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PlaceAmaLinde, West of King Williams Town
… Ndlambe, erupted in a battle of epic proportions that was to go down in Xhosa tradition as the battle of Amalinde. This exceptional battle lasted from midday…
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… When the VoC granted land in Rondebosch to the first free Burghers, Governor Jan van Riebeeck reserved a piece of this Land to be used as an Orchard by the…
PlaceDistrict Six Museum
… Six Museum came into being. This museum was established to commemorate and remember the District Six community that … area a 'Whites only' area. Museum…
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has sent his condolences to the family and friends of legendary poet and short story … Mafika Gwala after an illness. We…
PlaceWoodstock
… lay some 2 km East of Cape Town , on the Main Road to Stellenbosch , later to become known as, Albert Road. The Area was named after … His Home, known as; …
Document 95 - “Welcome The All-African National Convention! African National Convention Must Mark Beginning of National Liberation Movement”, South African Worker, 27 June 1936
… the beginnings of National Liberation. It is the answer to the further encroachment upon the oppressed African … eating at delicate children's lungs, driving…
PlaceSharpeville, Gauteng
… Sharpeville Township holds many sad memories and is Home to the Memorial at the 'Human Rights Precinct'. Sharpeville … . In 1960, during Apartheid a large…
Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo's Statement In Court In Trial For Passive Resistance, June 1946
… 1946, at the beginning of the passive resistance campaign, to three months` imprisonment with hard labour. He had been … Although I am pleading guilty…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of president Rafsanjani of Iran Pretoria, 12 September 1996
… Guests; Ladies and gentlemen, It is a great privilege to host you and your distinguished delegation. We hope that … I still remember with great fondness the…
Statement by Nelson R. Mandela on his relationship with his wife 13 April 1992
… of much media speculation. I am issuing this statement to clarify the position and in the hope that it will bring an end to further conjecture. Comrade…
EventSmallpox Epidemic Strikes at the Cape
… Hardest hit are the indigenous Khoisan people. They appear to have much less resistance to the disease than the slaves and the colonists have and suffer huge…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Province. Initially the Town was part of land granted to White farmers, in 1885, for their support of King Dinuzulu … the major form of rural development…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… completely stripped black South Africans of the right to own land. Plaatje, known as Sol, came from a family that … He transcended his own tribal and…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… by the moral commitment of those who work it. Speaking to a packed audience of the Cape Law Society in Kimberley, he … judicial reticence on public issues…
Postscript
… all the difference. Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" To a great extent that has been true of the past thirty years … it did from the poet. It draws from me…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… B.A., LL.B., on "Africanism," which, in erudition, soared to Himalayan heights. In his attempt to foster the spirit of nationalism and racial pride, the ……
Accredited Events
… Task Team (NCTT), has established a sub committee referred to as the Content and Copyright Sub Committee whose primary function is to consider all…
Event’Purple rain’ used on women protesters
… in Adderley street, Cape Town used their new water cannons to suppress a Cape riot that had, for the third time, spread to White areas. The rioting spread…
EventBlack empowerment makes headway
… Empowerment Consortium (NEC) signed an agreement for Anglo to sell almost 48 percent shareholding in Johnnic (an … in entertainment, media, casino,…
ANC`s urgent court application in view of DA march, 12 February 2014
… Congress will submit its protection order application to afford its staff, members, its assets and the public at … Court. This is necessary in view of the…
A Dialogue in Partnership with Kaya FM - MyConstitution Exhibition
… and respected around the world for its pioneering approach to human rights - is the symbol of a remarkable negotiated … Just as in any other nation, it is of…
PlaceNelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
… are housed in two Buildings framing the entrance to St George's Park and consist of South African art … built in 1927 and the second building which was…
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… mass boycott of Ba ntu Education. Bantu education referred to the administration of education for blacks under the … the government warned that those who did…
EventSA signs diplomatic relations with Vietnam
… rule under way, the Republic of South Africa opened itself to the outside world. Diplomatic ties were signed between … Charge d'Affaires, the country's…
EventStudents at Durban
… unrest at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) owing to political activism and a continuing struggle between the … of lectures. The situation at the…
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… in which a Peace Torch was received. It was destined to run through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana and finally to South Africa -…
EventThomas Pringle, journalist and editor of Cape newspaper Commercial Advertiser, dies in London
… in Scotland on 5 January 1789. Pringle sustained an injury to his hip as a result of being accidentally dropped by his … nanny when he was three months old…
Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
… The "Ghetto Act" was designed to curtail Indian property ownership in White areas in Natal. … be White areas in which Indians were no longer allowed to…
Address at the Opening Session of The South Africa-Algeria Bi-National Commission, Algiers, 22 September 2000.
… government and people of South Africa, I am indeed happy to be in this historic city to re-affirm and reconfirm a relationship born, many years ago, out of…
PlaceCape Agulhas, Western Cape
… The name is Portuguese for 'needle' and is said to have been given because the compass needle was seen to point due north and that is with no magnetic…