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PlaceDefence Force HQ, Pretoria- Artillery Barracks
… Republiek by Sir Theophilus Shepstone in 1877 led to the establishment of a military camp on the present … conditions Klaas van Rijsse, an architect was…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
… by many difficulties, so that it has taken far longer to bring it to fruition than initially expected. This makes me all the … and for the patience and loyal…
Declaration by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… Declaration We the delegates to this the 52nd National Conference of the African National … democratic order we now enjoy. The ANC wishes once more to…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… Chief Jonathan was one of the first Black African leaders to sup with Vorster, South Africa's then Prime Minister. … in South Africa as miners. Their limited…
PlaceSouth Africa
… and therefore no universal symbolism should be attached to any of the colours. The central design of the flag, … in a 'V' form and flowing into a single…
Chaskalson was a pillar of strength in my battle against HIV/Aids by Justice Edwin Cameron - Constitutional Court, 9 December 2012
… Arthur Chaskalson was a formidable man. He could be severe. To those he opposed, he could be intimidating. But he also … closest with him also saw it. I did…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Kies "The Background of Segregation", Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943 Document 5 - … Number One [1943] Document 6 - Report…
PlaceBo-tuin, Hof Street, Gardens.
… as slave quarters and stables placed at right angles to it, and a high garden wall enclosing its courtyard, was … by the farm manager.Known as The Grove, it…
EventProtest against pass laws in Langa
… Blacks assembled in the Langa township outside Cape Town to protest against new pass laws. Delivering a fiery speech to the crowd Dora Tamana, a member of…
EventAbortion legislation is passed
… Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act. The law allows women to terminate pregnancies on request within the first twelve … specified circumstances within the…
EventZimbabwean politician and trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai is born
… then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe . Tsvangirai later grew to oppose Mugabe’s policies and broke away from ZANU-PF to form his own party, the Movement for…
EventChad gains its independence
… The French received considerable resistance in the 1920s to their plan to make Chad a French protectorate – under the command of … Africa. The fight for…
PlaceMaitland
… had a population of 2,035. By 1904, this number had risen to 5,071. Maitland is situated in the middle of a number of … transport networks , connecting Cape…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria. Mahlangu left the country to join the ANC's military wing in exile in October 1976 … military training in Angola and…
EventLuthuli Combat Detachment crosses the Zambezi
… until late 1968. Fearing possible leakage of information to the Rhodesian and South African Forces, the area where the crossing was to take place was kept…
EventThe African National Congress is found guilty
… According to a report published by The Star on this date , the report … and made up of independent members not connected to the ANC. The Motsuenyane…
EventGoldstone Commission investigate the Bisho Massacre
… Oupa Gqozo, military ruler of Ciskei, for refusing to give permission to mass demonstrations, which promised to be peaceful. It also condemned the actions of…
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
… Donald "Dolan" Acheson is purported to have been deported from South Africa on the 31 March 1991, … previously served with the Rhodesian Army, was connected…
EventThe first British Settlers arrive in Algoa Bay
… border of the Cape Colony, later called British Kaffraria, to strengthen the border against incursions by hostile Xhosa societies. Their first homes, tents…
EventBotha found Guilty
… Botha guilty of contempt for repeatedly ignoring subpoenas to testify in public before the country's Truth and … effect if he defied another TRC subpoena…
EventTrevor Manuel unveils GEAR
… and Redistribution (GEAR), which committed the government to tighter fiscal policy and the steady liberalisation of … aiming at creating 400 000 jobs by the…
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… the franchise question very contentious. Natal, who feared to lose its English identity in a predominantly Afrikaner … but virtually all politically…
EventKenyan mediates in SA election deadlock
… Kenyan Professor Washington J. Okumu urged Chief Buthelezi to participate in the forthcoming general election. Inkatha … F.W. de Klerk , Nelson Mandela and…
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
… such a reputation that he became the first South African to be awarded a travel grant from the Institute of … in 1957, finally settling in Ibiza in 1959…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… Emergency having been declared in June of the same year. To counter the escalating international condemnation that was … altogether, Black men and women were…
PlaceTunisia
… Tunisia is bounded by Algeria to the west and southwest, by Libya to the southeast, and by the Mediterranean Sea to the east and north. Used as a Roman, Arab…
Lekota and George resign ahead of disciplinary hearings, 3 November 2008
… regional chairperson Mluleki George were submitted to the ANC shortly before they were due to appear before the ANC`s National Disciplinary Committee (NDC)…
SABC’s Matthews was Motsoeneng’s willing enforcer-in-chief: FJT (TMG Digital), 28 June 2016
… that Matthews is as much culpable for allowing himself to have been part of in the first place‚ at the behest of … reinstatement.” SABC staff write letter of…
ArchiveAddress at 6th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, by Nelson Mandela, 12 July 2008, Kliptown Soweto
… gentlemen, We have for years remarked about people coming to such events primarily to see what an old man looks like. To see a ninety-year-old in real life…
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… Kirkwood, in the heart of the Sundays River Valley, close to the town of Addo and the Northern regions of the Addo … some 30 000 attendees. The festival’s…