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EventPresident Jacob Zuma steps down as President of South Africa
On the 14 February 2018, President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma announced his resignation with immediate effect, following years of scandals and internal disputes…
PlaceDriefontein, Mpumalanga
Found in the Municipality of: Mkhondo Gert Sibande District, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It has a Subtropical highland climate or temperate oceanic climate with…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 108th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril Ramaphosa, 8 January 2020
Today, the African National Congress celebrates 108 years since its formation. We mark this occasion in the historic city of Kimberley in the Northern Cape,…
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
Poet, scholar, botanist, auxiliary soldier, journalist, politician, talented sportsman and grandson of a famous Herero leader, Robert Grendon is one of the…
PlacePhiphidi Falls, Limpopo Province
The vhaVenda clans of northern South Africa, in present-day Limpopo Province, are among the nation’s most traditional, hewing to rituals and practices passed…
PlaceTouring the Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is South Africa’s Largest Province and must-see destination, whether you prefer the ocean, the desert, the bush or quirky towns rich in…
PlaceWest Coast National Park and Postberg Reserve
Flower season along the West Coast takes place Annually between August and September. As the season changes, nature begins to bloom and flowers of all colours…
PlaceFouriesburg
A small Town in the Eastern Free State, close to the Border to Lesotho. The start of the Town was made by a number of enterprising inhabitants who felt that a…
ArchiveANC 2019 Election Manifesto
FOREWORD Cyril Ramaphosa ANC President Fellow South Africans, The freedom we enjoy today was achieved through struggle, determination and great sacrifice…
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ArticleDespite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
Abstract In 1994, South Africans were liberated from a system of apartheid which had controlled their lives for nearly fifty years. Twenty-one years later,…
PlaceWalvis Bay, Namibia
Walvis Bay is a lively Port and Namibia’s second largest City, which is protected from wind and waves by the long arm of Pelican Point (SHOWN IN PICTURE). With…
PlaceBlue Crane Municipality, Sarah Baartman District- Eastern Cape
It is the second-largest Municipality of seven in the District, accounting for 19% of the Geographical Area, and is an an Administrative Area. The Municipality…
PlaceEkurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, East Rand
The City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality is a Category A. This Municipality and covers an extensive Area from Germiston in the West to Springs and…
PlaceLlandudno
Llandudno is a Residential Suburb of Cape Town, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. To get there: "Follow Victoria Road from Camps Bay and go past…
PlaceKruger Mpumalanga International Airport, Nelspruit
An Airport located in Mbombela (Nelspruit), this is the gateway to the World’s most iconic Game Reserve, the Kruger National Park, its third largest Canyon;…
PlaceHondeklipbaai, Namaqualand
Hondeklipbaai is a small fishing community along the coast of Namaqualand. The Village was originally used to export copper in Namaqualand. Simon Van der Stel,…
PlaceVhembe District Municipality
Vhembe District Municipality is a second-order administrative division and is located in, South Africa, with a population of 1 240 035 habitants. The estimate…
PlacePhilip Kgosana Drive, Devil's Peak Estate- Cape Town
The Road was originally named after Nicolaas de Waal, the first administrator of the Cape Province. He initiated the Road's construction. De Waal Drive is set…
The Spirit of Bandung - Address to the International Conference in Support of the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979
The Afro-Asian solidarity movement has traversed a long and complicated but glorious path since the days, 25 years ago next year, when a delegation of the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Conference of the Association of African Universities: Cape Town, 22 February 2005.
President of the AAU, Professor Lamine Ndiaye, Vice President of the AAU, Dr. Dorothy Njeuma, Secretary-General of the AAU, Professor Akilagpa Sawyerr, The…
73. The Congress of the People, June 1955
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The African National Congress, the S.A. Indian…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
On 13 November 1991, Nelson Mandela announced that the first constitutional talks would take place on 29 and 30 November at the World Trade Centre in Kempton…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
Adopted at the Founding Conference of the Federation of South African WomenJohannesburg, 17 April 1954. The Charter expressed the philosophy and aims of the…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
Contents Nelspruit the Segregated city Homelands as Labour reserves Kanyamazane Introduction Until the demise of apartheid, Nelspruit remained a small…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
By the beginning of the twentieth century a number of political organisations initiated by Coloureds existed, most of which dealt with the question of the…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
Background The establishment of the Teachers’ League of South Africa (TLSA) emerged out of increasing racial segregation in the Cape. While segregation had…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
Several factors seemed to pave the way to apartheid, among them a colonial conquest, land dispossession, economic impoverishment, and exclusion from…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the official launch of the Dube Trade Port and King Shaka International Airport, 8 May 2010, Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal
His Majesty the King, Isilo Samabandla, Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Dr Zweli Mkhize, Minister Transport S`bu Ndebele, Minister of Justice and Constitutional…