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Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Statistical analysis of Resisters
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer Statistical Analysis of Resisters Studying the…
PlaceSprings
… SATOUR. (s.l.) Xplore South Africa. Pretoria: DotCom Trading.| …
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
In March 1939, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a series of eight articles which were reprinted in a pamphlet and later included in his book The Unity of India …
Nelson Mandela Mandela and Winnie’s studies
Introduction Nelson Mandela has a commitment to education. Both Mandelas have continued to study and to write exams throughout their imprisonment. When there…
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Vendenayagum Lawrence petitioned the Natal…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Surplus People Project Reports, Forced Removals In South Africa, Natal, Vol.4, January 1983, pp.46-47| Border Rural … Pieter & Gelderblom Derik (1994)…
PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
… Slave Lodge is also one of the oldest buildings in South Africa as well as being the largest of its kind in South Africa; it is also the oldest Slave lodge…
PlacePrieska
Prieska is a very small Town that is perched along the Orange River in the Northern Cape. It is 240 kilometres south of Kimberley and its famous Big Hole…
EventPres Mandela's testimony in SARFU affairs set aside
In providing reasons for the decision of the Pretoria High Court to set the investigation of the Browde Commission into South African Rugby Football Union …
PlaceMatjiesfontein
The settlement was founded in 1884 by Scottish railwayman James Douglas Logan, who recognised the area’s potential as a stop along the expanding railway line…
PlaceMqhekezweni - Mandela's Ancestral Home, OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape
Declared a National Heritage Site by the South African Government, Mqhekezweni is a very significant early great place of the Abathembu nation under King…
EventThe Durban Supreme Court cancels the SA government's announcement concerning reclamation of the Ingwavuma region
The Durban Supreme Court cancelled the South African government's announcement of 18 June 1982 concerning the repossession of the Ingwavuma region, KwaZulu…
PlaceRichards Bay Airport, Northern Kwa Zulu Natal
This is a Municipal Airport established in 1975. It has since the Year 2000 been managed by the Richards Bay Airport Company through a Concession Arrangement…
PlaceSebokeng Township, Johannesburg
Sebokeng is a middle-class Township in Southern Gauteng. Very near the Industrial Cities of Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging. It falls in the Region of the…
EventUnited Party MP for Benoni, D.G. Ross, dies in England after a long illness
… Cape Times,Available at the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town Campus,[Accessed: 13 August 2013] | …
EventANC's economic plans
African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of nationalisation if the…
EventPAC leader, David Sibeko shot dead in Dar-es-Salaam
Former Pan African Congress (PAC) director of Foreign Affairs and representative to the United Nations, David Sibeko, was murdered by a militant stance faction…
PlaceValley of a Thousand Hills
The Thousand Hills experience is to KwaZulu-Natal what the Garden Route is to the Cape. It is an area of great peace and tranquillity, affirmed by the fact…
PlaceCarletonville
There are no fewer than seven gold mines surrounding the town. As if to make up too all noise of this industry the Abe Bailey Nature Reserve lies just outside,…
EventOliver Kgadime Matsepe, Northern Sotho writer and poet dies in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district.
Oliver Kgadime(Phukubjane) Matsepe is a novelist and poet who was twice awarded the S.E. Mqhayi Prize by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns …
EventJohn Ndevasia Muafangejo is born
John Muafangejo was born in Etunda lo Ghandi in the area of Ovamboland, in Southern Angola. He studied art at the College of Art in Rorke’s Drift from 1967 to…
PlaceNigeria
Many reports claim that little is known about the earliest history of Nigeria. By 2000 B.C. most of Nigeria was thinly occupied by people who had a basic…
Mission Stations - I-L
… made some acquaintance with the house-builder's tools in Africa, I feel bound to mention with respect the solid stone …
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… calendar that the West uses, and that we use in South Africa. Although the climate for revolution was ripe by 1917, …
EventMandela confirms Kerzner's contribution to the ANC
President Nelson Mandela confirmed that hotel magnate and socialite Sol Kerzner did indeed make a contribution to the ANC electoral funds as alleged by Bantu…
ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
Glossary of Ndebele building terms APOKORWAN - Eaves overhang AMAKAPA - Roof AMAKAPA IBALELO - Timber roof rafter AMAOBA - Enclosed room located in the…
EventSongwriter, film producer and actor Joe Mafela dies
… Brand South Africa. (2017). Remembering Joe Mafela, South African actor …
EventMalebane-Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
A dissatisfied faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force and some members of the National Executive Committee of the People's Progressive Party, led by Rocky…
EventSAA flight 295 crashes
The South African Airways Helderberg 747 jet aircraft crashed into the Indian Ocean near Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board. A fire, which started from…
EventMozambique and Soviet Union reject Margo Commission's finding
Mozambique and the Soviet Union rejected the findings of the Margo Commission, led by Justice Cecil Margo. The commission was instituted to investigate into…