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EventSir John Robinson forms Natal’s first ministry as Prime Minister
… who is regarded as a loyal Natalian, first came to South Africa as a child in 1850. He later became a journalist and … and wrote an autobiography called A…
PlaceBethulie Bridge across the Gariep River
… Gariep Dam is located in South Africa, near the Town of Norvalspont, bordering the Free … from the war, as well as the iconic Royal Hotel, South Africa’s…
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
… been transported in across the Swaziland border into South Africa. The four anti –Apartheid activists believed they were about to come back to South Africa…
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… after, Janus Walus, a Polish immigrant who came to South Africa in 1982, was arrested in connection with the murder. … on the eve of the first democratic…
New Age
… the Black people, including Indians and Coloureds of South Africa and showcased the reality of apartheid focusing on the … used their writing skills to…
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
… rapidly disappearing tropical forests of Central and West Africa. In 2003 funds were secured from Tsogo Sun Casino and … Works Programme. SAPPI and the…
PlaceIziko Museum's, Cape Town
… their stories, just as Iziko is sharing the story of South Africa with both locals and visitors today. Explore Cape … to manage and promote Iziko's unique…
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
… Senator Edward Kennedy of the United States visited South Africa to show his anti-apartheid support to the South …
EventThe House of Assembly votes for inquiry into NUSAS & SAIRR
… Movement (UCM), the Christian Institute of Southern Africa and their subordinate organisations. …
EventANC leader Nelson Mandela meets Boutros Boutros
… international community in investigating violence in South Africa and, in particular, the convening of the Security …
Speech, on Behalf of the National Liberation Movements, at the Opening Session of the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Havana, Cuba, 3 September 1979
… movements, for entrusting this task to the people of South Africa - and, in their name, in the name of the peoples of South Africa and Namibia, Zimbabwe,…
Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
… in our towns and villages and in the countries of southern Africa. Indeed, we have even had our political … representatives killed in countries as far away…
BiographyKuben Naidoo
When Prema Naidoo and others were detained in 1981, the South African press published a photograph of his ten-year-old son, Kuben Naidoo, holding up a banner…
BiographyJohannes Maswanganyi
Johannes Maswanganyi was born in 1948 at Msengi Village, near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern…
BiographyIan Mkhize
Ian Mkhize was born on 3 October 1941 in Nhlazantshe Township in Pietermaritzburg. He spent his formative years in Ixopo and matriculated at Sobantu High in…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… Women in South Africa, since the turn of the century, have emerged as … to some degree in all kinds of organisations in South Africa, from church groups to…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1984
… and increased aggression against the rest of Southern Africa, these measures point to the desperation of the regime … in Mdantsane, the second largest black…
EventThe NCCR is dissolved
… (UNHCR) will take over the reception of exiles in South Africa. He added that a criminal investigation and a …
EventTripartite Alliance plans mass action
… was adopted after the Convention for Democratic South Africa (CODESA) negotiations at World Trade Centre in Kempton …
EventGovernment bans 20 Black leaders
… In 1973 massive strikes occurred throughout South Africa, culminating in September 1973 at the Western Deep … Reader's Digest. (1988). Illustrated History of…
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
… a 39 page memorandum titled “War Clouds in the Horn of Africa” to Heads of States attending an OAU meeting in Addis …
EventCOSATU intensifies campaign against apartheid
… South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South …
BiographyGabriel Dichaba
Born in 1920 Dichaba was a herd boy until he was 15. He left school to become a labourer in the railway workshops. He led the first Free State volunteers in…
BiographyW Mati
Born in 1923, Mati worked as a clerk. He joined the African National Congress in 1946. He was active in the 1949 bus boycott in Port Elizabeth. Mati served…
PlaceMadagascar
… the Madagascar-Antarctica-India landmass from the Africa-South America landmass around 135 million years ago. … to: the Comoros, Mauritius, Mozambique,…
Document 90 - “Hertzog’s Native Bill Passed: Only 11 Oppose Reactionary Measure”, Umsebenzi, 1 1 April 1936
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … that posterity may know what SOCIALISM meant in South Africa in 1936:-Walter B…
EventBeverly Palesa Ditsie is the first out lesbian woman to address the United Nations about LGBT rights
… She was one of the founding members of GLOW, South Africa’s first multiracial and political lesbian and gay rights group. During the drafting of South Africa…
EventWayne Ferreira was born on this day
… Amanda Coetzer in 2000 to win the Hopman Cup for South Africa.[vii] He has also represented South Africa at the Davis Cup.[viii] Ferreira founded a the Wayne…
PlaceCote D’Ivoire or Ivory Coast
… was introduced in the 1880s following the scramble for Africa. In 1904, Ivory Coast became part of French West Africa until 1960 when the country regained…
Introduction
… against growing anti-Indianism in various parts of South Africa, were channelled into a concerted movement which aimed … found ‘material worthy of a part in…