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PlaceMarabastad Market Stalls, Pretoria
… Historic Marabastad is where you’ll experience the colours and hustle and bustle of Africa. This area has a mix of ‘muti’ shops, spazas, a mosque, a Hindu…
EventSouth Africa signs a multilateral treaty prohibiting the development of biological weapons
… on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxic Weapons and their Destruction was signed in…
EventAbolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act is adopted
… which scrapped the segregation laws relating to the use and occupation of land. The new act made provision to repeal and amend laws to abolish restrictions…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 29 July 1990
… in one of the townships, we talked to one 15 year old boy and I asked him would he have been prepared to die rather than join the ANC? And he said he would…
Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg
… not only by ex-VOC workers who became free burghers and the Huguenots but also by slaves who lost their freedom and was brought to the Cape. To fix a date…
Journal of Black Theology
… publication dedicated to the exploration of African and Black theology and its growth and identity in relation to the national struggle for …
Burundi: A year later, still in crisis by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 05 May 2016, South Africa
… life today is a life of fear, a life of uncertainty, and not knowing exactly what is happening tomorrow. People … happen. When they come into your home, they…
PlaceNorthern Cape
… surreal wilderness expanses of Namakwa , the Kalahari and Upper Karoo . Under the remorseless sun, vehicles share … roads with lions, dune boards swish down…
ArchiveIndia’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael
… of the likes of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and the Sabri Brothers, the world of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) is rich in poetry, music and dance where many…
Twentieth Anniversary of the United Nations Sanctions Resolution: Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 05 November 1982, New York
… the apartheid regime has emerged as a vicious oppressor and a ferocious exploiter of the peoples under its … in the rest of southern Africa, especially in…
Press Conference in Maputo: Comments by Oliver Tambo on South African offer of territory to Swaziland, 5 March 1982
… on the South African "offer" of the Kangwane bantustan and the Ingwavuma strip to Swaziland. The second took place … issues," said Mr. Tambo. "First the…
PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
… on land owned by the Roman Catholic diocese of Mariannhill and individual African Plot Holders. The Wendolins Area was Settled by the Maphumulo and…
"United Nations must take Action to Destroy Apartheid": Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. T. Tambo, New York, 29 October, 1963
… Mr. Chairman, I wish once again to thank you and this Committee for this opportunity. In South … by the people who make laws determining the nature…
PlaceOnze Molen, Durbanville
… The mill was erected in 1840 and continued to function as such until after the turn of the 20th century when its mechanism and top portion were removed and…
PlaceLookout, Uitenhage
… natural beauty, it is also of little Architectural merit and any Historical interest resides in the fact that the … flooded Sundays river prevented him from…
Address to the nation by ANC President, Nelson R. Mandela, on the assassination of Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani 10 April 1993
… who fear the truth. We say to all South Africans, black and white, that day of truth will dawn. Chris spent his life fighting for freedom, democracy and…
EventSASOL plant under attack
… The attacks on SASOL I, NATREF and SASOL II took place on the night of 31 May/1 June 1980 in … Initial reconnaissance was undertaken during July 1979 and two…
EventThe last Apollo Moon mission returns to Earth
… of Apollo 11 in July 1969. While astronaut's Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module (LM) … E. Evans, command module pilot, remained…
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… in their homes or flats he will make Apartheid workable and just? Does he think that the non-White workers will now abandon their struggle for living wages…
Address to CODESA by comrade Nelson R. Mandela, President of the ANC 20 December 1991
… Chief Justice and Joint Chairpersons; Leaders of Political Parties and Movements; Distinguished Observers from International … Members of the Diplomatic…
Message by Oliver Tambo on South Africa`s year of the women, a call to the peoples of the world, 01 November 1983
… African National Congress, the broad democratic movement and the people of South Africa as a whole, will be observing … to the embattled but struggling…
PlaceJoubertina
… with similarly lyrical names, like: Musgund, Louterwater and Kareedouw, on Route 62 , Joubertina is a little town in … Eastern Cape that, until the…
PlaceJansenville, Eastern Cape
… on the Farm, Vergenoegd in 1854, it was proclaimed in 1855 and became a Municipality; the Sarah Baartman District … Park, Jansenville lies in the Eastern…
EventThe Flag of the Union of South Africa is hoisted on Prince Edward Island
… The Island lies about 1,900 km southeast of Cape Town and 19 km north-northeast of Marion Island covering an area … War II, Britain moved to incorporate both…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… Newspaper proprietors and editors of all the main South African newspapers, both English and Afrikaans, unanimously opposed the apartheid government's … a…
EventIFP agrees to participate in 1994 elections
… easily achieved. The period was characterised by demands and counter demands from political parties on a wide variety … National Congress (ANC), Inkatha…
EventWolraad Woltemade drowns at sea after saving 14 people from a sinking ship
… a storm that had been raging through the night intensified and the Jonge Thomas' Captain, Barend Lameren, ordered the … Shortly after 5 am the ship broke…
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… General Christiaan Rudolph de Wet was a Boer soldier and statesman, regarded by Afrikaner nationalists as one of … Free State forces in the South African War…
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… Wonderhoek, which was established by his father, a priest and teacher. In 1930, he attended the Grace Dieu institute. … Here he completed his Standard Six …
PlaceFort Wiltshire
… the British military during the frontier war of 1818-19, and was named in honour of Lt-Col Thomas Wiltshire of the … on a hill overlooking the confluence of…