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PlacePretoria Boys High School
… This school was declared a National Monument. Pretoria Boys High School, also known as 'Boys High' . It is a public, tuition charging, English medium boys…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
… Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… War Museum, Bloemfontein SA Image source More than a century after 48 000 people died in concentration camps in … comments by British Conservative MP Jacob…
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
… On 11 April 1961, Nigeria imposed a trade boycott on South Africa, due to objections against South Africa's apartheid policy. In early 1960, Nigeria had…
EventCommittee of Ten wants election of a new community board
… of 10' formed by prominent Soweto residents, issued a programme for the election of a new community board to have total autonomy in Soweto, including powers…
EventFirst World Haemophilia Day
… World Haemophilia Day was first celebrated in 1989 to increase awareness of haemophilia and to bring the needs of those affected by the disorder to the … of…
EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
… parties in parliament tabled more than 300 amendments to the constitutional legislation. The New National Party (NNP) strove for the insertion of a lockout…
EventA fire in a boarding school in Kenya kills fifty-eight boys and seriously injures twenty-eight others
… 50 teenage boys died when their dormitory caught fire in a secondary school near Nairobi, Kenya. The raging fire is reported to have spread quickly burning…
PlaceUniversity of Fort Hare, Alice- Eastern Cape
… challenges despite government efforts, students resort to this kind of behaviour. This is unacceptable.” “We are … who spent formative Years at Fort Hare. …
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis
… by many difficulties, so that it has taken far longer to bring it to fruition than initially expected. This makes … to see this work finished. I have been…
PlaceSenegal
… Senegal is bounded to the north and northeast by the Sénégal River, which … point of the African continent. The Gambia consists of a narrow strip of…
PlacePhilippolis, Free State
… Orange River, this Southern Free State Town also belongs to the False Karoo, a Geographical Region of dry scrub that transforms to … houses huddle together…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… Johannesburg yesterday. Born in Lydenburg in 1939, to English missionary parents, Lewin attended Rhodes … for his activities in the African Resistance…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… of the IWW in Johannesburg, established in June 1910. A hefty Scots immigrant who arrived in 1906, he worked in the Natal railways as a blacksmith, leading a…
PlaceDie Grootkerk in Bosmanstraat
… town, Pretoria (1855). The congregation was moved to Bosman Street where a new church building was inaugurated in 1904. Today it is … Church tradition in…
PlaceKoopmans de Wet House, 35 Strand Street, Cape Town
… the 18th century by Governor Willem Adriaan van de Ste l to a rich merchant, Reynier Smedinga. Tradition has it that Smedinga, who had previously been a ship…
PlaceGreen Point
… area about Green Point was initially used by the Dutch as a cattle grazing station. After the British annexed the Cape in 1806, they began to hold horse…
PlaceGouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay
… mentions Hieronimus Cruse, -who first crossed it from East to West in 1667 after he had gone by sea to Mossel Bay . Cruse found there a Hottentot tribe, the…
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Introduction - The anti-Apartheid Movements: a 40-year perspective
… On 26 June 1959, over five hundred people attended a meeting at the Holborn Hall, London in order to launch an economic boycott against South Africa…
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
… made it abundantly clear that the Tamil community was here to stay and to be part of the solution in South Africa to build a strong state and a South African…
PlaceAnnis River, near Kuboes in the Northern Cape
… about 14 km South-East of Kuboes. The name is said to mean, 'the one which is well known, primarily referring to … used by travellers in former times. The…
ArchiveThe Black Sash: a case study of liberalism in South Africa 1955-1990
… Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Social Studies, Sub-Faculty of Politics, … from its inception in 1955 until 1990. By means of a periodised narrative, this…
PlaceNewington Road Victorian Houses, Port Elizabeth
… Victorian double-storey, semi-detached dwellings forms a unique terrace erected in the late 19th century, and survives largely unaltered to the present day…
EventNelson Mandela is born
… Cape ). Mandela became involved in politics while being a student at Fort Hare University after he met Oliver Tambo, … declared 18 July as Nelson Mandela…
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… office, Verwoerd realised his republican dream, when a White-only referendum supported his plea for a republic. This was also the first time in 12 years of…
Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
… urbanization and an increase in poverty as people battled to find employment. The diamond and the agricultural sectors … from 16.6 pence in 1928 to 4.4 pence…
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met in Pretoria to discuss majority rule for Rhodesia. South African Prime … peace in Rhodesia, but to no avail…
EventEnforcement of military conscription for all white males in SA
… the Navy. Service in any of these divisions was restricted to White South African males.Prior to the Amendment Act, … over the age of 16. Deferment to…
EventBambatha Rebellion
… started at the end of 1905, when government introduced a new £1 poll tax on top of existing hut and dog taxes. After … unification of South Africa mining…