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Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… is reported to be growing in numbers and importance," 18 suggest that the increased agitation of the organisation … by H. H. R. Eaton, p.2. Cost of Living…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… declares a state of emergency and begins detaining people 18 April, The Unlawful Organizations Act is introduced and … after setting up an arms chache in the…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Resources by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Programme. Interview with Frances Baard by T. Lodge, 18 February 1981. Karis and Carter, Documents on African …
PlaceSmuts Hall, University of Cape Town
… is fun. You really don't have much to worry about." (Jan 18, 2017) …
EventJosiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the LWF
… president and many international guests. Kibira died on 18 July, 1988 at the age of 63. In commemoration of his …
EventNuclear Reactor At Pelindaba Goes Critical
… Sources: (author unknown), (2003). 'Milestones', The Star, 18 March, p. 2. …
EventPaul Adams becomes SA’s youngest Test Cricket player
… when he featured in his first test debut at the age of 18 years and 340 days. Adams represented South Africa in One …
EventNelson Mandela delivers a speech marking his first 100 days in office
… On 18 August 1994, the first democratically elected President of …
ArchiveThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
… book to try and find out what happened.” Egbers spent 18 months trawling through the archives looking for … that he was convicted for a crime he didn’t…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
"They strongly insisted that we had been appropriating more and more of their land which had been theirs all these centuries... They asked if they would be…
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… The Ndebele of J Kekana . Ethnological Publications No 18. Department of Native Affairs, Union of South Africa. …
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… offensives against Allied troops. Click to enlarge On 18 July, the day Mandela was born in the village of Mvezo, …
EventOlive Shisana is born
… http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=340099 (18 May 2017). ↵ [2] Olive Shisana Biography, Available … (18 May 2017). ↵ [3] Olive Shisana and…
Address to the National Council Of Provinces, 11 November 2003
… been used extensively in Europe and Southern Africa. In 2002/3 there were approximately 10,000 Zibambele contractors … the number of contractors to 14,000 by…
Further information on services for the late Adelaide Tambo, 07 February 2007
Please find below information on additional services for the late Adelaide Tambo. Please note that the venue for the funeral on Saturday has been changed to…
EventAuthor of the book, Born Free, Joy Adamson, is killed
… was stabbed to death by her employee, Paul Nakware Ekai, 18. This was revealed by Ekai in an extraordinary prison cell …
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
When Robert Semple visited Cape Town in 1804 he correctly noted the significance of the naming pattern for Cape Slave owners: It may here be observed that the…
PlaceRiebeeck Square, Cape Town.
Riebeeck Square developed during the 18th century, when the town began to expand laterally into the Table Valley, and marks the point where incoming farmers…
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… other members mysteriously crashed on the night of 17-18 September at the border of Northern Rhodesia and Katanga, …
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate and politician, marries Mary Westenra, pioneer aviatrix
… record for light aircraft, by reaching a height of 18, 000 ft. (m). She was also the first woman to fly across …
EventMark Thatcher arrested
Mark Thatcher, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was arrested at his Cape Town home on 25 August 2004. Thatcher was charged under…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… Cape Town. 1927 Dadoo returns to Krugersdorp at the age of 18. The Indian community hosts a reception at the … withdraws its Areas Bill in view of the…
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… 1974, it was named after BJ Vorster, a name utilised until 2002. The building itself was erected on mid-campus, an area …
ArchiveAppendix 5 Notes on Palestine and Israel by Denis Goldberg
… I made notes in November 2002 for use in future speeches on Palestine and Israel, …
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
… the hugely consequential Treatment Action Campaign case of 2002, which arrested the madness which then passed for state …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… Crime Investigation.’ The Court gave the government 18 months to rectify the situation. 18 March The Mail & Guardian newspaper reveals that one of … …
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… to 1904. It has since been established that he died on 18 April 1905. Enoch Mankayi Sontonga wrote the first verse … which stated that Enoch Sontonga had…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
Documents: An anonymous Cape Town correspondent, The nineteen days (Sharpeville and the days after.before), this article has been published in SAHO's library…
EventZelda la Grange was born on this day
… (18 May 2017). ↵ …
Event13 year-old South African Native mineworker is published in a newspaper
… an offence to employ a Native in a mine under the age of 18 years. This act was amended by the Natives Laws Amendment …