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EventLegendary artist Johnny Clegg dies
… On 16 July 2019, Jonny Clegg died at the age 66 years at his home in Johannesburg , Gauteng after he was diagnosed … the social cohesion of young South…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… the "noise Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was making about his nephew who is allegedly being held by the ANC.] It is a …
SABC CEO Jimi Matthews quits: ‘What’s happening at the SABC is wrong' (Tmg Digital), 27 June 2016
… Matthews tweeted a picture of his resignation letter to SABC board chair Professor …
PlaceAmandelboom, Town in Northern Cape
… Brigade leader Major Cyril Swart says every time his band marches, 'two or three join our flock'. The local …
PlaceEritrea
… since 1993. President Afwerki Isaias has always expressed his disdain for western-style democracy. Some interesting …
PlaceHaarlem
… father of Coenraad de Buys, the battling giant who left his legend – and offspring – all the way from the Cape …
PlaceNapier
… Napier was established in 1838, when Michiel van Breda and his neighbour, Pieter Voltelyn van der Byl, could not agree …
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… Kessler's bid was successful and in 1841 he built his first steam locomotive, the Badenia for the Grand Duchy …
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… action in scabbing is driving the native to look upon his fight as between black wage-workers on the one hand and …
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
… reference in the account by Hanno the Carthaginian of his voyage through West Africa around 470BC. During the 5th …
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
… had unbanned the organisation in the Transkei. Moreover, his opposition to the homeland system and the holding of a …
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… of South Africa and leader of the National Party, launched his "Total Strategy" in response to what he saw as the "Total …
EventSlavery is abolished at the Cape
… (starting in 1835) from the Cape Colony. Piet Retief, in his famous manifesto to the Grahamstown Journal, wrote: “We …
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… This has resulted in Mugabe declaring that criticisms of his regime is racist in nature and that critique voiced by …
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… J L Labuschagne, twice walked into the street, threw out his arms and cried, "Shoot me!" The second time, when the …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The British evacuate Rustenburg to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek
… Girl Guides movement, which began partly as a result of his observations of children during the siege of Mafikeng and …
Introduction
… they were quick to learn the complexity of the man and his message. The 1908 compromise was interpreted by one …
Negotiations, the ANC Vision of a New South African and the Indian Community Keynote Address by the President of the African National Congress, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… The strength that we gained from years of resistance to apartheid enabled the ANC to take the initiative and force … state machinery with a view to…
87. Today’s lessons are tomorrow’s weapons for students
… that an SRC would give credibility to an institution of apartheid (the university); that there was a danger of it … could use; our society is still ridden by…
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal's first ministry as Prime Minister
… and the first editor of The Natal Mercury, together with his father, George Robinson. He became the owner of the publication in 1855. After devoting his time…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… Source: www.mieliestronk.com/ khoisan.html Shortly after his arrival at the Cape of Good Hope Jan van Riebeeck …
EventBafana Bafana legend Philemon Raul Masinga dies
… Arab Emirates. The late Masinga scored 18 goals during his 58 international appearances between 1992 and 2001. Over his entire professional career, Masinga…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
… race, colour, religion and territorial boundaries. But the apartheid system has not been destroyed. The occasion of the …
Luthuli House to be auctioned over R25m debt?, 20 August 2017
… letter of demand to the ANC top six: President Jacob Zuma, his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa, treasurer-general Zweli Mkhize, secretary-general Gwede Mantashe and…
Curry and the South African Revolution by E. S. Reddy
… This may not be strictly correct as Mandela wrote in his autobiography that he used to go often to Amina Pahad for … during the struggle and made a point of…
Article on the pass law deputation in July 25, 1889
… met. He had inquired as to what sort of a master was on his farm, and the servant said he was a very good master and … thanked Government at what has taken…
Constitution of the AAC, December 1937
… meetings without giving satisfactory reasons for his absence he shall forfeit his position. 6. Election: The Officers of the Convention (a) …
20. Johannesburg Parsees claim special status
… for in the new Draft Ordinance before the assent of His Majesty in Council is given. Your memorialists beg most … to redress their grievances, and further to…
34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
… Indian in the Colony to contemplate the abandoning of his children while they are yet hardly sixteen years; how … your petitioners submit that he is entitled…
Document 57 - Lionel Forman, “Self-Determination in South Africa: A Contribution to Discussion”, Liberation, 37, July 1959
… be a common Zulu economy, or, in the words of Potehkin in his recent Liberation article, "a single national market. … maximum participation of the backward…