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PlaceSomerset Road, Green Point
… before June 1846, and in 1870 its name was changed to Somerset Road, presumably to differentiate it from another Settlement also called Green … it feeds…
PlaceCasa Labia,198 Main Road, Muizenberg
… Italian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to South Africa, Prince Natale Labia. Originally called "The … the Labia family's extensive art…
PlaceSouth African National Museum of Military History
… with the visual spectacle of its displays, from planes to trains. Tours are provided for schools and military … former Prime Minister of South Africa, Jan…
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
… Street, yesterday afternoon at a mass meeting called to launch an organisation under the above title the object of which was stated to be: to mobilise and…
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… (NIC). The NIC had grown more radical in its attitude to apartheid after the Second World War and Kajee held … South African Communist Party, challenged the…
EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… (1972) laid out the purpose of BOSS. The Bureau's job was to identify any threat to the country and to collect, evaluate, correlate and interpret …
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… had served as a sergeant in 5RR, made a victim statement to the Commission in which he claimed he was abducted from Mozambique on 23 August 1982 and was…
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… was imprisoned while others skipped the country and went to live in exile. As international pressure mounted on the South African government to dismantle…
EventLouis Trichardt, Voortrekker leader, is born near Oudtshoorn 225 years ago
… the interior of South Africa. The Voortrekkers decided to leave the Cape Colony for various contested and … who, along with Hans van Rensburg, opened up the…
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… railway lines running through the township. The damage to the railway lines was estimated at approximately R2 million. More than 200,000 commuters could not…
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… of the Gold mining industry was also one of Milner's plans to further development in South Africa in the post Anglo-Boer War years. Though Milner attempted…
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… are the Dellville Wood War Memorials, which pay tribute to South African troops who died during the First World War. … important events, one being the: …
ANC National Working Committee statement following its meeting held on the 20th January 2014, 21 January 2014
… as a consequence ensuring access by millions of our people to an efficient and accessible health care system. The … stated goal of ensuring that the public…
Imbewu Yesini
… questioning the narratives and expectations assigned to us as women and men. "Imbewu Yesini" bears witness to the wounds that have come to separate us. It…
EventInternational Labour Organisation (ILO) suspends South Africa
… in Geneva. The resolution was passed by thirty-two votes to fourteen with two abstentions. The ILO objected to South Africa's policy of racial discrimination…
EventThe Herstigte Nasionale Party is established
… SA prime minister, General J.B.M. Hertzog, as reaction to a perceived easing of apartheid by the NP controlled … of Principles it is clear that the party…
EventChief Buthelezi considers registering the IFP for April 1994 election
… his Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). The elections were set to take place on April 27. This announcement emerged after … the day before. Both the IFP and the ANC…
EventAmerican Troops pull out of Somalia
… General Mohammed Farrah Aidid. American troops were sent to Somalia to provide security to humanitarian organisation operating in Somalia. The …
EventAnnexation of the Orange Free State is announced
… C R de Wet of the Orange Free State (Boer Republic) failed to defend their capital town Bloemfontein. The British … from the Free State capital was delayed…
Ikwezi
… "rising star", was a Marxist-Leninist journal devoted to proletarian socialist revolution in Southern Africa, … African revolutionaries with long histories…
ArchiveBantu Homelands Citizenship Act, Act No 26 of 1970
… Act to provide for citizenship of certain Bantu homelands and for the issue of certificates of citizenship to Bantu persons; in connection therewith to amend…
David Goldblatt: “Particulars” (1975) by The ASX Team, 16 May 2013
… “I seem to have an innate propensity which has been fed by life … seemed more pronounced than anyone else’s and I tried to hide them with my hands. After a…
PlaceRehoboth
… of the Cape Colony in 1868. They were granted permission to settle at Rehoboth by the participants of the 'Peace … 1870. Within a few years the Basters were…
PlaceOriental Plaza, Fordsburg, Johannesburg
… Indoor bazaar with shops selling bargains from clothing to home-ware to spices, plus food stalls. Established in the Johannesburg … in the nearby racially…
PlaceOnderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute
… As an academic training hospital, the OVAH is expected to facilitate top quality training for final year veterinary … modern and high tech facilities and…
PlaceWorkers’ Museum, Johannesburg
… Henry Paine, a local Architect. Henry and his team managed to give a balanced presentation without sensationalising any … South Africa’s Migrant Workforce,…
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
… launched. It was announced on 6 April 1952 that a campaign to mount a mass action against the passing of six unjust laws was going to be held, with the date…
EventPresident P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison
… he renounces violence, and violent protest, as a means to bring about change in South Africa. Mandela communicates … his daughter, Zindzi Mandela , who reads…
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… as new Prime Minister and Party leader. His elevation to the new position was boosted by the qualities that he … In a series of speeches as Prime Minister,…
EventRobert Kennedy, American politician, speaks at the University of Cape Town about the racial inequality of apartheid
… South African Students(NUSAS). In his speech he referred to a 'Day of Affirmation' or a 'celebration of liberty', and … United States and South Africa. In…