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EventDepartment of Environmental Affairs and Tourism approves ESKOM’s prototype 110MW pebble
… valuable export for the country. This action drew protests from environmental groups such as Earthlife Africa, as well …
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… Among the first inhabitants were political leaders from the East Indies, who were imprisoned on Robben Island as … Safari.com, Robben Island, Cape Town,…
EventForces loyal to Zambian president Frederick Chiluba quash a coup by a handful of disgruntled military officers, arresting nine men including the captain who said an angel told him to overthrow the government
… "As a soldier it was my duty to protect my fellow citizens from the autocratic and cruel government of Chiluba." Lungu …
EventThe First Draft of the Constitution is published
… ANC since April 1994. In 1995 the IFP withdrew its members from the Constitutional Assembly in protest against the ANC's … Court of South Africa," The…
EventRaymond Dart completes work on Taung skull
… belonged Australopithecus africanus, meaning southern ape from Africa. Subsequent research indicated that these … Dart Is Dead at 95; Leader in Study of…
EventBelgium annexes the Congo Free State
… so, that by 1908, the Belgian government removed Leopold from rule. On 17 October 1908, Congo Free State was annexed …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
… for three weeks. On 4 May 1902, a relief column arrived from Port Nolloth and ended the siege. This was one of the … | The New York Times archive," The…
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… Beers' holdings by buying the diamond pipe at Postmasburg from Finsch Diamonds, and by playing a role in the mining of … De Beers , The heritiage of De beers…
PlacePhillipton
… he was repeatedly censured and, at one stage, prevented from returning to Philipton after the frontier war of …
PlaceOld Morley
… like the Bhaca, Bhele, Hlubi and Zizi peoples – was formed from the tribes that were broken up and dispersed by Shaka …
PlaceOld Drostdy Museum, Rawson Street, Pearston
… like secretary and a gaoler as well as many slaves. From 1827 the Drostdy was occupied by the civil commissioner …
Interview with Archibald Gumede 21 August 1990
… through the government taking, removing the police from KwaZulu and dismantling the KwaZulu government, things … a conflict of their engagement and a…
ANC NGC 2015 Resolutions on International Relations
… of the balance of forces that could tilt in our favour from time to time. Therefore, the NGC focused its … player and partner 2.5 The NGC reiterated…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… camps. It was Emily Hobhouse, a British woman from Cornwall, who took up the cause of the Boers. She … My intelligence is insulted when a sentence extracted…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
… p class="insert_center inote"> From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of … they are in earnest about it, to disassociate themselves from South…
Albert Luthuli’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, December 10, 1961
… of the most difficult phases in its history. His absence from our midst today should be an enduring lesson for all … what he or she stood for or stands for,…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South … of his colleagues, Leuing Quinn and Thambi Naidoo, wrote from prison to the Transvaal Colonial…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 97th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2009
… soldiers, police men and women, business people - people from all walks of life - who continue to contribute to our … sectors. Access to social grants…
The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
… aback that I should question a suggestion that had come from the ANC, but since I had circulated a note to the chair … happy, but left it at that. The…
Address by Jacob Zuma marking the Commemoration of the International Day of persons with disabilities, during the State visit by President Rupiah Banda of Zambia, 03 December 2010
… ties between our two countries. We have just returned from laying wreaths at the graves of Oliver and Adelaide … The number of people accessing disability…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, 27 July 1987, Addis Ababa
… we have a second home which we can truly call home. Coming from southern Africa, we cannot but recall that this is the … they have driven the apartheid…
ANC Gauteng Centenary Month to celebrate Oliver Tambo, 18 October 2012
… ANC Gauteng will host the centenary flame for eleven days from the 21st October until November 2012. The ANC will … at the Gauteng Legislature, where it will…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… wrote in his book Let My People Go. "The main disadvantage from which it suffered was that the branches submitted … the ANC spending billions of rands buying…
ArchiveMemories of Trafalgar High, District Six by Warren Ludski
… Street started at Castlebridge. I attended Trafalgar High from 1962 until I matriculated in 1966, and early in 1967 I … I have another tale. Some of the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the official opening of the Bram Fischer library at the legal resources centre Johannesburg, 27 September 1996
… help lessen the Centre's previous dependence on funding from overseas donors. They also strengthen the partnership of South Africans from every sector of…
Document 16 - F. W. de Klerk’s speech at the opening of Parliament
… an Election Manifesto has been unveiled. This is far from ideal in the sense that under 'normal' circumstances a manifesto should take its cue from the…
Document 2 - Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … except in the Cape and to a limited extent in Natal, were from all political rights; and deputations…
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
… hardships and sacrifice" 3 A strange paean to autocracy, from a department of a Government which claims to be … with the Union Government gradually changing…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… were used as domestic servants in the settler colony from the middle to late 18th century, domestic employment … [iii] . In the beginning of 1820, a wave of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… aroused Afrikaner Nationalism. Their remarkable recovery from defeat has been a decisive fact in twentieth-century … character of the white elite, but also…