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EventFierce fighting erupts between pro-Patrice Lumumba troops and UN forces
… pro-Patrice Lumumba troops and United Nations (UN) forces in Congo. The fight came almost a year after parliamentary elections in May 1960, where the…
EventDesire Wilson is born
… Desiré Randall Wilson was born on 26 November 1953 in Brakpan. Wilson is a former racing driver who is one of only five women to have competed in Formula One…
EventThe Kingdom of Ashanti is formally annexed by Great Britain
… of the Gold Coast became part of the Gold Coast management in 1897. Led by Osei Tutu together with his chief priest, … Ashanti changed the constitution and…
EventZwelethu Mthethwa found guilty of murder
… a young sex worker, aged 23, on the 13th of April 2013, in Woodstock, Cape Town. Judge Patricia Goliath sentenced Mthethwa with intent in the form of dolus…
PlaceRhodes University, Grahamstown
… Rhodes University, founded in 1904, the University has a well-established reputation for … among the best undergraduate pass and graduation rates in South…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… minority regime to the people as a whole. This will usher in a new era characterised by the complete eradication of the … movement faced certain objective…
PlaceFort Klapperkop
… The walls were crenellated to make defense possible in the event of the forts being surrounded. Trenches and … embankment. By May 1986 planning had been…
PlaceEllis Park
… known by its old name Ellis Park Stadium, was constructed in 1928 and was first named for Mr J.D. Ellis who initially … Park has been the site of numerous…
EventAmerican President Ronald Reagan reverses his earlier stance on South Africa and agrees to limited sanctions
… South African governments by working with them discreetly in a strategy called "constructive engagement." In so doing it was hoped that the US would…
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony. It is published in English in the Graham's Town Journal on 2 February 1937. To … Cape Colony it is important to…
EventBritish Parliament passes the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
… but did not abolish slavery; it only prohibited the trade in human beings. Any British naval captain who was caught … stop to the British slave trade. If…
EventThe first successful non-direct blood transfusion is carried out
… to the receiver before coagulation occurred. However, in the 1910s, it was discovered that adding anticoagulant to … by the 15th-century chronicler Stefano…
PlaceCastle of Good Hope, Castle Street- Cape Town
… van Riebeeck . They erected a Fort built of sods on a site in the Table Valley, near the Beach and East of what is today … was known as: 'the Fort of Good…
ArchiveExtracts of 3 Interviews from the 1956 Women’s Anti-Pass March
… In the year, 2000, four young oral historians interviewed fourteen women who participated in the 1956 March. Here are extracts from three interviews … …
Address To The Nation On National Women’s Day, 9 August 1999
… to the advancement of women at all levels of our society. In doing this, we are alive to the harsh reality that faces women in our country today. For many…
From Resistance to Creative Mediation: Writing and Literary Intellectuals’ Influence on the Liberation Struggles and Political Impact on Literary Discourse and Developments
… Literary Discourse and Developments The write associates, in partnership with the University of the Free State, invite … and Diaspora. The commemoration of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Tomichi Murayama Tokyo, 5 July 1995
… Excellencies; Ladies and Gentlemen. Since we arrived in your beautiful country, we have been treated with the kind … Your Excellency; The support which Japan…
PlaceClifton and Camps Bay Beaches, Cape Town
… and water temperatures cold enough, but after 'baking' in the sun this does, qualify a swim! The kids who happily … Games of touch Rugby , Frisbee and Beach…
PlaceBlyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga
… One of the largest green canyons in the world, the Blyde River Canyon is a masterpiece carved … it a striking contrast to the dry canyons found elsewhere in…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… student activism and movements throughout universities in the country, stimulating political discourse within South … Maxwele’s protest, staged as a…
EventThe Comoros declared an Independent State
… Diego Ribero first claimed to have discovered The Comoros in 1505, the islands became a French colony in 1843 following a military takeover of the Mayotte…
PlaceBensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg
… to the promotion of the art and science of photography in this country. It was donated to the city in 1968 and forms part of Museum Africa . The collection ……
PlaceRhodes Cottage, Main Road, Muizenberg
… from the deceased estate of JR Reid. Historical events in the rest of South Africa kept Rhodes away from his home, and it was only in 1902 that he finally…
PlaceJonkershoek
… Berg, Lourens and Riviersonderend Rivers all start high in these mountains, although only the Eerste River actually … through the Jonkershoek Valley. The…
PlaceRoodepoort Town School, Rex Street
… The Roodepoort Town School was established in the 1890s and its premises, including a School Building and a Hall, were opened on 8 October 1913. In 1914 the…
PlaceHector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto
… 1976! Which has now become Youth Day, a public holiday in South Africa. The museum is next to the Hector Pietersen … reasons for the protests while…
Document 66 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 21 February 1937
… the letter they have sent you, battles lie ahead of us. In leading the first strike of 1937 the "counter revolutionary" Troskyites are flinging the lie in…
EventEdgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
… him from power, as he proposed legislation, which would in terms of the period; greatly extend the number of black … person trying to serve the citizenry of…
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… recognised as a republic and pursued a political course in which Blacks, Coloureds and Indians were denied the right … territories, and had no political…
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… 300 years, the new maximum-security prison was established in the early 1960s. The living conditions were, particularly in the early years, extremely bad…