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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 …
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 …
Franschhoek, 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 …
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
… Treason Trial, and his continuing work for the South African Communist Party (SACP). Detained without trial in …
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 …
Amathole 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 …
Amalienstein, 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 …
EventGermany signs an unconditional surrender which ends World War II
… Africa, who fought on the side of the Allies. The South African force suffered approximately 9000 casualties and 14 … mainly of supplying troops, men and…
EventPeter Scott is born
… born on 27 November 1990 in Cape Town.[i] Peter is a South African alpine skier.[ii] His family immigrated to France … he began skiing.[iii] He formed part…
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army'
… the idea of creating a Confederation of all Southern African territories, with a view to being appointed Governor … at a time when British colonial…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… July 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of the South African Communist Party (SACP): one of the first … of socialism in South Africa and internationally…
PlaceWakkerstroom
… in 1859. The Town has played a significant role in South African History, particularly during the Anglo-Zulu and … after the then-president of the South…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 15 September 1970 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… desperate remedies. Violence is evil, yes, but the South African way of life is an even greater evil. Faced with the … which it implies, and, on the other…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
… land mines were laid only a few kilometres inside South African territory and were thus not long, if at all, at the … they originate from one of the…
Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom
… now consider it necessary in the national interest for the African National Congress and government to meet urgently to … or not they are nationalists and…
Letter from Steve Biko to Colin [Collins] re follow-up discussion on financial assistance to SASO from UCM, Aug 15, 1969.
… Christian Movement by the President of the the South African Students Organisation Steve Biko …
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 …
Statement by Olive Tambo at the freedom rally organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 26 January 1979, Dublin
… and Comrades, We bring you greetings on behalf of the African National Congress, the cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe … and individuals committing the crime of…