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Address at 90th brthday celebration, by Nelson Mandela, 25 June 2008, London United Kingdom
… this evening, and your support for our causes. It is a great privilege having been able to travel here in our 90th …
EventThe first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa
… for military purposes. The 707 has served the SAAF with great distinction and displayed remarkable reliability and …
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… voting two White parliamentarians into office. Despite the great opposition it was met with, the apartheid government …
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… surging Afrikaner Nationalism in the centenary year of the Great trek (1938) and the reaction against the coalition …
EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
… Prize on 10 December 1993. They were honoured for their great enterprise of bringing peace and non-racial democracy …
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
… strain of influenza, popularly called Spanish Flu or 'Great Flu', were diagnosed on this date in Durban. This …
EventAlan Paton is born
… The publication of Cry, the Beloved Country, which was a great success, allowed Paton to resign as principal of the …
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… and a meandering street with water flowing in furrows . A great deal of productive activity takes place which surprises …
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… the Boers saw this as a strategic move that could topple Great Britain. The Qedusizi dam , established in 1997, for …
PlacePolokwane
… with many Farms being located in the Area. Polokwane has great restaurants, art galleries, museums, jazz clubs and …
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
… President Comrade Fidel Castro, I have been assigned the great honour, as leader of the African National Congress … of manoeuvres, of attempts, of schemes to…
Chapter XIV - End of an era
… It would now be for the accused to prove that the offence, great or small, was not committed with any hostile intent. No … and the Congress spirit was still…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… from the Party Headquarters to the Inchape Hall where a great throng before entering the building sang the … or against the USSR. The USA having become…
Address by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the 48th General Assembly of the World Medical Association (WMA) 25 October 1996
… President of the WMA Ladies and Gentlemen It gives me great pleasure to address this important gathering and to … new freedom with others, especially in the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… could overcome whatever obstacles lay ahead, because the great majority of South Africans had recognised that they had … and we are moving at an increasing…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… could overcome whatever obstacles lay ahead, because the great majority of South Africans had recognised that they had … and we are moving at an increasing…
Address by President Mandela on Heritage Day Robben Island, 24 September 1997
… bring to such sharp focus the challenges ahead. It is a great joy for me that we can all come as free South Africans … and Technology took over…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinning, St. Georges Hotel, City of Tshwane, 27 September 2005
… of manuscripts. These bound texts highlighted the great teachings of Islam during the Middle Ages. These sacred … as the greatest academic and commercial…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… and a half months. During those four and a half months a great deal has happened, great changes have taken place. During the last four and a … taken place in…
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… these acts are enemies of the liberation movement. Another great struggle in Natal has been that of the workers. In … It is my duty to remind you, in the…
PlaceUpington, Northern Cape
… avenues in the Southern Hemisphere. The Raisin Festival is great fun for all travelers and locals in the Area. This … and desolate, but it is in fact a…
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to extend to you, in the name of the African … case, we shall soon prove that Albert Luthuli, a man of great…
PlaceNamaqualand
… to as Little Namaqualand, so as to distinguish it from Great Namaqualand in South-West Africa. 'Namaqua' is the … were both later developed. However…
Address to the Parliament of Ghana, Accra 06 October 2000
… are among the elected representatives of the people of a great sister country that is very close to our hearts, Ghana, … of Africa. This, after all, is the…
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone is born 23 March 1923
Steve ‘Kalamazoo’ Mokone was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg. He became the first black professional footballer to play in Europe, when he signed for the…
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
… multi-racial conference has naturally aroused a great deal of discussion in democratic circles in South … of the conference are correct. The conference…
PlaceStanford, Western Cape Overberg
… with its Outdoor Adventures, beautiful Heritage and great Character. Be sure to explore all that the Village has …
Statement on naming of OR Tambo International Airport, 31 October 2006
… tribute to an outstanding son of the South African soil, a great African and an exceptional internationalist. As the …
PlaceWoutersen Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point.
… the ornaments of the coffins and other valuables, the great iron door of the vault was eventually permanently …
EventThe Alabama, American raider of the Southern States during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay for provisions
… raiders in history. In August 1863, The Alabama created great excitement as it sank a Union ship, The Sea Bride, …