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EventThe burghers were victorious in their struggle against Cape Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel and his officials
… Victorie!" - a sign that the Burghers were victorious in their struggle against Cape Governor Willem Adriaan van … Who were the 'burghers'? By 1657, the…
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
… Khumalo claims that, after running away from home in the 1970s to receive military training in exile, she was sexually abused by the then PAC president. ……
Timol: Salim Essop testifies of beatings, torture following arrest, News24, in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… alongside late anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol in 1971, took centre stage at the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday during the first sitting of the ……
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of president Rafsanjani of Iran Pretoria, 12 September 1996
… delegation. We hope that you will enjoy your short stay in our country. I still remember with great fondness the … the protection of human rights as a top…
EventThe British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announces that a mysterious epidemic (AIDS) is causing increasing concern in the United States
… the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, however, in the 1980s, relatively little was known. It was first … described as an unknown condition that was…
EventVictor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town
… Victor Sidney Norton was born in Johannesburg to an English father and a Swedish mother. … son’s future career path. Norton joined The Star Newspaper in 1927…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… The 1910 election: The Union of SA The first election that created the modern South African state, held in accordance with the provisions of the Union of…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… of Education homelands ”” those territories reserved for black people and around which the principle of segregation in South Africa was organised; sometimes…
EventIndian students join the Coloured schools boycott
… boycott was joined by pupils at a number of Indian schools in Pretoria and KwaZulu-Natal. Black Consciousness groups also pledged their support. The action …
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the ‘Colour-bar’
… his co-actor Zakes Mokae, 27, from Johannesburg arrived in Cape Town to stage a three hour play on "Colour-bar". "The Blood Knot" was the much talked about…
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Tshenolo Sethwala, a Black police constable who fired at demonstrators attacking … accused, the largest group ever to…
The ANC launch the Luthuli Volunteer Corps in Magareng Sub Region, Warrenton, Frances Baard Region, 19 September 2013
… after successful sub regional programmes which took place in Phokwane and Dikgatlong Sub Regions in the recent past. Our final launch will take place in Sol…
EventWinnie Mandela released from banning order and house arrest
… period Winnie's banning order was not reimposed, bearing in mind the nature of the offence that she was charged with. … used her freedom from restraint to…
Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… is to blame, and not least the Woltons for announcing, in the middle of all the trouble, that they are retiring to … he certainly is not going to have…
EventReggie Hadebe ANC Regional Executive Committee member and Media officer in the Natal Midlands Region, is gunned down
… Regional Executive Committee member and Media officer in the Natal Midlands Region, Mr Reggie Hadebe, was gunned down in an ambush on the Richmond-Ixopo road…
EventScientists identify Green Monkey disease as responsible for more than 300 deaths in Northern Zaire and the Sudan
… is a variant of HemorrhagicFever that was first identified in green monkeys. It gets its namefrom the city of Marburg, Germany, where it caused small…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa.
… the British Office to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa during the Second Anglo Boer War. The camps … authorities aware of the plight of…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… it was confidently described as a society "with no rival in the subcontinent." 2 The SASA grew to command the respect … A case in point was its pressure for…
Mrs. Gertrude Shope Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, August 11, 1981
… at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and…
EventHealth officials launch an intensive campaign to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda.
… coma. The disease got its name from the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it was first … launched a campaign to find the origins of…
EventThe second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in the Labour Party holding the majority seats
… to the Coloured Persons' R epresentative Council resulted in an absolute majority for the anti-apartheid Labour Party … (LP). The LP won thirty-one of the…
BiographyLeslie Rubin
… The son of a rabbi, Leslie Rubin was born on 5 August 1909 in District Six , Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western … of the city. He was educated at Durban…
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
… Ambrose Makiwane was born in 29th of November in1921 near Cala in the Transkei. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a…
Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
… as only Lesotho produces. Since industry is non-existent in the mountain kingdom, no smoke, no industrial filth scars … planning and control headquarters for…
EventFrederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist dies in Beho-Beho, Tanganyika. He came to Southern Africa
… Selous came to South Africa at the age of nineteen in 1871. Inspired by the writings of explorers such as Dr. … and south of the Congo basin. The village of…
EventSir Thomas Cullinan (74), founder of the Premier Mine where the Cullinan diamond was discovered in 1907, dies.
… his 66th birthday, and the largest pieces would be mounted in the British Crown Jewels. The largest is known as Star of … Star of Africa holds the place of…
EventDavid Malebane, a student at the Tompi Seleka Agricultural College in the Limpopo, shoots three lecturers before shooting himself
… was a student at Tompi Seleka Agricultural College in Limpopo. He had failed to graduate several times and when … that he believed were responsible for his…
EventScores of people, including a Chief, are killed in Lari, Kenya, following an attack by Mau Mau freedom fighters
… people were killed and scores of others injured at Lari in Kiambu region, Kenya, when Mau Mau freedom fighters … massacre as the day that changed the…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… From the book: Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department … the lives of all those involved, none…
Aluta continua
… Black, white and red poster. Artwork of blacks fighting soldiers with words "SA military agression" on their hats. …