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EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… on Moncada Barracks in Cuba. This resulted in his capture and arrest. On his release, he went into exile in Mexico, but returned to Cuba in 1959 and staged…
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… organizations such as the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1960. Some of … leadership was imprisoned while others…
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… known as the "people's poet" as a result of the style and content of his poetry. He covered issues like drugs and Apartheid and the former government banned…
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… location where the constitution was signed was significant and symbolic of the betrayal and brutality of past governments. In 1902 the Treaty of Vereeniging…
EventField Marshal Lord Roberts is appointed British supreme commander in South Africa
… strikes against British garrisons in Mafikeng, Kimberley and Ladysmith. They also scored some morale boosting victories in Colenso, Magersfontein and…
PlaceCuylerville
… in "Chapman". Their locations was between the Wellington and Palmiet Rivers and their centre was named Cuylerville after Colonel Jacob … BAILIE, Thomas ADAMS…
EventSuppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 approved in Parliament
… organisation, was approved on 26 June in parliament and came into force on 17 July 1950. Dates concerning the … of Communism Act, banned the South African…
PlaceSouth African State Theatre
… the Provincial Council of the Transvaal. [i] Botha, Lötter and Partners as well as Daneel and Smit architects were hired to design and construct the theatre…
Nelson Mandela University presenting AEE REP qualification programme
… of the AEE, the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT at NMU was the ideal choice for the EnTF to expand its … ride in the solar car which is…
Balule Private Game Reserve, Kruger National Park
… the Tsonga word for Buffalo. You can see the ' Big Five ' and many other animals in the Balule Game Reserve. The Balule … are limited". Experienced rangers…
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… the mill in 1796. Dirk's daughter inherited the property and subsequently married a Mostert, the great-grandson of the Cape's first miller, and the mill came…
PlaceOpera House, Port Elizabeth
… of GW Smith, a prominent Port Elizabeth architect, and was built by the firm of Small & Morgan. It was opened on … on 4 January 1980. The Port Elizabeth…
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… Jomo Kenyatta was born in Kamau, Kenya, on 20 October 1891 and grew up in Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya. Kenyatta … Mission, where he studied English,…
Document 3 - National Anti-CAD Conference Agenda, Oddfellows Hall, Hope Street, Cape Town, Saturday, 29 May [1943]
… THE ANTI-C.A.D. MOVEMENT HAS ACHIEVED TO DATE" Questions and Discussion. Resolutions: That this National Anti-C.A.D. … soÂcial, political, sporting, trade…
"We have Decided to Liberate Ourselves": Address to the Royal Commonwealth Society by O. R. Tambo, London, 23 June 1986
… Mr. Chairman, Your Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Exactly eight months ago to the day, in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, Heads of State and…
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
… leaders. What is of paramount importance is the programme and principles of the organisation. To put it another way, it … I ask you to use this test. Apply…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… when I was fifteen years my parents died, both of them. And we are a family of five, and I am the second to the eldest. So because of the … one I come after…
Siyanqoba Bafana-Bafana Siyanqoba!!! Siyavena Bafana Bafana Siyavena!!!, 3 June 2010
… National Congress joins all soccer loving Africans, and South Africans in particular by hosting the ANC 2010 FIFA … world cup in a weeks time. We do this…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… In unbridled savagery, they extensively mutilated his face and cut off his ears. A member of the African National … he was a student at the University…
Letter from Maryland (http://www.archaeology.org/) by Julie Schablitsky
… Americans, however, haven’t lost touch with this past, and have found success tracing their lineages through manumission records, the wills of slave owners,…
Save South Africa calls ‘People’s Assembly Against State Capture’
… is due to appear with former SARS employees Oupa Magashule and Ivan Pillay – for charges which appear at best spurious … which starts at 8am on November 2,…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local people. … Gqeberha was the original name for the Baakens…
Document 52 - International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract)
… in view of the very weak membership of South Africa and in view of the insufficiently mature conditions of the … on the proposals of a party which is yet to…
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
… after an English master told him it was too foreign and too Jewish for a stage career. After attending the Royal … later draw from this experience in his…
ArchiveThe Soul of a Nation
… On 10 December 1996, the signatures on the country's new and final Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the…
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… showed little intent of holding onto captured territory, and by January 1835 they had begun to retreat, taking herds … cattle with them. The British soon…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Bosman Street, Pretoria
… Reformed Church sold the square to the town authorities and used the proceeds to build two new churches, the one in Du Toit Street (Herformde Kerk) and the…
PlaceThe AVA Gallery
… The history of the AVA Gallery echoes the social, political and cultural changes that took place in South Africa. … 1850. The Society aimed to form a…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Banquet hosted by President Sharma of India India, 25 January 1995
… Rao; Honourable Ministers; Your excellencies, Ambassadors and members of the diplomatic corps; Distinguished guests; Ladies and Gentlemen. May I express my…
Document 59 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to N. J. Barclay, 21 February 1936
… 1936 N. J. Barclay Dear Comrade, Comrades Grant30 and Frost are in a better position than myself to inform you … (almost exclusively Jewish-speaking) until…