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PlaceZambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe
… Board. The new Board was vested with the power to construct dams and power stations, to transmit electric power … to be operated and was fully developed as a…
PlaceHaartbeespoort
Hartbeespoort, informally also known as: "Harties", is a small resort town north of Johannesburg in the North West Province of South Africa. Situated on slopes…
PlaceSecunda
… was constructed by Concrete as part of a contract to construct the Sasol Three steam plants with ' Hochtief '. The …
PlaceKyalami Grand Prix Circuit
… dynamic area, skidpan and 1,1 km handling track is also under construction. Safety upgrades to a FIA Grade 2 level …
BiographyKing Mzilikazi
… Thaba Nchu, where a large group of trekkers had assembled under Gert Maritz. Meanwhile, Cornwallis Harris was …
BiographyEla Gandhi
… banned and contained to a particular area. She was also under arrest one for a certain number of hours. This meant …
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… of evidence. However, both were immediately incarcerated under the 90-day detention law . Chiba was released from …
David Pratt
… unaware of his whereabouts. Pratt was in fact detained under the emergency regulations. The Cape Times reported ‘we …
Trade Unions in South Africa by Ari Sitas and Bianca Tame
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference South African trade unions had a decisive role in the political life of…
EventRichard Maponya, one of South Africa's richest businessmen, is born
Richard John Maponya was born in Lenyenye in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). The founder and first president of the National Federated Chamber…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… security forces over detainees, and many of those detained under the Terrorism Act reported abuse by police forces. … defined, and non-communists were…
PlaceFouriesburg
… run for it to escape the encirclement. The major group was under Christiaan de Wet, who took about 3500 men over …
PlaceNamaqua National Park
… Global Environment Facility Social Ecology projects get under way and the first Environmental Education Campaign in …
PlaceBotshabelo Mission Station, near Middleburg
… The refugees fleeing from Chief Sekukhuni, of Swaziland under the leadership of one of his brothers, Johannes …
‘Just say yes, Mr President’: Mbeki and AIDS by Anthony Brink A PROSPECTUS
… and disassembled the ideological core of the African AIDS construct; Part Five : A positive appraisal of Mbeki’s … Africa (UKZN Press, 2008) that: Thabo…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… evening. In 1958 Lenasia was proclaimed an Indian township under the Group Areas Act. The minutes of a meeting of the … City Council, dated 31 October 1961,…
PlaceBonteheuwel
Bonteheuwel is a coloured Township situated North of Cape Town. It was created in the 1960's as a "Dumping Site" for coloured people, who had been forced to…
EventNigerian Federal troops begin a major offensive in Biafra.
… many other African countries, Nigeria was an artificial construct initiated by the British who ignored religious, …
PlaceCoastlands Musgrave Hotel, Durban
The group was founded in 1993 when a number of entrepreneurs including investor, and Chief Executive Officer of the SNG Group Mr. Saantha Naidu acquired a…
Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
… the hospital was completed the patients were accommodated under a marquee. This was precarious cover particularly in … ‘which was not always upheld’ to…
PlaceQuanza Shipwreck, East London
The Quanza was a four-masted steamship of 942 tons which went ashore at East London, on Sunday, 26 May 1872 at 5am. She struck the rocks, just East of the…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… to democracy. Two months later, the Interim Constitution under which South Africa was to be governed during the … observed by a 60-member Commonwealth…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… will truly mean the freedom of the individual. We must construct that people-centred society of freedom in such a … will, within the next 100 days, implement…
Mission Stations - G-H
… original founder of the institution: benches are standing under its shade, and this is a favourite place of resort … and degraded portion of his fellow…
PlaceKaNyamazane Township, Mpumalanga
KaNyamazane, previously known as Lekazi, was established as a labour reserve, and was then zoned to fall within the Kangwane homeland. The first primary school…
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… 1974 SASO is listed as one of the affected organisation under the Affected Organisation Act of 1974. This prohibited … the ascension of FRELIMO (Mozambican…
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… 1974 SASO is listed as one of the affected organisation under the Affected Organisation Act of 1974. This prohibited … the ascension of FRELIMO (Mozambican…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… was later named the TIC when India was no longer under British control. From the 1920s the organization functioned under the umbrella organization, the South…
PlaceFort Glamorgan, East London
The Historical site of Fort Glamorgan in East London, named after the Earl of Glamorgan. Established in 1848 along the Buffalo River, this Fort was used as…
PlaceWonderboom National Airport, Tshwane
Wonderboom Airport, is located north of Pretoria, South Africa. The airport handles general aviation flights and passenger services. The Wonderboom Airport was…