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ArchiveBlack consciousness: a reactionary tendency
… This article is a reprint, and first appeared in June 1976 in The Educational … of March-May issue. The author provides the reader with a very detailed…
EventHestrie Cloete, world champion high jumper, is born
… Marx, discovered her at the age of 13. Hestrie proved to be a top athlete when she won a gold medal at the world championships in Paris in 2003. The …
EventThe Kenya-Uganda railway is completed
… The Uganda railway line in Kenya was seen as a very ambitious infrastructure at its inception with the … the British East Africa Company and stretched from…
EventThe DG for Transport, Mr. A.B. Eksteen, outlines plans for a marine line along the SA coast
… On 24 September 1980 the Director General of Transport, Mr. A.B. Eksteen outlined plans for a marine line along the South African coast, similar to the…
EventRev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.
… in the United Kingdom in 1909. His parents later sent him to New Zealand in the hope of broadening his experience. … Taylor later trained for the priesthood…
EventGeorge Pauling, builder of railway lines in SA, dies
… George Craig Sanders Pauling was a British born engineer who built railway lines in South … and other Southern and Central African countries. He came to…
EventA new right-wing group Aksie Eie Toekoms (Action for our Own Future) (AET) is founded in Pretoria.
… and his peers, inspired by the father ofAapartheid, H.F. Verwoed, advocated for a White Afrikaner State and segregation. Lubbe is on record … harmony between…
EventKwame Nkrumah, the first President of independent Ghana escapes 5th assassination attempt
… attempt. Shortly thereafter, he declared Ghana a one party state. During the same year Nkrumah forced a constitutional amendment allowing him to dismiss any…
PlaceBrandvlei, Karoo
… Abiekwakop is a Hillock 50 km North of Brandvlei, in the Kenhardt District. A Khoikhoi name derived for the bushes they used, to make digging apparatus. …
ArchiveThe politics of the South African Communist Party 1962 - 1990
… A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the … University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. This study is a critical exploration of the ideas of the…
ArchiveAn investigation into the effect of race and politics on the development of South African sport (1970-1979)
… on sport, politics and race: South Africa; South Africa a historical political overview; Early developments of white and non-white sport in South Africa to…
ArchiveAn investigation into the effect of race and politics on the development of South African sport (1970-1979
… on sport, politics and race: South Africa; South Africa a historical political overview; Early developments of white and non-white sport in South Africa to…
Rethinking the William Fehr Collection
… from South Africa’s colonial past. How can we today view a collection that offers glimpses of our past through a colonial lens? Can they help us not only to…
ArchiveSome reflections of civilisation in Africa
… marks of civilisation, is the ability of people in society to work together effectively; as social co-operation. Civilisation is regarded as a process of…
ArchivePenal reform and race relations
… of terms of reference and recommendations with comments to the problem of crime-prevention and the measures taken in … caste structure which exists in South…
PlaceBoshof House, Boshof Avenue, Newlands
… The building was erected on a portion of the historic Boshof Farm, owned by Alexander van … and it was extended and redesigned during the 1840s when a number…
EventDr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert resigns from parliament
… Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, a staunch opponent of 'separate development' (Apartheid) and … Federal Party (PFP), resigned as leader of the PFP and as a MP…
EventGeneral Gamal Abdel Nasser is officially elected President of Egypt
… He is still seen by many throughout the Arab World as a symbol of Arab dignity and freedom. A number of his policies were a response to occupying the post…
PlacePolokwane Museum
… the past History of the region. The Polokwane Museum is a fascinating and interesting place to visit, situated in Polokwane, across the way from the … Age…
PlaceMandela House
… and Mandela's house seems an appropriate site for a Museum that charts the long, hard-fought path to democracy. Nelson Mandela lived with his first wife, ……
EventMpho Gift Leremi, Mamelodi Sundowns soccer player, dies
… Sundowns FC midfielder, Mpho Gift Leremi died in a car accident on 03 September 2007 after losing control of his car in Brackensdowns, next to Alberton. He…
EventThe battle of Donkerhoek (Diamond Hill) marks the continuation of the South African War
… war would soon be over, but the Republican forces proved to be far from surrendering. Elsewhere in the Free State, the … victories at the battle of…
EventTanganyika formally ends all trade ties with South Africa
… Tanganyika became one of the first countries in Africa to impose sanctions on South Africa. The majority of … against and disinvestment from South Africa…
EventANC activists bribe warder and escape from prison
… Four political detainees, Harold Wolpe, a listed Communist arrested on the Bechuanaland border, … from the Johannesburg Central Police station after bribing…
EventThe Riotous Assemblies Act Commences
… any outside gathering that the minister of justice saw as a threat to public peace, commenced. It included banishment as a form of punishment. It allowed the…
EventBruce Fordyce is born
… of the Comrades Marathon, was born in Hong Kong, then a city under English administration on the eastern side of Pearl River Delta and now a Special…
EventAfrican leaders issue a call for African unity
… mainly from the African National Congress (ANC), issued a Call for African Unity. These leaders included I. B. … Davidson Don Tengo (D. D. T.) Jabavu, Dr…
EventMemorandum on housing conditions in Fietas, Johannesburg
… The Tamil Benefit Society presents a memorandum on poor housing conditions in Pageview, … and the need for housing schemes for poorer Indians to the Minister…
EventSir Thomas Cullinan (74), founder of the Premier Mine where the Cullinan diamond was discovered in 1907, dies.
… for his discovery of the Premier Mine and his service to industry. He was one of the co-founders and a chairperson of what became the Transvaal Chamber of…
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
… the South African Communist Party , was brutally killed by a letter bomb in Maputo, Mozambique, sent by South African … campaigns. At the time of her death,…