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Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… you continue to bring unity to a world so often torn apart by intolerance, by discrimination, by injustice, by the violence of poverty, and by fear and …
Archive1997 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 1997
… today. The major restructuring of parliament represented by these changes epitomizes the maturing of our democracy. Of … health policy. During the course of…
Address at a Banquet at the Guildhall London, 13 June 2001
… for elementary justice for impoverished nations crippled by unnecessary foreign debt. Major forward movement on this … ashes of apartheid. Since then, we…
Enuga S Reddy: Meeting with SWAPO in Dar Es Salaam -1969
… was making propaganda in the towns and villages of Namibia by pointing out the weaknesses of the UN and telling the … The only way to get South Africa out of…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… during this period the country as a whole has been hit by epidemics, but not once did I go down. This is not a boast … I injured my left eye with a tennis…
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… I was also going to bring Rick Abel’s book (Politics by Other Means), but I couldn’t carry it… What we are really … a few people now, is quite general. It…
PlaceBeestekraal, North West
… Post Office, North of Brits. It was given the name in 1837 by the Voortrekkers under Andries Potgieter because here they … New Dictionary of South African…
ArchiveDokumente van belang
… List of documents found by the South African Police at Plot No 9, Travallyn, in the …
ArchiveWestern Cape Region - Regional Conference: Problems and challenges of the Western Cape
… Report by Reg September on the problems and challenges of the …
The Majefe Affair
… other South African universities) following the withdrawal by the University Council of the teaching appointment of …
PlaceConradie Care Centre, Pinelands
… probably about 40 Buildings. The place has been trashed by vagrants, even the flooring of some of the buildings has … probably about 40 buildings. The place…
PlaceStump Memorial, near Doornkop
… the Boer forces after the Jameson Raid (previously marked by a cut off tree stump). The stump memorial is really just a … the Boer forces after the Jameson…
Meeting today
… meeting at Student Arcade, Wednesday 24th at 12:30. Issued by Projects. …
ArchiveRegional Conference: Regional Structures Commission
… Discussion Paper by the ANC on Regional Structures prepared on the mandate of …
ArchiveNon-Central Government structures in South Africa today
… Paper presented by Penuell M. Maduna for discussion at the African National …
PlaceRiebeek West
… J C Smuts , Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. By Franco Frescura …
PlaceRheingold Building, Market Street, Polokwane
… The building was erected in about 1910 by H Moschke to house a number of commercial concerns. It is …
Culture and Resistance - Cynthia Kross
… This article by Cynthia Kross was published in 1982 in the South African …
EventItalian Troops raid Addis Ababa
… capital of Ethiopia. After the capture of Addis Ababa by the Italian troops, Benito Mussolini, the Fascist …
EventWole Soyinka is born
… in 1986. Click here to read the presentation speech by Professor Lars Gyllensten, of the Swedish Academy Click …
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
… support to the South African people. He was hosted by the recipient of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, Bishop …
EventMaritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened
… control of maritime forces was exercised, was constructed by the South African Defence Force with the help of several …
EventThe House of Assembly votes for inquiry into NUSAS & SAIRR
… The House of Assembly approved a motion by eighty-six votes to forty-three to appoint a Select …
EventSiamese twins are separated in Cape Town
… Hospital in Cape Town. The operation, which was conducted by surgeon Syd Cywes, was the first of its kind in the …
EventPresident F. W. de Klerk announced the opening of four hitherto Whites-only residential areas to mixed settlement
… for White settlement in 1966. The reform was described by Conservative Party (CP) spokesman Clive Derby-Lewis as …
EventBritish troopship wrecked – 372 drown
… people on board, only six survived. The wreck was caused by strong Southerly winds blowing towards Cape Agulhas. Two …
9 Ships run ashore in Table Bay
… quite aptly called 'Cape of Storms' (Cabo das Tormentas) by Bartholomeu Dias , the first Portuguese explorer to reach …
EventThird Pan African Parliament session begins in Midrand
… in Midrand, north of Johannesburg. The session was opened by its president, Getrude Mongella. The opening of parliament …
EventGeneral Louis Botha dies
… after a heart attack. The heart failure was preceded by a cold that had developed into pneumonia while on his farm …
PlaceRiebeek Kasteel
… of the same name. The Area was first visited in 1661 by a Dutch party who named the peak, after their Commander, … By Franco Frescura … of the same name. The…