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Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
… How would you assess the current state of affairs in South Africa? TAMBO: The South African regime has become very desperate. They have lost a lot of ground…
ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
… forces and a strong Ethiopian army (under the leadership of Emperor Menelik II and his wife, Empress Taytu – sometimes spelt Taitu) took place. The result of…
ArticleTimeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022
… but a discrepancy with his coaching qualifications led him being turfed. Stanley "Screamer" Tshabalala (1992) Tshabalala … for slapping veteran journalist Sy…
Place'Aardoringspruit', Brandfort in the Free State Province
… extending East to West, 14 km West around the Area of Brandfort ..The name is thought to be taken from the … is a small Town, located in the Lejweleputswa…
EventJoost Van Der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born
… 20 February 1971. Van Der Westhuizen was at the height of his career during the mid 1990’s and early 2000’s. He … 89 caps, he held the record for the most…
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the ‘Colour-bar’
… two actors, Athol Fugard, 29, from Port Elizabeth, author of the two - man play "The Blood knot" and his co-actor Zakes … much talked about play in South…
23. Durban merchants plead for Sunday trading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … if we are not permitted by your authority we have no hope of…
PlaceMaitland
… The 1891 census indicated that Maitland had a population of 2,035. By 1904, this number had risen to 5,071. Maitland is situated in the middle of a number…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Anthony Heard, October 1985
… views, how would you answer this, particularly the charge of being a communist-controlled organisation? TAMBO: It is … to observe that this has been a…
44. Gandhi explains ‘satyagraha’
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … for justice. That weapon, satyagraha , was the culmination of a…
EventConnie Mulder announces banning off WCC officials from SA
… The Minister of the Interior, Connie Mulder, announces that senior officials of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have been banned from … facilitate the…
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… in central Johannesburg against the detention of a fellow clergyman who had supported the school boycotts … They were released on bail the following day,…
Chapter X - Final word
… Side by Side by Helen Joseph Right up to the morning of 1 July, I did not know what to expect. Even before the … speak again. I waited that last month,…
PlaceAloes Railway Station, Port Elizabeth
… Railway Station between Swartkops and Coega, 16 km North of Port Elizabeth on route to Alicedale. Takes its name from the genus of plants with succulent…
PlaceAgtersuurberg, Eastern Cape
… attained Municipal status in 1895. Named after the owner of the land on which it was established, Johannes J.T. Venter. It is one of the smaller towns that…
EventSimon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean Court to attempting to purchase dangerous weapons
… Zimbabwe, Mann intended to procure arms to equip a group of mercenaries to overthrow the government of President Teodoro Obiang, allegedly on the instigation…
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… languages. In 1968, he became an assistant professor of English at New York State University. A year later he began to write fiction, with his first book,…
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… House on 31 August 1988. The building was the headquarters of the South African Council of Churches(SACC) and housed a number of other progressive … as an…
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…
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… Springs, Transvaal (now in Ekurhuleni Municipality), after being struck by a train. Masego had been employed as a … he volunteered for service with the…
EventMother Teresa arrives in SA to establish a missionary home for HIV/AIDS sufferers
… home and joined the Loreto sisters, an Irish community of nuns, working in India. After teaching at St. Mary's High School, she left the mission to work in…
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… dire conditions prevailing in the camps to the attention of the British parliament, resulting in the appointment of a Ladies' Commission (Fawset Commission)…
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
… Technical College and later taught at the University of Johannesburg. After his first solo exhibition in 1945 he … African to be awarded a travel grant from…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… This chapter grounds the analysis of the emergence, ideology and politics, organisation and … was no provision of advanced technical education, this being a…
EventPieter Willem Frederik Wenning, SA painter, is born in The Hague, Netherlands
… a special liking to the Cape; which became the subject of most of his paintings. In1916, Wenning moved to the Cape, became a … gone due to the area…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… when I started my studies in 1950 at the University of Cape Town. In the long summer holiday between school and … on a fruit farm some 85 miles from Cape…
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… courtship with the CPSA and give effect to the ideals of the new Black republic thesis. For Gumede the stakes were … of racial oppression in South Africa,…
EventChad gains its independence
… to make Chad a French protectorate – under the command of conqueror Rabih al-Zubayr, the Kimgdoms of the Kanem-Bournu, Baguirmi and Ouaddai fought…
PlaceMvezo, Eastern Cape
… Mvezo is a small Village on the banks of the Mbashe River, not far from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The Village is mainly known as being the…
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
… The unbanning of the South African liberation movements on 2 February 1990 … was an important milestone, which signalled a shift from being covert…