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EventSir Benjamin D’Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… and the Mfengu were feeling vulnerable without land to call their own. As a result, many Mfengu looked to Ayliff as their source of political patronage (see…
EventThe consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free
… Enshrined in the South African Bill of rights, is the right to free access to information. In this spirit, the Independent … Authority of South Africa…
EventBeginning of the Anglo-Zulu War, 10 January 1879
… Sir Bartle Frere was appointed British high commissioner to South Africa in 1879 to realise the policy of confederation (policy to bring the various British…
EventScores of people, including a Chief, are killed in Lari, Kenya, following an attack by Mau Mau freedom fighters
… On 26 March 1953, close to 100 people were killed and scores of others injured at … treating his own people as an indication of his loyalty to the British…
EventMargaret Rheeder is hung in Pretoria
… in Pretoria. On the morning of 27 April 1957 Rheeder went to a pharmacy in Kempston Road, Port Elizabeth to buy a bottle of Antexit ant-killer. Before she…
EventWomen’s Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein
… attended by 20 000 people from all over the country, was to commemorate 26 251 women and children who died during the … Mr M.T. Steyn, who was absent from…
PlaceSt Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Odendal Street, Germiston
… first called “St. Andrew’s”. The name fluctuated from one to the other for many years until it was finally settled as: … found which officially record the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… gratitude as well as appreciate the honour of being asked to address a brief word to such a conference. Some appropriate exhortation will … be forthcoming…
PlaceArtillery Road Barracks at the H.Q. of South African Defence
… 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…
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… In the late 15th Century the Portuguese sent out settlers to the island's to grow sugar. This included many convicts and Jewish … by social instability of…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
… – formed only for a particular purpose; (Latin) literally, to this Afrikaner Broederbond - a secretive, all-male … provocateur, pl. agents provocateur – a…
PlaceThe Space
… 1970 Brian Astbury, a Professional Photographer, was hired to take rehearsal photos of Athol Fugard , Yvonne Bryceland , … He was inspired by the work they…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… August 19, 1981, a racist judge in Pretoria sentenced to death three ANC militants - Anthony Tsotsobe, David Moise … convicting them on charges arising from…
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
… progress," Goldblatt jokes. "Before, crime was restricted to the coloured neighbourhoods, because the police protected … "Photography helps me overcome the…
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… Last week fighter aircraft flying in formation to look like the figure "100" swooped down The Mall and over Buckingham Palace to mark the centenary of the…
ArchiveANC Statement on the death of Ray Alexander Simons, African National Congress, 12 September 2004
… an early age, and remained committed throughout her life to the liberation of the South African people from all forms … of oppression. The ANC joins all…
PlaceSun City, Rustenburg
… Lake, as well as Hotels and self-catering Chalets. Home to the Valley of Waves and sprawled along the border of the … by the inspired Architecture and…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Pretoria East
… NG Kerk Pretoria Oos is next to Loftus Versfeld Stadium and is located in City of Tshwane … at the southern tip of Africa on 6 April 1652. He had to find a…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Bosman Street, Pretoria
… Church Square used to house the Dutch Reformed Church building in Pretoria, with … Anglo-Boer War the Dutch Reformed Church sold the square to the town…
PlaceMadagascar
… Madagascar is referred to as: 'the big red island'. Madagascar is the largest … years and many of its plants and animals are unique to the Island. The…
PlaceDarlington Dam- Lake Mentz
… attack by the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War , was said to have started Darlington Farm in the Jansenville district. … when it was established in 1922. This…
ArchiveThe All-African Convention: The Awakening of The People by I.B. Tabata
… the Black masses of South Africa and serve as a guide to action. There is in existence a considerable body of … liberatory movement in South Africa from the…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
… born in Pomeroy in rural KwaZulu Natal in 1909, and went to Gordon Memorial Mission School. At the school, Linda was exposed to different music genres…
Artscape: Legacy Exhibition
… inspiration is spurred by his many years as a pastor to the exiled and destitute in the inner-city of Pretoria. It … Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Aung San Suu Kyi…
PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
… Trade. Two years later, in April 1654, after struggling to get the fledging Settlement going, Jan Van Riebeeck once again wrote to the Heeren XVII, asking…
PlacePilanesberg Game Reserve
… Pilanesberg National Park offers the perfect opportunity to leave the City lights behind, and discover another World. … environment. A wide variety of…
ArchivePromotion of Bantu Self-governing Act, Act No 46 of 1959
… The Act was to provide for the gradual development of self-governing … of the Union and the said national units in regard to matters affecting the interests…
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… learning both Arabic and French although French would come to be her enemy tongue in the beginning of her writing career (De la Baume). She proved to be a…
PlaceEshowe, Northern Kwa-Zulu Natal
… of high quality sugar and makes an important contribution to employment, particularly in rural areas, to sustainable development and to the national economy…
PlaceStanger, now officially known as KwaDukuza
… KwaDukuza derives its name. KwaDukuza was the name given to Shaka’s Royal Residence. Stanger is a bustling Town … Status, in 1949 and was given the…