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EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… us with the artist's documentary of a period from the early 1980s to the present. His colourful, bold and often …
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… It was in the early hours on 9 February 1955 when around 2 000 policemen, …
EventThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
… to withdraw from the federation. A conference held in early 1963 at Victoria Falls was seen as a last-ditch attempt …
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… and grievances that affected South Africa during the early 20th century, John L. Dube, Pixley ka Isaka Seme, and … as fueling the wave of women empowerment…
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… and variety concerts in the Free State capital. From early on, visiting artists, singers, musicians, dramatic … pleasure trips on bicycles on Sundays and at…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… In the late 1960s and early 1970s, after the banning of the ANC and PAC, the Black … 43) The launch of the Black People’s Convention (BPC) early in 1973…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… Colin Collins. Ructions among Christian Students In the early years of apartheid, the majority of Christian … the organisation and bequeathed its assets to…
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… worked for the unity of the continent for many decades. As early as in 1892, in his public lecture entitled "Upon my … Sefako Makgatho, outlined the African…
The Pioneers
… to see a great deal of the art by black artists of the early part of this century. Almost all the major public art … of the country had been devastated by…
ArticleKKNK – Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
… of origins and claims to authenticity. The KKNK in its early years was often perceived as still mono-cultural and …
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… This message was published early in April 1958, before the general elections. Sir or …
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… the time forced many of ASA leaders to go to exile in the early 1960s. Once in exile, the ANC elders in London asked …
ArticleThe Western Front
… The BEF continued to retreat to the river Marne. In early September, the French rallied and halted the German …
A New Date For the Founding of the South African Society of Artists, and it’s Second Annual Exhibition of 1898
… founding date. It is certain that at some stage the early Society either formally dissolved or fell apart. In the …
The War
… who only had 27 000 men in their commandos. During the early stages of the war. Britain suffered a number of …
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… 50% of women who were employed outside the reserves in the early 1920s were in domestic service, but other avenues of … taking the lead and thus empowering…
PlaceLovedale Missionary School
… school where so many Black intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th century—from Tiyo Soga to Thabo Mbeki to Steve …
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
… producing trade journals for the fishing industry in the early 1950s. Drawn to politics by a strong social conscience …
PlaceBensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg
… precision-made photographic equipment. For example, a very early Daguerre camera - bought by his English rival, WH Fox …
EventCharlotte Maxeke, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born
… Maxeke showed musical talent. She finished primary school early and her parents moved to Kimberly, where Maxeke …
PlaceOld Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage
… furniture and equipment capture the atmosphere of the early days of steam. The building houses: "a residence, …
PlaceGeorge Harrison Park
… by itinerant Australian prospector George Harrison in early 1886. According to the records the park forms part of …
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
… matriculated in 1946. He was introduced to politics in his early teens, when he joined and participated in the Young …
EventPrime Minister opens SA's first atomic reactor
… secret project was begun by the Atomic Energy Board in the early 1970s to develop a unique uranium enrichment …
EventJoost Van Der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born
… was at the height of his career during the mid 1990’s and early 2000’s. He played in the 1995, 1999 and 2003 rugby …
EventGabon gains independence from France
… to rule Gabon after she achieved independence, but early in the 1990s Gabon introduced a multiparty system and a …
EventThe first indications of protest over Afrikaans in Soweto schools
… as well as teachers registered their displeasure as early as the 24 of February 1976. However, these rumblings …
EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
… attacks and arrests by the government agents. In the early hours of the morning of 7 May 1987, two large bombs …
EventThe Dutch East India Company decides to send French Huguenot refugees to the Cape
… Voorschoten. The first Huguenots had in fact arrived as early as 1671, when the first Huguenot refugee, Francois …
EventZulu King Cetshwayo Dies
… in 1826. His father declared him his successor very early on in life, which was unusual for a King to do. As …