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PlaceCape Town City Hall, Darling Street
… to democracy. On February 11, 1990 mere hours after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela made his first public speech from the City Hall’s Main Balcony. ……
PlaceMooivallei, Dairy Farm
… previously farmed in the interior. He was accompanied by his second wife, Lilian Isabel Elizabeth Moon of the … suppliers as shareholders, Hendrik du Plessis…
PlaceAlexander Bay, Namaqualand
… Royal Geographical Society (which he had co-founded) On his exploration, expanding into Namaqualand and Damaraland, …
PlaceBraamfontein, a Suburb of Johannesburg
… that he had acquired from Lourens Geldenhuys and his brother Frans. The Company would go on to develop the …
Ahead of the Bushfire Festival: Five things you might not know about Swaziland
… access to the specialised medical care that he needs for his diabetic condition. Human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko …
PlaceBerg River
… in 1869 by Martin Melck when it attacked and killed one of his employees. The Berg Rivers native fish contain some …
ArchiveSt James Church Massacre
… this man kick open the door next to the stage and holding his rifle from the hip he opened up on us spraying bullets …
Solitary confinement
… and he was there when I came out. Whoo! He got a shock of his life. He said, 'Mai! Jhoo! Is that you? Why do you look …
ArchiveThe All-African Convention: The Awakening of The People by I.B. Tabata
… the first stage of a threat to white domination." His book records how in 1943 the All-African Convention …
PlaceDoornkop/Doornsluiten
… an absentee landlord, evicted about 100 tenants from his farm in 1976. The removal was carried out by the police …
PlaceCompany Gardens in Cape Town
… fertile soil, on ground sheltered from the wind, he moved his garden with its northern boundary on Wale Street, and …
PlaceKhorixas, Town in Namibia
… area but was unable to get enough water from it to sustain his family and herds of animals. David soon began to have … means 'questionable' or 'uncertain' in…
PlaceSchoenstatt Retreat and Conference Centre, Cape Town
… Spiritual Director in the Pallottine Minor Seminary . His educational goals were clear: "The young men were to … completely gives herself. Whoever responds…
PlaceKnysna Lagoon, Garden Route- Western Province
… be an idea to transport the timber by sea and commissioned his friend George Callender, to investigate the possibility … Outeniqua to land by sea, using the…
PlaceCarletonville
… role of imperial Europe and its slaving agents. Central to his critique is a demythologising of the role of the Zulu … violently, and detailed regional…
Some Observations on HIV and Mortality in South Africa: 2007, 2008 and 2013 by Thabo Mbeki, 14 March 2016
… views of your correspondent Wyndham Hartley. I refer to his article titled Robbie helped govt sidestep consequences … speech at the Durban international AIDS…
EventANC's economic plans
… Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of …
EventPAC leader, David Sibeko shot dead in Dar-es-Salaam
… in the PAC in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. At the time of his death, Sibeko was based New York. The death of Sibeko …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Communications and the Battle of Ideas, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… the promotion of market fundamentalism to retain the old apartheid economic and social relations. 7. This offensive …
Address to the World Council of Churches Harare 12 December 1998
… of those who ruled our country during the inhuman days of apartheid. To mention your name was to incur the wrath of the …
EventAnnouncement of Hezekiel Sepeng's 2 years suspension
… in accordance with the rules. Sepeng has accepted his two-year suspension, though he still maintained that he …
EventCardoso's murderers convicted in Mozambique
… the run and received a twenty-eight years prison sentence. His co-accused were each sentenced to at least twenty-three …
EventZambian journalist, Fred M'membe is born
… He has been arrested and prosecuted several times for his reporting. M'membe is the third recipient of the Media …
EventSouth African man sets record for world's deepest dive
… record of 313m, set by Mark Ellyatt in Thailand in 2003. His target was a depth of 320, but he only managed 318.25, …
EventMandela confirms Kerzner's contribution to the ANC
… the ANC's Disciplinary Committee ousted Holomisa from his seat in Parliament on 1 October 1996 after finding him …
EventMalebane-Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… the S.A. ambassador in Bophuthatswana not to interfere. His request was not granted as the S.A. Defence Force moved …
EventMozambique and Soviet Union reject Margo Commission's finding
… off course by a decoy beacon as was alleged. Machel was on his way back from an international meeting in Malawi in the …
PlaceTouwsrivier
… 1872 and 1878, formulated the railway scheme he sent for his consulting engineer, who asked him what was the route he … Africa, which was brought to him…
PlaceKoffiefontein, Free State Province
Koffiefontein became the site for a large internment camp during World War II, with up to 2,000 Italian and German prisoners of war being held there, along…
Trade unions and Popular Resistance in the 1980s and New Alliances and the Different Unions Traditions by Kaizer Thibedi
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference THE BRIEF: TRADE UNIONS AND POPULAR RESISTANCE IN THE 1980S AND NEW…