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Address at the UN General Assembly, New York, 12 September 2002
… the world who know the painful meaning of oppression by another, of war and violent conflict, of poverty and … and the rest of the world would be brutally…
Document 35 - Constitutional principles Schedule 4 of the Interim Constitution
… oa e tlogela o molato - which refers to a dilemma faced by a villager who comes across the king's cattle grazing in … been labelled a "dangerous idea" that…
Chapter 13 - The public participation process
… in order for the new law to be sensitive to and shaped by their realities, and for it to address these realities. Ms … programmes for comprehensive public…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
… Court in 1998. Moosa was awarded the Order if the Disa by the Western Cape Province in 2004. He served as judge for … (26 February 2017). ↵ [ii]DA saddened…
Accuser insulted as Zuma hailed at court (IOL), 14 February 2006
… Zuma was being hailed as a king who could do no wrong by thousands outside the Johannesburg High Court, his alleged victim and her supporters were insulted…
PlaceAliwal South, Alternative Name for Mossel Bay
… had been appointed to search for a trading route to India, by King John II of Portugal. Without realizing it he had … hence the Afrikaans meaning! The…
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… Durban Metropolitan Municipality. Populated primarily by Zulu-speaking Black Africans, Inanda is known as the home … in India, defying the British government…
PlaceGardens, Cape Town
… within a stone’s throw of the centre of Cape Town, joined by Kloof Nek . Gardens is a very popular suburb and one of … for centuries. Long before roads were…
PlaceBo-Kaap, Cape Town
… means, (rental houses). Were built and leased to slaves by the Dutch Colonists. These people were known as Cape … the Properties, all the Houses were painted…
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
… the Country. Ownership of the diamond fields was contested by the Boer republics of the; Orange Free State and the … On 30 July 1870 he declared the…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church Hall, Uitenhage
… for Uitenhage on presentation of the magistrate approved by the governor. Rev. Cornelis Mol who was an Afrikaner from … of the Cape Synod in 1909. Ds…
PlaceCredo Mutwa Cultural Village
… exhibition of astounding sculptures and buildings created by African artist and traditional healer Credo Mutwa . The … It is comprised of sculpture and…
Document 83 “Native Bourgeoisie as a Class”, Umsebenzi, 16 February 1935
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 83 "Native Bourgeoisie as a Class", … proposed stores will be under…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
… United Front to fight for full democratic rights, was made by Dr. Yusuf Dadoo and Dr. G. M. Naicker, respectively … to suppress not only the Indians but all…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… action among students and in communities, and influenced by the black power movement, liberation theology and the new … and Pan Africanist Congress also…
Letter on plans for June 26, from the Rev. J. J. Skomolo to Professor Z. K. Matthews, June 16, 1950
… Take these into accounts. There are poor widows by their thousands whose children do not eat until the mother … cannot achieve all over one night. There…
History Wars, Wars in history & other Southern African histories
… of the Satyagraha campaign; and the use of the military by Jan Smuts to crush the strikes called by railwaymen and by the South African Federation of Trades…
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… 24 year old Coloured woman, Sandra Smith, was executed by hanging at Pretoria Central Prison. She was the last woman … that she was wealthy. Abrahams…
PlaceWits Art Museum
… was founded through generous donations from a collector by the name of Vittorino Meneghell. In 1992, the Gallery was joined by the Studio Gallery which…
PlaceJesser Point Lighthouse
… one, were discontinued on the 1 of April 2000 and replaced by four DGPS (Digital Global Positioning System) reference … maintenance staff. This structure has…
PlaceWoutersen Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point.
… a fence that nobody can cross! It was erected in 1827 by the widow of Peter Woutersen. His granddaughter married, … on the estate. Because the vault had…
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… the struggles of slum dwellers resisting numerous attempts by the Johannesburg municipality to remove them from inner … Party. Hellmann was awarded an…
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… and liberation from apartheid. In 1973 he was banned by apartheid government. Under the ban, he was restricted to … orders and a charge of obstructing the…
EventMandela signs a law into bill creating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… between 1960 and 1994, alongside the human right abuses by both the Apartheid government and the forces aligned … forgiveness among perpetrators and victims…
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949 enacted by the apartheid government. The Act forbade marriages … warmly welcomed. This was done at a meeting of…
EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… before the General Assembly of the United Nations, both by the Indian leadership in South Africa as well as by the government of India. Click here for more…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu leaves for the USA to meet with American President Ronald Reagan
… was "immoral, evil and un-Christian". This was reiterated by a vast number of Americans who called for the businesses … government. These calls were…
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… Party (SACP) to fight against the apartheid government by means of guerilla attacks. MK was founded soon after the … sabotage. MK was classified as a…
EventPercy Qoboza, editor of the Post, states that it is difficult to see how a credible newspaper for Blacks can be created in South Africa
… journalism after joining the staff of the World in 1963. By 1974 he had become the editor, and ensured that the World … down. Attempts to have it re…
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
… agreement was signed on Mar. 26, 1979, in Washington, D.C. by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian … Carter signing as a witness. The treaty…