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PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… of Genadendal is the oldest Moravian Mission Village in Africa, with Church buildings and a School that dates back … Moravian Mission Church houses the…
Archive1995 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 17 February 1995
… guests, Ladies and gentlemen: We have gathered in this hallowed chamber to begin the work of the second … parliament, nine months after its first members…
I - Introduction
… to have died under interrogation by the security police in South Africa since the first 'no-trial' detention laws were introduced in 1963. Since his death,…
ArchiveUrban Africans and the Bantustans
… This is the twenty-fourth in Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Philip Mayer in which he discusses the social structures under which South Africans live…
EventJan Volschenk, a well-known South African painter, dies
… On this day in history, Jan Volschenk, a prominent South African painter, died at the age of 83. He passed away in the town of Riversdale in the Cape…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… was the right thing to do. This was giving me confidence in the work I took on. So when the exceptional case of Solomon Mahlangu landed on my desk, and in my…
Interview with Africa Report by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1981, New York
… The wrath of the people is growing and certainly in time, there will be more than 20 policemen and soldiers … African people. The delegates at its founding…
ArchiveChapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg
… To cover 22 years of imprisonment in chronological order is too difficult - and I think it would be boring to read about that life within a life in such…
EventThe Second Battle of El Alamein starts
… After various North African operations late in June and in July 1942, Lt.-Gen. B.L. Montgomery, the new commander of the Eighth Army in World War 2,…
EventAfrica Malaria Day
… day was officially instituted by the World Health Assembly in May 2007. Malaria Day was first observed by African governments in 2001 and was known as Africa…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of Boksburg Boksburg, 26 June 1997
… embodies our country's past and its hopes for the future. In just over a century it has gone from a mining camp to … of white conservatism, it was also…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 34th independence celebrations of the Republic of Uganda Kampala, 9 October 1996
… People of Uganda, It is a great honour to join you in celebrating the Independence Day of the Republic of … the role that the government and people of Uganda…
Liberation and Ethics. Is there a connection? by Raymond Suttner, 05 April 2016
… but also the notion of the liberation struggle itself is in shreds. For some of us, it was unthinkable that such an … leading to the present state of affairs…
PlaceGeorge Harrison Park
… are closely bound together: it was he who first found gold in 1886, a discovery that gave rise to the largest and most vibrant city in South Africa. The…
EventPolitical Activist and Advocate, Dumisa Ntsebeza, is born
… Born in the Eastern Cape, Dumisa Ntsebeza, like many young South Africans in the 70’s was involved in the struggle. He was arrested in the mid 70’s and…
EventPeter Nchabeleng President of Northern Transvaal UDF dies
… Nchabeleng, former president of United Democratic Front in Northern Transvaal, dies in police cells in Schoonoord, Lebowa. It is alleged that he was tortured…
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… The Africa Women's Peace Train was launched in Kampala, Uganda, on 15 August in a ceremony in which a Peace Torch was received. It was destined to run …
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
… a journalist and campaigner for Indian rights, was born in Johannesburg as son of Jariam Singh, a former president of the Transvaal Indian Association. In…
EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
… Mbhazima Samuel (Sam) Shilowa, was born in Olifantshoek in the Transvaal (now Limpopo Province.) After High School, … where he found a job at the Anglo-Alpha…
PlaceSt. Francis Church, Simonstown
… In the Year 2014, St Francis of Assisi Parish Church … its Bicentenary. The History of the first Anglican Church in Southern Africa, is beautifully…
PlaceBeaufort West, Cape Town
… A Town 573 km from Cape Town , established in 1818 on the Farm: ''Hooyvlakte'' . It is currently the name of one of the Suburbs in which a section of…
Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
… a whole week with the world's greatest man, Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia. I ought to let you know that hidden somewhere in the chest of that man lies a great…
Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, 1919
… the Cape Corps, c. 1919 1 At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Dr. Abdurahman and the A. P.O. supported the government in going to war against Germany,…
27. Transvaal Indians respond to the 1895 arbitration decision
… de Villiers delivered his decision on Law 3 of as amended in 1886. With regard to this law, the British Government … the country 'sole and exclusive…
Cape Town Launch of A to Z of Amazing South African Women
… NICOLSON Ambre Nicolson is a writer and editor who lives in Cape Town. Before and after obtaining degrees in English and journalism at Rhodes University, she…
Declaration by Oliver Tambo, Deputy President of the African National Congress of South Africa, and J.R.D. Chikerema, Vice-President of the Zimbabwe African People`s Union, 05 August 1967
… October 1967 Furious fighting has been and is taking place in various parts of Southern Rhodesia. From the thirteenth of … between freedom fighters and the…
PlaceBurkina Faso
… Burkina Faso is a small, poor, landlocked country in West Africa . It is bounded by Niger to the east, Mali to … Africa since 1896 until 1960. The first…
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… African National Congress (ANC) was founded as the SANCC in 1912. John Dube was its first president, and the well … poet, Sol Plaatje, was one of its…
EventAngola becomes independent of Portuguese colonial rule
… Independence of Angola (UNITA) signed the Alvor agreement in January 1975. Due to political differences amongst the … of Angola paved way for other…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… advantage. The Prime Minister reacted to all these events in his speech in a characteristic and unambiguous manner. The National … demands of the times…