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Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… Areas staged demonstrations and called upon residents to boycott beerhalls. In the beginning residents supported … out. It was not only the illicit dealers…
PlaceGuinea
… was named after this region and subsequently gave the name to the country Papua New Guinea. Conakry is the largest city … 2023 — Women and girls in Guinea…
Work In Progress
… the scene. In September 1977 popular political resistance to apartheid seemed to be waning, although the impetus that 16 June 1976 had given to the African…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… appear as a straight line starting from a commitment to human rights, and leading, without deviation, to the bench of the Constitutional Court of South…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… reveals how ANC presidential hopeful Zweli Mkhize tried to manipulate President Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser into … was persuaded, against prosecutor Charin de…
PlaceCiskei
… relatively small for the number of people it was expected to provide for, it being only 9 182 square kilometres. The … people, the Ciskei along with other…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… 1994 remained largely forgotten in public memory. Efforts to confront this history remain fitful and highly contested. My PhD research aims to assess why and…
EventJames Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry, dies
… qualifying as a teacher in the Free State, Sojane moved to Johannesburg to stay with his sister in Orlando East. He got a job at a clothing factory and…
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… asked by Johannesburg-based Dutch Immigration Committee to cease what they call "irresponsible" utterances against the Union's apartheid laws and first to…
EventOlive Schreiner, noted SA author, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town
… time. Her books though written over a century ago, seem to have predicted the modern day South Africa. Her first book … for it since it had been published…
PlaceAliwal North, Eastern Cape
… Orange River, some 195 km from Bloemfontein, on the road to to East London. It was founded in 1849 and named by the Governor of the Cape Sir Henry Smith,…
"Form united front now": Interview with Albert Luthuli, 5 May 1962
… implicit in the Sabotage Bill may, I fear, ultimately lead to bloodshed and even open revolt by the oppressed people - a situation which we have worked so…
PlaceFourteen Streams
… Cape Government, powers of construction were transferred to the British South Africa Company, who undertook to build the line from Kimberley to Fourteen…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
… Boer), the British had whittled down the Boer resistance to such an extent that the only resistance they could offer … was sporadic guerrilla campaigns. This…
Document 31 - The Negotiating Forum: resolution on the transition process
… of that year, of which much history has been written, and to which I have made brief reference in former pages, Sidney P. Bunting and I were given…
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
… wounded when a light truck set off a land mine close to the border with Zimbabwe. An army spokesman in Pretoria … miles from the border town of Messina. The…
Address during the 90th Birthday Celebration of Mr Walter Sisulu 18 May 2002 Mr President, Ladies and Gentleman, Comrades and Friends
… We are highly privileged to be able to celebrate the 90th birthday of such a giant and a … that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the…
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
… about 11km North-West of King William’s Town (on the road to Alice) and Fort Beaufort! Dimbaza is a symbol of the … of Dimbaza, it remains a unique and…
EventThe Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 is passed
… Act, Act No 19 of 1954 empowered the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg . Subsequently, …
EventBoxing legend, Dingaan Thobela thwarts a hijacking at his home in Johannesburg
… Dingaan Thobela 'The Rose of Soweto' arrived home only to be greeted by hijackers as he was about to enter his Kelvin home. One of the hijackers attempted to…
EventBlack pupils arrive at school escorted by police officers
… A few days after the ruling by the Supreme Court to force Potgietersrus Primary School in Limpopo Province to allow Black pupils to enroll, sixteen Black…
EventEritrea becomes a member of the United Nations.
… Several attempts were made by Eritrea to gain recognition from the United Nations (UN). Habte … UN argued that the UN’s resolutions on decolonisation were…
PlaceNorthern Cape
… Africa and crossing a Namibia Border Post, it doesn’t have to cause a headache, whether you’re driving with a rented 4×4 … premier (1994): Manne Dipico The…
PlaceShree Ambalavaanar Alayam Temple Complex, Cato Manor, Durban
… building is the first recorded public Hindu temple to have been erected on the African continent. Built in 1875, … agreement with the Sugar Estates, they had…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism
… AIDS. The declaration was signed and published in response to then President Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism. Mbeki … viewpoint affected the South African…
PlaceSterkfontein Caves, Krugersdorp (within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site)
… Krugersdorp , on the Farm- 'Swartkrans'. They are believed to have been discovered in about 1896 or 1897, and were opened to visitors in about 1900…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
… First of all 22 percent of the whites did not even bother to vote which is approximately 700,000 voters, i.e. about … or worse In the 'new constitution'…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin
… South African Indians and their complex problems seemed to a little alarming and me strange. Yet for those concerned … They were day by day working out a…
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… of South Africa, in 1946. After matriculating he went to Natal University to study medicine in 1966. Initially he involved himself in … with Biko as its…
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
… MSc in Urban Planning (Housing in Development), submitted to the University College, London (Development Unit). The aim of this dissertation is an attempt to…