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PlaceLovedale Missionary School
… Black intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th century—from Tiyo Soga to Thabo Mbeki to Steve Biko — were to be …
EventWaaihoek women embark on anti-pass passive resistance campaign
… at the time. Black people had already been segregated off from the city in a settlement called Waaihoek and needed …
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… that is rooted in South Africa. By taking human excrement from Khayelitsha, his action sought to make a connection with …
EventThe Comoros declared an Independent State
… Comoros’ parliament on 6 July 1975 declared independence from the French for all the Comoros islands, including … Comoros Profile. (2015, May 4). Retrieved…
Statement on ANC central number and information line, 10 October 2005
… Simply dial 086 717 7077 and choose option 2 from the main menu. …
PlaceHillbrow Tower
… Tower, after JG Strijdom, South African Prime Minister from 1954 to 1958. On 31 May 2005 it was renamed the Telkom …
Letter to the Chairman of the Special Committee against Apartheid by O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 October 1975
… of the Federal Republic and call on it to desist from continuing its collaboration with the apartheid regime. …
Christmas and New Year Message by O. R. Tambo, Distributed Illegally in South Africa, December 1973
… Brothers and Sisters! I send you warm greetings from the African National Congress on the occasion of …
ArchiveAfrican Communist, 1959 - 1994
… the liberation movement as a whole. But growing pressure from the rank and file of the SACP for a more structured …
In conclusion
… all over again to improve people's lives, I would do it – from A to Z. …
EventFinal legal note on the SS Mendi
… conclusions around the sinking of the SS Mendi troopship, from which 616 South Africans lost their lives. The Royal …
PlaceMaclear's Beacon
… and highly reccomended if you want to move away from the tourists, at the top of the mountain! …
PlaceNelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
… space requires the constant rotation of works of art from our Permanent Collection, and researchers wishing to see …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.1 Oct-Dec 1958
… Southern Rhodesia Elects, Channing B. Richardson. Meddlers from Abroad, Reginald Reynolds. Algeria and De Gaulle, …
PlaceBensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg
… also collects the pictures made using this equipment - from the earliest wet-plate prints, to experiments in 3D such …
EventCharlotte Maxeke, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born
… was born on 7 April 1847 in Fort Beaufort in Cape Town. From a young age Maxeke showed musical talent. She finished … Johannesburg Hospital, Charlotte…
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… home, it is alledged that he committed suicide by jumping from a high-rise building in New York on 14 July 1965. An … 06 July 2011] Anon, (n.d.), ‘Nathaniel…
EventSpringboks beat New Zealand in Rugby Wold Cup final match
… Zealand’s Rugby Team, was neutralised by solid tackling from the South African side. Though both teams played quite … beat New Zealand in Rugby Wold Cup…
PlaceOld Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage
… on Market Street in the year of the opening of the railway from Port Elizabeth, it is reputed to be one of the oldest …
PlaceSt Michael and All Angels Anglican Church, Boksburg
… uses rounded arches (Romanesque), which was a change from Sir Herberts use of the pointed arches (Anglo Gothic), …
PlaceRoodepoort Town School, Rex Street
… week, starting with one trained Teacher and nine Students, from First to Fifth grade. …
Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic: Answers to Questions by May 1961
… of actions non-whites in this country can take. Apart from mass meetings and processions, one means of making the …
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
… born in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. Levy attended the Yeoville Boys’ primary …
EventJoost Van Der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born
… in the 1995, 1999 and 2003 rugby world cups. He retired from professional rugby after the 2003 world cup. At 89 caps, … D. (2011), Stricken Joost still the…
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… to provide alternative lessons to the learners excluded from the education system. …
EventAndries Dreyer, church archivist and collector of Africana, dies
… library. In 1973 he was awarded an honourary doctorate from the University of South Africa. He died on 31 August …
EventPolitical activist Molly Blackburn is born
… of the other car were killed. Her death stunned people from all races and her funeral was attended by a large group …
EventThe Table Mountain cableway, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, is inaugurated
… Peter suggested that a funicular railway line running up from Oranjezicht through Platteklip Gorge would be the most … Mountain Ariel Cableway (2011). …
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… Congress (ANC) supporters, became serious when residents from Thokoza erected a squatter camp on land adjacent to …
EventThirteen residents of Mofolo die in IFP attack
… allowed to move freely, carrying arms along several routes from the stadium. In the aftermath of the march, IFP …