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… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and … We didn't know who they were but we knew that they were from the ANC so each woman said, 'Ja,…
EventChad gains its independence
… attempted various stages of divestment and disengagement from the region. Chad was given sectional autonomy in the … Gascoigne, B. (2016). History of Chad…
Birthday message by Albert Luthuli to Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 2 September 1955
… will strike a death blow to oppression in South Africa. From Treason Trial Transcript, pages 13,304-05 ES Reddy …
Letter to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 June 1968
… problems the United Nations has had to face will flow from this explosion. For that reason, I believe that the …
ANC statement on the Heritage Day, 24 September 2014
… The African National Congress calls on South Africans from diverse cultural backgrounds, beliefs and historic …
Speech at the Funeral of M.P. Naicker, London by O. R. Tambo, 8 May 1977
… active in the liberation movement, was editor of Sechaba from January 1969 and was appointed Director of Information …
Frances Baard Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps, 11 July 2013
… All volunteers will be engaged in a programme at the arena from 10h00 which will be followed by the actual launch at …
PlaceKookfontein
… two centuries. The cottages look out over the vineyard from which Kookfontein Sauvignon Blanc is made. …
PlaceHout Bay Museum
… translates to ‘Wood Bay’ in Afrikaans). Soon Hout Bay grew from being a few farms to becoming a Fort and finally a …
PlaceGreenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… developed early on when the VoC brought vegetables from its adjoining garden to this place for sale to Cape Town …
PlaceMcgregor Museum, Kimberley
… Cecil John Rhodes held up during the Siege of Kimberley from 1899 – 1900 . The fist curator of the museum was Ms …
PlacePort Elizabeth and the City Hall
… Finally in 2021, with the aim to distance South Africa from its colonial past and represent the authentic South …
PlaceRiversdale, Western Cape
… Rivers, Commissioner and Resident Magistrate of Swellendam from 1834 to 1841. On 9th March 1848, Sir Harry Smith …
PlaceJutten Island, Saldanha Bay
… 1970s, yielding almost exclusively Dutch silver Ducatoons from the 1600s. The number of coins found in the 1970s was …
The Final Prize: My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy
… This is one more contribution to liberation historiography from the unique perspective of an activist academic who …
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… Council (SRC). Subsequently, he was deregistered from the institution and could not complete his Bachelor of … South African History Online (2011). ‘Oliver…
EventLabour Party Colonel Creswell’s move to support the war wins majority
… E. ‘Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin (1860 – 1925)’ from Scholar [online] Available at www.schola.sun.ac.za …
EventWilhelmina Johanna (Wilma) Stockenström is born
… an important figure in Afrikaans literature. Originally from Napier in the Cape, she spent most of her working life … n.d. ‘Alphabetical list of authors:…
PlaceNational Botanic Gardens, Pretoria
… Farm.) The main reason for the transfer of land from the University was that the land had been found to be …
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
… Collection of Decorative Arts that include Porcelain, from Royal Dux and Royal Doulton to Chinese, Japanese and …
“India’s Step Most Timely”: Joint Statement By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo On The Decision Of The Government Of India To Raise The South African Indian Question Again Before The United Nations General Assembly, July 1948
… India and Pakistan, and in the interests of world peace. From: Passive Resister , Johannesburg, July 23, 1948 …
EventPolitical activists seek refuge in the British Consulate in Durban
… States in Johannesburg on 13 September 1988 after escaping from the Johannesburg Prison. … Political History: a chronology of key political events from…
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique sign a non-aggression pact
… socialist allies did very little to support and protect it from South African military and economic aggression. The … DISA," What of the Nkomati Accord? "…
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. …
EventS.P. Botha, Minister of Water Affairs, proposes new schemes to ease the Western Cape’s water supply problem
… distribute and use it more efficiently." Four decades from the day Botha made his statement, a worse drought struck … Anon, (1970), 'Botha on Western Cape…
EventThe African National Congress is found guilty
… "to investigate all the violations of human rights ... from all quarters". In the meantime, ANC leaders said that …
EventTwelve ANC supporters are killed in eSikhawini
… in 1992. On 16 February the IFP called its supporters from all over the province to a gather in the eSikhawini … Commision Special Report, Volume 3: 1991 ,…
EventThe ANC threatens to suspend constitutional talks
… its concerns sufficiently, and announced its withdrawal from talks on constitutional issues. However, this had little …
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
… Donald "Dolan" Acheson is purported to have been deported from South Africa on the 31 March 1991, having being fingered … Ramaphosa, N., Thursday 30 March…
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
… 1990 was an important milestone, which signalled a shift from being covert underground organisations to functioning as …