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Call for the Observance of the 70th Birthday of Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, June 1988
… of our country, are renowned for their fearless challenge to the full might of Pretoria's tyranny. In spite of fierce … determined to be free. The MK cadres…
ANC statement on Zimbabwe, 26 May 2000
… The African National Congress wishes to reiterate its position on Zimbabwe as per the discussions … situation is one of `quiet diplomacy` instead of a fan…
EventCourt verdict made on the sinking of the SS Mendi
… with the assistance of three assessors. This was not a prosecution, but an investigation to get to the truth of what had caused the huge death toll ……
PlaceJansenville, Eastern Cape
… Vergenoegd in 1854, it was proclaimed in 1855 and became a Municipality; the Sarah Baartman District Municipality, in 1881. Said to have been named after…
PlaceLittle Lions Head, Mt. Above Llandudno
… between Llandudno, Sandy Bay and Hout Bay and is basically a smaller version of Lions Head as they look almost identical. " We went for our third hike to the…
PlaceMowbray
… Drie Koppen. This name was of Dutch origin, and was given to a road intersection where the heads of three slaves had been … terraced homes on the banks of…
PlaceLodge de Goede Hoop, Stal Square, Cape Town
… Order established its first lodge in the Cape under a warrant obtained from the Grand Lodge National of the … rented for this purpose, but after 1794 they…
PlaceKamastone and Bulhoek
… and it was decided that people who were living there had to be given titles of ownership to prove that they … Crown it was surveyed into usable lots,…
Beyond the Apartheid University?
… the South African Higher Education landscape. Sub-themes to be considered as focus of papers, but feel free to … innovate: 1. Research and the production of…
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… office, Verwoerd realised his republican dream, when a White-only referendum supported his plea for a republic. … years of government that the National Party…
Event5 Children Murdered in SADF Umtata Raid on Alleged APLA Arms Storage Facility
… as they lay sleeping in their Umtata home. Believed to be the arms storage facility for the Azanian Peoples' … eighteen APLA operatives staying at the house…
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… Dirk Coetzee, Jan Viktor and Jac Buchner began Vlakplaas, a parliamentary hit squad, with 16 police officers. The … Almond Nofomela. Before his execution,…
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… who became the British Governor at the Cape from 1814 to 1826, was born in Badminton England on 12 December 1767. … into the Eastern Cape. When the British…
EventMother Teresa is buried
… world's attention and accolades with her selfless devotion to the poor, was buried on 13 September 1997 in Culcutta, … poverty she glimpsed outside the…
PlaceFort Wiltshire
… this campaign. Work on the stone tower, which stood on a hill overlooking the confluence of the Keiskamma and … by the Governor, Lord Charles Somerset, who…
PlaceNgcobo
… On 1 November 1859, a day known in the Christian calender as All Saints Day, … the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). As a result they were…
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… non-racial policy of the 1950s Congress Alliance In 1981, a meeting was held in Lenasia to discuss the response of the Indian community to the … the SAIC…
PlaceHazyview
… A Village that is inundated with History and very quicky … the African Bushveld whilst on Safari. Hazyview is central to the Kruger Lowveld Region of…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 3: The Sounds of Kora
… From the book: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by … Menán du Plessis There will be many readers who would like to have a sense…
PlaceSt. Francis Church, Simonstown
… Church in Southern Africa, is beautifully documented in a book published in March 2014 called 'The Six Saints of … the History the Parish Church from as…
Introductory Statement on the Presentation of the Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 79th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1991
… formation of the African National Congress. We do so as a legal organisation for the first time in thirty years. We … decades in prison and in exile. This…
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
… This book and exhibition are an attempt to construct a clear picture of Ernest Cole, a complex man whose work is little known, especially in his …
EventSouth Africa celebrates the first National Women’s Day
… this country's history, 20 000 women of all races marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings on 9 August 1956, to present a petition against the carrying of…
EventWriter J.M. Coetzee is awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
… Born in South Africa in 1940, JM Coetzee has had a successful literary career. He is the only author ever to win the Booker prize twice, but the publicity…
EventWorld Food Program warns the UN that a record 38 million people are at risk of starvation in Africa
… with 'providing enough food for every child, woman and man to live an active life'. It is part of the United Nations … partners. The WFP have five objectives…
EventRebels take control of Kinshasa, Zaire
… On 18 May 1997, Laurent Kabila, at the head of a rebel army, overthrew the despotic regime of Mobutu Se se … of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this…
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… death of General Louis Botha on 27 August 1919. Smuts was a man of exceptional intellect and an internationally … esteemed statesman who contributed…
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… which had started on 11 October 1899, there were attempts to reach peace. On 15 May 1902, thirty delegates from each … Boer representatives converged at…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… Sir John Frederick William Herschel, died. Herschel began to take a serious interest in astronomy from about 1816. Herschel's … discoverer of the planet…
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… In the worst mine disaster in South Africa, a large section of the Clydesdale Colliery, at the Coalbrook … miners were suffocated by methane gas and crushed…