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EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
… Mahatma Gandhi , a champion of passive resistance and non-violent campaigns left the … in Transvaal (now known as the Gauteng Province). After being with…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… Youth League for placing the Freedom Charter at the centre of its programme. In many ways, the Freedom Charter was a … truths about the state of young people…
Article by Oliver Tambo - In the observer, 10 November 1985, London
… ago, it was in the hope that by pushing the ugly reality of apartheid violence out of sight, the issue of South Africa would drift out of the … that the new…
Botha's British Allies by O. R. Tambo(Observer), London, 10 November 1985
… ago, it was in the hope that by pushing the ugly reality of apartheid violence out of sight, the issue of South Africa would drift out of the … that the new…
Restrictions on the media
… seventieth birthday had just been celebrated by millions of people throughout the world would have made it a logical … this too failed to stop at least some…
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… Front (UDF) was formed in August 1983, and was one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements, comprising of over 400 workers', church, civic and student…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… One of South Africa’s oldest Towns and Naval base is Simon's Town … was placed in her final resting place in an Annexure of the Naval Museum in Simon’s Town…
PlaceWonderboom National Airport, Tshwane
… Wonderboom Airport, is located north of Pretoria, South Africa. The airport handles general … extended, with a new terminal building and hangars being…
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… and the well known writer and poet, Sol Plaatje, was one of its founding members. Formed in protest of the treatment of black South Africans, it became known…
EventRobert McBride is arrested in Mozambique
… a high-ranking official in the South African Department of Foreign Affairs, was arrested by the Mozambican police in … was on a fact-finding mission…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… will have just cause for gratitude over the consummation of this first All-Student Congress held under the auspices of the National Union of S. A. Students…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… Date of birth : 29 October 1938, Monrovia, Liberia. Ellen Johnson was born in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, amongst the descendants of original colonists…
EventThe first Cape to Rio yacht race takes place
… legend Bruce Dalling(died 2008), winner on handicap of the 1968 Transatlantic Single-Handed Yacht Race sailed … Admiral H.H. Biermann made the first recorded…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Action Kommandant film review by Kabelo Kemp (www.kathradafoundation.org)
… a young activist from the dusty and drug ridden streets of Bonteheuwel. Directed by Nadine Cloete under Ma'engere Film Productions, it documents the life of…
PlaceTenterden, 60 Durban Road, Wynberg
… The property was originally part of the Vredenhof Estate which had been allocated to William … a Cape Dutch idiom but it subsequently acquired a number of…
ArchiveTrafalgar High School, Cape Town, marks 100 years
… Thursday sees Trafalgar High School, located at the foot of District Six, marking 100 years of existence and according to school principal, Nadeem … Now to…
Thanks, Jimi, this is good for you and the broader SA (The Times Editorial), 28 June 2016
… Matthews joins a long list of staffers who are not prepared to stomach nonsense and take … in apartheid policies to muzzle the truth in favour of sunshine…
EventA cargo plane crashes into a market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing at least 350 people
… Air Antonov 32 cargo plane crashed into a market made of wood and iron shacks, killing between 250 and 350 people in Kinshasa, Zaire (now The Democratic…
PlaceAgtersrivier and Kou Bokkeveld Pass , Western Cape
… and flowing North West to join Voorsterivier, 15 km South of Citrusdal. The name of the river in Afrikaans and means ' the hindmost river', … diverse with…
SABC CEO quits after about-turn by Shain Germaner (Cape Times), 28 Jun 2016
… at the SABC is wrong and I can no longer be a part of it,” he wrote. Last week, however, media reports contained … glowing affidavit on the SABC for a…
Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay, 12 August 1908
… James Ramsay Macdonald Esq., M.P. House of Parliament, London. Dear Sir, We were surprised & … that nothing seems to have been done in the matter of our…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Photograph of a Khoisan lady. Source: unknown 1300-1599 c.1300-c.1500 … the freedom of movement to seek work, with a pass system being introduced as the…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Noticias, 05 August 1983, Maputo
… the car bomb explosion in Pretoria there has been talk of a change of strategy by the ANC. Has there really been any change? … were killed in a situation in…
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… The history of broadcasting in South Africa can be traced back to 1923, … broadcast was made in Johannesburg. By April 1927, an hour of Afrikaans programming…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… richly decorated gable, was completed in 1896 and is one of the last surviving structures of the old Transvaal railway system. It was declared a … would have…
EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… The ancient city of Mapungubwe (meaning 'hill of the jackal') is an Iron Age archaeological site in the … Egypt. Mapungubwe appears to have been a successor…
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… in the old Transvaal Province in 1895. She was the eldest of five children. At the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, the family moved to … for…
PlaceElim
… fishermen’s cottages and fig trees. This town is one of the few surviving South African mission stations . It was … historical town! Elim is worth a visit…
PlaceFreedom Park
… The site of Freedom Park was carefully chosen, a 52 hectare undeveloped hill overlooking the city of Pretoria. It was here that the nation’s heroes would be…