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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…
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…
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…
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, …
EventOver 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
… Mali was once part of the Great Songhay Empire, but came under French rule in 1892. …
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… it to be mentioned by some as one of the causes of the Great Trek that took place from 1835-1846 …
EventJacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist and his daughter Augusta leave on an exploration of the interior
… Bay, proceeding to Algoa Bay and the junction of the Great and Little Fish Rivers. The ladies remained behind …
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… 1920 to open the London to Cape Town route was met with great sceptism by the British authorities. However once the …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… influences, including French and Malay. At the time of the Great Trek in the 1830's, various dialects of Afrikaans were …