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ArticleBarberton timeline 1884-1911
… built 1887 13 April, First Gold Exchange building in South Africa opens in Barberton 1893 13 October, Railway from …
ArchiveLetter to Zuma by David Goldblatt (Mail and Guardian), 25 November 2011
… from the official history of our National Orders: South Africa has taken many strides away from its past of exclusion … of the human spirit have become…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… Transformations in southern Africa after 1750 Source Based Questions The following … during the start of the nineteenth century in Southern Africa. [4]…
Document 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the Communist League of America’, 26 April 1932
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … We have been calling ourselves "Communist Party of Africa". The undermentioned…
PlaceFalse Bay
… If you leave the "Mother City" of South Africa and follow the M3 towards Muizenberg , you will have a … first European seafarer anchored off the coast of…
EventThe first ‘Bantustans’ or ‘homelands’ comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… the South African government. The homelands: After South Africa became a Union, the government wanted Black and White … was a homeland for every major Black…
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… would earn a doctorate in ethics. Upon his return to South Africa shortly after the 1976 Soweto uprisings, he increased … largest and most powerful legal…
Extract from a speech at the conclusion of the Republic Festival on 31 May 1971 at Goodwood, Cape
… development at the disposal of any country in Africa that requested it in the interests of its own … threat still remained actual through the whale of Africa…
BiographyKisten Moonsamy
Kisten “Zed” Moonsamy was part of a remarkable generation of working class activists who grew from the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) to become a formidable force…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… the struggle for independence in India, arrived in South Africa as a fledgling lawyer in May 1893. Having completed …
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
… in its most crucial period. He was at the same time South Africa's, and perhaps the continent's, most distinguished … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
PlaceThaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte
… is a military base (or military area) in Pretoria , South Africa. Founded around 1905 by the British Army, and called: … Heights") in 1939 by the government…
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… inspired the hope of freedom among millions in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa. He was banned and detained several times by the … The Law and The…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… to me that if the National Party suffers a setback, South Africa will be harmed irrevocably, and that must not happen … to tell you that the National Party…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the annual conference of the Methodist Church Umtata, 18 September 1994
… has a proud record of commitment to the development of Africa's sons and daughters in more areas than one. The great … and held out a vision of a different,…
EventThe first flight in Kimberley takes off
… attempts of this nature, the Aeronautical Society of South Africa was established in 1911. It was the start of the John Weston Aviation Company of South…
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, shortly after his return to South Africa on completing six months’ military training in Oujda, Morocco, and after attending the All…
EventCharles Nqakula , Minister of Safety and Security and Chairperson of the SACP, is born
… Minister of Safety and Security of the Republic of South Africa since 7 May 2002 and current Chairperson of the South … reported correctly. It is generally…
EventReconciliation talks between F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng
… the adoption of a new democratic constitution for South Africa. The talks were set to take place on 11 April, however … that would lead to the creation of a …
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… 1902 the 3200km long railway line between Cape Town, South Africa and Beira in Mozambique was completed. The … to bring the war to the Transvaal region of…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… June 1994, the Minister of Correctional Services in South Africa, Dr Sipho Mzimela, announced that Dimitri Tsafendas, … escaped from mental institutions…
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, shortly after his return to South Africa on completing six months’ military training in Oujda, Morocco, and after attending the All…
EventConstruction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed
… Army’ (ZIPRA) during the war for the liberation of South Africa and Zimbabwe. The region has become one of the most visited tourist destinations in Southern…
ArchiveSummary notes of a meeting between Mr D W Auret and Mr Marx of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Minister, Silvino da Luz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cape Verde: Praia, Cape Verde, 19 March 1986
… of Cape Verde to discuss the situation in southern Africa with regard to the implementation of the settlement … South Africa , Mozambique , United States of…
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
… one of the fourteen detainees arrested on 10 May in South Africa. I was kept in indefinite detention for ninety days, … some sabotage acts had already taken…
ArchiveBiography of Dambisa Moyo by Alex Kamau
… she was exposed to the harsh economic realities that Africa faces early in her life. At independence in 1964, … Her father was the son of a miner in…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… of Khoekhoe formerly spoken throughout much of South Africa are reported to have been more or less mutually … same time would be accessible to the…
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… Flora Nwapa - remembered today as Africa’s “literary foremother” - was born on [1] January 13, … to parents, Christopher Ljeoma, an agent for the United…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… having obtained an M.A. Degree at the University of South Africa in 1944, he was appointed to the Department of African …
Archive2011 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2011
… Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, at the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town 10 Feb … Mbete, Honourable Chief Justice of the…