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Message from the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
… it with an opportunity to rededicate itself to its mission. As our most senior visual arts organisation it is … of the visual and plastic arts in South…
ArticleGeneral Factory Workers Benefit fund (GFWBF)
… to workers’ complaints. GFWBF had an executive of 20 members who mostly were from the Clothing and Furniture … experienced harassment and intimidation from…
PlaceGoedverwact
… Mission station of the Moravian Church on the Western slopes … (1838) bequeathed to six of his freed slaves by H. S. Burger. On the death of the last of the…
PlaceIsipingo, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… About 20 km South of Durban City Central, lies Isipingo, an Area … adjacent Industrial Area, is the location of South Africa’s largest automobile assembly…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… 1953-1954 Campaign against Bantu Education ; some of Hani’s school teachers are active in the Non European Unity … Game Reserve (Hwange National Park) on…
Countdown to the elections July 1993 – April 1994
… by Max Coleman In July 1993, the date for South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections was announced: 27 … of interest was to thwart democratic…
PlaceRailway Administration Building, bounded by Maitland-, Hanger, St Andrew and Harvey Streets, Bloemfontein
… to the South of the City and generates most of the stations freight traffic. During 2005-2006 over 90,000 tons …
EventSA troops invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I
… in Western Europe and the Middle East. South Africa's ports and harbors, such as at Cape Town , Durban , and Simon's Town , were also important rest-stops,…
Federation of Amateur Theatrical Societies of South Africa (FATSSA)
… founded in 1938 in Krugersdorp by the representatives of 20 amateur dramatic societies in South Africa. The Federation … fees being paid to the performers…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… the streets, in 1912, The Northern Star & Country District’s Gazette , a weekend gazette. The process of modernisation … SABC built a new modern studio in…
Political executions
… guerrilla. Goch Street shooting (1977). Maqwasha, Solomon, 20 1986/12/05 Murder of informer in Tzaneen. Matsepane, Alex … of Tembu chief G. Gqoboza Menze,…
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… decisive programmes for all spheres of governance, the EFF’s emphasis for the 2019 general elections will be on LAND and … 18) ECONOMY 19) JUSTICE SYSTEM AND…
PlaceGroutville
… part of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission. His initial missionary work dates back to 1836 when he established the Inkanyeni Mission…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… to protest against the tightening grip of the government’s racist polices were staged by the ANC and other … ANC Secretary-General and initialled by Nelson…
PlacePella
… Matjieskloof, Port Nolloth, Vergenoeg and Pella. “There’s a lot of love in our lives here in Pella,” said Sister … Nama raider; Jager Afrikaner, who attacked…
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
… education of Indians. The Reverend Stott of the Wesleyan Mission established a school for Indian labourers in 1868 and … was for the Board to pay £ 50.00 per…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR's father was born in Mauritius and his mother was a Mauritian … affairs. He was made secretary of the…
BiographyJan Smiesing
… most of them did not survive because of Jan van Riebeeck’s ill-advised decision to give them a glass of brandy every … Senior, a senior Dutch employee of the…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… In the House of Commons he became Prime Minister Gladstone’s right-hand man. In 1882, during his second ministry, … of the autonomy of the Zulu people,…
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… his father experiencing financial difficulties. Tsafendas’s father was a devout anarchist, while his ancestors in his … thereafter. Tsafendas entered South…
ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… 08 January 1992: The ANC gives it annual statement. 20 January 1992: 5 Working Groups are constituted and begin … gather outside the legislature to hear the…
PlacePlumstead
… is named - if a village is possible in the heart of London’s Greenwich or Cape Town. Regarded as the ‘Cinderella’ of … morning as people commute in and out…
PlaceRiverside
… accumulated a vast fortune through a string of trading stations and extensive dealings in land. At one stage he also … Investors. They were until recently…
ArchiveWaaihoek
… and evictions. These families were evicted from Stendahl Mission near Weenen and the Sun Valley Estates which surrounded the Stendahl Mission. …
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… The SABC grew in the 1960s and 1970s as more radio stations, broadcasting in selected African languages, were … Available at: pumamouse.com [Accessed 6 July…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… to have a more permanent character than Johannesburg's Park Station. The original Krugersdorp station building was … building contractor MCA MEISCHKE, who…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… He was already the chairman of the Natal Indian Fisherman's Association for ten years. Padavatan quickly assembled a … ignored Inspector Alexander and set…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… Alice in the Tyume valley in 1824 and here, and at similar mission schools subsequently established at places like … most effective of these newspapers was…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… spent the early part of the year strengthening the NCL’s organisational capacity, operating out of Cape Town. Watson left the NCL in June 1963, citing the…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… up a demonstration. Photograph by Shadrack Nkomo © Bailey's African History Archive. Numerous factors characterised the … (SADF) Military Intelligence…