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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…
Giyani, Polokwane
… find the little happening town of Giyani, a popular town in the heart of Bushveld country in the western crook of the Kruger National Park, even if it … the…
PlaceRosebank, Cape Town
… Town’ s Students who make use of the many blocks of flats in the village of Rosebank. Homes here are primarily … and the original Farm house of the area: …
Homeless Giving Tourists a Negative Perception - Fietas Museum by Wim Pretorius and Iavan Pijoos, (News24.com), 15 February 2016
… Johannesburg – In the heart of Pageview in Johannesburg lies a small, but almost forgotten museum, … Park, the Fietas Museum was declared a heritage site in…
PlaceSoccer City (FNB Stadium) -Johannesburg
… Stadium built in Johannesburg for the 2010 FIFA World Cup . The design … pot'. This iconic, 87 436-seater is the largest Venue in South Africa, and the…
PlaceOld Magistrate’s Offices and Residence, Main Street, Simonstown
… Simon's Town Magistrate's Court is next to Goede Hoop in Simon's Town and is located in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. This … tours are…
PlaceKruger House Museum
… an official residence for the President. Declared a museum in 1936, it was restored to its original form. It was one of … electricity and had one of the…
PlaceSouth African National Museum of Military History
… by the former Prime Minister of South Africa, Jan Smuts in 1947 to preserve the History of the Country’s involvement in WWII, the South African National War…
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
… had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz … Bosnia-Herzegovina from the declining…
EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… After becoming Prime Minister of South Africa in 1966, John Vorster met with Hendrik van den Bergh, the … This Act did not give a full brief for the agency,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…