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Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … of the majority of the people in 13% of South…
PlacePhilippolis, Free State
… "The first Historical Settlement North of the Orange River, this Southern Free State Town also … by many visiting musicians to be one of the finest in the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela North West stadium Welkom, 27 August 1995
… 1. Introduction - The Launch of the Manifesto 1.1 It is with great pleasure that I stand … this scheme cannot be overemphasised. All children of our land…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… after it collapsed, any conclusions about the working of Fusion and its chances of long-term success if the Second … 39 National Party 29 Dominion Party 8…
EventAdriaan Vlok is born
… Former South African minister of law and order, Adriaan Johannes Vlok, was born in … Cape Province. He started his career in the department of justice at the…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… to one human, as early as 1908 in the southeastern corner of Cameroon. 1960s An HIV viral variant known as HIV-2 is … treat the HIV virus. The AIDS Coalition…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… The overthrow of Portugal’s Prime Minister, Marcello Caetano, on 25 April … from colonial society, but suffered extensively from land dispossession under…
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
… League (YCL) and, by 1946, in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). After the passing of the Suppression of Communism Act and the dissolution of the…
EventTransvaal Anti-SAIC Committee decided to revive the old TIC
… At the annual congress of the Transvaal Anti-SAIC Committee held in Johannesburg, it … the South African constitution to create a new structure of Parliament…
NANNA’S LIFE STORY
… those days children were not allowed to sit in the company of adults. But whenever I told my father that we wanted to go … workers were not covered by the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education After 1994 politicians, historians, educators … Africans hardly featured in these stories except…
EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
… in Transvaal (now known as Gauteng Province), Union of South Africa. The campaign was prompted by the introduction of the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance in…
PlaceThe AVA Gallery
… The history of the AVA Gallery echoes the social, political and cultural … and art library that exhibited and promoted art. An Act of Parliament then changed…
PlacePort Shepstone, South Coast of KZN
… Port Shepstone is one of the largest Towns of the KwaZulu Natal South Coast in South Africa . Port … after Sir Theophilus Shepstone an honoured statesman of…
PlaceWelgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
… In 1657 the VoC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number of free burghers under the leadership of Steven Bothma, who … http://www.gscid.co.za…
PlaceParow
… Parow was a Residential Suburb of Cape Town located some 16km from the City Centre . It was … Ferdinand Parow was born on 1 March 1833 in a Province of…
PlaceNdabeni
… The racially segregated suburb of Ndabeni was established in about May 1901 near Maitland,North of Pinelands and some 8 kilometres East of the city centre. …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… African people begin to settle in South Africa. Hundreds of years later the first Europeans set foot on South African … 4 to 1.5 million years ago. 3 000 000…
PlaceTimour Hall Primary School, Plumstead
… In the early 1900’s land was set aside by the owners at Timour Hall Estate for the establishment of a school. The first structure was a wood and iron…
PlaceIrene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
… Camp was built with the intention that it would be one of the camps that would house Boer woman and children, driven from their land by the British "scorched…
Afrikaans Community 1652-1795
… was sent to the Cape to establish a station at which ships of the United Dutch Chartered East Indian Company could … Khoina. First contact with Blacks would…
France in 1789
… or society. A political revolution happens when a group of people rebel against the existing government and attempt … An economic revolution takes place when…
ANC hits back at Jimi Matthews
… for his decision while others say it’s an outrageous act. “We would have expected better conduct from a very … Jimi," said ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa. "He…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
… well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid , and as a political prisoner … return. The then applicable Prohibition of…
PlaceBophuthatswana, was Previously a Homeland
… Bophuthatswana's capital city was Mmabatho and 99% of its population was Tswana speaking. This new country's … to be declared an independent state outside…
PlaceClearwater, Now Known as Griquastad- in the Northern Cape
… In 1801, William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer , of the London Missionary Society, established a Missionary … little better than their first, and for many…
PlaceFourteen Streams
… been commissioned by the Cape Government, powers of construction were transferred to the British South Africa … Salisbury in Rhodesia. On 16 October 1899 a…
PlaceKaroo Hoogland Municipality in the Karoo Region, Northern Cape
… Mountains, in the Western Cape. It falls under the domain of the Karoo Hoogland Municipality. South of the larger Karoo … Karoo occupies the Northern part…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of moderation such as petitions and deputations. In December 1949, with the support of the ANC Youth…
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … in the law above referred to against Indians owning land in…