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ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… the Voortrekkers to establish the first White settlement in the Eastern Transvaal at Ohrigstad. A second group led by … while Burger’s group move south to…
Propaganda and the Pursuit of Hegemonic Goals – The Myanmar and Zimbabwe Experience by Thabo Mbeki, 29 February 2016
… international community expected the new South Africa born in 1994 to lead the campaign for respect of human rights … on this matter. President Mandela had…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… The first Kroomen to be employed by the British Navy in Simon’s Town arrived on the HMS Melville in 1838. [i] … to the sun and “mosquito-ridden mangrove…
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government banned all … Charter which promotes non-racialism. AZAPO…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Sitting of Parliament to Report on the Processing of Some Presidential Pardons: Cape Town, 21 November 2007.
… some special and tragic memories for a number of families in our country, especially those of Mamelodi in the Tshwane … were incarcerated for offences…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… In sharp contrast to Graca Machel and his feisty second wife … from the rural Transkei and had come to Johannesburg in the early 1940s to carve out a living…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 97th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2009
… devastating apartheid legacy. We pay tribute to the poor in our villages, towns and cities, workers, youth, women, … water and 10.9 million more people with…
Voters may act if ANC fails to uproot patronage by Steven Friedman (BDlive), 10 August 2016
… not change the reality that, for a while yet, what happens in the governing party will shape politics here. In depth: Local elections 2016 electionsLocal…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
… Communist Party (SACP) drew attention to the fact that, in the 1960s and 1970s, Chaskalson was "an underground member … as the party emissary at the…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
… of the twentieth century. It was particularly influential in politics during the decades following the National Party’s takeover in 1948 agent provocateur,…
Domestic work
… violence, tension and conflict. That is unacceptable and in nobody's interest. The well-being of all in this country is linked inextricably to the ability of…
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… Apartheid Museum. Image Source The Apartheid Museum opened in 2001 and is acknowledged as the pre-eminent Museum in the World dealing with 20th Century South…
Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
… cc SABC February 27 marks 37 years since the passing away in the hands of the apartheid regime of the great … Sobukwe remains a source of inspiration to…
BiographyHyman Meir Basner
… Hyman M Basner was born in Russia in 1905, and moved to South Africa at an early age. Basner and his mother joined other family members in South Africa in…
Document 8 - S. P. Bunting, The “Colonial” Labour Front, 23 October 1922
… struggle leading to the overthrow of capitalism". In these words the thesis of the Second Congress lays down the goal towards which any special methods…
49. The certificates are burned
… On 16 August 1908, a crowd of Indians, as well as a few Chinese numbering about 3 000 in all gathered at the Hamidia Mosque in Johannesburg to witness a…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… Sotho (South Sotho or Basotho) people are concentrated in the Free State, Gauteng and Eastern Cape Provinces, with small groups in Namibia and Zambia. While…
EventSouth Africa's first democratic elections
… struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This election changed the history of South Africa. It ……
PlaceMajuba Power Station, Volksrust-Mpumalanga
… R 11.9 Billion, is one of the five biggest Power Stations in the World and the first to have been officially opened in South Africa after 1994. Construction…
BiographyConstance Stuart Larrabee
… Constance Stuart Larrabee was born in Cornwall, England and came to South Africa with her … when she was three months old. Constance’s interest in…
BiographyBhawani Sannyassi Dayal
… at St Cyprian's School and the Wesleyan Methodist School in Johannesburg. In 1904 his father sent him to Bihar in India, where tutors were engaged to teach…
Address by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 1 December 2010
… to join you as you mark a significant historical milestone in the history of this great trade union movement - the 25th … of the arrival of the Indian…
BiographyCharlotte Maxeke
… , however, there are other sources that claim she was born in the Polokwane area, as her birth name Charlotte Makgomo … is Sotho or Pedi . This is…
BiographyLawrence Folley
… Born in Benoni in 1928, Lawrence started voice training with Alan Webster … Marie had recently returned from four years of study in England. She was able to…
BiographyZolile Hamilton Keke
… Zolile Hamilton Keke was born on 31st of October 1945 in East London and grew up in Duncan Village township. He attended Welsh High School in East London…
BiographyFlorence Elizabeth Mnumzana
… Mnumzana (née Mhinga) was born on 21 February 1919 in Mhinga Village, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo ), into … profession. She obtained her Surgical Nursing…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
… ‘Tough’ Hutchinson was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter's…
BiographyColin Wells Eglin
… Colin Wells Eglin was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) … Carl August and Elsie May Eglin were religious. He grew up in…
BiographyAlfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo
… Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo was born on 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of…
BiographyNicholas Hlobo
… Born in 1975 in Cape Town , Nicholas Hlobo grew up in a Xhosa family and attended university at the former … Witwatersrand. Though originally planning to…