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EventEarthquake shakes up Tulbagh
… Ceres experienced the most destructive earthquake in South African history.[i] The epicentre of the earthquake was …
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… will pursue publication of the essays in the South African Historical Journal . Contributors to the colloquium …
PlaceAmathole Mountain Region, Eastern Cape
… is in King William's Town and a wonderful collection of African art is at Fort Hare University. The treasures of the …
PlaceAmalienstein, a Mission Station in the Western Cape
… goes something like this- Zoar was the first of the South African Missionary Society's (SAMS) 'projects', established … New Dictionary of South African Names…
PlaceRhodes University, Grahamstown
… favourable academic staff to student ratio among South African universities, Rhodes students are guaranteed easy …
PlaceOttery
… that the investigation had been handed over to the South African Police Service. Commuters were evacuated and the …
PlaceNewlands Cricket Stadium
… the collapse of apartheid and the birth of a new South African democracy in the early 1990s. With South Africa …
PlaceFranschhoek, Western Cape
… https://www.thesouthafrican.com/travel/7-south-african-towns-that-feel-like-europe-small-towns-south-africa/ …
PlaceClanwilliam, Stellenbosch District
… in honour of Dr. C. Louis Leipoldt- (who was a South African doctor, journalist, and a leading poet of the Second … New Dictionary of South African Place…
PlaceGabon
… helped, make Gabon one of the more prosperous sub-Saharan African countries. Gabon is Sub-Sahara's third largest …
Address by President at the official opening of the new bridge over the Limpopo River at Beit Bridge Beit Bridge, 24 November 1995
… from the tolls levied, part of this bridge is on South African soil and we therefore have a vested interest in it. …
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
… The Labour government in Britain desperately needed South African gold and uranium. It agreed to bar Seretse Khama from … , [Accessed: 07 October 2013]|…
EventTutu is outraged by De Klerk’s denial of responsibility for apartheid’s atrocities
… had been even-handed in its treatment of the NP and the African National Congress (ANC) submissions this week. He …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
… British scorched earth policy also displaced thousand of African farmworkers and the British established 66 …
Document 25 - Letter from E. R. Roux to John Gomas, 23 July 1956
… I got out. In spite of criticism I admit that the best African leaders - as the defiance campaign showed - were …
EventThe first large group of French Huguenots arrive at the Cape
… surnames survive. The Huguenots made a difference to South African society in another respect. Previously, the …
ANC AND 1999 ELECTION NOMINATION LIST
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions COSATU has taken a firm stand that the …
Document 23 - Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
… Mpati COSATU Spokesperson. 19 December MEMORANDUM As South African workers we reject and protest against: 1. The way in …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note
… to many journals, articles on the history of the Southern African liberation movement. Working mainly in the background …
EventFirst celebration of International Women's Day
… as the historic 1956 anti-pass march by thousands of South African women. Visit our feature 'History of Women's struggle … ' for further information about…
Political Overview By The ANC Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Comrade Paul Mashatile On The Occasion Of The Special Provincial General Council, Turffontein Racecourse, Johannesburg, 24 February 2013
… and indeed significant in the history of our movement, the African National Congress. Key among others, is that the year … growing in our continent and may…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
… has been reduced to 20%. In 1994, less than 40% of South African households had electricity: today, after more than 2 … its attempts to invoke religion is…
Archive1999 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 5 February 1999 (Before National Elections)
… has been reduced to 20%. In 1994, less than 40% of South African households had electricity: today, after more than 2 … its attempts to invoke religion is…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… THE HISTORY of the South African Trotskyists during the 1930s and into the next decade … (the Red Nun) to a former student, found in the South African…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… in solidarity.” Notwithstanding the fact that South African Indians are only 2.5% of the national population, it …
EventCiskei is granted 'independence'
… Black homeland to be granted 'independence' by the South African Government. Chief Lennox Sebe is elected President by …
EventSA Government spoil Chief Albert Luthuli's chance of Rectorship
… and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the South African Government for Albert Luthuli to leave Natal and be …
EventJazz Musician, Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee, dies
… Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee (54), South African jazz musician who played with Abdullah Ibrahim (also …
The strangulation of activity
… the banning of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and the African National Congress (ANC). On the 8 April 1960 these … consisted of the ANC, Coloured People's…
Archive1996 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 1996
… their appreciation for the feat of our soccer team in the African Nations Cup. This is bound to replay itself in other … tive guardian of the Constitution…