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Introductory Statement on the Presentation of the Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 79th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1991
… out the measures our country must institute to ensure its early transformation into a nonracial democracy, to ensure …
PlaceBeach houses, Main Road, Muizenberg
… and St James, are the only remaining concentration of early 20th century Edwardian beach houses in South Africa, …
PlaceNZASM Goods Office, Railway Street, Pretoria
… on 2 October 1981. The building was again restored in the early 1960s. However, before this it was vacant and as a …
PlaceIrish House, Polokwane Museum
… a German immigrant, August Julius Herman Moschke, in the early 1900's. The building was burnt down by a fire in 1906 … a German immigrant, August Julius…
EventThe first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa
… refuelling, electronic warfare, command and control and early warning. This aircraft replaced the ill-fated de …
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… movement as a member of the ANC for the rest of the 1950s. Early in the 1960s, following the banning of the ANC, PAC and …
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… of people dead or injured. The attack lasted until the early hours of the morning forcing women and children to seek …
EventDisinvestment moves by two major companies
… mainly by Black and church groups in November 1984. Early in 1985 it became a mass movement by mobilising many …
EventOldest example of written Afrikaans appears in a poem
… the Bloody Action at Muizenberg). The poem represents an early instance where the emerging Cape Dutch vernacular - …
EventInkatha Freedom Party is concerned about stability
… a renewed series of politically motivated killings in early July, when Deputy Mayor, Percy Thompson, and eight …
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… the Smuts government had to face mounting criticism in the early 1920s. His stern measures to quell revolts in 1921 …
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… in his family, Lungi gained political knowledge at an early age. For instance, his grandfather Walter Sisulu was …
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers early in the nineteenth century, Kausobson Kausob, was killed …
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… mounted during the Second World War which started in the early hours of 1 September 1939 when three German Stuka dive …
PlacePolokwane
… excellent collection of South African art, check out the early history of the city in the fascinating photographs on …
PlaceVredenhof Organic Farm, Somerset West
… be incorporated forcibly into the economy of the European settlers. Van Riebeeck established a vineyard on a prominent …
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… than 500 shacks were erected. Tensions between the new settlers and the authorities ran high and illegal beer …
Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg
… The early Cape was settled not only by ex-VOC workers who became … brought to the fort 12 December 1654. The slaves from very early tried to get their…
PlaceNamibia
… used by the San and ghost towns that boomed during the early diamond days. Due to its harsh environment Namibia is … Rehoboth Basters, Kaokovelders, Tswanas…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… trumpeter’s achievement becomes clear. Masekela had two early horn heroes. The first was part-mythical: the life of … back to the alcohol-focused social…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… trumpeter’s achievement becomes clear. Masekela had two early horn heroes. The first was part-mythical: the life of … back to the alcohol-focused social…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… first transmitted, from one chimpanzee to one human, as early as 1908 in the southeastern corner of Cameroon. 1960s … to the U.S. at around 1970, suggesting…
PlaceMeadowlands or Ndofaya, in Soweto
… Africa, is a Suburb of Soweto . It was founded in the early 1950's during the Apartheid era to accommodate Black … when most of the new Township had been…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… answer to an urgent need. They moved there in the early 1950s, living in barracks that were partitioned off … water and electricity. A Post Office was…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… that Lenin and the Bolsheviks in Russia worked from the early 1900s to lay the foundations for the workers' victory … working-class determinaÂtion to…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who Escaped from Prison in South Africa, Lusaka, 2 January 1980
… the middle of the struggle and would not like to talk too early... …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.3 Sep-Oct 1980
… Dilemmas of a Writers Group by Mogorosi Motshumi, THE EARLY YEARS Es'kia Mphahlele and Noel Manganyi, WOMAN WRITERS …
PlaceAthenaeum building, Belmont Terrace, Port Elizabeth
… of the present building which was opened in 1896. In the early years of the 1900's it became mainly a social club and …
EventMuhammad Ali defeats Charles Liston in the World heavyweight title fight
… six days a week. During schooldays, he woke up in the early hours so that he could go running and then would go …
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… and U Thant, both Secretaries General of the UN in the early to mid 1960s, were opposed to Lumumba and may have …