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34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
… which are now sought to be imposed by the Bill in question are, in your petitioners' humble opinion, unnecessary. They are: … Officer, or other officers…
Address at the Opening of Parliament, National Assembly, Cape Town, 25 June 1999
… the millions of our people went to vote three weeks ago in peaceful elections that were free and fair, they … with all the authority at my command. What will…
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…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… some sort of milestone, or the marker of a turning point in the story. But what is it that makes 'Rivonia' - by which … special? Now, 25 years after the raid…
A Future Free of Exploitation - Address to the First Congress of MPLA by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, December 1977
… We feel genuinely proud that we are active participants in the making of African history here in Angola at this time. The heroic anti-colonial struggles of ……
Address of the President of the South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 38th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association - Africa Region Conference (CPA), Cape Town 27 July 2007
… If a question was put to all of us gathered here in Cape Town under the umbrella of the Commonwealth … Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) has…
Document 87 - “Lessons of the All-Bantu Convention”, The Spark, 2, 2, February 1936
… that the less said about it, the better. But it is not so in this case; and, however much we dislike the task of … a solution of our ills. Just the opposite…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary … Hasselblad Award, something like a Nobel for photography, in 2006. Lee…
ArchiveThoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy
… Winnie Mandela and Fatima Meer were in prison together and became close friends. Winnie wrote an … Struggle," edited by Fatima's daughter Shamim, published…
Namibia
… Black and white poster. Information campaign against rule in Namibia. Issued by Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung in Osterreich (Austria). SWAPO Logo. Photograph of a…
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to extend to you, in the name of the African National Congress, the warmest … singularly happy that you, a tested…
Chapter 4 - ‘SASO on the Attack’ : Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action
… SASO's initiatives around publishing which I deal with in the first section can be considered to be equally a form … protests and political mobilisation that…
Place'Agoada de Saldanha', Saldanha
… Early Portuguese name in 1503, of Table Bay . Meaning 'watering place of Saldanha', it was given in honour of Admiral Antonio da Saldanha who was wounded…
PlaceOppenheimer Gardens, Kimberley
… that constitute part of this heritage, contributing to it in an important way. It depicts five life-sized miners … weight of the sieve. This is a working…
PlaceKoeberg Nuclear Power Station, Cape Town
… Construction of Koeberg began in 1976 and Unit 1 was synchronized to the grid on 4 April … to the Western Cape, one of the fastest growing regions in South…
PlaceNZASM Goods Office, Railway Street, Pretoria
… by the Netherlands-South Africa Railway Co, probably in 1896, and is the largest and best remaining example of the Company's architecture in Pretoria. It was…
PlaceEmoyeni, Parktown, Johannesburg
… Emoyeni, the ‘Place in the Air’ in Nguni, is located on the highest point, of the highest ridge in Parktown, keeping its original name through the decades. …
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
… Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater, or in the atmosphere. The treaty was hailed as an important … the Soviet…
Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
… Act" was designed to curtail Indian property ownership in White areas in Natal. Natal was divided into controlled and uncontrolled … areas. The controlled…
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… was founded as an Afrikaans nationalist organisation in Bloemfontein, under leadership of Colonel J.C.C. Laas. The OB was evidence of the surging Afrikaner…
EventDr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt
… Mulder was an Afrikaans professor who became a politician. In 1958, he became a member of the National Party (NP) and … of South Africa following B.J…
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
… the headquarters of Witwatersrand Command army base in Quartz Street, Johannesburg. The attack was executed by … National Congress (ANC). Grosskopf had…
EventNoble South Africans win 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…
EventThe siege of Mafeking starts
… forces besieged the small town of Mafeking (now Mafikeng) in the Northern Cape (now North West Province), situated on … and Blacks under command of Col…
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… Wuppertal is a most attractive oasis in a very rugged wilderness, 72 km southeast of Clanwilliam … . The name ``Wuppertal" derives from the Wupper River in…