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PlaceVictoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
… It started off with a small Jetty, built by Jan van Riebeeck in 1654 as part of his task to establish … in 1938 and was completed in 1945, after being…
Archive1999 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 5 February 1999 (Before National Elections)
… ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT, 5 … The time is yet to come for farewells, as many of us - by choice or circumstance - will…
Presidential Address to the Twenty-Third Conference of the South African Indian Congress, Durban, September 3, 1961
… solve all international problems through negotiations and by peaceful means; we regard foreign domination of any people … midst of liberation struggles. We…
Interview: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
… This week Australia has been privileged to be visited by Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for … ”‘the race. Nobody would employ a black…
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on receiving a Honorary LLD degree at the University of the Witwatersrand 6 September 1991
… people shall govern!' That is why the charter continues by stating amongst other things that 'All bodies of minority … boards, councils and authorities shall…
Closing Address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC 16 December 1990
… guests. This consultative conference has been called by the National Executive Committee to consult you on a … of the government. This statement could only…
Document 8 - S. P. Bunting, The “Colonial” Labour Front, 23 October 1922
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 8 - S. P. Bunting ,'5 The "Colonial" … United States the negro workers are…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day Celebrations: Landsdown Stadium, Cape Town, April 27, 2008
… weeks. The public debate and widespread condemnation by the majority of our people of the racist incidents … argue, as some among us do, that crime is…
Say It out Loud - The 1907 Presidential Address, Outdshoorn, Cape, 7 January, 1907
… From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1907 Presidential Address, … lands had been in some instances purchased outright by Missionaries. In…
Address at the Work-in-Progress Review Workshop of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), 24 Jan 2002
… unity and African prosperity, a reality characterised by Africans reduced to cheap labour and an Africa seen only … 1881, Blyden said the following: "The…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… Those days it was the biggest, but today it's being owned by the Whites and instead we've got Baragwanath for the black … in 1954, came back to Johannesburg…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 7
… Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin In 1942, a strike was called at the Dunlop … in the strike, owing in the words of a…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… of their lives. In 1923, to quell unrest, especially by 'uncontrollable' black youth who stayed out late, the city … set a curfew of 10 p.m. for blacks,…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… fifty years on Robben Island. The trial was precipitated by the complaints laid against Jacobsz by a slave from Batavia, called Panaij van Boegies, in July …
PlaceAggeneys, a Town at the foot of the Aggeneys Mountain in the Namaqualand
… west of the town. The produce of the mine is transported by truck to the nearest railway line, which is 150 km away … probably unsurpassed on the face of the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.2 1990
… to Flowers, Marc Glaser; Skool; Marius Crous; Observatory by Dusk, Etienne de la Harpe; Seeking Salvation, E.J. … Letter to the Editor, Lionel Abrahams;…
PlaceOppenheimer Gardens, Kimberley
… industry alive. The Diggers’ Memorial was designed by Herman Wald, a South African sculptor who was born in … Jew himself), love, anti-war ideals, and family…
EventAnatii, the South African rapper is born
… hip hop artist L-Tido in 2009.[2] He was even commissioned by Lebohang Morake to produce four songs for the Coca-Cola … Summahh” compilation album.[3] Anatii…
PlaceRichtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape, Northern Cape
… migrations and grazing grounds, stockpots (bases used by the herders as they move with their herds of sheep and … of the country that is uniquely owned and…
EventMoïse-Kapenda Tshombé becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo
… United Nations (UN) troops and in 1961 he was charged by a UN investigation commission for involvement with the … the Congo - heserved only one year before…
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… Boer army. Botha had been persuaded to continue the war by the Free State President Martinus Steyn and further … farms thinking that the war was over. But,…
PlaceIrish House, Polokwane Museum
… that was prefabricated and moved complete to the City by a German immigrant, August Julius Herman Moschke, in the early 1900's. The building was burnt down…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… was simple: vote "no" to curb the advance of communism led by the South African Communist Party and the ANC in South Africa. Their argument was echoed by…
EventSir Christoffel Joseph Brand succeeds his brother, P.A. Brand, as editor of De Zuid
… currently known as Waalburg. The publication was edited by a number of people, including P.A Brand. On 24 July 1839, he was succeeded by his brother, Sir…
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… because of blood ties. Laas was succeeded in December 1940 by Dr J.F.J. (Hans) van Rensburg. Besides the OB and associated with it by a common commanding…
EventDr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt
… Star newspaper. Vorster also misappropriated funds by financing The Citizen, the only English newspaper … On 30 August 1979, he was acquitted of this charge…
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… Biehl (who was 26 years old), was dragged from her car by a 100-strong mob of youths in Gugulethu, a township just … death. Her Black friends tried in vain…
EventThree people are murdered at Eikenhof
… (ANC) activists were found guilty of their murders by Judge David Curlewis after they had been identified as the … Army, the armed wing of the PAC. After a…
EventHeadman Tshabalala, founding member of the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed
… The group was first only known in the Ladysmith area, but by 1967, they began to make recordings for Radio Zulu and … enormous success during this period,…
EventAdriaan Vlok, Minister of Law and Order, announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes weapons in “conflict situations”
… axes. This unclear definition of 'traditional weapons" by Vlok was considered proof by the ANC that the Apartheid government to a large extent …