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A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen)
… Pierre Simond, a Huguenot minister, was born in 1651 in Nion (Dauphine). After studying theology he became a minister at Montjoux and then at Embrun. After…
EventRobert McBride is arrested in Mozambique
… Robert McBride, at the time a high-ranking official in the South African Department of … in Ressano Garcia. It was alleged that McBride was on a fact-finding…
PlaceAlexandra, Township in Johannesburg
… A Township 13 kilometeres from North-East Johannesburg . The development of Alexandra Township dates back to 1912. Sometimes thought to be named in honour of…
EventThe ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein
… 2012, the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated a centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein. The centenary was celebrated in a year-long programme that…
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
… It is with deep regret and a profound sense of loss that the African National Congress … The ANC joins all South Africans in mourning the loss of a true…
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… As the only White amongst those convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial, Denis Goldberg will always have a unique place in that…
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… on the country's new and final Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the way for a new democratic order. The…
PlaceUNISA’s Department of Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology
… Cape of Good Hope . It is one of the few that continued to provide tertiary education to all races even during the … minimum entrance requirements. The…
Obituary: Dr Hastings Banda by Richard Dowden (Independent), 27 November 1997
… of the 20th century. He lived three different lives; as a peasant, a doctor and a king. But he failed to integrate them. He died a lonely and unhappy man…
86. Non-racial sport
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by … South African Cricket Board (SACB), which is affiliated to the South African…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris The struggle of tobacco workers in South Africa is a topic much neglected by…
Document 7 - Draft declaration of unity provisionally adopted at Unity Conference, Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison … affecting all Non-Europeans in the conference has come…
EventGeneral Law Amendment Act No 37 is approved
… This Act was an amendment to Section 17, the ninety-day detention law. This meant that … and for the purposes of interrogation, anyone suspected of a…
EventA meeting titled “Conference for Concerned South Africans” is held, bringing together homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties.
… A meeting titled "Conference for Concerned South Africans" … was the way they were being treated at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa), a…
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… that it would no longer provide municipalities facing a consumer electricity and rent boycott, with financial support to service arrears caused by the non…
EventThe Blue Bulls rugby team wins the South African Currie Cup at Loftus
… beat Western Province 24-20 at Loftus Stadium in Pretoria, to win the Currie Cup. The Absa Currie Cup is the premier … domestic rugby competition in South…
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… According to Act 8 of 1925, Afrikaans became one of the official … South Africa, with the dominant indigenous language of a region influencing the dialect of…
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War) was executed by a firing squad beside an open grave in the veld near Graaff-Reinet. He was captured in October 1901…
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
… Kruger issued an ultimatum, instructing the British to withdraw their soldiers from the border of the Transvaal. … lieutenant-general, Robert Baden-Powel,…
EventAmina Lawal’s sentence upheld
… Islamic high court in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upheld a sentence of death by stoning for Amina Lawal. The 31 year old woman had been convicted of…
EventBafana Bafana, SA’s National soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final
… tournament. They had been unbanned just four years prior to the tournament and were generally thought of as the … Under Coach Clive Barker, they soon proved…
EventHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, abolishes slavery.
… From the 16th century right up to the 19th, slaves from Ethiopia were sold across the world. … by religion; there were certain rules that applied only to…
ArchiveUnlawful Organizations Act, Act No 34 of 1960
… The Act was to empower the Governor-General, with a view to the safety of the public or the maintenance of public …
PlaceSt Louis Catholic Church, 22 Jacobs Road, Clairwood, Durban
… On 10 February 1884, Bishop Jolivet purchased a plot in Clairwood for the erection of a mission church for "C reole ". A larger building was erected in 1886…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… It is common knowledge that Indians came to South Africa in two categories, namely as indentured … and as 'free' or 'passenger' Indians. The former came as a…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Introduction
… Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke FOR A PEOPLE engaged in a liberatory struggle it is necessary to rewrite the history of the past. It…
Document 24 - E. R. Roux, Thesis on South Africa, presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 28 July 1928
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … an independent Native South African Republic, as a stage…
PlaceFranschhoek Motor Museum
… The Franschhoek Motor Museum offers visitors a special opportunity to look back at more than 100 years of motoring History with … Collection took place in…
PlaceRhodes University, Grahamstown
… Rhodes University, founded in 1904, the University has a well-established reputation for Academic excellence. With just over 8200 students, Rhodes is a small…
PlaceGreytown, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… This small Town in KwaZulu-Natal was, according to district records, named in honour of: Earl Grey , who was … that Pretorius had borne arms against the…