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A Declaration to the people of South Africa
… This address is a declaration to the people of South Africa and begins by mentioning the Nazi-like tyranny under which … is therefore directed to all those…
EventSA artist Vincent Baloyi is born
… Johannesburg. He joined the National Arts Society and the SAAA, taught art at the Open School (1981-1986), and FUBA (1987), joined FUNDA as guest artist …
EventSA architect Gerard Moerdijk is born
… Province). He was one of the first Afrikaans architects and pioneered new designs for churches, adapting them to South African requirements and using local…
The President’s Council, mandated to consider South Africa’s constitutional future, releases its final report.
… three-chamber Parliament representing the White, Coloured and Indian communities, and a division between national and communal interests. It reaffirms the…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thenjiwe Mswane
… day started with a little drizzle, a cold harsh breeze. And then, Then begin to pour as South Afrikans become … Heavy storms. Imagine if the wails of our…
Document 90 - “Hertzog’s Native Bill Passed: Only 11 Oppose Reactionary Measure”, Umsebenzi, 1 1 April 1936
… in South Africa in 1936:-Walter B. Madeley, Brurnside and van der Berg." The following voted against the Bill: J. … R. S. du Toit, R. M. Christopher, Senator…
Document 85 - E. R. Roux, “The Native Exploiters: A reply to ‘A. Z.”’, Umsebenzi,20 April 1935
… which in my opinion, should never have been closed, and should not be closed now until complete clarity is … of our paper. Even to day I doubt whether the…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… War, the economy was in a dire state with the working and lower classes being the most vulnerable. There were major food scarcities and the cost of living…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.5 No.2 1982
… Contents and Contributors Stories: To Fly by Steve Jacobs ; Pikinini’s … kwa Mthetwa; Don’t Leave Me by Joseph Moladira; Japie and Them by Joel Krige; If you…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… War , the economy was in a dire state with the working and lower classes being the most vulnerable. There were major food scarcities and the cost of living…
ArchiveInterview with Amabutho members
… sophistication of school students, but with little to lose and time on their hands to roam the streets, they became the most militant and daring element…
EventJan Ernst Abraham Volschenk, landscape painter, is born near Riversdale, Western Cape
… Jan Volschenk was a self taught painter who specialised and excelled in the landscape genre. He found inspiration from his local surroundings of Riversdale…
PlacePeter Mokaba Stadium
… the FIFA World Cup of 2010 , South Africa had to upgrade and build a variety of Stadiums, and as a result, some of the most impressive stadiums hosted ……
The 2014 Cape Agulhas Treasure Tracks
… with the Shipwreck Museum, Cape Agulhas Municipality and Radio Overberg 98.4fm are presenting A Heritage Day Race … at 10:00. The race will start at De…
EventLibya becomes independent
… Libya declared its independence as a constitutional and hereditary monarchy under King Idris I. It was the first … to achieve autonomy through the United…
EventNamibians vote for a Constituent Assembly
… to vote for a Constituent Assembly in the first all-race and fully democratic elections in South-West Africa/Namibia. … Organisation (Swapo) won the election…
EventF.W. De Klerk is inaugurated
… full democracy. In February,1990, he freed Nelson Mandela and unbanned the African National Congress (ANC) and other liberation movements. He released their…
EventNational Day of Prayer is observed peacefully
… observed, despite fears of violence between youth and security forces in Soweto and other major townships. Called by the National Initiative … In Soweto,…
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda’s former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… after independence was gained from the British in 1962 and by 1966 he had installed himself as president. He was overthrown by Idi Amin in 1971 and fled to…
EventAfrikaans becomes the official language of the Union of South Africa
… consisted of the Transvaal, the Orange Free State, Natal and the Cape Province. Dutch and English were the two official languages. However, there … was…
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… Mbanga James George Benjamin Molefe, clergyman and headmaster, was born in Mbulwana, Ladysmith, Natal. … ordained in the same year in the Bantu Presbyterian…
EventSA jazz singer, Letta Mbulu is born in Soweto
… As a teenager she joined the cast of the play King Kong and toured the US with other artists like Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela. At the end of the tour…
EventKing Mwanga of Uganda signs a contract with the British East Africa Company
… to the throne, mwanga expelled all Christian missionaries and forced his people to abandon the faith. He saw the spread of the Christian faith as a threat to…
EventIvorian Footballer, Arouna Kone, is born in Anyama, Ivory Coast
… subsequently moved on to teams like Netherlands’ Roda JC and PSV Eindhoven, Sevilla , Levante and Hannover 96. Arouna has been plagued with injuries and…
EventNicolaas Jacobus Smit, Vice-President of the ZAR, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
… child of Nicolaas Jacobus Smit, (descendent of Jan Smit and Adriana Tol) and Elizabeth Magdalena van der Merwe, (descendent of Willem Schalk van der Merwe…
EventTwenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen are sentenced to death for the Lari massacre in Kenya
… the independence of the country from Britain in 1963 and aggravated an already bleak political situation. The … 1952, as the Mau Mau protested the arrest of…
Apdusa Views
… of the oppressed people. We intend to comment to warn and to expose all those who act against the interest of the … its views as the concept of equality of…
PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
… was designed in 1865 as a broadside gun for ironclad ships and harbour seafront defence. A total of 190 were made. The … Halifax Nova Scotia until 1878, then…
PlaceNZASM Goods Office, Railway Street, Pretoria
… the Netherlands-South Africa Railway Co, probably in 1896, and is the largest and best remaining example of the Company's architecture in … in the early…
Khoisan leader given state funeral despite last wishes by SAPA, 1 July 2012
… Northern Cape government officials, traditional leaders and friends of the Khomani San. Traditional leaders at the … Paul Swartbooi, a member of the…