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Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry
… 20 years later - and by supreme irony - the ceremony took place not at Senate House but at Buckingham Palace when … Mandela was in Britain on a State Visit…
PlacePotchefstroom
… House and various Churches worth visiting. The Edwardian City Hall, together with that of Krugersdorp , is the oldest existing City Hall, North of the Vaal…
PlaceNelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Eastern Cape
… Route . It is sometimes referred to as: the "friendly city" or the "water sport capital of Africa". Nelson Mandela … breeding colony of the African Penguin …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… the opposition to the system of Black authorities takes place in the Transkei. 14 March, The defense team opens their … A Nation-wide Stay-At-Home, organized…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) takes place in Cape Town and the party’s manifesto is adopted. The … Act of 1920. June, The third conference of…
PlaceMauritania
… of its people live in Nouakchott , the capital and largest city, situated between the dunes and the ocean. Mauritania is … https://www.britannica.com/place…
EventThato Madonsela, the South African rapper is born
… in South Africa.[i] L-Tido released his first mixtape “City of Gold” in 2009, for which he received the “Most Gifted …
EventPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka sworn in as UN- Women Executive Director
… 2013 at United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York City, presided over by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. She was …
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… and Theatre Association as well as a member of the city council. Visser is considered quite important in the …
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… to flee the country when Tanzanian troops took the capital city Kampala. Note: *it must be noted that this date is …
EventThe apartheid government agrees to eliminate racial segregation in theatres but not in cinemas
… legislation designed to create the new 'apartheid (apart) city' were enacted, namely the Population Registration Act …
EventNelson Mandela is free
… lined by thousands of supporters. On the balcony of the City Hall he spoke to a crowd of approximately 50 000 people, …
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… the Old Court House Museum, just a stone’s throw from the City Hall, where the background and development of Natal’s … place …
English Settlement in South Africa
… based in Cape Town was appointed. The Dutch name of the city Riebeeckstad (Riebeeck’s Town) was eliminated as the …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… a job at the Social Welfare Division of the Johannesburg City Council but does not work there long. She then gets a …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… also meant that there were working structures already in place that could support the knowledge, skill and investment … below. 3.1 Urbanization and the…
PlaceThe Space
… of its’ Founding Members and supported by the Cape Town City Council, Inner City Development Programme. Currently, The Space Theatre has … place …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of His Inauguration and the 10th Anniversary of Freedom, Pretoria, 27 April 2004
… much that is ugly and repulsive in human society. It was a place in which happiness could only break through in short … streaking across our skies like a…
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… AI Kajee, PR Pather and SR Naidoo. This meeting took place on 18 April 1944 and out of it emerged the Pretoria …
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
… he migrated from the poverty-stricken countryside to the city. He lived in Cape Town in a “native location”. He … the politics of national liberation, then…
PlaceMahaking, formerly known as Mafikeng
… the town became Mafikeng. The name in English means "place of rocks". In Setswana , Lefika means rock and Mafika … is a plural. The eng at the end of Mafik…
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… springing from emotion, knocking deliberation aside. The city is Johannesburg, the country South Africa, and the time … only as an appendage of the social…
ANC NEC meets (30th November, - 2 December 2001), 29 November 2001
… Congress National Executive Committee Meeting will take place at an undisclosed venue around Johannesburg from … state of the tripartite alliance. The NEC…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… before or on 29 February 1952, and if this does not take place a mass contravention of such legislation will be … in the Defiance Campaign and said that he…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 European Societies
… 19 June 2020), Available at: https://www.britannica.com/place/Baltic-Sea [27] Ibid. [28] Ibid. [29] Author Unknown, … 19 June 2020), Available at: https:/…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… said the province advertises in many newspapers, including City Press.? 7 August 2011 Essop Pahad breaks all business … 2016 a meeting between Mcebisi Jonas…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Zoutpansberg
… to a shop and warehouse. In 1981 the then Pietersburg City Council decided to restore the building by rebuilding … place …
EventEvelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Germany
… bassoonist Werner Eichler, a member of the Cape Town City Orchestra, she came to South Africa in 1964. She was …
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… 1958 to 1960, she worked as a journalist for the Golden City Post and Drum magazine. At the beginning of 1960, she …
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
… Colonel Mahon and Lord Roberts fought their way into the city and lifted the siege. The British forces were dubbed …