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EventFormer Ivorian president is extradited to the ICC
… (ICC) following an arrest warrant issued by the Office of the Prosecutor for Gbagbo's involvement in the 2010 … lost to Alassane Ouattara. Gbagbo responded…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1999
… On 3 March 1999, the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela , announced to the National … the high unemployment rate, rising crime and the…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… Newspaper proprietors and editors of all the main South African newspapers, both English and … sought to create a press council that would operate under…
EventWomen Draw up a Petition against Pass Laws
… Black women in what was then the Orange Free State protested when they were included in Pass legislation … reserved for African men only. The Executive…
ArchiveThe apartheid city and its labouring class: African workers and the independent trade union movement in Durban, 1959-1985
… in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject history … It shows how, during an era of economic…
PlaceRaadsaal, 95 St George’s Street, Bloemfontein
… the most important Historical Building in the Free State, dating back to 1849, it is the oldest building left standing in Bloemfontein . It is an extension…
ArticleSilverton Siege
… In an attempt to escape, they took refuge in a branch of Volkskas Bank in Silverton, Pretoria. They held 25 civilians in the bank hostage, making a number of…
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
… Qwaqwa was one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the … mountain. From 1974, the homeland became a self-governing state under the leadership…
EventMalawian President Hastings Banda visits SA
… Vorster to Malawi in May 1970, President Hastings Banda of Malawi became the first head of an independent Black African state to visit South Africa (16-20…
EventPresident Yasser Arafat arrives in SA
… Yasser Arafat, arrived in Cape Town on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela. The visit, from 11 to 13 August, …
EventMother Teresa is buried
… school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Working alone at first … in 1979 for her charity work and she…
EventIvory Coast's new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… French colonization, Ivory Coast came under the leadership of Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Known as the father of independence, he had formed the first…
PlaceNigel, an East Rand Mining Town
… The Town of Nigel began as a gold Mining Town in the late 1800's. It … be reading at the time. This books name was: 'The Fortunes of Nigel'. This Town is…
PlaceCR Swart Building
… Click on image to enlarge Known as the "Pride of the Free State", the CR Swart Building houses the … have preferred it if the people of Mangaung and the Free…
Former South African President P W De Klerk’s Manifesto for the New South Africa
… We, as South Africans from all walks of life, associating ourselves with the goodwill and the … shall be vigorously promoted; The resources of the state…
PlaceAberfeldy a Settlement in the Free Sate
… Aberfeldy in the region of Free State is located in South Africa - some 284 km South … and Game Farms. The Farm 'Aberfeldy', in the Orange Free State had a…
EventLeprosy expert Dr Kok is born
… Susanna Helena Kok, medical missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church and authority on leprosy, was born in Brandfort, Orange Free State (now Free State). She…
EventBram Fischer born today
… against apartheid, was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State on 23 April 1908. This man, from staunch Afrikaans descent (he was the eldest son of Percy…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… civil disobedience and pass burnings. There was a sense of rivalry between the two organisations to get their … was plunged into disarray. The government…
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… Museum is committed to collect, conserve and exhibit works of art which represent the heritage of South African art on … artists. It is the only museum of…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… The role and influence of the South African Communist Party in the armed struggle … South Africa's rural reserves in the 1950s, the apartheid state continued…
Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
… At the beginning of february 1993 it became apparent that most role-players … conference to determine both the prospective form of the state and the…
Building A National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… Introduction South Africa has entered its Second Decade of Freedom with the strengthening of democracy and … impact on the evolution of the South African…
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited
… Anglo-Boer War, the fourth and last Creusot 'Long Tom' of the state artillery of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (South … claimed victory and annexed both…
ArchiveMeeting between Minister F W de Klerk and Lt Gen Antonio Dos Santos Franca Ndalu, Leader of the Angolan delegation to the Cape Town JC Talks accompanied by the Angolan Deputy Foreign Minister Mr Venancia Da Silva Moura: H F Verwoerd Building, 27 April 19
… Klerk and Lt Gen Antonio Dos Santos Franca Ndalu, Leader of the Angolan delegation to the Cape Town JC Talks …
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… President Frederick Willem de Klerk announced the results of a referendum in which only white people were allowed to … ) Chester Crocker, the former US…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… its own law enforcement organisation. With the outbreak of the war in 1899 the Transvaal and Orange Free State police forces were called to active service in…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… On 19 November 1970 the head of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS) General H. Van Den … Africa's fight against what it considered a threat on the state…
Abbreviations - Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… ABCFM : American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (USA) AG : Foreign Missions Department, General Council of the Assemblies of God, Inc (USA) BC :…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… 1835 Migration of disaffected Dutch farmers from the Cape Colony 1836 Louis … 1838 Trichardt reaches Delagoa Bay 1849 Treaty of Derdepoort signed by the…