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EventStart of the Muslim community’s Tana Baru Cemetery Uprising
… The first arrival of Muslims in South Africa took place in the 17th century, when Malay slaves were brought to the … By 1804, Muslims had been granted…
EventEmily Hobhouse is born
… On 9 April 1860, Emily Hobhouse was born in Liskeard, Cornwall. Hobhouse was a humanitarian and … pacifist who vehemently opposed British government policy…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe…
EventGerrie Coetzee becomes the first South African boxer to win a world heavyweight title
… Gerrie Coetzee, went up against American Michael Dokes in Cleveland, Ohio for the World Boxing Association (WBA) … at a world title after his two previous…
EventCaribbean countries refuse to send troops to Haiti
… Angered by the manner in which Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was … troops for the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Force in Haiti. Aristide was…
Canon Collins Memorial Lecture by Oliver Tambo, 28 May 1987, London
… for justice and liberation, a dependable ally in the struggle to abolish the system of apartheid. Yet, such … a "foreign, meddling priest," Canon Collins did…
PlaceGrahamstown, now known as Makhanda
… a few decades Grahamstown was the most important city in the Cape Colony after Cape Town. In 2018 the city changed its name to Makhanda. Makhanda was a … and…
Oliver Tambo, Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC replies to questions by Sechaba, 01 April 1968
… these missions arises directly from the unfolding crisis in southern Africa. After all we are not fighting an … At the moment the greatest problem facing…
Presidential Address, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, 14 December 1941
… are basic to the Welfare of South Africa are attended to." In the founding of the African National Congress in 1912, African leaders of that day displayed a…
PlaceOpera House, Port Elizabeth
… This building, designed in a late Renaissance style based broadly upon the Doric order, was erected in 1891 under the direction of GW Smith, a prominent Port…
EventBritain refuses Uganda’s request for independence
… 1800's. The interior was penetrated by Arab slave traders in the 1830's, soon followed by British explorers and … William Mackinnon's Imperial British East…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Introduction
… by The Department of Education This first volume in the series, Turning Points in History, highlights two important events that occurred prior to the arrival…
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… Modern Art. Despite the fact that Goldblatt’s work hangs in some of the world’s most prestigious galleries, however, … he is an artist whose work has always…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
… : I was drawn to photograph the mines not by any metaphor in which they might be seen but by their overwhelming presence in the life and landscape into which…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… There is probably no building in South Africa that is better known than the Groote Kerk. … and the practice of this religion played an important part in the…
Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen Thesis1 , presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 20 August 1928
… spoken on colonial or at least on South African matters in general but in the limited time must confine myself to a controversial … affecting our South…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… by Allison Drew The people of the world are on the march in a great crusade against Fascism. Fascism is not something found only in Germany and Italy. Hitler…
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… of Solidarity with the South African Political Prisoners. In welcoming the opportunity to address you I am deeply … to the millions of toilers and their…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the academic year at the University of Stellenbosch on 22 February 1971
… On this occasion. Adv. Vorster expounded in a most original way the responsibility of being a student. … South Africa and the responsibility awaiting each…
PlaceStanford, Western Cape Overberg
… Stanford is a small Riverside Village, in Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape. Located only … Town is also known for its rich History, that’s tied…
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… The Afrikaans language has its origins in Dutch. It developed amongst Dutch-speaking settlers and slaves in South Africa in the 17th century, and has many…
EventDavid Livingstone “discovers” Lake Nyasa
… Born in Scotland in 1813, Livingston was a renowned explorer, doctor and … he is most remembered for his exploits as an explorer. In 1858 the British…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 19 February 2015
… Delivered by President Jacob Zuma on Thursday in response to the State of the Nation Address Debate 19 … democratic and prosperous society, as expressed in…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the South African Communist Party Policy Conference, 27 September 2008, Randburg Towers
… takes place at the end of one of the most momentous weeks in the history of our country. The events of the past week … of the Republic, Comrade Thabo Mbeki…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… In the mid-1920s African protest escalated throughout the … farms, stock restrictions and Pass Laws, and Africans in countryside towns, weary of tightened…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 77th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1989
… continued to suffer reverses both within South Africa and in the region . The Decade of Liberation Today`s anniversary ushers in the last twelve months of a…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… for leading a disturbing ‘positive action’ campaign in Ghana against British rule in 1950. He was released to lead the newly formed government … process…
PlaceRobertson Division
… of Tulbagh, whose drostdy was transferred to Worcester in July 1822. It was proclaimed a separate division in about 1858. The region is well-watered with…
Document 28 - Negotiations: a strategic perspective
… to have the possibility of recourse to protest strikes, in particular where aimed at criticising a Government's … The Commission also accepted this principal…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… a development never known before were due to the discovery in 1886 of the greatest gold mines of all history, ancient … Kiewiet, 1941 The discovery of gold…