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PlaceJeffrey's Bay
… Cape Province to the North West, Free State Province and Lesotho to the North. KwaZulu-Natal Province to the North East, and the Indian Ocean to the South…
PlaceTanzania
… Kilimanjaro in the 1840s. British explorers Richard Burton and John Speke crossed the interior to Lake Tanganyika in … although the country has had some…
EventIconic musician, John Lennon, was shot dead outside his New York apartment
… West Side. The Lennon's left their limousine on the street and walked up the driveway when the gunman opened fire. He … Beatle for his autograph only hours…
ArchiveRobert Shell: A tribute By Martin Plaut, 05 February 2015
… my friend Today I learnt the news I had been expecting and dreading for some months: that Rob Shell had died. Sandy, … foremost scholar of slavery in the…
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
… Katiza Cebekhulu, who claims to have first met Dlamini and his accomplice, Cyril Mbatha, at Madikizela-Mandela’s … Cebekhulu claims to have driven two men…
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
… African Army reported tonight that six people were killed and five people seriously wounded when a light truck set off … killed were members of two families,…
ArchiveWe are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… Green, black, white, yellow and blue poster. Series of folders numbers 3521 - 3529 and folder 3532, also folders 3538 and possibly 3531. Photographs and…
ANC statement on the high court`s ruling against IT, 29 October 1998
… the High Court - Cape Division on the case between itself and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The ANC will be briefed by its lawyers about the…
ANC statement on the passing of Epainette Mbeki, 7 June 2014
… South Africa poorer given her long history of activism and her contribution in the struggle against apartheid. Mrs … Mbeki has for decades been a pillar of…
PlaceAddo Heights, Uitenhage
… Addo Heights is a Farm and is located in Cacadu District Municipality, Eastern Cape, … vertical profile. Despite its very long length of 18,7 km and a…
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
… building has predominantly Georgian architectural features and is one of the last four remaining historical manor houses … in this part of Cape Town. It has…
EventNelson Mandela receives a hero’s welcome in New York
… way New York welcomes its heroes – with mounds of security and miles of tickertape. According to reports, the security … experts, helicopters, boats, a 90…
PlaceKliptown Museum
… Charter through photographs, news clippings, art, song and narration. Artefacts from those people who witnessed the … of the charter are on display, while…
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… journalist in the apartheid era who fought for justice and freedom. Sisulu was the founder and editor of the New Nation newspaper. He also founded the … son…
EventFourth Nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara
… the time, was an underlyingFrench ambition to lead Europe and potentially become a superpower in its own right. This … by the creation of the North Atlantic…
EventMaria Mary Burton, former national president of the Black Sash, is born
… Aires, Argentina. She moved to South Africa in 1961, and upon witnessing the injustices of Apartheid, became a … discriminatory policies through marches,…
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… of South Africa, described by many as tension-driven and known as the Convention for a Democratic South Africa … delegations from nineteen political…
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… important figures in the history of passive resistance and probably, with A.M. Cachalia, saved Gandhi's life when he was attacked and severely beaten by…
EventSA author Hymne Weiss is born
… South African author and translator of books into Afrikaans from six European … Free State). She was a daughter of Jozua Francois Naude and Johanna Zondagh…
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
… Khayelitsha (New home). Eviction orders were issued and when the residents refused to move, their homes were … The residents here, were originally from the…
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… of which KaNgwane was to have been part. South Africa and Swaziland were not new to conflicting claims about land. … then-named Natal, to South African…
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… College. In 1881 he joined the Indian medical service and visited Madras, Burma and Andaman Islands developing his interest in poetry, literature and…
PlaceFreshford House Museum, 31 Kellner Street
… that still exists in Bloemfontein. The house was designed and built by the architect John Edwin Harrison for himself and his wife, Kate Caroline. Born and…
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… when around 2 000 policemen, armed with guns, knobkerries and rifles, forcefully moved the families of Sophiatown to … possessions were loaded at the back of…
PlaceKuboes, Northern Cape
… of Ku Boesberg to the North, Van der Stel Berg to the East and the Ploeg Berg to the South. The Village of Kuboes, also … would commute for miles in order to…
PlaceRondebosch Fountain, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… only an ornamental trough used for the watering of horses, and consists of a round cast-iron drinking bowl supported on … is a typical piece of Victorian…
Editorial on taxation, in November 10, 1884 [Extract]
… of muzzling a race of people, used to settling differences and difficulties after searching inquiry will be, we do not … during the current month? It was…
Document 17 - Letter from E. R. Roux to W.G. Ballinger, 19 March 1929
… 1929 Dear Ballinger, Thanks very much for your letter and the report on Kadalie' resignation. I do not think you … virtuous than other people. In this matter…
Affirming the history of all South Africans
… responsibility for doing this, our museums, our monuments and our archives, are in the process of being transformed to … It's a very difficult process. One…
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… so much energy, so much youth, so much enthusiasm, and so much love of our country. To impose your world on us, … 2 February 1990, your government echoes…