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PlaceLions Head, Mt.
… Apostles Mountain Range , in Cape town. The best thing about the Lion’s Head hike is obviously the view over Cape … can be a bit step at times, there is…
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… on 17 July of that year. In 1950 the Communist Party had about 2 000 members, of which about three-fourths were Africans. After the disbanding of …
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… to rely on his memory. Experts have disputed his accounts about some of the places he claimed to have visited and … of his trips. He is also thought to have…
ArchiveOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
… in the series challenge us to think anew and in fresh ways about "identities" in South Africa and about what "heritage" means in our circumstances; what we ……
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
… of a vast national democratic revolution. What we dreamed about in the first half of this century, what we mapped out … terms at Kliptown in 1955, what we…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… and radio personality Redi Tlhabi, contains allegations about how state institutions and resources were used against … police guarding her “constantly fed…
Edited Transcript of Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Heads of Mission at the Presidential Guest House, Tshwane, 13 October 2005
… a difficult occasion because I am sure that you know more about South Africa than I do. That is what makes it a bit difficult to talk to you about South…
‘Just say yes, Mr President’: Mbeki and AIDS by Anthony Brink A PROSPECTUS
… hard, because his opinions are informed: ‘what’s difficult about tackling Mbeki is that he is so obviously an … has become better known internationally for…
EventRayda Jacobs, the novelist and documentary filmmaker is born
… (1 May 2017). ↵ [vi] About Rayda Jacobs, … http://www.kwela.com/authors/2687 (1 May 2017). ↵ [ix] About Rayda Jacobs, … http://www.nb.co.za/authors/2687 (1…
ArchiveAppendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg
… his death. I cannot tell you what he said to me or anyone about anything at any time. But Barney Simon, director of … estranged from each other but the rift…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
… cars. These youths may not know what Mbeki was on about when he spoke of the “soil-coloured waters of Lekoa, … concern that if the negative things repeatedly…
PlaceJonkershoek
… Puff Adders, Boomslang and Cape Cobras. The Reserve is about 9 800 hectares, while Assegaaibosch is about 204 hectares. The smaller reserve is home to the …
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the ‘Colour-bar’
… play on "Colour-bar". "The Blood Knot" was the much talked about play in South Africa which had a cast of only two … set in a shack at a Port Elizabeth…
EventPolitical activist Molly Blackburn is born
… advice office of the Black Sash, where she learned more about the problems that faced South Africa.The National Party … was attended by a large group of…
EventSan involvement in the Battle of Chrissiesmeer
… Botha ordered them to retreat. The Boer commando suffered about eighty casualties and the British seventy-five. About 300 horses of the British force were…
PlaceFort Cunynghame
… These men continued to be paid out of the Police Vote. About the end of June 1878, the Government appears to have … the FAM police to one thousand men, and…
EventThe official Commission of Inquiry into the mass media tables its report
… organisations were consistently lodging serious complaints about the way in which information was being handled by the … Press and that the government also…
EventExpress train derails in Ethiopia, killing an estimated 400 people
… in the train derailing and plunging into a ravine. About 400 people died and about 500 were injured in the accident. The accident occurred …
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… and killed 69 and wounded over 180 people. In Cape Town about 30 000 Black people marched to Parliament, but … were forced to go underground. Click here to…
EventZulu King Cetshwayo address his warriors at the great military kraal of Nodwengu
… with half the force to search the hills for the Zulu army. About 1,000 men of the 24th Regiment (one of Her Majesty's … Henry Pulleine or Colonel Durnford…
Don’t eat potatoes!
… Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner I have already spoken about the boys on the potato farms at Bethel, how they used … from door to door in the location…
PlaceSada
… Sada (Xhosa word meaning “at last”), a Township about 30km North of Seymour and 3km South of Whittlesea, was … cousins. The list is endless. Gossip follows…
The fight against passes continues
… Elizabeth we divided ourselves into clubs. We divided into about 10 women in one club, 10, 10, 10 and a certain club had … cost for a whole coach to…
Bishop Tutu’s 1999 interview on NewsHour
… but Tutu told the NewsHour that it showed the world cared about his country's black majority. ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU : (10/16/84) It is saying that the…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… personal and political. The politics referred to is not about the science and art of government, but more often about the tensions between principles and…
10. Seedat writes to his brother in India
… in Newcastle and elsewhere, as well as instructions about a variety of family matters. The document is informative about aspects of early South African…
Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… employed under appalling conditions, at a maximum wage of about 25s. a week, and they had asked Johanna Cornelius, then … descendant of an old and proud…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in London, 21 March 1984
… face this apartheid system. Today there has been much talk about peace in southern Africa, and I believe questions … of southern Africa. It has reacted to…
Press Conference In London by O. R. Tambo, 21 March 1984
… face this apartheid system. Today there has been much talk about peace in southern Africa, and I believe questions … of southern Africa. It has reacted to…
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… today’s most known and adored figure, little is known about the last apartheid era president who ordered his … opportunity to sit with the former president…