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EventIt is announced that a child prostitution and trafficking task team rescues 14 underage prostitutes in downtown Johannesburg
… as well as the sexual acts these girls are forced to perform, are often caught on film and sold as pornographic … Children and women from Mozambique and…
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… was appointed by President Nelson Mandela in June 1994 to be the first President of South Africa's new … from November 2001 until his retirement in 2005. He…
PlaceRegina Mundi, Catholic Church, Soweto
… and is the largest Catholic Church in South Africa – able to seat 2 000 people, with standing room for 5 000. The Church played a major role in the struggle…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
… Manenberg is a Township of Cape Town , South Africa, that was created by … in the Cape Flats and District Six, in 1966. This was a result of the forced…
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… in 1866. On 6 November 1886 the Victoria College, a new college building, was unveiled and expanded into … University Act of the Union of South Africa , and…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… A restless sense of documentation drives David Goldblatt. … adventurer-explorer-writers of Southern Africa, wide-eyed to the differences of the worlds they…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… Area of approximately 2,50218 square kilometres and houses a Population of approximately 104 098 persons (2001 Census). … It is located on the Eastern Border…
PlacePosthuys
… False Bay Coastline and was built in the late 1600's as a lookout post for enemy ships entering False Bay. Posthuys … material on the Battle of Muizenberg…
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … came into being as an answer by the Native People to the…
Constitution Hill - Free tours for pensioners during October and November
… To celebrate the International Day of the Older People on … the site during the Month of October and November. This is to commemorate all those who lived to…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk promises repeal of apartheid laws
… The circumstances that led to the repealing and ultimate dismantling of the Apartheid … led to the earlier proclamation made by then President F.W. de Klerk…
EventZulu King Dingane orders the execution of Piet Retief’s men
… Retief's treaty, Piet Retief and his party were treated to a farewell dance by the Zulu impis at Ungungundlovu. They … the royal kraal. Suddenly, when the…
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… era Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, applied to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for amnesty for his role in the bombing of a trade…
ANC statement on the Heritage Day, 24 September 2014
… cultural backgrounds, beliefs and historic experiences to celebrate our collective heritage that defines us as … us do so with high regard of the…
EventPolitical activists seek refuge in the British Consulate in Durban
… consulate in Durban and asked the British government to intervene on their behalf. This left the British government in a difficult position. It could not…
EventThe UN ends SA mandate over South West Africa
… 18 July 1966 the International Court of Justice ruled in a split vote that they had no power to decide the dispute. That decision did not deter the … SWA…
EventThe ANC Youth League is re-established at Orlando stadium in Soweto
… and the National Youth Secretariat (PNYS) were set up to spearhead the rebuilding process of the Youth League … to the rebuilding of the Youth League and…
EventAngola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty
… On 7 August 1988; Angola, Cuba and South Africa agreed to a formal ceasefire. Under the terms of the ceasefire and … of Namibia. The battle of Cuito…
EventCosatu and TAC table a National HIV/AIDS plan
… (Cosatu) and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) tabled a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, … Development and Labour Council (Nedlac…
EventRashaad Staggie shot dead
… A march organised by the Cape Town-based Muslim organisation, … Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), resulted in the killing of a highly suspected drug dealer,…
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… after the end of the Second Anglo Boer War increased to over twice it's the area to what existed before the war. … nations and were readily available for…
EventM.T. Steyn is sworn in as president of the Orange Free State
… The Republic of the Orange Free State went to elections after the resignation of President F.W. Reitz in 1895 for reasons of health. Marthinus Theunis Steyn,…
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… I’ve been trying to understand what’s happening at my alma mater and employer … what is his legacy. Who was he? To BCM colleagues, he was a national…
Address by President Mandela on Heritage Day Robben Island, 24 September 1997
… Ladies and gentlemen, Few occasions could awaken such a mixture of emotions as today's, or illuminate so sharply … the changes of recent years. Fewer still…
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … more with commercial than industrial capital. From 1652…
Action Kommandant film review by Kabelo Kemp (www.kathradafoundation.org)
… Action Kommandant is a story about a young activist from the dusty and drug ridden streets of … need for change at a very early age and were determined to do…
PlaceTokai Arboretum, Tokai Forest
… of the Cape Colony, thus marking the beginnings of a Forestry Industry in South Africa. The Arboretum is well … variety of Indigenous Trees grown here. It…
PlaceNxuba (formerly known as Cradock)
… Cradock is a Historic Town that has retained much of its 19th-Century … History of the Anglo-Boer War and early settlers, make it a fascinating place to…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1903 - 1923 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Kassiem Gamieldin as Secretary. The Association was formed to work in the interest of the Muslim community at the … have much opposition from many of the…
EventAdolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
… Hitler's Olympics after he used the event for propaganda to promote his National Socialist German Workers' Party … For Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph…