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Documentry on the Life and Death of Ahmed Timol Premieres on SABC3, on 1 February 2015.
… television documentary tells the story of Ahmed Timol, a 29-year-old Roodepoort teacher and anti-apartheid activist … Timol: Quest for Justice , and directed…
4. Complaint of ill-treatment on an estate
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by … I.I./1/18, 18911884, Natal Archives. I am indentured to Mr. J. Meikle. Five of the…
Inner-Party Bulletin
… probation, discipline and standards of conduct, report on a visit to the Soviet Union, a meeting with the CPSU Central Committee delegation, a …
EventPresident de Klerk warns General Bantu Holomisa
… Speaking after the publication of a report on the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) by the Goldstone Commission, President F.W. de Klerk issued a stern…
EventDepartment of Transport launches Be Legal campaign
… The national department of transport launched a seven month Be Legal campaign at the Jack Mincer Taxi Rank in Johannesburg, aiming to improve and legalise…
EventNP serves legal papers on TRC
… Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) giving notice of a High Court application to be heard on 26 August 1997. The application called on the … arguing…
EventThe Transvaal National Union is established
… The Transvaal National Union, a political organisation, was set up with J. Tudhope as … president. The principal reason behind its formation was to further…
EventJeremy Cronin and British couple are sentenced in the Cape Town Supreme Court
… In the Cape Town Supreme Court a British journalist, David Rabkin, his wife and a South African lecturer, Jeremy Cronin, were sentenced to ten, one, and…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… of Songhai, Mali, Gao, Kanem, and Bornu, as well as a number of Hausa states, claimed control over portions of … Tuareg, were not subdued until 1922, when…
PlaceGriquatown
… Kramer, of the London Missionary Society, established a station among the Griqua at Leeuwenkuil. Thesite proved to be too arid for cultivation, and in about…
Place(The) Gambia
… Gambia is a Western African country, situated on the Atlantic coast and … surrounded by the neighbouring country, Senegal. It is a long narrow strip of land,…
PlaceWits School of Arts (WSOA)
… interdisciplinary school of arts in South Africa according to World Universities Ranking. Forming part of the University … graduate and doctoral levels. The…
Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson
… struggle and in the broad movement of liberation. He is a voice we have to listen to even though it has not been heard for many years. He, more … Johnny…
PlaceGuinea-Bissau
… one of the world’s poorest and most fragile countries, has a population of 2 019 023 million people, (21/07/2021). … Bijagos . The country of Guinea-Bissau,…
PlacePhiladelphia
… Not the Philadelphia one attributes to the Eastern parts of North America, this Philadelphia lies … is just off the N7 towards Malmesbury. You can take a…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Wynberg
… This area began to be settled by free burghers in 1657, and for more than a century most of them travelled into Cape Town to attended … local roads, on 7…
PlaceGreen Point Common
… The Green Point Common was vested land, which was granted to the City of Cape Town in 1923 for public recreation and … sport fields. Your stadium is home to…
PlaceQuaqua
… Quaqua, or Qwaqwa, was a homeland created for the Southern Sotho people from a reserve in the Orange Free State (OFS) that had been granted to the followers…
EventFearon Fallows, the first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born
… Fallows, the first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, was born to John and Rebecca Fallows on 4 July 1789 in Cockermouth, … and at the early age of 19 he became…
PlaceOld Lutheran Church, Kroondal
… The Kroondal congregation was founded by a group of German speaking farmers, artisans and … the village of Kroondal, on 2 August 1896. By that time a church…
EventThe Queen mother Elizabeth is born.
… for War wounded people. Although she was too young to serve as a nurse, she assisted her parents with welfare work during … children, Elizabeth and Margret…
EventAlbertina Sisulu addresses a major anti-apartheid rally in London.
… Titus Mafolo. The delegation’s expedition was primarily to call for increased sanctions on the apartheid government. … during their meetings were that of…
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… of the ANC who believed in African Nationalism, and wanted to follow an active policy focused on the mobilisation of the … became the first president of the…
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Gideon Nieuwoudt a former apartheid-era security police colonel, who was … in the Eastern Cape, died in…
EventChief George Mzimvubu Mathanzima, former Prime Minister of Transkei, dies
… as the Minister of Education, but he was elevated to the Minister of Justice. In 1979 George was appointed as … Matanzima including the embezzlement of funds…
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… German South West Africa, took place in 1884. The Herero, a pastoral and nomadic group, had begun to move into Namibia in the 17th century. German settlement…
EventProf. James Smith, who identified the first coelacanth found in South Africa, is born
… his PhD at Oxford. After he returned from Oxford, he began to teach chemistry at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. … focuses on the study of fish. During…
EventYoussou N’Dour, Senegalese singer, is born.
… Youssou N'Dour was born in Dakar, West of Senegal. He was a member of Star Band, Senegal’s most famous band. He left the band to form his own, Á‰toile de…
PlaceRailway Station and Post Office, Point Road, Durban
… This building was erected in 1900 as part of a general upgrade by the Natal Railways. It replaced an … line between Durban and Pinetown was laid. It was…
PlaceBurundi
… Burundi is a relatively small country located in central Africa, and the name and approximate territory has a continuity with the Kingdom of Burundi which…