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EventGhana demands independence from Britain
… then known) signed an agreement with the British that led to the colonial status for the coastal area. In 1902, the … from Britain. The British Government…
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… non-racial movement was initially established in protest to the Tricameral Parliament for which it encouraged a … had held talks with the African National…
EventZubeida Jaffer is detained, while pregnant, by the security police under Apartheid regulations
… at the time she was put into isolation, with no access to a doctor, and her lawyer was also detained. At the time of … thirty year period. In 1981 Jaffer…
EventThe First Anglo-Boer War: Boers defeat the British at the Battle of Majuba
… (Transvaal) prompted Disraeli's Conservative government to annex it in 1877. This was an important step in achieving … defeated the British at Majuba Hill…
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
… on this island was of a particularly cruel nature, leading to the slave revolt of 1791, also known as the Haitian … was forced into exile, and more than 40,…
ArchiveThe Final Prize by Norman Levy
… the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed me the newspaper file I needed. He was … is both personal and political. The…
EventThe corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid
… Toit, Pretoria's first Magistrate. He then sold the land to Stephanus Jacobus Meintjies, after whom the hill is named … of the establishment of the Union of…
EventThe corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid.
… Toit, Pretoria's first Magistrate. He then sold the land to Stephanus Jacobus Meintjies, after whom the hill is named … of the establishment of the Union of…
PlaceSouth African National Art Gallery
… of Iziko South African National Gallery has grown to one of International Stature, encompassing substantial … richness of the Foreign Collection is almost…
EventCommission on Native Education is appointed
… the Eiselen Commission whose terms of reference were to inquire into and to report on all aspects of native education. The … on 1 January 1954. The…
EventWole Soyinka is born
… in western Nigeria. Soyinka became the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature from the Nobel Prize Committee in 1986. Click here to read the…
EventThe House of Assembly votes for inquiry into NUSAS & SAIRR
… The House of Assembly approved a motion by eighty-six votes to forty-three to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into and report upon the objects,…
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… her husband who was Eastern Cape Premier and ambassador to three African countries, she served the people of the Eastern Cape with distinction. She was born…
PlaceCoffee Bay, Wild Coast
… sea people who became overwhelmed by her beauty and tried to woo her. To cut a long story short: in dealing with the wrath of her … Bay is the only coastal…
PlaceCamp’s Bay, Cape Town
… father was given his freedom in 1659; the first male slave to be freed . He bought her and her mother’s freedom in 1671. … from the garden for her father…
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… English in the Graham's Town Journal on 2 February 1937. To understand the mass emigration of the Afrikaans frontier … (Afrikaners) out of the Cape Colony…
PlaceRosemount
… from the Great Kei River in the North East all the way to the Tylomnqa River in the South West. Between these two … for the East London Coast Nature Reserve…
In search of the good society: Social policy in South Africa after twenty years of democracy
… for its entire people, but it was one that had sought to create another society, namely, the good society. The … the African National Congress (ANC), was…
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… their struggle for living wages and their opposition to Job Reservations and all discriminatory laws? Does he … that Bantustans will come into existence with…
PlaceAmathole Mountain Region, Eastern Cape
… East London and the Amatola mountains, stop on route to take in some of the province's history and culture. Steve … six days of strenuous walking, from King…
ANC Deputy President`s Election Campaign Programme, 6 May 2011
… as part of the organisation`s election programme to maximise ANC support in the local government elections - … Region: Sunday, 8 May 2011 08h45-09h15:…
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
… help of Ian Bernhardt. The Union was formed in response to the apartheid government’s restrictions on creative … of King Kong: An African Jazz (1959) which…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… staged as a political performance, was in response to the lack of attention given to the symbols on campus that are physical reminders of White … taking…
Place'Aba Mponjwana', Drakensberg Mountains
… Peak, the Bell, the Outer Horn and the Inner Horn. Said to mean 'Ridge of Horns'. One of the largest green canyons in … uplift created steep cliffs and deep…
EventOne of the most infamous murders in South Africa takes place
… 19 year old Marlene Lehnberg hired Marthinus Choegoe to assist in the brutal murder of 48-year-old Susanna Magdalena van der Linde, wife to Christiaan van…
PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
… was part of the then mayor, James Riddell Farquhar’s, plan to turn Camps Bay into what he termed a ‘little Brighton’ - a holiday resort to resemble the…
EventCharlotte Maxeke, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born
… She finished primary school early and her parents moved to Kimberly, where Maxeke completed her secondary school. It … where she performed for the Queen…
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… Nat Nakasa was awarded the The Niemann Fellowship to study journalism at Harvard University in the US but the … rejected his application for a passport. This…
PlaceOld Government Building, Church Street, Boksburg
… was completed on or before 10 April 1891. From 1902 to 1958 the building housed the local magistrate and his staff, but after they were moved to a new…
EventPrime Minister opens SA's first atomic reactor
… was begun by the Atomic Energy Board in the early 1970s to develop a unique uranium enrichment technology. Although initially devoted to peaceful nuclear…