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EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
… was born in As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents relocated to South Africa in 1923…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note
… repression in the 1960's, she and her family were forced to flee the country. England became her temporary home. In exile she continued to contribute to many…
PlaceIziko Museum's, Cape Town
… centre of the home where families would get together to share their stories, just as Iziko is sharing the story of … Iziko Museums of Cape Town is the…
PlaceCastle of Good Hope, Castle Street- Cape Town
… more substantial building further east that would be able to resist any attack from the sea. It followed a standard … with a bastion at each corner, a shape…
PlaceGoodman Gallery
… Johannesburg . The Goodman Gallery has been instrumental to the development and professionalisation of how commercial … Battiss , Cecil Skotnes and Edoardo…
PlaceDriekopseiland: Rock engravings
… shapes. Archaeologists have found it difficult to date the engravings, although there is a regional pattern … and repetitive nature of the engravings has…
PlaceClifton and Camps Bay Beaches, Cape Town
… is also most popular of the four spots for Ocean dips due to the Calm Waters and Lifeguards. This Atlantic Ocean alcove … sand! 'Sundowner Picnics' are…
85. Charter for Change, 1981
… for Change, declare for all South Africans and the world to know that the struggles of the past 25 years have convinced us that the only viable alternative…
EventThe Comoros declared an Independent State
… explorer and cartographer Diego Ribero first claimed to have discovered The Comoros in 1505, the islands became a … reach and colonized Grande Comoros,…
ArchiveAfrican Communist, 1959 - 1994
… of Sharpeville and Langa in 1960. The delay had been due to fears amongst some in the SACP leadership that a premature … structured system of propagating…
PlaceBensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg
… mayor of Johannesburg and a man who has devoted himself to the promotion of the art and science of photography in this country. It was donated to the city in…
PlaceOld Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage
… opening of the railway from Port Elizabeth, it is reputed to be one of the oldest Railway Stations in South Africa. At … "a residence, waiting room and tea…
EventThe South African Government passes the Group Areas Act
… citizens of South Africa on a racial basis. This was done to foster White superiority and to entrench the minority White regime at the expense of the ……
EventGovernment admits responsibility for Mdluli’s death
… member, Joseph Mdluli (50), on 19 March 1976 and agreed to pay damages to his family. A claim for loss of support by Mdluli's widow … the amount of R28 616…
EventThe Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organisation, plus Operating Agreement, is adopted in London.
… 1966, the IMO's Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) began to investigate the requirements for a satellite systems entirely devoted to maritime purposes. In 1973,…
EventThe first indications of protest over Afrikaans in Soweto schools
… of the student uprising of 1976 can be traced in part to the cutbacks by the Apartheid government on education for … The result was that Black teachers now…
EventWinnie Mandela released from banning order and house arrest
… African National Congress (ANC), these women leaders tried to continue their work through the Federation of South … Madikizela-Mandela used her freedom from…
EventThirteen residents of Mofolo die in IFP attack
… found that the police were informed of the IFP's decision to hold a rally in Jabulani Stadium as well as fears of residents in Soweto relating to the rally…
EventSouth African Parliament repeals The Separate Amenities Act of 1953
… facilities, including buildings, and transport, in order to limit contact between the different races in South Africa. … that the facilities for different…
EventMayor of Welkom, in the Free State, is tarred and feathered
… by the eventuality of a regime change. Reactions to the perceived changes were often quite violent. This was … at a multi-racial wheelchair marathon event…
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… that 454 out of a total of over 900 schools were going to be closed until 1 October 1985, on the grounds that the … no longer guarantee the safety of staff…
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
… Director of Public Prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, on to rival newspaper City Press. The story ran by City Press … under chairmanship of Judge Hefer was…
EventSouth African Committee investigates the Jameson Raid report
… The Jameson Raid of 1895 did tremendous harm to the relationship between the Boer Republics and the … as they viewed it as confirmation that Britain sought…
PlaceFort Cunynghame
… who was in its command. Such offices were deemed to be necessary for "police purposes and for political … ... and trained were put in charge. These men…
EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
… in May 1801, when a weekly coach service from Cape Town to Simon's Town was announced. Many years later in September … the foot of Adderley Street and out…
EventParliament opens with the debate of no confidence on Government
… for the national security of the country by failing "to take the public into its confidence, and to motivate it adequately in regard to its actions and…
PlaceCabo Verde
… Cape Verde (or Cabo Verde as the nation now prefers to be called) is located on an archipelago in the Atlantic … island chain were Portuguese explorers who…
Document 53 - Remarks of Comrade Dubois”, Internal Bulletin of the International Communist League (B-L), no. 2, May 1935
… South Africa, revolves around the essential question: how to weaken the domination of British imperialism in South Africa? The slogan, "Land to the Natives,"…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… from Whites . Blacks were moved away from Johannesburg, to an Area separated from White Suburbs by a so-called cordon … of 6. - 187 696 people, teenagers …