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Say It out Loud - The 1907 Presidential Address, Outdshoorn, Cape, 7 January, 1907
… English. He said that some people wondered at the reason of the conference. A Cape Town paper had stated that to all … of one particular section but for the…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… granted a monopoly to trade with Asia by the government of the Netherlands. Jan van Riebeeck Source: … images/jan.jpg Jan van Riebeeck, a representative of…
EventSouth Africa signs SADC treaty
… It was formed in 1 April 1980 following the adoption of the Lusaka Declaration, and was premised on closer co-operation between African heads of state. Some…
Document 71 - National Committee for Liberation, Announcement [20 December 1961]
… for Liberation has been responsible for: 1. The removal of banished people to places of safety 2. The transportation of people overseas. 3. The … of white…
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… The chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and … in this regard with the government of the Orange Free State Republic. In…
ArchiveFrom the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019
… who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. A prominent activist of that era, he expressed the political needs and aspirations … now that the cars that pay visits to…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 1) by Thabo Mbeki, 21 March, 2016
… comrade to engage him on an article he had written in one of the local newspapers to engage him on one of the issues he … enterprise from any bonds imposed…
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 … to allocate patronage in the ruling…
EventAt least 100 people drown in a flood at Laingsburg
… rains immersed the whole town in water, only the roofs of the houses were left visible. At least 100 residents lost their lives and the bodies of 72 people…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… students in Cape Town reacted to the news they heard of events in Soweto. A teacher at one of the Coloured schools … Cape. Few townships in the Northern Cape…
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… A number of interrelated factors led to the Second Anglo-Boer War. These include the conflicting political ideologies of imperialism and republicanism, the…
EventAmina Lawal’s sentence upheld
… On 19 August 2002, an Islamic high court in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upheld a sentence of death by stoning for Amina Lawal. The 31 year old woman … …
PlaceIrish House, Polokwane Museum
… Right in the centre of the city of Polokwane is Irish House, a Victorian building that was … interned and upon his release he found the building in a state…
EventButhelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders
… (ANC) and other five homeland leaders to discuss ways of ending the violence. It was essential for Buthelezi to attend such a meeting since members of both…
EventThe first rugby match that is played in SA
… On 23 August 1862, the first rugby match heralded the start of what would become a hugely popular sport among White … place in Green Point, Cape Town between…
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… In the worst mine disaster in South Africa, a large section of the Clydesdale Colliery, at the Coalbrook mine near Sasolburg, Orange Free State , caved in…
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… and a Black unnamed father. Due to the apartheid policies of the day, her parents were not allowed to marry, and her mother was forced to spend the term of…
EventCPSA is founded
… The founding conference of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) took place in Cape Town from 30 July … in Europe and were inspired by the first workers…
PlaceWindermere
… Cape Town near the Ysterplaat airbase. The Group Areas Act of 1950 declared that the space be occupied by Coloured residents and all other residents, the…
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… Electricity in Tumahole Township, Free State was cut off after the Transvaal provincial authority … support to service arrears caused by the non-payment of…
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… movements. Tsiranana became increasingly unpopular because of this and was forced to step down. In 1975 … from the 1980s. Ratsiraka tried to maintain a one…
EventA car bomb explodes at Ellis Park Rugby Stadium
… On 2 July 1988, Lester Dumakude, commander of an Umkhonto we Sizwe special operations unit, detonated a … The detonation occurred directly after a Free State…
Address to the Nation by President Thabo Mbeki, 21 September 2008
… Fellow South Africans, I have no doubt that you are aware of the announcement made yesterday by the National Executive … necessary advances so as to bring…
EventJohn Lawrence, Winnie Mandela’s bodyguard, dies after a shoot
… On the evening of 10 November 1993, Winnie Mandela and her bodyguard, John Lawrence, were driving through the centre of Johannesburg, when Lawrence had an…
EventThe first known reference to Antjie Somers, a South African bogy figure, is made in The Friend
… the disguise. Another version is that Somers was the state executioner and torturer in the Cape Colonial … government. When capital punishment and the…
EventThree ANC members are sentenced to death
… and Wonderboom. Justice D. J. Curlewis ignored evidence of police brutality and passed a guilty verdict and imposed a … Dr. S. M. Snyman claimed that Motaung…
Address at the SANEF Conference on the Media, the AU, NEPAD and Democracy ,12 April 2003
… Chairperson of SANEF, Mathatha Tsedu, Convenor of the Media Freedom … in our country did not even know anything about the state of African soccer and fondly…
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… 1900 Lord Kitchener succeeded him as Commander-in-Chief of the British forces during the second Anglo Boer War (1989-1902). He received the local rank of…
EventBotha’s Pass in Natal is under attack by General Buller’s forces
… General Buller was now free to enter the Orange Free State. The attack by General Buller occurred amid the South …
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… On 1 May 1979, the first interim report of the Wiehahn Commission is tabled in Parliament. The … was set up by the government after the Durban strikes of…