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EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… The first violence during the Defiance Campaign erupted in New Brighton, near Port Elizabeth . According to reports … retreated from the station and surged…
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
… Act. At the time Mazwai was a journalist with the Sowetan. In the early 1980s the Nationalist Party government was … flowing from the unrest that had gripped…
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… South African artists. It is the only museum of its kind in the Free State and one of the youngest art museums in the country. Oliewenhuis was designed by…
PlacePampierstad
… or Tswana word meaning Help/Assistance) was established in the former homeland of Bophuthatswana in the late 1960's. It was located 31 km North-West of Jan ……
PlaceTwo Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town Waterfront
… The Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town is all about fun and entertainment, for Adults … rare seahorses, and colorful clownfish. Immerse yourself in the…
PlaceTransvaal Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History
… The City's natural history museum, founded in 1892, serves as the home of "Mrs Ples" and includes … the Staatsmuseum of the ZAR on the 1st of December 1892. …
ArchivePostage stamps: second quarter 1990
… White background. Yellow scrollwork in four corners. Grey oval in centre containing replicas of postage stamps issued in Southern African countries in 1990…
Call for papers - “Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ "Ukuzika kukaMendi": The Mendi Centenary Conference
… Act of 1913, as a reason why these men left their homes in rural South Africa to contribute to the war effort. It … Edward Krune Mqhayi, Solomon T. Plaatje,…
PlaceHistorical core of Wynberg Village
… for British civil servants returning from tours of duty in India. It remains an area of considerable architectural … sarie, her shop chockful of ice-creams…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
… whether there are going to be buses or food supplies in the township, or whatever. I often think they secretly … last week. There were ten children left, all…
EventDaniel Arap Moi is elected President of Kenya
… Daniel Arap Moi was elected President of Kenya in what would be his twentieth year in office since his swearing in, in 1978 following the death of Mzee Jomo…
Archive`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement
… stop an oppressed people determined to win their freedom. In the face of unprecedented intimidation by the government … Conference. Factory and office…
A Farewell To Madiba! National Assembly, Cape Town, March 26,1999.
… have known fear and learnt to conquer it. You have marched in front when comfort was in the midst of the ranks You have laughed to contend against … And now…
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
… to another? I don't know whether it was abrupt. It came in... the wake of Sharpeville, when people had protested … peacefully and... people were killed. Most…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Special Sitting of the Senate of the Republic of Chile: Valparaiso, June 8, 2005
… on the eastern shores of the vast Atlantic Ocean. Even in the mind's eye we can see that the Mediterranean waters … Chile disguises the fact that historical…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the Celebration of Workers Day, Swellendam, Western Cape, 1 May 2006
… relax and enjoy themselves; and not spend too many hours in public meetings. I am not going to be long so that we can … Trade Unions) for making it possible…
New Book | Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy edited by Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs
… Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs Foreword by Achille Mbembe In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy , twenty … strengthening and broadening today’s…
PlacePeddie
… Peddie is a small town in the Amathole district of the Eastern Cape province of … rivers, which had previously been annexed to the Cape in 1829. On 8 March…
PlaceLadysmith
… the Central and Northern Drakensberg. Tourists staying in the Drakensberg should consider visiting this town while spending time in the Drakensberg. In the…
Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson
… must be heard, and old fighters given their rightful place in the annals of struggle in this country. As one of the first generation of … has left deep…
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… minister P. W. Botha gathered business leaders together in a conference at the Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg. Here he announced his plan to launch the ……
PlacePakhuis Pass
… Pass (R364) is a spectacular 26.4 km paved mountain pass in South Africa's Western Cape , connecting Clanwilliam with … Leipoldt 's grave. Construction on…
PlaceWorkers’ Museum, Johannesburg
… of Life as a Migrant Worker, found at the Worker’s Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg , was master-minded by Henry Paine, … any aspect of this tragic practice…
EventPresident P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison
… had been serving since the conclusion of the Rivonia Trial in 1964. The condition of his release is that he renounces … and violent protest, as a means to…
EventAir France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda
… route from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked after a stopover in Athens. The four hijackers were members of the Popular … for the Liberation of Palestine and…
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, issues a Unilateral Declaration of Independence
… minister of the self-governing British colony of Rhodesia in 1964. In keeping with the postwar trend toward de-colonisation, … Smith illegally declared…
EventDr. Federik Van Zyl Slabbert leads delegation to meet ANC
… meet with the then-banned African National Congress (ANC) in Dakar, Senegal. Delegates were drawn from academic, … this ground-breaking meeting is regarded…
EventYoweri Kaguta Moseveni becomes president of Uganda
… since it attained its independence from British rule in 1962. In December 1980 Apollo Milton Obote, from the Uganda … the UPC had doctored the election…
EventTrojan Horse Massacre Memorial unveiled
… 2005, Heritage Day, the Trojan Horse Memorial was unveiled in Athlone as a remembrance of the three victims who were … growing desperation to quell social…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet Division
… of delimitation. When William Burchell visited the region in April 1812 he commented that: "The village of Graaf-Reinet … advantages, as well as its…