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PlacePiet Retief now officially known as eMkhondo
… the Great Trek into the interior of what is now South Africa in order to free themselves from British rule in the … the Great Trek into the interior of what…
PlaceBotshabelo Mission Station, near Middleburg
… Alexander Merensky and Heinrich Grützner, arrived in South Africa from the Berlin Mission Society during the 1860’s, to …
Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps and Visit of the President, 19 June 2013
The President of the African National Congress Comrade President Zuma will be visiting Upington as part of the launch of the Luthuli Volunteer Corps on the…
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
The four murderers of Amy Biehl, American Fullbright exchange student, are granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). They appealed to…
EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… Turn to Armed Struggle ' in The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 1 (1960-1970) [online]. Cape Town: Zebra Press …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Acknowledgements
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede We first met each other in 1984 at A. P. Mda's law office in Mafeteng, Lesotho, and we…
EventANC revolutionary propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban
… and Durban’ [Available at the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town Campus] pg1.| Ashata Shakur Forums , Spear …
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
Thamsaqa 'Thami' ka Mnyele was a talented graphic artist and a political activist. Due to his political activities, Mnyele was forced to leave his family in…
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
Anthony Molebatsi Nkotsi, South African artist and the head of the Printmaking Department in 1988 at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, was born in Johannesburg…
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
In a historic move, Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African…
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
Five civilians were killed and forty injured in a bomb explosion in the Sanlam shopping centre in Amanzimtoti, Natal South Coast. Umkhonto we Siswe (MK) cadre…
EventPresident George W Bush announces his HIV/AIDS Plan
The American president, George W Bush, announced his five-year $15 billion Emergency Plan for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in twelve African and two…
EventAllan Boesak guilty on charges of fraud
Allan Boesak, liberation theologian, chairman of the Western Cape region of the African National Congress (ANC) and director of the Foundation for Peace and…
EventNP holds federal congress
Following its withdrawal from the African National Congress (ANC)-led Government of National Unity, the National Party held its federal congress (1 - 3 August)…
EventIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie
… a documentary history of African politics in South Africa . Stanford: Hoover Institution, v. 1, … et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern…
Event18 political prisoners are released from Bophuthatswana
… Amnesty (1991). ‘South Africa (Bophuthatswana)’ Former Hunger-strikers from … ‘Negotiating the Release of Political Prisoners in South Africa’ from Centre…
EventANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu
… Digital Innovation South Africa, ‘Letter from Stanley Mabizela to Dear Comrade’ ,From: Digital Innovation South Africa, [online], Available at www.disa.ukzn…
EventManto Tshabalala - Msimang, controversial minister of health, is born
SA health minister Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang was born at Emfume south coast of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Tshabalala-Msimang matriculated at Inanda Seminary…
EventRestitution of Land Rights Act is signed
The Restitution of Land Rights Act, restoring the rights of those dispossessed by discriminatory land legislation dating back to the 1913 Land Act, was passed…
EventNelson Mandela appeals for calm after the assassination of Communist Party chief, Chris Hani
… Simanowitz,S., ‘Chris Hani's Assassination Put South Africa On The Brink of Civil War’ , from the Vice News , …
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
Bildad Mwaganu Kaggia was a nationalist and a freedom fighter. Kaggia joined the Kenyan army when the Second World War broke out and was deployed in London as…
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 the organisations under the Black Consciousness…
EventRwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash
0n 6 April 1994, an extraordinary event in the history of the African continent took place in Kigali, Rwanda when two presidents from two countries were…
PlaceBloemfontein City Hall
The Bloemfontein City Hall was built in 1935 and has a beautiful Italian style interior with an attractive sandstone exterior. The Bloemfontein City Hall Is a…
PlaceVredehoek
… the apartheid government held a firm grip over South Africa. Millions of Black and Coloured South Africans were …
ArchiveAri Sitas in Conversation with Sumangala Damodaran
… now a mixture between your critical engagement with South Africa and the sense of restless travel that had you lurching …
PlaceDundee
… It is also the home to the Coal Mine Museums of South Africa, an exquisite glass collection, Peter Smith’s home and …
EventThe last ‘Peru and Bala’ show is hosted on Lotus FM
‘Peru and Bala’ is a comedic duo played by Vikash Mathura and Ray Maharaj, which is hugely popular amongst the South African Indian Community. Mathura and…
Outcome of the High Court Application, 12 February 2014
The African National Congress welcomes the court ruling which prevents DA from being near Chief Albert Luthuli House or causing harm to ANC staff and property…
Amulets & Dreams by Omar Badsha and Guy Tillim
This book covers civil strife and its effects on the society in 6 African countries namely Angola, Mozabique, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Eritria. The…