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PlaceNational Women’s Monument
… by Anton van Wouw , was put up in 1913 in remembrance of the 26 370 Boer women and children who died in prison … The idea, project launch and eventual…
EventBomb explodes at Johannesburg synagogue
… A limpet mine exploded outside the Temple of Israel synagogue in central Johannesburg, the mother 'shul' of the Johannesburg Jewish Reform Congregation. The…
EventArchbishop William Barnett issues a statement condemning Apartheid
… Church joined the growing confrontation between church and state, when the Archbishop of Cape Town, Rev. William Barnett issued a statement … deaths in…
PlaceRailway Station, Sannaspos, Bloemfontein
… The Station Building, situate on a protion of the Farm Klipkraal 117 in the District of Bloemfontein. Situated on the Druenberg – Sannaspos … secondary route…
EventThe world pay tribute to former president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium
… 90 world leaders gathered together at the Memorial service of Nelson Mandela, which was held at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. Thousands of people sang and…
PlaceWelcome Cottage, Glencairn- Simonstown
… Simonstown. This property originally formed part of a loan farm granted to Johannes Henricus Brand in 1911 … with the Brand family. Henricus Brand was a…
EventANC mounts a sabotage attack on fuel depot in Ermelo
… The eighties in South Africa heralded a time of increased resistance against the Apartheid regime. The … regime increasingly became more brutal in its…
EventHomeland leader Qqozo stands trial
… Brigadier Joshua Oupa Qqozo, military leader of Ciskei homeland, went on trial in the Ciskei Supreme Court. He faced charges of murder or incitement to…
EventBotshabelo forced into Qwa Qwa
… the South African government proceeded with its plan of incorporation. The incorporation of Botshabelo doubled the population of Qwa Qwa and severely ……
EventUN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis
… crisis following MoÁ¯se-Kapenda Tshombé's declaration of independence for Katanga province on 11 July. The … African countries and the United Nations. The…
EventPretoria Boys High School opens
… The Staatsmodelskool (State Model School), started in 1893 by President Paul Kruger … School under the headmaster Charles Hope. The enrolment of thirty-two…
PlaceKwaNdebele
… KwaNdebele (or place of the Ndebele) was granted self-government in 1984 and was … . The homeland had about 300 000 residents, but most of them had to…
EventChris Ntuli is stabbed to death
… (1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 250. …
PlaceLesotho
… Two-thirds of the Country of Lesotho consists of Mountains. The highest … slopes to the West, where the lowlands bordering Free State rise to elevations of 1…
EventRivonia trial sentence is delivered
… At the conclusion of the Rivonia trial eight of the accused were sentenced to life imprisonment in the … his argument was rejected by Mr Justice de Wet…
EventMoses Mabhida dies in Maputo
… Umkhonto weSizwe commander and Secretary-General of the SA Communist Party, died of a heart attack in Maputo, Mozambique, and was buried there … as a section…
EventAmina Lawal is freed
… stoning by the Bakori Sharia court in the Katsina Islamic state of Nigeria. Lawal was accused of having a child out of wedlock and subsequently found … Fully…
EventElize Botha dies
… Mrs Elize Botha, first wife of former State President P.W. Botha, died unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 75 in the Wilderness, Western …
EventPutin visits South Africa
… Vladimir Putin arrived in Cape Town, leading a delegation of government officials and business people on a two day official visit. This was the first ever…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… ↵ In this section we will briefly discuss the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand and the Gold Rush. We will also … could be made off of mining gold. …
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… This article was written by Nehal Patel and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … July 1952, in the fourth year of South…
EventEmily Hobhouse reports on her findings regarding concentration camps during the Second Anglo Boer War
… social worker who visited the Transvaal and Orange Free State Republics during the Second Anglo Boer War , reported … The British government was…
East Cape Update
… Agencies in Grahamstown, aimed to provide a reliable index of in-depth information and analysis of the Eastern Cape region. This region had a rich history of…
"Apartheid - the Indictment": Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sactions agains South Africa by O. R. Tambo, April 1964
… One of the biggest failures of any group of people this century … whites and coloured inhabitants, either in Church or State." In 1896, the…
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
… "Apartheid - the Indictment" One of the biggest failures of any group of people this century … whites and coloured inhabitants, either in Church or State."…
PlaceCameroon
… to as a “true African crossroads” not only because of its geographical position, but also because of the … [xxii] . At the end of the 1400s a more…
ArchiveIntroduction by Howard Barrell
… partner in that search. De Klerk announced at the opening of South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town the unbanning of … was acute. The South African economy…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… their conversations with Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of the Transvaal. In letter to J. C. Gibson, Gandhi refuted … communication of July 22 to Lord…
EventDe Klerk and Mandela receive UNESCO peace prize
… Africa. In the process they set an example to the rest of the world that conflicts could be ended without shedding … by an eleven-person jury chaired by…
EventF. W. de Klerk is implicated
… ex-Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok, implicated former state President and Deputy President of the Government of National Unity, F.W. de Klerk, of knowing…