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EventSongwriter, film producer and actor Joe Mafela dies
… On 18 March 2017, legendary actor Joe Mafela passed away on his …
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… 1886 – Kilnerton opens its doors to the first leaners 1889-1902 – Kilnerton closed during the South Africa War 1903 – …
Article50 Facts on Africa
… language of Ethiopia. It is estimated that more than 18. 7 million people speak Amharic in Africa. Amharic a … At its height Great Zimbabwe could have housed…
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
The majority of Indian South Africans are the descendants of indentured workers brought to Natal between 1860 and 1911 to develop the sugar industry in this…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… of BPC by Hlaku Rachidi. A month later, BPC was one of 18 BCM formations to be banned. …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… boycott and the resultant violence peaked between 17 and 18 June 1980 in the Coloured townships of Elsies River, …
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… African Defence Force (SADF) and were sentenced to up to 18 months in jail. By 1983, 13 objectors had been jailed. In …
Mission Stations - M
… , Alice, Cape: FCS 1821-44 MACHADODORP , Transvaal: DRCSAT 1902 MACHEKE , Zimbabwe: SPG MACKAY'S NEK , Glen Grey, Cape: … , MATUTUENE and MATUTO HINE ,…
PlaceThe Company Gardens, Cape Town.
… of the present Parade. By 1660, its area occupied some 18 hectares of land and it extended from Tuyn Street, now …
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… was taking away business from the white-owned shops. [18] As the country approached 1994, political unrest grew in … 1984 2 4 Interview with Hennie*,…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… an increased African “thirst for formal education”. 18 Apart from Mweli Skota’s references, we have no records of … THE WHITE MAN’S WAR: GUMEDE AND THE ANGLO…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 2 : Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation 1931-1939 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… 1931 Document 6 Resolution of Political Secretariat, ECCI, 18 October 1931 (extracts) Document 7 Autobiography of M. … Letter from S.P. Bunting to ECCI, 26…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… the World," New York Review of Books, December 2, 1971, p. 18). In the field of law and punishment, as Monica Wilson has … and then by the British scorched…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… pre-Coalition following of 74 dropped firstly to 55 when 18 members of the party accompanied Dr Malan into the … to the National Party's 46 229 spread over…
The Bill of Rights
… to demonstrate, to picket and to present petitions. 18. Freedom of association Everyone has the right to freedom … kept separately from detained persons…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… Tsar, which also failed. 2. The Social Revolutionaries In 1902, the peasant revolutionaries formed another party, the … at least some of the political power…
Letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by O. R. Tambo, 21 July 1986
… Geoffrey, I am most grateful for your kind letter of 18 July 1986 which has now reached me, and greatly appreciate …
Letter from Oliver Tambo to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 21 July 1986
… Sir Geoffrey, I am most grateful for your kind letter of 18 July 1986 which has now reached me, and greatly appreciate …
PlaceAlabama, Klerksdorp
Township 6 km West of Klerksdorp in the North West. It is said to take its name indirectly from the State in South-East America. Named after, the Confederate…
EventNizaam Carr, the South African rugby player is born
… a Super Rugby team, when he led the Stormers in Round 18 of the 2015 Super Rugby season.[ix] Nizaam was selected to …
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… published in The International, January 4, 1919. Document 18: 'The Bolsheviks are coming', leaflet written by D. Ivon …
PlaceTanzania
The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama explored the East African coast in 1498 on his voyage to India. By 1506, the Portuguese claimed control over the entire…
Document 65 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, Friday, 24 July 1936 at 8 p.m.
… dated 13/7/36 were read. A letter from Com Goodlatte dated 18/7/36 with enclosed cutting was read; and further a letter …
JANAM People’s Theatre Group Tour!
… the project reference group. It is the culmination of an 18 month project, which is a partnership between the …
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… Sisulu was born in the Engcobo area in the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu worked as a miner, baker's assistant, …
EventA Dutch ship, the Rosenberg, carrying Huguenots, leaves for the Cape from the Netherlands
The French Huguenots were refugees in the Netherlands fleeing religious persecution brought about by the ascendancy of Catholicism in France. The Edict of…
PlaceLouw House Museum, Sutherland
… department. NP van Wyk Louw died at the aged of 64 on 18 June 1970, in Johannesburg Gauteng. When reading some of …
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… were held on Robben Island, including nine children under 18 years of age. I don't need to remind this Committee of the … the last three years, almost 9,000…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… houses, as described in Early Domestic Workers . In 1902, a British labour politician visiting the Rand gave his … the economy picked up again, especially…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… president Thabo Mbeki in June 2005. Ascendancy to Power On 18 December 2007, Zuma was elected as President of the ANC at …