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EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… justified the use of the bombs by saying that they wanted to shorten the war. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed as … Nagasaki killed as many as 90,000…
EventBanned PAC leader Sobukwe is admitted as attorney
… banned Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), although still under a banning order, was admitted to practice as an attorney in Kimberley. In 1969, Sobukwe … law and,…
How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg
… neutralized perceived traitors and sidelined opponents to shore up his position, people who worked with him say. … dissenters. One example: Public Protector…
PlaceMasjiengebou (Machine Building), Defense Headquarters, Pretoria
… This building was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 1 April … The use of Artillery pieces was not completely foreign to the Boers and…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 67th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1979
… of the African National Congress. January 8th, 1979 is a day on which we are recalling the first steps which were taken along a new road by our forefathers,…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… Even politicians and press agencies can no longer afford to ignore the manifesÂtations in Native life noticeable in … These people slowly emerging out of…
EventAbout 130 people are reported drowned or missing when a Nigerian boat capsizes along the coast Cameroon
… A boat carrying over 150 people on its way to Gabon capsized on the Atlantic coast of Cameroon on 23 March 2005. 130 passengers are said to have drowned and…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter I - The Missionary Movement where it came from
… conquest by Nosipho Majeke THE COMING of the missionaries to Southern Africa at the end of the 18th century coincided … of the Cape by the British. The…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rightsbears a very poignant meaning. In our country the Declaration of Human Rights is a "treasonable"…
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… clandestine African Resistance Movement and embarked on a sabotage campaign, targeting government installations such … Town flat of the national organiser,…
PlaceSignal Hill
… in Dutch). The VOC transferred its Territories and claims to the Batavian Republic in 1798 and ceased to exist in 1799. … British controlled the Cape…
PlaceKenya
… Kenya is a country in East Africa with a population of 44 million … Africa. The coastal regions of Kenya were subject to influences from Arabia, Europe and…
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… Nineteen-eighteen was a significant year for Cape Town (and South Africa … day by day 3 had forced eight bioscopes in District Six to close down by the 8th…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris Nineteen-eighteen was a significant year for … day by day 3 had forced eight bioscopes…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… We are gathered here today to commemorate sixty years of the formation and existence of … which spread and multiplied and can, today, count a series of…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner The start of a bad time The treason trial was the start of a very bad time. At that time they were after all of…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… townships. The Johannesburg City Council JCC) opened a beerhall in Western Native Township (WNT) in 1939. Sensing … Areas staged demonstrations and called…
PlaceGuinea
… was named after this region and subsequently gave the name to the country Papua New Guinea. Conakry is the largest city and national capital, with a…
PlaceDarling, West Coast
… believe that peace and quiet of the foremost importance! A calm and peaceful Retreat from the stresses and strains of the hectic City life. A chance to…
Work In Progress
… the embryonic trade union movement had not yet emerged as a major actor on the scene. In September 1977 popular political resistance to apartheid seemed to…
PlaceTable Mountain, Cape Town
… Hill in the North (rightmost peak in the image above) to Cape Point in the South, some 60km. Around it are many … West and the warm waters of False Bay in…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… If a life could be mapped, that of the Honorable Arthur Chaskalson would surely appear as a straight line starting from a commitment to human rights, and…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… have been in crisis many times before in its history, and a history of adaptability and reinvention, it is unclear … have selected and framed the chapters in…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris South African social scientists have severely … Simons, Ticktin, Sheridan Jones and…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… A new book reveals how ANC presidential hopeful Zweli Mkhize tried to manipulate President Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser into … so she would flounder when…
PlaceCiskei
… relatively small for the number of people it was expected to provide for, it being only 9 182 square kilometres. The … in nearby 'White' towns such as…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of … with its slave past runs deeper than this. Slavery is a history which until the fall of…
EventJames Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry, dies
… was born in the Free State in 1925. After qualifying as a teacher in the Free State, Sojane moved to Johannesburg to stay with his sister in Orlando East. He…
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… February 1960, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs J.M.A.H Luns was asked by Johannesburg-based Dutch Immigration Committee to cease what they call …
EventOlive Schreiner, noted SA author, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town
… Olive Schreine r was a writer, social theorist and a feminist whose world views were very advanced for her time. Her books though written over a century ago,…