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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…
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army’
… Zulu Kingdom. But with changed circumstances in the 1870s and 1880s as European powers began to take up colonies in Africa. South Africa took on a new…
Statement on naming of OR Tambo International Airport, 31 October 2006
… Metropolitan Municipality, the Department of Arts and Culture, Department of Transport and the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) for their ……
PlaceAthenaeum building, Belmont Terrace, Port Elizabeth
… The building dates from the late Victorian period and has impressive neo-Classical elements. Its two sections were opened in 1896 and 1901 respectively, and…
EventDr. Hendrik Verwoerd announces his plan to grant Transkei independence
… development. The Transkei was to have its own Parliament and Cabinet, separate citizenship and control over agriculture, education, health, social services…
EventWinnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort
… daughter, Zinzi. There was no running water or electricity and the house had no floors or ceilings. The people spoke mainly Sotho, Tswana or Afrikaans and…
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… developed out of a situation of racial exclusion and discrimination under the new Union of South Africa. SANNC … to unite Africans in the advancement of…
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… The first 2 'refugee' camps were established in Pretoria and Bloemfontein during South African War (Second Anglo-Boer … families of the combatant burghers…
PlaceAfrica South Art Initiative (ASAI), University of Cape Town
… (ASAI) is a non-profit company, specializing in research and publication on the visual Arts in Africa. ASAI began in … of engagement by South African artists…
ANC WL deeply saddened at death of Cde Nokuhamba Nyawo, 7 March 2012
… away on Monday (5th March 2012). Nyawo was a true cde and a truly inspiring women. She did not fit into the … of her country with the MK. She was not afraid…
ANC statement on The Farming Sector Initiative, 1 November 2014
… persisting problems of farm evictions, working conditions and the previous initiatives that sought to address farm … that was Chaired by Deputy President…
Indian Opinion
… Indian Opinion, a weekly newspaper, was first established and produced by Mohandas Gandhi ("Mahatma"), M.H. Nazar and Madanjit Viyavaharik in 1903 in the…
EventTwelve ANC supporters are killed in eSikhawini
… Twelve ANC supporters are killed in an IFP attack on houses and hostels in eSikhawini. The political rivalry between the African National Congress (ANC) and…
EventThe Castle of Good Hope, oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, is completed.
… colonial building in South Africa. Built between 1666 and 1679, the castle replaced a small clay and timber fort built by Commander Jan van Riebeeck in 1652,…
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
… In an attempt to organise a broad-based and inter-racial women's organisation, the Federation of … organisation, brought together Helen Joseph, Lillian Ngoyi…
PlacePhilippolis, Free State
… my parents retired here, escaping busier towns for silence and peace. It didn’t take long for the village magic to creep … No matter how far you stray for…
Document 27 - Record of Understanding
… information needs. The infrastructure of the Post Office and the Tele-Centres/Multipurpose Community Centres should be … of information should be extended to…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 22 July 1992
… in the Transvaal was the absolute necessity for Mr Mandela and Mr de Klerk or Mr Buthelezi to get together, to do things … did call upon their followers to…
EventSiege of Kimberley is raised
… the Second Anglo-Boer War between the two Boer republics and Britain, Gen. French relieved Kimberley after a siege of … 123 days. Despite numerous attacks…
PlaceUmlazi
… occupied what was then Natal (now KwaZulu Natal ) and created a number of ‘Native locations’ for the Zulus in … authorities, orchestrated a system in his…
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… of the clandestine SACP’s leadership in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He told the Cape Town based Russian … by police from party members they had arrested…
An interview with Dorothy Molefi: Hector was ‘always smiling’
… Hector's mother, Dorothy, who remembers Hector the person, and not simply a symbol. She told us her story of June 16th … What did you dream? A: Well, I used…
PlaceWooden Bridge over Lagoon, Milnerton, Cape Town
… set for a R20 million makeover. Mayco Member for Transport and Urban Development, Brett Herron said; a tender for the … kind in South Africa. “It is a…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… Wilson's government as Minister of Overseas Development and that meant giving up an official post with the … rest of you, I am dazzled to be in South Africa…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… do you see the question of unity with such groups as PAC and other small groupings inside South Africa? TAMBO: The ANC … on their own fronts; but also to…