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PlaceCape Town Stadium
… This Stadium was built when we put in the bid to host the 2010 World Cup. The Stadium has proved to be very use full in hosting other events and is a major…
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
… in Cape Town. In the letter he was sending his gratitude to the ANC for giving him the organisation's views on … answered a letter from Nokwe, asking the…
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… (ANC) cadres, Freddie Shangwe and Ezekial Maseko, drove to Church Street in Pretoria and parked their vehicle in … African Air Force (SAAF) headquarters…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… people by surprise. The Apartheid government attempted to negotiate the release of Mandela before, but always with … Klerk's predecessor in parliament, P. W…
EventThe first Comrades Marathon takes place
… 34 runners, who initiated it as a reunion. Clapham wanted to remember those who had fallen in the war by ultimate … completed the 87, 9km (55 mile) race from…
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
… of Ejersa Gor, in the Harar province of Ethiopia. Heir to a 13th century dynasty, he ascended to the throne of Ethiopia in 1930, proclaiming himself "Haile ……
EventThe first cable connection between SA and Europe is launched
… engineer Charles Tilston Bright as part of his project to link the British Empire with growing telecommunications … improved considerably and Bright turned…
Twentieth Anniversary of the United Nations Sanctions Resolution: Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 05 November 1982, New York
… of peace and security which obliges the Security Council to take action under Chapter VII of the United Nations … South African regime demand this action…
PlaceEthiopia
… of Africa. It shares one of its borders with Somalia , to the East. Sudan to the West, South Sudan to the South West. Kenya to the South and Djibouti , to…
Address at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 4 March 2002
… of my fellow Commonwealth colleagues, I have the pleasure to express how delighted we are to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in the … you…
Save South Africa calls ‘People’s Assembly Against State Capture’
… South Africa campaign is calling on all South Africans to unite behind that great symbol of our nation, the National Flag, to a “People’s Assembly Against…
PlaceSammy Mark’s Residence, Zwartkoppies, Pretoria
… its lush gardens and tennis courts originally belonged to 19th Century Agricultural, Industrial and Mining Tycoon, … World Charm'. Sammy Marks was born in…
EventEmily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps
… about the conditions in the camps and at the same time to rally the support of the British government for the … introduced in March 1901. Lord Kitchener used…
ArchiveNatives (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act, Act No 67 of 1952
… The Act was to repeal the laws relating to carrying passes by natives; to provide for the issue of reference books to natives; to …
ArchiveSuppression of Communism Act, Act No 44 of 1950
… The Act was to declare the Communist Party of South Africa to be an unlawful organization; to make provision for declaring other organizations promoting …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the unveiling of the FIFA Soccer World Cup South Africa 2010 emblem, Tempodrom, Berlin 7 July 2006
… and friends, Ladies and gentlemen: I am truly delighted to address you on this auspicious occasion - indeed a double … and the 14th anniversary of the re…
EventUnFreedom Day
… the 27th of April 2006 Abahlali BaseMjondolo (AbM) decided to host an “Unfreedom Day” to highlight how there is “no democracy for the poor”[1] and to replace…
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… He became the first African National Congress (ANC) member to be executed by the government. Prior to his execution, the police tried to turn him against his…
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… police disrupted a residents' meeting, which was held to inform those residents of Peelton unable to attend a previous meeting, of the incorporation of the ……
EventBritish explorers, John Speke and J.A. Grant announce that Lake Victoria is the source of the Nile
… The expedition was Speke’s second attempt and was meant to put to rest all doubt on his earlier findings. Speke’s first expedition to Africa was in 1856 when…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… conspiracy' inspired by international communism to overthrow the state by violence." The campaign for the Congress of the People was to become the central…
ArchiveCosatu Demands
… of people marching; text: COSATU demands: 1. the right to work 2. the right to organize 3 the right of students to: form democratic Student Representative…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1970 - 1978 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… 1970 Trusteeship of West Street Masjid extended 102 Prior to 1970, the trusteeship of the West Street Masjid in Durban … the Constitution of the masjid was…
EventSlave rebellion at the Cape led by Louis of Mauritius. Over 300 slaves and Khoi Khoi servants from outlying farms marched on Cape Town demanding their freedom
… slave and two Khoi men later joined them. Their plan was to march from the rural districts gathering slaves on the way and then to enter Cape Town, seize the…
Document 3 - National Anti-CAD Conference Agenda, Oddfellows Hall, Hope Street, Cape Town, Saturday, 29 May [1943]
… Town, Saturday, 29 May [1943] AFTERNOON SESSION: 2 p.m. to 6 p.m 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Registration of Delegates. 3 p.m. Opening Remarks … E C. Roberts: "WHAT THE…
PlaceCape St Francis, Western Cape Peninsula
… in 1878. For many of us, the first thought that jumps to mind when they hear about St Francis is the perfect wave … surfing spots in St Francis Bay, as Seals…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Olehile Bada Pharasi
… To the Student Movements of 2016 Dear Students, The events … institutions this year would have been very confusing to a foreign observer. The moving targets…
PlaceSt Paul’s Anglican Church, Main Road, Rondebosch
… nearly one-and-half Hectares at the foot of Devil's Peak to the People of Rondebosch, for the erection of an Anglican … Road. A Lease was later negotiated…
Introduction
… the South African Government gave official recognition to the de facto situation, and decided that Indians were henceforth to be regarded as a permanent part…
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… for grasping media attention and an extraordinary ability to create wide-ranging networks and political relationships … a liberal campaigner in the 60s,…