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EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… According to Coleman (ed.) in A Crime Against Humanity, the mutilated body of Toto Roy … on 19 August 1985. He was fatally stabbed and mutilated in Eshowe on…
EventAllan Boesak’s plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… the Belville Theological Seminary and worked as a pastor in Paarl between 1967 and 1970. After received his PhD from a university in New York, he led a…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… that affected South Africa as well. Soon after the war, in 1918 and 1919, Black workers across economic sectors went on strike. In 1921 White workers, mainly…
EventWorld War I begins
… had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz … Bosnia-Herzegovina from the declining…
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… and reconstructive surgeon, was born on 14 August 1909 in Cape Town. Penn later moved with his family to … of the Witwatersrand (WITS). After marrying Diana…
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… Natal in the early years of the 20th century became the site of … and autonomous African chiefdoms. The death of Cetshwayo in Eshowe in 1884, the last of the…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos … 2 and the working class strata of European population in general but…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
… made between the 1960s and the early 1990s, and belong in the series I call The Structure of Things Then. The newer … Although visually the new photographs…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
… Cape Town, when it stood at the bottom of Dock Road in the latter months of 1903. I had arrived from England in August of that year, after taking my…
EventBeverly Mashinini wins a bronze medal
… Pretoria girl, Beverly Mashinini, won a bronze medal in Athens, Greece. She was a member of the South African Paralympic team Amakrokokroko, which…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki, at the University of Havana, Cuba, 27 March 2001
… Ambassadors; Distinguished Guests; Comrades and friends: In 1940, the Office of Public Opinion Research in the USA conducted a nation wide poll and asked…
Address at the University of Havana, Cuba, 28 March 2001
… Ambassadors; Distinguished Guests; Comrades and friends: In 1940, the Office of Public Opinion Research in the USA conducted a nation wide poll and asked…
PlaceEersteling Monument, Polokwane
… the site of the first commercial gold mining activity in South Africa’s modern History, has, in many instances, been relegated to mere footnote status in our…
IV - The Death of Steve Biko
… as the founder of the black consciousness movement in South Africa, died Monday (12th). Mr. Biko, honorary … father of two small children, is the 20th person…
Document 44 - Letter from Leon Trotsky to T. W. Thibedi, 4 September 1932
… a very great step forward if we could establish an organ in the negro language. I suppose that the material hindrances would be great in this time of deep…
EventChief of the Zondi, Bambata is killed
… In the Mpanza valley in the Umvoti district, a minor chief of the Zondi, Bambatha … white authorities with death if they attempted to do so in his district…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the award of an honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by the Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic, 11 November 1987, Leipzig
… 1986 Reykjavik meeting are all important milestones in mankind`s search for peace. Unfortunately there are still … who is unable to be here to receive this…
Speech on the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by The Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic by O. R. Tambo, Leipzig, 11 November 1987
… 1986 Reykjavik meeting are all important milestones in mankind's search for peace. Unfortunately there are still … who is unable to be here to receive this…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of commons: Oliver Tambo, 29 October 1985, London
… care of all problems relating to the internal situation in South Africa; it plans and executes or plans and carries … Island, and we carry out as much…
PlaceAliwal South, Alternative Name for Mossel Bay
… The alternative name in 1850, for Mossel Bay . It was the first place that … Population, (according to a population census taken in 2011). The Outeniqua…
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… Inanda (isiZulu: Pleasant Place) is a township in Eastern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa that is situated 24 km … suburban area with a murder rate much higher…
PlaceShri Jagannath Puri Temple, Tongaat
… being the remainder of Lot 79, Tongaat Township, situated in the Township of Tongaat, Province of Natal, and measuring … of the Temple. The Temple was built…
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… 2 and the working class strata of European population in general but also "entertainment" and other capitalists. … death toll rising day by day 3 had forced…
Lobenguela’s izinDuna by Martin Plaut (Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa ), 2016
… Their names were transcribed by various British authors in a variety of ways. Perhaps the most accurate is that they … Khumalo (1845–1894), the second…
How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg
… Africa's President, he hasn't lost his touch. Lampooned in the media, jeered in public and now facing calls from inside and outside the … of rand of improper…
Document 34 - Letter from the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, to the Executive Committee, Comintern
… form and circular letter of the League of African Rights. In taking the initiative in the formation of the League, we have been acting on the … (and also the…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
… speculation about the reasons for the deadlock abounded, in the media especially. On 20 May the ANC alleged that … formally withdrew the compromise proposal…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… historical artefacts. These priceless objects are housed in the Iziko Social History Centre, where the collections of … brought together under one roof. The…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE LAUNCH OF THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING Soweto, 20 February 1997
… and all the maladies of our society requires us to invest in the development of our human resources. The immense … the necessary tools and the mechanisms to…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… be bridged, but there is wide agreement that it existed in the first place and is at the origin of today's … more accurate. What happened when Europeans…