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PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… Mandela , renamed his official residence 'Genadendal', in 1995. Each Year the Museum reaps honeybush tea from plants … Mandela renamed his official residence…
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… minds that the defenses of peace must be constructed'. In 1995 the South African Government set up a process for the …
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… deterred by influx control, arrived in search of work. By 1995 there were over half a million people living in … , [online], Available at www.umthawelanga.co…
PlaceCala, Eastern Cape
… students to be involved in political activities’. On 24 September 1985 Ndondo was arrested at his home in Cala and …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… Christian national education, propaganda and the media’). [24] Given this denial of the Black/Coloured history of the … issue of the APO’s newspaper, titled…
Joint Communique of the Meeting of the National African Federated Chambers of Commerce and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 27 May 1986
During the weekend of 24th to 26th May, 1986, delegations of the National African Federated Chambers of Commerce (NAFCOC) and the African National Congress…
EventBophuthatswana decide not to publish report of Smith Commission
The Star reports that Bophuthatswana's administration has decided not to publish the findings of Mr Justice E.A.T. Smith, one-man commission of inquiry into…
EventThe hijacking of an Egypt Air passenger jet to Malta ends in bloodshed.
… resulting stand-off the plane then sat on the runway for 24 hours while the Maltese authorities tried to negotiate the … (1985), Commandoes storm hijacked…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… leaflets. In 1961 he was banned and placed under 24 hour house arrest the following year. Nkobi skipped the …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… or Bantustans irrespective of their actual residence. 24 August, The second trial of the 19 prisoners (including … Discrimination of the Special Committee…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… as Chancellor by the then President Von Hindenburg. [24] This was a significant appointment as Hitler used his … Journal of Economic History 68, no. 4 (2008)…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… he remained in charge in Natal. Battles at Spionkop on 24 January 1900 and Vaalkrans on 7 February 1900 were also …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
Introduction South Africa, called by some people the 'Rainbow Nation', a title that captures its diversity and 11 official languages. September is since…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
Different sections of the South African community reacted to the formation of the republic in different ways. The fact that the republic had now been achieved…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… the Cape Town African townships to Cape Town city centre. 24 March 1960 – The apartheid government bans all gatherings …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… one another in their struggle against apartheid. On 23-24 April 1979, after the formation of Federation of South …
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… R.J. 1981. Early Iron Age settlement at Broederstroom 24/73, Transvaal, South Africa. South African Journal of …
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… Act. Gandhi rejects Smuts offer and calls off talks. 24 June: A mass meeting of 700 – 800 was held to reopen the …
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… defiers were acquitted, most notably in the case of 24 who entered a railway waiting room in Cape Town and were …
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… End Grey School is opened in temporary premises. 1862 24 May, A newspaper report states that the old game of … allegedly fired at the police, who then…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… League (SA) published in The International, September 24, 1915. Document 8 : 'The Parting of the Ways', editorial …
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
Liberia was 'founded' by the American Colonisation Society (ACS) in 1822 and was to serve as the home of freed slaves from the United States. Although Liberia…
PlaceJohannesburg Botanical Garden
… the call centre, 'Joburg Connect', which can be contacted 24 hours, seven days a week, on 0860 56 28 74 or 011 375 5555 …
PlaceFietas Museum, Johannesburg
… available by appointment. Walking tours need to be booked 24 hours in advance. …
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… The first edition of Die Transvaaler, 16 pages long with a 24-page supplement, appeared on 1 October, 1937. An editorial … to Davies et al, which was chaired…
PlaceBoschhoek Farm, uMzinyathi,-a District in kwaZulu-Natal
… Didumndeni‘s death, re-lodged the claim, on 16 April 1995, for the restoration of the Sigweje tribe’s land rights … , [online], Available at www.sahistory…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… socialism” and a symbol of the expanding socialist world. [24] in 1982, Moses Mabhida sent a letter from Mozambique to … (Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House,…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
Professor Gert Johannes "Jakes" Gerwel, who died of complications following heart surgery on Wednesday, was a quiet South African, but one who thought and…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… At the beginning the brewery was run by 2 white and 24 black staff members working 12-hour shifts. In 1957 the … increased to such an extent that the brewery…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… Military History Journal Vol 10 No 1 - June 1995 (incorporating Museum Review) SOLDIERS WITHOUT REWARD … citation to the Award says: 'On the night of October…