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EventChoirmaster, educator and singer Mary Eveline Fincken is born
… at the South African College of Music in Cape Town. On her death in 1955 she left her collection of music to the …
EventSA is readmitted to the IOC
… South Africa was readmitted to the Olympic games on condition that it complied within thirty days to terms …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratic President
… democratic President at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 10 May 1994.. He replaced the outgoing National Party …
EventSouth Africa is banned from competing in the Davis Cup, because of its Apartheid policy in sport.
… was expelled from many international sporting bodies. On 23 March, 1970, South Africa was banned from the Davis Cup …
EventParamount Chief, Botha Sigcau is appointed the first President of Transkei
… became the first Homeland to gain independence in 1976. On 30 December 1987, Major General Bantu Holomisa, commander …
EventThe name of the military base, Voortrekkerhoogte is officially changed to Thaba Tshwane
… since 1939. , It was officially renamed on 19 May 1998, marking its third name change. The military … BY THE MINISTER OF DEFENCE, THE Hon. MR JOE MODISE, ON…
EventThe Labour Party (LP) adopts a resolution to represent the Coloured community
… even though the organisation rejected the racial premises on which the constitutional proposals were based. This …
African Statistics Day
… The African Statistics Day (ASD) is celebrated every year on the 18th of November. This event was initiated in 1990 by …
Event300,000 refugees in camps near the Nigerian border are facing starvation
… government. This is after the outbreak of the Biafra War on 6 July 1967, when the easterners tried to force the west …
Address by President of the Republic Commander-in-Chief of SANDF and Patron-in-Chief of Military Veterans at the funeral of Major General (retired) Mongameli Johnson Tshali (aka Lennox Lagu), Thaba Tshwane, 17 September 2011
… the Diplomatic Corps Fellow mourners, Ladies and Gentlemen On the 7th of September 2011, Major General (retired) … Johnson Tshali, also known as Lennox Lagu,…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
… course, by the people who are in South Africa. The attacks on neighbouring countries simply because of ANC presence … We must expect that as long as…
Address to the Swedish Parliament Stockholm, 13 March 1990
… settlement. Whether this happens and how soon, will depend on what the Pretoria regime does. As yet, it has not even … convinced that the Harare and United…
Document 73 - Letter from The Spark to M.S. Njisane, Flagstaff, 15 September 1938
… year out the Magistrates and the Bhunga have been harping on this question and each year with greater intensity than … sufficient land to plough and to graze…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… in the Bill of Rights in our democratic constitution. On the Bantu Education Act, described by Chief Luthuli as a … to education in the state schools. While…
For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated February 23, 1934.
… always succeed in bringing them to my point of view, e.g. on the question of poor whites. The Independent African … Up to now I have met two groups of his…
South African cricketers walk out in protest against apartheid after just one ball is bowled by Arunabha Sengupta, 3 April 2013
… African cricketers themselves staged a unique protest. On April 3, 1971, Currie Cup champions Transvaal met The Rest … and further subscribe to merit being…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Introduction
… this turning point the political climate was balanced on a knife’s edge. On 10 April 1993 the national process of reconciliation came … quickly herded…
PlaceKwaZulu-Natal Literary Trails (under Heritage Routes)
… Durban became the first city in South Africa and on the African continent to become a Unesco World City of … scene. Durban is now the first Unesco City of…
ArchiveHugh Masekela - what I'm thinking about ... a crisis for African culture (The Guardian)12 March 2013
… the misunderstanding of the aims of education, and later on through advertising, Africans were manipulated into … is very expensive, but you don't have to…
Document 39 - Statement by S. P. Bunting, October 1931
… already I have worked hard as a rank-and-filer, especially on the founding of a miners' union, and should have been … or intimidated, but to assert…
EventYouth has been burnt to death in Mahwelereng Township
… On 6 June 1986, Mr Ronnie Molifi was stabbed and burnt to …
PlaceAbaxab, a Railway Siding in the Northern Cape
… 'Rooilyf', a railway siding 17 km North of Groblershoop, on the way to Sishen. The name means 'red body'. Definition: …
ArchiveClosing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4 December 1980.
… Johannesburg, 29 November to 4 December 1980. Spoke on education within the framework of the conference theme: …
ArchiveWhose Reality Mr. Botha?
… A2 red and black on white, litho; maps of SA with bars; text: Whose reality Mr …
Liberation
… founded in Johannesburg as a magazine of quality, focusing on issues of concern to Blacks and non-establishment Whites …
ArchiveA survey of race relations in South Africa: 1951-1952
… relations in South Africa in 1952 and includes chapters on: The functioning of South Africa's sovereign Parliament; …
Namibia resource package
… cape including contents, 1 General overview profile on Namibia, 2 Military rule history of military conflict, 3 …
ArchiveNamibia resource package
… cape including contents, 1 General overview profile on Namibia, 2 Military rule history of military conflict, 3 …
PlaceMagistrates Court, Main Road, Simonstown
… one of his first visitors after his arrival in Simons Town on 21 May 1776. Towards the end of the 18th century it was …
PlaceRust-en-Vrede, Wellington Road, Durbanville
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 26 October 1984. …