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EventRobert Mugabe assures the SADC that the 9-10 March election in Zimbabwe would be free and fair
… election in Zimbabwe would be free and fair. According to a statement issued at the end of the day-long … promised that international observers will be…
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
… the time, nearly half contracted the disease, while close to 140,000 died within a few weeks. The disease spread … often whole families were ill or dying,…
EventAlan Paton is born
… graduated from Maritzburg College in 1918; he went further to study at the University of Natal, where he graduated with … three years he taught at Ixopo High…
EventThe Cape Agulhas lighthouse begins operating
… Contrary to popular belief, Cape Agulhas and not Cape Point is the … Michell. It took years for the Cape Legislative Council to raise the money to begin…
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… Somerset was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape on 6 April 1814 as Governor with a mandate to further develop the…
The fall of the ANC: what caused it by Chris Kanyane (News24), 11 December 2016
… It used to be that the ANC was set up much more like the Zion … of our people). It called itself a church (an allusion to the ANC calling itself “a broad…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… - within a matter of weeks". ”¦.. It is impossible to estimate what hope of success the campaign has. The … about 34, 000. If a substantial number of these…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… people of South Africa, declare that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white ... and, therefore, we … farmers and peasants of all…
Document 21 - ANC National Consultative Conference: resolutions for the coming year
… workers will gather in Durban, the birth place of COSATU, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Federation. This … time embarked on a programme of anti…
Silent Cries from a Beloved Country by Ken Johnson, 20 August 2009
… landscapes, some with people, but no one in them appears to be sick. Some of the prints, which date from 2003 to 2007, include a looped and crossed red…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… (prior to 1910) The settlement of Hooge Kraal was established in … Missionary Society (LMS) . In 1818, its name was changed to Pacaltsdorp in honour of the…
Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
… Most of the Unions, and this is the most important point to keep in mind, are the close preserves of the while … The majority of Trade Unions in the Cape are…
PlaceEmpangeni
… the Uthungulu district. The area around Empangeni brings to mind sugarcane plantations and hot, sticky, languid days. … stream called: 'eMpangeni'. The…
PlaceHaarlem
… Then came the small livestock farmers of African origin, to be followed by a particularly tough community of European … – all the way from the Cape through…
PlaceLoftus Versveld Stadium, Hatfield
… under old NMC legislation on 21 September 1979. Home to the Sundowns Football Club and the Blue Bulls rugby team, … set it apart as the world-class facility…
PlaceFreedom Park
… and its people would be told. Freedom Park is a memorial to honour those who sacrificed their lives to win freedom. It also celebrates and explores the…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… throughout South. Conditions of the Railways workers also to be considered. 2. International Labour Conference under the League of Nations. 3. Compensation…
EventPansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, announces her resignation
… Commission (IEC). She submitted her letter of resignation to President Jacob Zuma. She was appointed the IEC’s … people what was expected of them in the…
EventMandela smuggled out the country and appears in Addis Ababa
… under the name David Motsamayi, which allowed him to travel the region. On 11 January made a surprise … Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Mandela's…
EventPatrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, is assassinated
… for years. Lumumba was forcibly restrained on the flight to Elisabethville on 17 January 1961. On arrival, he and his associates were conducted under arrest…
EventDurban magistrate rules the death of Dr Haffejee accidental
… A Durban magistrate ruled that no one was to blame for the death of a young dentist, Dr. Hoosen … on suspicion of being a trained saboteur and of plotting to…
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… was a leader in the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914. From 1907 to 1910 de Wet served as minister of agriculture in the … of World War I, when de Wet opposed…
EventThe Johannesburg Stock Exchange is established
… Stock Exchange (JSE) is established in Johannesburg to facilitate the explosion of trade sparked by the discovery … companies with investors who needed a…
EventPower Struggle in Zulu hierarchy
… honour during the celebrations of day. Buthelezi appears to have been threatened by reports that the King was planning to replace him with a new advisor,…
Document 13 - Declaration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ad hoc committee on southern Africa on the question of South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe (The Harare Declaration) Sections 14-24
… demonstrable readiness on the part of the Pretoria regime to engage in negotiations genuinely and seriously, could create the possibility to end apartheid…
History of Muslims in South Africa: Introduction by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… South Africa: A Chronology, probably the first of its kind to be published, covers almost the entire history of Muslims … on Muslim history in South Africa…
ArchiveBantu Authorities Act, Act No 68 of 1951
… The Act was to provide for the establishment of certain Bantu authorities and to define their functions, to abolish the Natives Representative Council, to…
EventSA Prime Minister speaks before the British Parliament
… Africans, Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts started to redirect his energy to world peace. In a somewhat moving speech to the British Parliament he called…
EventThe South African Military History Society is established
… following an appeal by Commandant-General H.B. Klopper to all South Africans to take an interest in South Africa's military history. The object of the…
EventANC government tension continues
… ANC's Deputy President Nelson Mandela issued warnings to the government to take strong measures against the perpetrators of the … African Police Force (SAPF)…