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Toast Remarks of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the State Banquet in honour of the President of the Republic of Botswana, His Excellency, Festus Mogae, Cape Town, 25 October 2005
… of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the State Banquet in honour of the President of the Republic of Botswana, His …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education
… "The most talked-about turning point in South African history is the 1994 transfer of political power from the National Party (NP) … edge..." Contents…
ArticleThe San
… The San, the first people in South Africa The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. The San were also … (DF Bleek: 1956). South…
EventBafana Bafana legend Philimon Raul Masinga dies
… Bafana striker Philimon Masinga died at 49 years old in a Johannesburg hospital after a long battle with cancer. Masinga was born on 28 June 1969 in…
JANAM People’s Theatre Group Tour!
… seeks to raise topical issues and engage participants in critical debate towards action for change. Street theatre … a dynamic example of popular pedagogy…
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… Banda was the leader of Nyasaland which became Malawi in in 1964, with him as its president. Banda was born in Kasungu … presidency in 1993 when a referendum…
EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
… activity officially limited to government-appointed bodies in the homelands, young people sought alternative means to … PAC and ANC respectively. The armed…
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… 5 million. The lawsuit was sparked by newspaper reports in which former police captain Dirk Coetzee alleged that … on anti-apartheid activists. Justice…
Document 58 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 18 February 1936
… International Movement would be enormously strengthened in this country if we combined our efforts. There can be no doubt that the original split in our…
EventS.P. Botha, Minister of Water Affairs, proposes new schemes to ease the Western Cape's water supply problem
… have to be tackled long before the end of this century in order to store the water, distribute and use it more … drought struck the Central Karoo town of…
Address at the University of The State of Bahia Brazil, 14 December 2000
… his views as ordained truths and deemed himself to be in sole and exclusive possession of the ultimate truth, … logical fantasy... buffoonery pretending to…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… photography business - Industrial Photography (Pty) Ltd - in Cape Town . Photographer, Ernest Cole , starts his career … in Europe. He returned to South…
Maqubela and Dyandyi are sentenced for necklacing
… Maqubela and Neliswa Nohnuhna Dyantyi Busika, accused in a necklace trial in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape, and found guilty of public … human rights abuses that…
EventMandela reshuffles the cabinet
… Keys from the private sector when he joined the government in 1994. He was replaced by Trevor Manuel who was then the …
EventNP demands apology from TRC
… In a letter to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), … ordered the elimination of state opponents. De Klerk, in his earlier applications to the TRC,…
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… Fifty people were killed over three days in battles between Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) supporters in Natal, South Africa,…
Freedom Part to Host Ken Oosterbroek Legacy Exhibition
… and João Silva documented the bloody chaos that took place in South African townships in the early 1990s. In memory of Oosterbroek, who was … supporters of…
References and links: Local History
… Carolina Press. McMahan E. M. (ed), Rogers K. M. (ed) 1994. Interactive Oral History Interviewing. New Jersey: … Kruger's Pretoria: Buildings and…
EventPretoria is proposed as the new capital of ZAR
… Transvaal, was transferred from Potchefstroom to Pretoria in 1860. With the city becoming the capital, it marked the … capital when the Union of South Africa…
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
… the South African government conceded another legal defeat in its attempts to transfer the KaNgwane 'homeland' to … dissolving the Legislative Assembly of…
Media briefing statement by ANC National Chairperson, Comrade Baleka Mbete, following the occasion of the Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence Day Celebrations
… for our delegation that reminded us of our own 27 April 1994 - Freedom Day - and 10 May 1994 when Comrade Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first … as…
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… Archbishop Desmond Tutu, began its first formal hearings in East London City Hall. The South African TRC was set up by … of National Unity (the democratic…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… photography we must consider the historical moment in which resistance photography in South Africa came into … Repression in South Africa (Cape Town: Phillip…
PlaceSarepta
… river Rhine) was one of the largest Missionary Societies in Germany. Formed from smaller Missions founded as far back … a Century, changing over to the…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… is based on an essay from Kees van der Waal’s chapter in “Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory” The term ‘Bantu has gone through various shifts in…
EventThree AWB members shot and killed during the invasion of Bophuthatswana
… On 11 March 1994 hundreds of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging … members drove into Bophuthatswana, a Bantustan homeland in the north western region of South…
EventInkatha Freedom Party boycotts parliament
… (IFP) announced the suspension of its active participation in both chambers of parliament and in the constitution-making process. IFP leader Chief Gatsha ……
ArticleIndian South Africans
… - The 160th anniversary of the arrival of Indian workers in South Africa The feature on Indian South Africans forms … indentured labourers and the birth of…
PlaceDwarsvlei Farm, Karoo
… but it is believed the Farm 'Dwarsvlei', was established in the middle of the 19th Century. The first Homestead, has … was born on the 23rd April 1857 on the…
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for National Convention
… Buthelezi, called for a National Convention of all races in South Africa to make a decision on the country's future … United Party (UP) and the Progressive…