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PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… 12th and 13th Century a wave of Bantu migration settled in the area. The prominent Bantu societies were the Fang … island of Biko, which was inhabited by the…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1947
… have decided on their part to refrain from taking part in or in any manner assisting in the celebrations in honour of the Royal visit to the Union …
EventSADF officers dismissed
… De Klerk and senior members of the government at Tuynhuys in Cape Town. He did not hand the President a report as such … horrifying allegations of the…
EventRaymond Dart completes work on Taung skull
… commonly called the Taung child , was found embedded in rock at a mine near Taung, a village 400 miles southwest … , an anatomy professor at the University…
EventSABC is allowed to broadcast Thatcher Case
… In a precedent-setting judgement, a full bench of the Cape … of Judges Van Zyl, Essa Moosa and Dan Dlodlo, ruled in favour of the request of the South…
EventSouth African cricketer, Hashim Mahomed Amla, is born
… cricket career with the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins in 1999. He had his Test debut in 2004 and his One Day International (ODI) debut in 2008. Amla is ranked…
EventWendy Botha, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… Wendy Botha was born in East London on 28 August 1965.[i] She began surfing at the … the 1985 World Championship Tour as being ranked seventh in the world…
ANC statement on Zimbabwe, 26 May 2000
… (NEC) meeting which took place from the 5 - 7th May 2000 in Johannesburg as follows; The ANC is confident that the route to follow in the Zimbabwean…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… it is noise about nothing. We have thousands of members in the ANC. When any of them offend we do something about it, … I think Chief Gatsha Buthelezi is…
PlaceJansenville, Eastern Cape
… Laid out on the Farm, Vergenoegd in 1854, it was proclaimed in 1855 and became a Municipality; the Sarah Baartman District Municipality, in 1881. Said to…
PlaceAlbert Jackson School, Port Elizabeth
… on 4 January 1963. Greenwood Primary School had its origin in the Albert Jackson Primary School which first opened its … Day ceremony is held each year. The…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… building, with its richly decorated gable, was completed in 1896 and is one of the last surviving structures of the … railway system. It was declared a…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… to the dependents of the Port Elizabeth Victims in Native Disturbance, October 23rd, 1920. 4. Wages Board as contemplated to be re-introduced in Parliament…
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… The action of the Executive of the Mine Workers' Union in calling upon the miners to scab upon the striking native … of treachery to the working class. It is…
EventBomb meant for Kangaroo Court judge, May Ledwaba kills sleeping William Ledwaba
… Ledwaba (16) was killed during a bomb attack on his home in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. In evidence furnished before the Amnesty Commission of the … serious…
Stay-away!
… Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1950 there was a big protest against this law called the … The next year there was a stay-away…
Address at the Opening of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, 31 August 2001
… South Africa and our government, I am privileged to join in welcoming you all to South Africa and to this historic … globe. We have gathered as we have,…
We are the soldiers of Sisulu by Thabo Mbeki 2003
… leave to his final resting place from the Orlando Stadium, in Soweto, where he lived for many decades, among the masses … the powers that be, by mobilising…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in August 1735. Jacobsz was a sailor from Rotterdam who … Dutch East India Company. He had been accused of…
Albert Luthuli`s message from Oslo to the South African people, 5 December 1961
… my sons and my daughters As I pace the floor of my bedroom in the Grand Hotel, Oslo, putting the final touches on my … the great Continent of Africa and when…
PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
… The gun was designed in 1865 as a broadside gun for ironclad ships and harbour … defence. A total of 190 were made. The gun was last fired in 1903.. This gun…
EventNelson Mandela is appointed the Secretary of the National Action Council
… delegates from 145 institutions. The conference was held in Pietermaritzburg. During the conference the following … on the eve of the proclamation of the…
EventNamibia gains Independence
… The request was turned down by UN, however, things changed in 1948 when the National Party came into power. The NP … defied and refused to send quarterly…
EventKing George VI is born
… who later became King George IV was born at York Cottage in Norfolk on 14 December 1895. George ascended the English … to the Commonwealth states including…
EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… Bernstein. She passes away on the 9th September 2006 in Cape Town at the age of 91 from an aneurysm. In 1932 Bernstein and her mother immigrated to South…
Testimony of Bruno Mtolo, Johannesburg (Rivonia Trial), 15 January, 1964
… Did you blow up pylons and othe government property in Durban? Mtolo: Yes, I did. Yutar: Who ordered you to … Yutar: Did you believe everything that was…
Chapter XV - House arrest
… Helen Joseph On 13 October 1962,1 became the first person in South Africa to be put under house arrest. The minister was "satisfied" that I was engaged in…
South African Tragedy: Jail Part Lovers by Joseph Lelyveld (New York Times), 5 January 1983
… Aggett had been a couple for the better part of a decade. In that time, they both became doctors, then followed … not always shared. Often they were so…
Journal of Black Theology
… The Journal of Black Theology in South Africa published by the Black Theology Project in Pretoria is a scholarly publication dedicated to the … of African…
EventANC leader Wilton Mkwayi born
… and acting leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) was born in Middledrift in the Transkei . He was the eldest child in a family of thirteen. He was arrested and…