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Place'Boekenhout' Farm in Rustenberg
Click on image to enlarge South African Republic president Paul Kruger's farm was declared a National Monument by the Monument's Commission. The complex…
EventZwelakhe Sisulu is arrested
… President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa (MWASA), and youngest son of Albertina and Walter …
EventRuth First is born
… (SACP) leader Joe Slovo was born in Johannesburg , South Africa. Her political involvement started while she was still …
EventFormer ANC president, Z.R. Mahabane, is born
… with the problems of Christianity and its place in Africa. He died in Kroonstad (OFS), where he had lived and …
EventSA announces its decision to allow multi-racial teams to represent the country in international events
… Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. The decision to ban South Africa was announced by the International Olympic Committee … [Accessed: 20 September 2013]| BBC…
Notes for address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast of the Raadzaal Rotary Club 17 September 1994
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … lesson we spoke of the Bantu or Native Republic of South Africa, for which the…
Our Greatest Indian Leader since Gandhiji -Tribute to Dr. Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (From: Sechaba, second quarter), 1978
… education and study medicine. In 1934 he returned to South Africa, having successfully qualified as a doctor, and set up … and trade relations with the…
“Our Greatest Leader since Gandhiji”, By Dr Yusuf Dadoo
… education and study medicine. In 1934 he returned to South Africa , having successfully qualified as a doctor, and set … and trade relations with the racist…
ArticleMapungubwe
… site in the Limpopo Province on the border between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, 75 km from Messina. It sits …
PlaceEastern Cape Province
… the old homelands of Ciskei and Transkei. Many of South Africa's leaders were born in the Eastern Cape, like Thabo … ships bring products from overseas or…
PlaceGroutville
… it fair share of the struggles of Black people in South Africa. Black farmers were neglected by the authorities and … Albert Luthuli to look at the broader…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… was a migrant labourer in the South African mines to South Africa. In 1941 he went to Adams College in Natal and … 1977. After the fall of apartheid Nkobi…
Extract from a speech made at Koffiefontein on 11 August 1967
… He referred inter alia to the UNO and South West Africa; the rumours of an impending split in the National … to state my standpoint on all the questions…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… the greatest thinkers in the liberation pantheon of South Africa: Steve Biko. He was too much of a threat to the rotten … to Biko! It sent out a powerful…
BiographyJacob Mpemba
Jacob Mpembe’s banishment order, dated 23 October 1962 stated that he was a listed communist who said that ‘there is nothing done by the Government except…
EventSACP is legally re-launched
… secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) Moses Mayekiso.The grouping of the membership …
EventWolraad Woltemade drowns at sea after saving 14 people from a sinking ship
… after him: De Held Woltemade. Later, the Union of South Africa instituted the King's Medal for Bravery (1939). In … as the highest civilian decoration for…
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… saw one of the largest stages of British settlement in Africa, and approximately 4,000 Settlers arrived in the Cape, … where he married his second wife and…
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… that framed the constitution of the Union of South Africa. After the split between Prime Minister Louis Botha … Wet opposed Botha's decision to conquer…
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… Europe. At the end of the war he never returned to South Africa. He died in France. Her mother had moved to Pretoria … She completed over 740 plates for…
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
… revolt, revitalising the struggle for liberation in South Africa. Apart from the language issue, students also demanded … live bullets, killing thirteen year…
PlaceHazyview
… macadamia nut industries, contributing about 20% of South Africa's bananas and 30% of macadamia output. Originally a … the area surrounding Hazyview is home…
The Black Face of Apartheid
… using Buthelezi, not the other way round: “For white South Africa, a man like Buthelezi ...solves so many conscience … press [also] make up the finest…
EventGoldstone Commission confirms SADF complicity in violence
… incidents of public violence and intimidation in South Africa prior to the 1994 general election. During the first … independence to mid-1997 , Westport:…
EventNelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
… its headquarters from Zambia to Johannesburg, South Africa. On 11 February 1990, Mandela was released from Victor …
Event46664 concert is held in Fancourt
… to be infected with the Aids virus than men in South Africa. The concert was made possible through the generous …
EventAttempted coup in Equatorial Guinea sees fifteen arrested
… later revealed that the men were mercenaries from South Africa en route to stage a coup in Equatorial Guinea. 20 …
EventSA Prime Minister, J.B. Vorster, vows to fight against terrorism
… Security Council, where it accused Rhodesia and South Africa of violating Zambia’s independence and integrity.The …
Concluding Remarks
… is the view of Sue Williamson's Resistance Art in South Africa (1989). She writes: "...this book concerns the way … The same oversight occurs in African Art…
PlaceShangana Cultural Village
… speak isiTsonga, one of the official 11 languages in South Africa. The Village, which was built by locals, is situated … preserving a rich Heritage for us,…