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ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… early 1980s the government took steps to control the level of resistance in the country. Its solution was to arrest key people and charge sixteen of them for…
EventLondon Times pays tribute to King Sekhukhune
… published an article praising King Sekhukhune for being a courageous and brave leader during “savage” periods …
Mission Stations - A-F
… as it was often called in the days when it was a station of the London Missionary Society. At this place, which is … in the annexed etching, there were a…
EventJames Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry, dies
… as a supporter in 1966 He was soon elected Secretary of the Supporters Club and subsequently Secretary of the club its self. In 1973, Sojane was appointed…
EventFourth Nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara
… bomb test in the Sahara Desert. Adding to the tension of the time, was an underlyingFrench ambition to lead Europe … its own right. This ambition was…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… On 30 June 1994, the Minister of Correctional Services in South Africa, Dr Sipho Mzimela, … in other Germany, England and the United States of America and…
PlaceFraserburg
… The division of Fraserburg was originally part of the district of Worcester and was proclaimed a separate … in the Township of Fraserburg, Division of…
EventLiberia is established
… On 26 July 1847 the Liberian Declaration of Independence was signed and Liberia became a sovereign nation. The story of Liberia is different from other…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… Freedom Day on 27 April is an annual celebration of South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections of 1994. It is significant because it marks the end…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of moderation such as petitions and deputations. In December 1949, with the support of the ANC Youth…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… In the second of a series of scholarly articles leading up to Armistice Day on 11 … 1909). The South African leaders saw their interests as being closely…
ArchiveAfrican Communist, 1959 - 1994
… did not publicly announce its existence until the state of emergency was declared by the government after the police massacres of Sharpeville and Langa in…
Pro Veritate
… a Christian monthly journal, reflects a theological point of view towards the ideologies of the ruling National Party. Christian viewpoints on such … of that…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… Despite the indications of African unrest at Soweto schools being noticed by government authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the Minister of Bantu…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in 1911 to 35,000. Almost all of the population was Black. This…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… was arrested after the Sharpeville anti-pass campaign of 1960 and harshly sentenced to three years in prison. At the end of his sentence, Parliament enacted…
Chapter 6
… Regeneration of the All-African Convention: The Background In spite of all … force the outrageous treatment to which the people were being subjected. Senator…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… says the evidence that HIV is the underlying cause of AIDS is ‘irrefutable’. HIV was isolated and identified as the source of what came to be defined as AIDS…
Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer
… near Windhoek, and the book presents a sociological study of the black migrant labour force on the mine: in the words of the author, his motivation was " t o…
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… in 1888 by EF Bourke, who later became the first mayor of Pretoria. It is one of the last remaining examples of the kind of elegant … for it was empty and…
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
… Dorkay House, a building at the south end of Eloff Street in downtown Johannesburg, functioned as the headquarters for the Union of South African Artists,…
EventWaaihoek women embark on anti-pass passive resistance campaign
… women in Bloemfontein were experiencing the culmination of heavy pass laws being implemented to control the mobility of the Black population in White areas –…
EventA South African Defence Force Capt. Wynand du Toit is captured in Angola
… two other South African commandoes were killed. The rest of the commando unit evacuated successfully. According to sources this mission was part of an…
EventGovernment admits responsibility for Mdluli’s death
… African government admitted responsibility for the death of the African National Congress (ANC) member, Joseph Mdluli … and agreed to pay damages to his…
PlaceCathcart District, Eastern Cape
… The District of Cathcart was created in January 1877, and it was raised to … base was largely agrarian, but despite the fertile nature of its soil, the…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… and Giffard say: ‘The Afrikaner press was a creation of Afrikaner political aspirations, established by the … to sell not news so much as a party line.’ [1]…
EventThe South African Reserve Bank is established
… The South African Reserve Bank was established in terms of the Currency and Banking Act, 1920 (Act No. 31 of 1920) in Parliament.This came into being after a…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… Public lecture by Hermann Giliomee in honour of Richard Elphick given at Wesleyan University, Middletown, … of elected representatives of all adult men and…
EventBanned PAC leader Sobukwe is admitted as attorney
… Robert Sobukwe, former leader of the banned Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), although still … church. He was, however, allowed to study law and, after being…