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PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… The Building, originally designed in a Cape Dutch style and is one of the oldest Farmhouses … was built by Cornelis de Waal, who purchases the Property in…
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… founder of the Bantu Women's League of South Africa, died in Johannesburg at the age of 65. In 1905 she became the first African woman from South Africa ……
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… through non-violent methods was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther shaped and articulated the … rights movement of the 1950s and…
EventJoe Slovo is born
… Congress (ANC) leader and Minister of Housing was born in Lithuania. From 1950s Slovo became a victim of the government repressive legislations. In 1954 he…
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… newspaper, Percy Qoboza, died on his fiftieth birthday in Johannesburg after having a heart attack and falling into … Apartheid regime especially after the…
EventLeendert Janszen, junior merchant of the VOC, recommends settlement at the Cape
… India Company (VOC) was established as a trading company in 1602, with the aim of monopolising trade in East Asia, in particular the spice trade. Company…
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… Swaziland were not new to conflicting claims about land. In September 1982, the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein ruled that the Presidential Proclamation issued…
PlaceFreshford House Museum, 31 Kellner Street
… middle class of the Edwardian Period that still exists in Bloemfontein. The house was designed and built by the … for himself and his wife, Kate Caroline…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 2 - The Development of a Colonial Slave Society by Wayne Dooling
… The Department of Education What were the turning points in southern Africa before colonialism? There can be little doubt that the imposition of European…
Constitution of the South African Native National Congress, September, 1919 [Extracts]
… 1. WHEREAS there existed in the Provinces of the Union of South Africa several small … of general interest to and affected the whole Bantu people in South…
ArchiveAppendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg
… Goldberg is dead. But he lives on. One of the characters in the sell-out play, “Cincinatti”, was based on Sam, who died in Johannesburg this week. Sam was…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Accepting the Deutscher Medienpreis Baden-Baden, 28 January 1999
… previous recipients with whom you bracket me. My pleasure in accepting the award is enhanced still more by the … as a tribute to the efforts of millions of…
Opening Speech at the International Solidarity Conference, on the Theme "From Apartheid to Peace, Democracy and Development" by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… allies who are tried and tested and dependable comrades-in-arms. Regrettably, President Mandela cannot be with us … the conference comes to a close. Dear…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… The time comes in the life of all oppressed peoples that some among them … able to speak to us today, observing the world we live in, he would ask to live…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… present leadership of the Natal Indian Congress took over in October 1945. The Indian people of Natal had decided to … of the old leadership, which called…
Say It out Loud - The 1910 Presidential Address, Port Elizabeth, Cape
… on which we shall meet as representatives of Colonies. In future we meet as representative inhabitants some of us … Cape, but delegates from the various…
ArchiveDirector’s Report on the Activities of the Chris Hani Institute for the period October 2012 to September 2015
… The Chris Hani Institute (CHI) was launched in 2003 to promote the values and principles practised by Chris Hani and others in their struggle to serve the…
PlaceAlbertinia, Mossel Bay- The Garden Route
… Village some 50 km West of Mossel Bay. It was laid out in 1900 on the farm Grootfontein and became a Municipality in 1920. The name is derived from the…
ArchiveSome aspects of the South African industrial revolution
… This is the seventh address in the Hoernle Memorial Lecture series deliverd by Dr. H.J. … Van Eck. He describes very clearly the economic conditions in South…
EventThe Queen Mother of Lesotho, Mamohato Bereng Seeiso dies.
… The Queen Mother Mamohato Bereng Seeiso was born in 1941. She was the youngest child of Chief Lerotholi … sent to study at Bath Training College of Home…
EventPaul Kibii Tergat Kenyan professional long distance runner is born
… Paul Kibii Tergat was born in the Rif valley Province in Kenya. Unlike many athletes, Tergat only began running after he completed high school. Early in his…
EventThe South African War field doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle is born
… The author of Sherlock Holmes and field doctor in the South African War of 1899-1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, was born at Picardy Place, Edinburgh in 1859. The…
Namibia
… Black and white poster. Information campaign against rule in Namibia. Issued by Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung in Osterreich (Austria). SWAPO Logo. Photograph of a…
PlaceSteenberg Farmstead, Tokai Road, Constantia
… known as the Zwaanswyk, was granted to Catherina Ustings in 1688 and was one of the first farms in the Western Cape. Its Cape Dutch homestead was erected in…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… name change was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local … original name for the Baakens River and…
Introduction
… Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The first set of documents in Part II relates to the legacy bequeathed by the … Indian inroads, they had the power to do so. The…
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… of captured cattle with them. The British soon followed in pursuit and on 31 March they crossed over the Keiskamma … signed on 17 September 1835 allowed the…
PlaceDurbanville
… Kraal' . On 2 September 1836 it was renamed; "D'Urban" in honour of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor of the Cape. … facilities for kids and parents alike…
Address at the SANEF Conference on the Media, the AU, NEPAD and Democracy ,12 April 2003
… African Union has committed itself to cooperate and work in partnership with the different African formations of civil … will focus on include the important…
Twentieth Anniversary of the United Nations Sanctions Resolution: Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 05 November 1982, New York
… its domination, an aggressor bent on military conquest in southern Africa. In South Africa, as the regime continues its fight for the … of its repressive…