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EventJohn Davidson Rockerfeller, US philanthropist, donates $10 million towards the building of a museum in Cairo, Egypt
… world and are said to be wealthier than some countries. On 9 April 1926 Rockefeller donated $ 10 million towards the … of a museum in Cairo, Egypt. The…
French and Belgian paratroopers who were flown into Kolwezi, Zaire’s main copper producing town, to rescue the 3,000 White resi
… to have joined with the Katangese gendarmes, getting high on drugs and going on the murder spree. …
PlaceGovernment Buildings, President Brand Street, Bloemfontein
… in 1877 although its Volksraad Chamber was already in use on 31 May 1875. In 1895 the upper storey was completed and in … was declared a National Monument…
Document 6 - Africans’ claims in South Africa
… “on Women's Day we occupied the prison's surgery” During the … doing house-to-house organizing one night. The next day on 13 June 1986, while I was working…
PlaceAlkmaar, a Town Near Nelspruit
… A small Community on the Crocodile River, some 18 km from Nelspruit. Named … South Africa is a perfect location for Game-viewing being on the Crocodile River…
PlaceCabo Verde
… Verde as the nation now prefers to be called) is located on an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the West … point of Portugal's colonial Empire…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
… A "broad" League against fascism and war was duly formed -on paper, of course; and, when the Italo-Abyssinian War broke … the hard-earned democratic rights ,…
Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Bar. Having no means, I found odd jobs to support myself. On the 31st March 1927, I was appointed part-time secretary … Act. I was also appointed secretary…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 1) by Thabo Mbeki, 21 March, 2016
… [Last year, I wrote to a comrade to engage him on an article he had written in one of the local newspapers to engage him on one of the issues he raised, i.e…
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
… since the day Sibongile “Promise” Khumalo placed a note on her mother’s old gramophone. “By the time you read this, I … Genesis, by the government. The…
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster prison on 11 February 1960, after 10,053 days of incarceration, … included members of all racial origins,…
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… diplomatic pressure finally began to erode the RF’s hold on power, that Mitchell came into her own. Commissioned with … in Rhodesia: Who’s Who, featured many…
Nelson Mandela Sending Photographs
… very important. Nelson requests photographs and comments on them, and he marvels at the growth of grandchildren. They … It's family photos, letters and…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around financial problems
… in April is finished. Things are expensive and I also went on a spree buying essential literature which ate deeply into … this month when Mum gets her first…
The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… Arts Project/ Lantern Festival . The project starts on the 24th of September and the facilitators and learners … are enacted for the community. The…
EventWillie Smith, South Africa’s bantamweight champion boxer is born
… William “Willie” Alexander Smith was born in Johannesburg on 4 July 1904.[i] Smith’s boxing debut took place on 20 June 1925.[ii] Willie Smith was South…
PlaceRehoboth
… Rehoboth is a Town in Central Namibia and lies on a high elevated plateau with several hot springs. Khoikhoi … means 'smoke' from the steam seen, at the hot…
PlaceMadikwa Game Reserve, North West
… a leopard joining your siesta in the shade of a Withaak on the slopes of Abjaterskop Mountain. But that’s all changed … – and bigger cats too – for the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.2 1992
… Contents: Comment, A. W. Oliphant. Stories: An Owl on the Rooftop, Linda Colleen Saunders; Makoti, Makhanda … Changes, Mohamed Patel; By Strandfontein,…
PlaceMagwa Waterfall, Lusikisiki-Port St. Johns
… only a fifty minute drive from Port St Johns , (43,0 km) on the R61. "The Magwa Waterfall is pretty impressive!" It is one of few Waterfalls on the rugged…
PlacePiquetberg
… of the Cape. It was proclaimed a separate sub-district on 9 March 1848, and was raised to divisional status in 1857. … farm). The first sale of plots took…
PlaceOld Lutheran Church, Kroondal
… living in and around the village of Kroondal, on 2 August 1896. By that time a church had already been built in Kroondal and was consecrated on 24 June 1896…
PlaceWierda Bridge, Six Mile Spruit, Pretoria
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 December 1965. The British Army approached Pretoria at Wierda Bridge (Six Mile Spruit) on 4…
EventThe Queen mother Elizabeth is born.
… Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was born on 4 August 1900. Queen Elizabeth Angela was the ninth child … She supported the British public during the…
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
… marked by boycotts, strikes and civil disobedience. On 26 June 1952 the Defiance Campaign, the most dramatic … Coloured People’s Congress, was launched. It…
EventTanzania gains independence
… During the fourteenth century, Tanzania's location on the East African coast made it easily accessible to Arab … by 1960, the first elections were planned…
EventAmy Johnson, a female aviator, lands in Cape Town in record time
… England to Cape Town, which she completed in July 1932. On 18 November 1932, she arrived in Cape Town on another solo flight, beating her own previous record…
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon’s previous ‘Jesus’ comments
… by Maureen Cleave for the London Evening Stadard on 4 March, said: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and … teen magazine called Datebook reprinted part…
EventRobert Kennedy, American politician, speaks at the University of Cape Town about the racial inequality of apartheid
… On 6 June 1966, Robert Kennedy, the brother of former … that: "Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of…
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… On 14 February 1994 Zulu King, Goodwill Zwelithini told … that King Zwelithini was always seen to be intervening on behalf of Freedom Alliance (FA) in…