of Emergency was over. Lilian and I … on trial, listening now to our own evidence, inspired by it,…
INDIAN SOUTH AFRICANS - A brief history
… were forced into second and third terms of indenture by a discriminatory system of taxation in Natal. Law 17 of 1895 provided that an annual tax of £3 had to…
PlaceTokai Arboretum, Tokai Forest
… The Arboretum was laid out in 1885 by Joseph Storr Lister, Conservator of Forests of the Western … in 1795 has a nursery and the land beside it was set aside…