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PlaceOriental Plaza, Fordsburg, Johannesburg
… Oriental Plaza. Today, the Oriental Plaza is a colourful and busy shopping centre which draws huge numbers of bargain … a wide variety of goods from…
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… Professor Fatima Meer was a writer, academic and human rights and gender activist who born in Grey Street Durban on the … She was the daughter of Moosa Meer…
PlaceSchanskop Fort, Pretoria
… Schanskop is one of the four Forts constructed during 1897 and completed in 1897. It was Built in such a way to Protect against attacks from the Johannesburg…
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… The Great Trek was a migration that took place between 1838 and the 1840s, and involved the Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of…
EventFormer Vaal policeman Gerhardus Peens admits his role in the Boipatong Massacre
… Boipatong on 17 June 1992 when several people were killed and others injured in what became known as the Boipatong … residents of the Inkatha-aligned…
EventSA troops invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I
… authority. This was not fully suppressed until early 1915 and only then could the invasion of South West Africa be … German forces. More than 146 000 Whites,…
11. A Brahman seeks work in Natal
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai M. R. K. Sastrie, who was working as an interpreter Assistant Protector of…
49. The certificates are burned
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai On 16 August 1908, a crowd of Indians, as … The registration certificates were…
Speech, on Behalf of the National Liberation Movements, at the Opening Session of the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Havana, Cuba, 3 September 1979
… for entrusting this task to the people of South Africa - and, in their name, in the name of the peoples of South Africa and Namibia, Zimbabwe, Palestine, the…
Address to the Nation on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 22 July 1985
… of emergency affecting the Eastern Cape, the Witwatersrand and the Vaal Triangle. Already in these areas many people have been arrested. Combined military…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
… of emergency affecting the Eastern Cape, the Witwatersrand and the Vaal Triangle. Already in these areas many people have been arrested. Combined military…
Statement by Denis Goldberg, ANC at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners
… the international Day of Solidarity with South African and Namibian Political Prisoners. We wish to thank the Special Committee against Apartheid, and…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the first Triennial Conference of the Methodist church of South Africa Durban, 17 July 1998
… writing a constitution to protect the social, economic and political rights of all South Africa's people. As a … What South Africa needs now is not only good…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Bloemfontein 16 May 1997
… the evolution of our nation, starting from the conflicts and divisions of the past to the reconciliation of today. … This was the birthplace of the African…
Who was Khwezi? Here’s what we learnt during the Zuma rape trial by TMG Digital (Sowetan) ,10 October 2016
… Zimbabwe‚ Swaziland‚ Tanzania‚ Britain‚ the Netherlands and South Africa. Her life was a fractured existence … by trauma‚ according to a memoir she was…
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… to look like the figure "100" swooped down The Mall and over Buckingham Palace to mark the centenary of the … father of the RAF. How did this come about? In…
Address by ANC President, Nelson R Mandela, at the presentation of the Freedom of Miami Beach Medallion of Honour Johannesburg, 29 September, 1992
… Mr. Joseph, Distinguished Visitors, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a singular honour to be with you this evening, and a unique privilege to receive the Miami…
An Appeal to the people of South West Africa by Nelson Mandela
… African Conference held in Pietermaritzburg on March 25th and 26th of this year. That conference was attended by 1,500 delegates from town and country in the…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
… with the characterization of the struggle between 1976 and to the democratic election as being a non-racial struggle … it was a multi-racial struggle, not a…
Freedom Day Call by Albert Luthuli, 3 June 1956
… in our land to commemorate the past deeds for freedom and to rededicate themselves to the cause of freedom. "Let us in all humility remember that we of this…
PlaceAmaLinde, West of King Williams Town
… was the scene, of the Battle of Amalinda between Gaika and Ndlambe, in October 1818. The long standing rivalry between the senior Chief of Xhosaland, Ngqika,…
PlaceDie Nederlandse Reherformrde Kerk (Paul Kruger Church) Pretoria
… marks the founding of the Reformed Church, in Pretoria and its first church was built in the town in 1863. Only on … church building. Klaas van Rijsse was…
Appeal For Funds For New Age, January 1956
… face the ghastly possibility of having to carry passes and suffer all the indignity and oppression of the pass system. Our Coloured people stand to lose…
83. South African Indian Council elections, November 1981: To vote or not to vote
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Some 297 040 Indians out of a total of … of 4 November 1981. Forty candidates…
Regarding the white male gaze in South African photography by Daniel Gallan, 14 Jun 2017
… current South African discourse when he is young, white and male? As someone who ticks all three boxes, this is a question I ask regularly as I seek to…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Noticias, 05 August 1983, Maputo
… the Pretoria bomb attack comes as something very new and suggests a change in strategy. There could be no change … of the continued intransigence of the…
PlaceGreen Point
… in 1806, they began to hold horse races on its common, and the area developed as one of Cape Town's most popular … from the elegant London-built carriage of…
PlaceWonderboom Nature Reserve, Pretoria
… The Wonderboom Nature Reserve and is Home to a 1000 Year Old Fig Tree, or Ficus … The tree has subsequently been damaged by fire in 1870 and a parasitic…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Diplomatic Correspondent of Morning Star, 23 November 1967, London
… alliance is a big word. But it is not as if we sat down and signed a great big document with clauses and terms. We have had close political relations with…
Address On World Aids Day, 1 December 1999
… this day, we must all join hands as people of South Africa and of the world against a silent killer that threatens our lives and the very fabric of our…