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Jan van Riebeeck writes in his diary that the first two pounds of butter was churned at the Cape.
… | Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed ., Pretoria: Academica, p. 23 … van Riebeeck writes in his diary that…
Anglo-Boer War 2: During the Battle of Tweefontein, (also Groenkop or Krismiskop) General De Wet surprises British soldiers. At
… Anglo-Boer War 2: During the Battle of Tweefontein, (also Groenkop or Krismiskop) General De Wet …
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… use as a recognised method of struggle against the Irish Land Act of 1880 There are outstanding examples from all over the … boycotts: the Alexandra bus…
ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
… Glossary of Ndebele building terms APOKORWAN - Eaves overhang AMAKAPA … hierarchy, but the homestead now followed the land's lines of contour, an arrangement…
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… Jan Gerard Sekoto was born on 9 September 1913 in Botshabelo, a mission station established by the … amongst the Pedi community in the Middelburg district of…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
… swelled, overcrowding and rack renting became the order of the day. Black property owners in Sophiatown were … South African urban areas where blacks were…
When your position can't be sustained, create a scarecrow - The Menace of Post-Apartheid South Africa by Thabo Mbeki, 18 January 2016
… all the challenges the organisation would face in terms of its work. Part of what happened was that with much of our leadership deployed in the state…
ArticleMaritime history and heritage: shipwrecks
… Shipwrecks have always held a specific allure. The promise of hidden treasure, the unexplored and underwater adventure … provide maritime archaeologists with…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Narasimha Rao of India New Delhi, 25 January 1995
… at the very warm and moving welcome which the Government of India has extended to us as representatives of the South African Government. For those who did…
Speech by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr. Blade Nzimande at SAHO Graduate Internship Programme launch, 30 October, 2012
… Online Internship Project. We have been giving lots of attention to getting practical experience for … So it is particularly important to note the success of…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the 12th International meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties, 3 December 2010, Centurion, Pretoria
… General Secretary of the South African Communist Party, Comrade Blade … Comrades` delegates to the 12th International Meeting of Communist and Workers…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign, 11 June 1988, Wembley Stadium, London
… Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, Dear friends of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, Esteemed cultural … workers and artists, Dear friends, youth and citizens…
Address by President T Mbeki at Press Conference following Meeting with President Kikwete of Tanzania, held on 7 April 2006, at Presidential Guesthouse
… Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the press. First of all let me say I'm very happy indeed to have President … here on a working visit so that we can…
Letter from Oliver Tambo to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 21 July 1986
… H.E. Sir Geoffrey Howe Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs London. Sir Geoffrey, I am most grateful for your kind letter of 18 July 1986…
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
… who first came to South Africa from India at the age of five with his stepmother. Her mother, Amina, was also from … never turned away a customer even if…
EventPrime Minister, B.J.Vorster, states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978
… December 1920, South Africa undertook the administration of Namibia (then known as South West Africa). The reason for … West Africa had been a German Colony…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 29 November 1976, Volume 67
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Alexander Paul Hare, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town, D. Crowie and others, members of…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 11 November 1976, Volume 51
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Mr Sehume, a teacher at Moroka High School, … Nchu; Howard Leighton Setlalentoa, a circuit inspector of Bantu…
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… in spite of the fact that Wilson himself declared UDI an act of rebellion by Smith and his racialist henchmen, the … and fought against all attempts to…
EventJean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
… in 1904, Van der Poel began her studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT), completing her doctorate at the London … York Oxford University Press, 1951)…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 28 February 1977, Volume 121
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Sam Rabotapi, General Secretary of the Evaton Residents Vigilance Association and Daniel Moleko, member of the…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2012 submissions
… to work in a museum or auction house. Project: Evidence of State Sanctioned Hit Squads Ashley Ridge Ashley is a … history and culture. Project: The Failure…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 25 October 1976, Volume 39
… Excerpts from the transcript of continuing evidence from Sonny Milton Ndala, a member of the Advisory Board of Witbank; Solomon Mahlangu, a teacher and…
Say It out Loud - The 1907 Presidential Address, Outdshoorn, Cape, 7 January, 1907
… English. He said that some people wondered at the reason of the conference. A Cape Town paper had stated that to all … nothing more would be done for them…
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… Early years The history of the South African Defence Force (SADF) can be traced to … and part-time. Legislation The South African Defence Act, signed in 1912…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 25 October 1976, Volume 38
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Sonny Milton Ndala, a member of the Advisory Board of Witbank, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at ……
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 17 January 1977, Volume 83
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Abednego Bartholomew Clement Xaba, Chairman of the Management Committee of the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 24 November 1976, Volume 61
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Arthur Sydney Anthony East, an attorney and a Councillor of the City of Cape Town; Sanna Elizabeth Fourie,…
ArticleThe African Union (AU)
… Context As the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) , founded in 1963, was established as … had not entirely faded as the AU’s Constitutive Act came into…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 26 October 1976, Volume 40
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Joseph Bafunani Mokoena, a scholar at the … School; Ignatius Wilhelm Ackermann, the Chief Director of the Bantu…