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EventBafana Bafana loses to Gabon at Odi Stadium
… Following a win over Botswana national team in a Cosafa Castle Cup earlier, Bafana Bafana coach Trott … Most of the foreign-based players who were missing in…
PlaceThe SAS Somerset Museum
… during World War II and is the only ship of its kind still in existence. The ship was previously called Ship No 280, since 15 April 1941, when it was built…
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… Nakedi Mathews Phosa, former premier of Mpumalanga (1994-1999), Afrikaans poet and lawyer was born in Mbombela Township in Nelspruit. Phosa was an African…
ArticlePoverty and development
… One of the most important issues for women in South Africa has always been that of poverty. During the … under extremely trying conditions. Women predominate…
Congress of the People - I was there
… liberation of their country from the yoke of apartheid. In the Freedom Charter they set out the details of the kind … the country comprising the African…
Statement by Reverend Gabriel Seteloane at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in Atlanta to pay tribute to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 50th anniversary of his birth, 16 January 1979
… I stand here not as a diplomat, I am not schooled in that line; but I do stand here as a man who shares a … Jr. - a Minister of the Word of God; schooled…
Event1300 Volkswagen workers dismissed for unprocedural strike against NUMSA leadership
… workers were dismissed by Volkswagen on 3 February 2000 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, for not returning to work after … it was possibly the first major example…
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… Roelf Meyer paved the way for fully democratic elections in 1994, in the manner they negotiated for a peaceful political …
EventANC and government to surge ahead with reforms
… In spite of Inkatha's rejection of the Convention for a … a way for a multiparty democratic election to be held in April 1994. Inkatha had initially…
EventMandela pays his first state visit to Mozambique
… After the 1994 national elections, President Nelson Mandela paid his … counterpart Joaquim Chissano. The meeting resulted in the two countries entering into…
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
… Qwaqwa was one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the apartheid government. It … the San language meaning ‘whiter than white’ which was in…
EventF. W. de Klerk is implicated
… the African National Congress (ANC) between 1990 and the 1994 election in a bid to destabilise the organisation. Van der Merwe … to carry out these…
EventHendrik Jacobus Coetsee is born
… Jacobus "Kobie" Coetsee, former minister of justice in the government of F.W De Klerk, was born in Ladybrand, Orange Free State. Both his parents were ……
EventThe first legal photograph of Nelson Mandela released.
… National Congress and a famous black political prisoner in South Africa. In 1964 Mandela was convicted of sabotage in the Rivonia … Trial and sentenced to…
EventBafana Bafana play 2-2 draw with Cameroon
… up against one of the African soccer giants, Cameroon, in three international friendlies. The final match between those two countries was played in the…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of Representatives of the parties and movements participating in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the “Great October Socialist Revolution”, Moscow, 4-5 November 1987
… Representatives of the parties and movements participating in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the “Great …
”Bridging the Gap Between White and Black in South Africa”. Address by Dr. A. B. Xuma at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extracts]
… ”Bridging the Gap Between White and Black in South Africa”. Address by Dr. A. B. Xuma at the Conference …
Testimony of the Rev. Samuel Jacobus Brander, the Rev. Joshua Mphothleng Mphela, and Stephen Nguato of the Ethiopian Catholic Church in Zion, before the South African Native Affairs Commission, October 4, 1904 [Extracts]
… (Published in Minutes of Evidence, South African Native Affairs … and Stephen Nguato of the Ethiopian Catholic Church in Zion, before the South African…
Toast Remarks of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Official Dinner in Honour of HE Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, Tuynhuys, Cape Town, 14 March 2006
… of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Official Dinner in Honour of HE Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United …
Toast Remarks by the President of South Africa, T Mbeki, at the Official Banquet in Honour of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria: Presidential Guest House, Pretoria, 5 October 2004
… of South Africa, T Mbeki, at the Official Banquet in Honour of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of the People’s …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
… World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million … as how the Great Depression and the…
EventCrime statistics released
… confirm South Africa's status as the most violent country in the world excluding war zones. The figures reveal that 10 161 people were murdered in the first…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… Gertrude Shope was born in Johannesburg, but grew up in Zimbabwe. She was trained as a teacher and went on to … Internal Leadership Corps Task Force from…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… In 1950, the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful … Organisations Act and the Suppression of Communism Act. In March 1950, the African National…
PlaceCape St Francis, Western Cape Peninsula
… Manuel Perestrelo visited Cape St Francis in 1575 and named it ' Bahia de Sao Francisco '. Work on the lighthouse on Seal Point, at Cape St Francis, began in…
EventDeath in detention of Imam Haron
… Imam Haron was born on the 8th February 1924 in Claremont, Cape Town. He was influenced by the various progressive political trends in South Africa and…
Insurrections: The Storming
… Sitas, Sumangala Damodaran, Sazi Dlamini and Neo Muyanga in 2011, to open a conversation between the imaginations of … and to address the inadequacy of…
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… Sitas, Sumangala Damodaran, Sazi Dlamini and Neo Muyanga in 2011, to open a conversation between the imaginations of … and to address the inadequacy of…
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement of the President of the ANC, Thabo Mbeki, Kempton Park, 27 September 2002
… the possibility to engage the matters on our agenda in an informed manner. We should also engage these issues … the absolute disaster and hopeless misery we…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… It was first expressed by a Xhosa missionary, Tiyo Siga, in the 19th century. During the 1950's, the apartheid … from the PAC. Increased activity after…