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PlaceSchanskop Fort, Pretoria
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 29 June … Republiek" decided that something must be done to protect Pretoria against…
PlaceDjibouti
… Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, is a country of dry shrublands, volcanic formations and Gulf of Aden beaches. It's home to one of the saltiest bodies of…
Class Struggle
… class struggle. All societies are divided into classes. In a capitalist society, the two main classes are the middle … the factories, and the working class…
The United Nations adopts resolution 1375 (XIV) on Apartheid
… General Assembly made four key declarations: Opposition to racial discrimination anywhere in the world A call for all Member States to uphold their Charter ……
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
… Walter Sisulu joined the ANC in 1940. He was elected to the executive committee of the ANC Youth League in 1944 … of apartheid. Repressive laws were soon…
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, issues a Unilateral Declaration of Independence
… toward de-colonisation, British authorities were prepared to permit Rhodesian independence, but only on the basis of giving the black majority population a…
EventAbram Fischer is struck off the roll of advocates
… Act. At the start of the trial he was granted bail to enable him to leave the country and argue a case in England, undertaking to return. Upon his return, he…
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… Churchill joined the British army in 1893 and developed a keen interest in war correspondence. Some of his early … reports on various military campaigns…
EventInterim report into the allegations of a “Third Force” by the Goldstone Commission is published
… department Lt.-Gen. Johan le Roux, had masterminded a third force with the aim of making the country ungovernable. This emanated from evidence given to the…
EventNearly 200 People are killed in the Bulhoek massacre in the Eastern Cape
… In 1921, in a battle lasting less than 30 minutes between police and … land they were squatting on and warned that if they failed to comply, their leader…
PlacePioneer Museum, Silverton Pretoria
… The Pioneer open air Museum in Silverton, is set in a graciously restored Victorian settler Farmstead complete … horse mill and threshing floor, farming…
Funeral of Sean MacBride: Oliver Tambo, 05 May 1988
… Our Banners Dipped As a young man, Sean MacBride, an Irishman, spent time in prison … the struggle for independence of his own people. From 1973 to 1976, as…
PlaceAlgoa Bay, East Coast of Cape of Good Hope
… in 1488, by Bartolomeu Dias when he was the first European to land there. He planted a wooden cross on a small Island now, St Croix or Santa Cruz island. he…
PlaceFirst & Second River Temple's
… / 1906. Another Temple was built on the same site, but had to make way for a new freeway that was being built in Durban . Part of the … 1946, and declared by…
Giyani, Polokwane
… you will find the little happening town of Giyani, a popular town in the heart of Bushveld country in the … western crook of the Kruger National Park, even…
PlaceSao Bento Shipwreck, Coffee Bay
… earliest known wreck is the Portuguese carrack, Sao Bento. A carrack is a sailing sailing ship of the 14th–17th centuries that was … A local even has found a…
PlaceGreat Brak Rivier
… who, together with his wife and four children, emigrated to the Cape in 1859. They landed at Mossel Bay following a sea voyage of 68 days. After a few months…
PlaceFort Schanskop
… Paul Kruger of the “Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek” decided to protect Pretoria by constructing forts in strategic … places. Eight forts were to be built…
PlaceLiberia
… former African American slaves. Joseph Jenkins Roberts , a former slave who was born in America became the first … as well as by U.S. foreign policy…
“No Room for Racialism at Natal University”: Statement, June 1956
… that the African was “totalitarian at heart and used to an ideology of tyranny” and that his history under such … G. M. Naicker, President of the Natal…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… overseas were cautiously planned by communists linked to the South African Communist Party (SACP) and leftists in … Apartheid South Africa's fight against…
EventRoman Catholic Bishop Augustin Misago, cleared of genocide charges
… his alleged participation in the Rwandan genocide by a Court of Law in Rwanda. Bishop Misago was arrested on 14 … Tutsi and sympathetic Hutu dead. The main…
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). They appealed to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty in … and on 28 July 1998 they were set free…
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… destroying its stock pile of anti-personnel mines. A total of 261 423 were destroyed, while 18 000 were retained … of the mines left were live mines and 13…
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… Jack Penn, a well known plastic and reconstructive surgeon, was born on … August 1909 in Cape Town. Penn later moved with his family to Johannesburg, where…
EventTshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody
… in the area. The reaction of Vendaland’s security police to the attack was brutal. Having failed to apprehend the … the Homeland guilty of aiding and…
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… Compensation is a Settlement 43 km North-East of Durban, on the route to Umhlali-Tongaat. The Area of Compensation got its name … Are was acquired in the…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… in March 1911. It was celebrated on 19 March and over a million men and women took to the streets in a series of rallies. In addition to the right to vote…
PlaceBeau Soleil Music Centre, Salisbury Road, Kenilworth
… house was built by Dirk Cloete in 1877, and boasts of a number of fine neo-Gothic and Victorian architectural … made towards the end of the 19th century. It…
PlaceGeneral Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
… Home to General Jan Smuts for over 40 years, Doornkloof in Irene, Southeast of Pretoria, is a unique museum that reveals much about the life and the … but…