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PlaceMagwa Waterfall, Lusikisiki-Port St. Johns
… Wild Coast that is accessible, (others entail such effort to reach that they're seldom seen by any but the most … smaller scale, obviously, the Magwa falls…
PlaceDjibouti
… volcanic formations and Gulf of Aden beaches. It's home to one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world, the … chimney like mineral formations. It…
Class Struggle
… the factories, and the working class who sell their labour to the factory owners. The working class is exploited by the … as the only way they can generate…
The United Nations adopts resolution 1375 (XIV) on Apartheid
… General Assembly made four key declarations: Opposition to racial discrimination anywhere in the world A call for all Member States to uphold their Charter…
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
… Walter Sisulu joined the ANC in 1940. He was elected to the executive committee of the ANC Youth League in 1944 … Repressive laws were soon introduced with a…
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, issues a Unilateral Declaration of Independence
… toward de-colonisation, British authorities were prepared to permit Rhodesian independence, but only on the basis of … independence from Britain in 1965. …
EventAbram Fischer is struck off the roll of advocates
… Act. At the start of the trial he was granted bail to enable him to leave the country and argue a case in England, undertaking to return. Upon his return, he…
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… reports on various military campaigns. This led Churchill to work as a war correspondent for The Morning Post, in which he was to cover the occurrences of…
EventInterim report into the allegations of a “Third Force” by the Goldstone Commission is published
… country ungovernable. This emanated from evidence given to the commission by a senior police officer named as Q. The … the manufacture, purchase, smuggling…
EventNearly 200 People are killed in the Bulhoek massacre in the Eastern Cape
… land they were squatting on and warned that if they failed to comply, their leader would be arrested and their homes … guns of an 800-strong police force…
PlacePioneer Museum, Silverton Pretoria
… and threshing floor, farming implements intact. A visit to the three hectare area to the Museum gives one a real sense of early farming Culture … of David…
Funeral of Sean MacBride: Oliver Tambo, 05 May 1988
… the struggle for independence of his own people. From 1973 to 1976, as United Nations Commissioner, he distinguished … ... salutes with pride the…
PlaceAlgoa Bay, East Coast of Cape of Good Hope
… in 1488, by Bartolomeu Dias when he was the first European to land there. He planted a wooden cross on a small Island … It was then renamed Bahia da Lagoa,…
PlaceFirst & Second River Temple's
… / 1906. Another Temple was built on the same site, but had to make way for a new freeway that was being built in Durban … Umbilo Shree Ambalavaanar Alayam…
Giyani, Polokwane
… Park, even if it is a further 200 kilometres or so to reach the Phalaborwa Gate. It is hot here, reaching 36 degrees in summer and managing to remain at…
PlaceGreat Brak Rivier
… who, together with his wife and four children, emigrated to the Cape in 1859. They landed at Mossel Bay following a … 1864 he lost the tender for the toll…
PlaceLiberia
… Americans founded the American Colonization Society (ACS) to deal with the “problem” of the growing number of free … at that time. In 1818 the Society sent…
“No Room for Racialism at Natal University”: Statement, June 1956
… that the African was “totalitarian at heart and used to an ideology of tyranny” and that his history under such … President of the Natal Indian Congress, in…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… overseas were cautiously planned by communists linked to the South African Communist Party (SACP) and leftists in … Soviet Union, suggesting that it was…
EventRoman Catholic Bishop Augustin Misago, cleared of genocide charges
… Tutsi and sympathetic Hutu dead. The main charges related to the fact that the Bishop, refused to offer aid to those in need, sending 30 school children to…
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… of the mines left were live mines and 13 000 were retained to be used for training in demining. Anti personnel mines are mine explosives designed to injure…
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… August 1909 in Cape Town. Penn later moved with his family to Johannesburg, where he attended Parktown High School and … marrying Diana Malkin in 1934, Penn…
EventTshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody
… in the area. The reaction of Vendaland’s security police to the attack was brutal. Having failed to apprehend the cadres behind the attack, police concluded …
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… is a Settlement 43 km North-East of Durban, on the route to Umhlali-Tongaat. The Area of Compensation got its name … that in September “Europeans from…
PlaceBeau Soleil Music Centre, Salisbury Road, Kenilworth
… 15th April 1983 by the Western Cape Education Department to meet the needs of specialised instrumental music tuition … Town area. It was the first Music…
PlaceGeneral Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
… Home to General Jan Smuts for over 40 years, Doornkloof in Irene, … been preserved for future generations as a living memorial to the man known to everyone…
PlaceEllis Park
… the land for the stadium available. The stadium is home to Johannesburg's rugby team, the Highveld Lions, and … democratically elected president, Nelson…
PlaceNqamakwe
… Mfacane wars further north, they had relatively few links to their former rural tribal economy and, at a relatively … education in the colonial economy they…
ArchiveZuma's rape accuser questioned (BBC News), 07 March 2006
… is being cross-examined in court. The judge has agreed to the defence's request to admit questions about the complainant's personal history. … Zuma about…
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… From 1976 to 1996, political violence in KwaZulu Natal led to 11 700 deaths and the displacement of up to 500 000 people. The organization and savagery of…