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PlaceOld Lutheran Church, Kroondal
… German speaking farmers, artisans and entrepreneurs living in and around the village of Kroondal, on 2 August 1896. By that time a church had already been…
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… involved the Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of South Africa. White settlement led to the … was the general dissatisfaction with…
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… the Minister of Defence and leader of the National Party in the Cape Province as new Prime Minister and Party leader. … that had rocked the Department of…
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon’s previous ‘Jesus’ comments
… In early 1966 John Lennon was reading about Christianity and … me." The comment was typically provocative and was ignored in Britain. Only five months later…
PlaceFicksburg
… The town was founded by General Johan Fick in 1867 who won the territory in the Basotho Wars. Ficksburg is situated in the Eastern Free State between the…
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… wish to draw your attention to the dangerous implications in the resolutions on in farm labour which will be moved at a special congress of the Transvaal…
PlaceWorld War Cenotaph
… Road, is a Memorial to 400 of Kimberley’s Men who died in the Great War (World War I) between 1914 and 1918. … on 11 November 1918, the Peace Treaty was…
EventThree MK soldiers found guilty
… them. Cornered, they ducked into a Volkskas Bank branch in Silverton, on the eastern edge of Pretoria, and took 25 … President Vorster, the release of Nelson…
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… The student-led protests in Soweto in 1976 known as the Soweto Uprising claimed many lives and left many injured. The protests began in Soweto schools and…
EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
… National Congress (ANC), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 for advocating non-violent resistance to racial discrimination in South Africa. Though the…
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… writer and social historian Bessie Amelia Head was born in Pietermaritzburg. Being the daughter of a White mother … stage because she was too Black and she…
EventFormer Minister of Public Works, Thoko Didiza, is born
… Angela Thoko Didiza was born in Durban in 1965. Didiza became Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs in 1999 and in 2006 she became Minister of Public…
Statement at the 25th Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 24 – 26 July 1989
… on behalf of the ANC, its leaders and members and in the name of the millions of the struggling people of South … of the outstanding leaders of Africa who…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 79th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1991
… justice and peace. This past year marked a turning point in our struggle for the liberation of our people from the … of forces within our country has shifted…
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela, at the European parliament Strasbourg, 13 June 1990
… pain which derives from the knowledge that we left behind in prison, some of the best sons and daughters of our people, … dared to raise their voices to…
83. South African Indian Council elections, November 1981: To vote or not to vote
… out of a total of 350 000 eligible voters registered in order to vote in the elections of 4 November 1981. Forty candidates in Natal, Transvaal and the Cape…
Message by Oliver Tambo to the Soweto rally to welcome released leaders, 29 October 1989
… who have suffered from the daily violence inherent in the apartheid system. Celebrate Freedom, Life, Humanity … ideology of white supremacy from the kraals…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… to a short life and died at the age of 48. Relatively late in life, after supplementing his poor school education by … was a global mission to be achieved,…
Address at the Commonwealth Business Forum, Johannesburg 9 November 1999
… Ladies and Gentlemen: I am honoured to join others in welcoming you to this second meeting of the Commonwealth … As you know, the inaugural meeting of the…
60. Congress and the Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927
… it sent a delegation to the Non-European Conference, held in Kimberley on 23 June 1927. It refrained, however, from … within your knowledge that at a meeting…
We Shall Win - Statement at the Meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid to launch the International Anti-Apartheid year by O. R. Tambo, New York, 21 March 1978
… to an end with the defeat of Nazi Germany and her allies. In this period many of the wounds inflicted during that … and peace-loving peoples who have thus…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… commissioner Mulangi Mphego flirted with Kuzwayo in the safe house in which she was staying and asked her to sit on his lap. … sex with Zuma; and - The night…
Briefing to organisation of African Unity Kampala, September 8, 1990
… (In a speech to the fifth session of the OAU Ad Hoc Committee … Africa, Nelson Mandela dealt with the wave of violence in South Africa, and said that certain…
Document 16 - F. W. de Klerk’s speech at the opening of Parliament
… framework develop a conceptual paper for discussion in the Alliance and the Federation; Convene an Alliance … of the programme and clear timelines. Reach an…
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… there may be a so-called Right wing, Centre and Left wing in the Congress. To me it is a healthy sign in any organisation when people freely express their…
Say It out Loud - The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1st January, 1912
… then it is time that they, the Coloured races, state in precise terms what line of action they will pursue in the future. Such action on their part, whether…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on 16 June 1984
… call to the entire democratic movement of our country in all its formations and shades of opinion. The last ten … acts of desperation. During the last three…
Statement on June 16 by O. R. Tambo, 1984
… call to the entire democratic movement of our country in all its formations and shades of opinion. The last ten … acts of desperation. During the last three…
PlaceGroutville
… from its founding father Reverend Aldin Grout who arrived in Natal with his wife Charlotte in 1836. Reverend Aldin Grout was part of the American Board ……
Statement of the Alliance Political Council, 13 October 2009
… its ordinary meeting yesterday, the 12th October 2009, in Johannesburg at Luthuli House, ANC Headquarters. The … of the alliance, and confirm that the…