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Statement by Oliver Tambo on South African Raid on Matola, 05 February 1981
… January 30, 1981, South African troops attacked and killed a number of ANC refugees in Matola, Mozambique. The following is from an address by Mr. Tambo to…
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… As a matter of crude shorthand, the South African photographer … of Goldblatt’s models when he was starting out more than a half century ago, the comparison…
SABC CEO Jimi Matthews quits: ‘What’s happening at the SABC is wrong' (Tmg Digital), 27 June 2016
… Matthews tweeted a picture of his resignation letter to SABC board chair Professor Mbulayeni Maghuve on Monday … affidavit on behalf of the SABC in its…
PlaceEritrea
… Eritrea is a country in the Horn of Africa located on the Red Sea. A fact reflected in its name, which is an Italianized version … route that such powers as…
PlaceWynberg Park, Southern Suburbs
… Every Summer, an array of colourful Hydrangeas blossom to create a carpet of colour. In the 1890s, the land for what was then … municipal councillor William…
PlaceRailway Station, Muizenberg
… This impressive building surmounted by a Clock Tower was built in 1912-13 and was officially opened … of Railways & Harbours, Mr Henry Burton. It was…
PlaceOld Town House, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… and sophistication, so then its management committee began to require a meeting place to discuss the affairs of the Burgher … when ruinous fires had already…
PlaceAlbert Jackson School, Port Elizabeth
… Declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 4 January … The school's Founders Day is held on 8 September each year to coincide with the laying…
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… 1974 in Springs, Transvaal. Her parents later moved to the Natal South Coast. She attended Doon Heights Primary … she later earned her Degree in Psychology…
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… Association (SAFA) was founded on 8 December 1991 after a long period of racial segregation. Mluleki George was elected to serve as the interim chairman for…
EventBomb meant for Kangaroo Court judge, May Ledwaba kills sleeping William Ledwaba
… William Ledwaba (16) was killed during a bomb attack on his home in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. In … The fourth applicant, Jan Hattingh Cronje had suffered a…
EventCharles Darwin and the HMS Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands
… the people think about the world in which they live.On a mission to survey the South American coast, the Beagle reached San … the inhabitants of the…
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… During the Apartheid regime, Eugene de Kock was a colonel in the South African Police force. He acted as the … either executing anti-apartheid activists or…
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… English at the Government College Umuahia. He took up a post as a Civil Administrator during the Nigerian Civil War and wrote … he was dismissed for his…
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) attacks a Namibian refugee camp in Cassinga, Angola
… the South African air force flew over Cassinga, allegedly a Namibian refugee camp in Southern Angola. It was the South … Force’s (SADF) largest airborne…
Introduction
… in various parts of South Africa, were channelled into a concerted movement which aimed at eradicating the various … way in which satyagraha campaign…
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
… It all began as a peaceful protest march, but ended with violence, tears, blood and death of a 13 year old boy, Hector Peterson. The Soweto uprising began ……
ArchiveThe Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018
… Region, 6 December 2014 © the artist Except perhaps for a thread of elegance that runs through most of her work, not … Region, 9 January 2015 © the artist…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… Square. However, not long afterwards they were obliged to look for an alternative venue, presumably because the … the congregation's dire financial situation…
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… were prevalent Apartheid was declared by United Nations as a crime against humanity, and therefore the struggle against Apartheid became a universal struggle…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… of complications following heart surgery on Wednesday, was a quiet South African, but one who thought and acted with … This was clear in his visionary,…
EventPolice found burnt body near KTC squatter camp, Cape Town
… the South African police services found the burnt body of a man near the KTC squatter camp in Nyanga East. A Police spokesman reported that he was not the…
ArchiveAddress at 46664 Concert, by Nelson Mandela, 27 June 2008, London United Kingdom
… Friends, 20 years ago London hosted a historic concert which called for our freedom. Your voices carried across the water to inspire us in our prison cells…
ArchiveInterview with Duma Nokwe
… (1927-1978) who was Secretary-General of the ANC from 1958 to 1969. Born to working class parents in Evaton, he studied at St. Peter's … the underground…
TRAC (Transvaal Rural Action Committee) Newsletter, 1983 - 1990
… TRAC, the Rural Action Committee, established in 1983 as a project of the Black Sash, published this Newsletter with … threat of forced removal in the…
EventThe first Indian people, 197 men, 89 women and 54 children, arrive in Natal
… The first Indian people in South Africa are reported to have arrived on board the Truro from Madras to work in the sugar cane plantation in Port-Natal. The…
EventMarie Vogts, botanist and pioneer of the Protea industry, dies in Stellenbosch
… Marie Vogts was a botanist who specialised in the Protea plant. She obtained a PhD in 1971 with a thesis on autecology and a variation of … as a lecturer at…
Zindzi Mandela is born
… and his second wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born in a year of turmoil, during which the ANC was banned and … the run from the police. In 1977 Winnie…
EventSAFCA distances itself from boycott of South African goods
… African Federation of Consumer Associations (SAFCA) issued a statement distancing itself from a body called the South African Consumers Association (SACA),…
EventGovernor-General Sir Patrick Duncan dies
… Patrick Duncan, died in Pretoria at the age of 72. He came to South Africa as Sir Alfred Milner's private secretary in March 1901 and remained in SA until…