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The Unsung Hero of South African Photography
… earlier this year at Johannesburg’s Standard Bank Gallery and Gallery MOMO in Footprints, is provocative and ultimately liberating. With its exploration of…
ANC statement on incident at Luthuli House, 29 February 2008
… approximately 10h30 morning, poured petrol onto the floor and set it alight. The fire was extinguished by ANC security personnel, the fire alarm was…
EventZulus attack Indians in Durban
… year were not a result of racial bigotry between Indians and Zulus. However, the government seem to have been eager to … stereotypes about relationships…
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… for free political activity in all parts of the country and the establishment of the Transitional Executive Council and its sub-structures. The ANC's NEC…
EventThe Declaration of Windhoek
… The context for this declaration was the many dangers and pressures faced by journalists working in Africa and other conflict regions. In addition, it was an…
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in 1944 with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, and was elected as the organisation's Secretary. He was … General of the ANC in…
EventRSA introduces more press restriction
… Faced with increasing resistance and an increasingly ungovernable country, the government … of emergency gave the president powers to rule by decree and to…
EventSA sugar magnate Sir Hulett is born
… Sir James Liege Hulett, Natal planter, industrialist and politician, was born in England and came to South Africa in 1857 at the age of 19. Hulett … Company…
EventViolence erupts in Richmond
… between supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party resurfaced in KwaZulu Natal in the … 90's. In order to prevent open…
EventHunting is prohibited in the area that is now the Kruger National Park
… game in the area between the Crocodile River in the south and the Sabie River in the north, and between the Lebombo Range in the east and the Drakensberg…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… African parents. His parents moved back to South Africa and settled in Port Elizabeth. He studied law at both the University of the Witwatersrand and the…
EventFrene Noshir Ginwala, former speaker of the SA Parliament, is born
… in the United Kingdom (UK) where she obtained a LLB degree and later a doctorate in history from the Oxford University. … her legal training. Ginwala got…
EventJoseph Engenas Lekganyane, founder of the Dove branch of the ZCC, is born
… Former leader and founder of the Dove branch of the Zion Christian Church … district (now Polokwane in Limpopo). Joseph was the fifth and favourate son of…
EventJan van Riebeeck, the first Dutch governor of the Cape Colony, dies
… Company . Van Riebeek landed in three ships, with 82 men and 8 women, including his wife Maria de la Quellerie. He landed two ships (The Drommedaris and …
PlaceClarkson, Eastern Cape
… It was established by Bishop H P Halbeck in 1839 and named after Thomas Clarkson. Clarkson was a local hero. A … life working to abolish the Transatlantic…
Cape Town Book Sale 2017
… heard the hype around the very first Cape Town Book Sale, and we are here to tell you that you have a right to be … so why not head down to the temporary…
EventBeverly Palesa Ditsie is the first out lesbian woman to address the United Nations about LGBT rights
… lesbian rights in discussions about the empowerment and upliftment of women. She was the first openly lesbian woman to do so and it was the first time that…
PlaceAmandelboom, Town in Northern Cape
… because, at any moment, you might turn the corner and encounter the Williston Brigade in its full, blaring, marching, joyous glory, waking saints and sinners…
PlaceWynberg Park, Southern Suburbs
… Park! This spans over an area of 22 square kilometres and showcases some of the Western Cape Vegetation, that makes … the combined efforts of Wynberg…
PlaceLittle Lions Head, Mt. Above Llandudno
… Lions head is nestled in between Llandudno, Sandy Bay and Hout Bay and is basically a smaller version of Lions Head as they look … " We went for our third…
PlaceElim
… as Elim, is dominated by white-washed fishermen’s cottages and fig trees. This town is one of the few surviving South … Today it is halfway on the dirt road…
EventThe UN orders Libya to hand over two suspects linked to the Lockerbie bombing
… to London, when it was destroyed by a bomb. All passengers and crew on board were killed, as were eleven people in the … of 270 people. Initially, a bomb…
PlaceTree Garden, President Brand Street, Bloemfontein
… - the 3rd Raadsaal (originally Government Building and today the National Afrikaans Literary Museum and Research Centre, or NALN), the 4th Raadsaal (now the…
Introduction
… disabilities from which Indians of all castes, classes and creeds suffered. The documents show the dramatic way in … of the movement, explained satyagraha as…
Document 15 - ‘A document to create a climate of understanding’; Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
… contact could be effected. A draft Constitution was drawn and was sent to the different centres for consideration. A … meeting was held at the University…
EventMoses Madiba dies in Seshego, Limpopo
… Moses Josiah Madiba, author, educationist and first Black chancellor of the University of the North, … of mother tongue instruction in primary schools and…
PlaceJames Hall Museum of Transport, Johannesburg
… The James Hall Museum of Transport, the largest and most comprehensive land-transport Museum in South Africa , was established by the late Jammie Hall and…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement on the update of Conference Proceedings,28 June 2012
… Policy Conference of the ANC has resumed its third day and is proceeding according to schedule. Commissions have resumed on time this morning and will…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… Claas Blanc and Rijkaert Jacobsz were two prisoners on Robben Island who … from the south-west cape, was convicted of stock theft and sentenced to labour for…
Message by Oliver Tambo to the Global Preparatory Meeting of Parliamentarians against apartheid, 17-18 August 1987, New Delhi
… this timely conference of Parliamentarians against Racism and Apartheid. Indeed, your Conference is taking place at a … criminal apartheid regime but also to…