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When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… A short, well-dressed 44-year-old man of the southern African Barolong tribe stood at the American … It stated the bearer was a British national and a…
PlaceDefence Force HQ, Pretoria- Artillery Barracks
… The first annexation of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek by Sir Theophilus Shepstone in 1877 led to the establishment of a military camp on the present…
PlaceAluin Krantz West, a Farm Near Alexandria
… Located in the Sundays River Valley, in the District of Cacadu District Municipality, Eastern Cape. Aluin Krantz … elevation Above Sea Level is; 199 metres…
PlaceAkkoordskop, a Hill in the Western Cape
… The ‘Mauritius’ was one of the sea vessels, sent from the Netherlands, to find a … It was captained by Cornelius de Houtman. The journal of their Sea journey…
PlacePearson Conservatorium and Prince Alfred’s Guard Memorial, St Georges Park, Port Elizabeth
… The Conservatory was designed and erected by Boyd & Son, of Paisley, in Scotland, who dismantled the original building … Elizabeth, where it was re-erected…
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… by South African forces on 11 August 1963*. This was one of the first instances of across border abductions in this period, dating from the early 1960s when…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches, first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South…
EventBasutoland (now Lesotho) becomes British territory
… Moshoeshoe is credited as "the father of the Basotho people" as he was responsible for the creation of Lesotho (The Basotho Kingdom), and the drawing…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… Ottilie Abrahams was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable personalities of contemporary Namibia. She led through example as a … a new generation. During…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… 29 May [1943] Document 4 - B.M. Kies "The Background of Segregation", Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD … Committee, Bulletin Number One [1943]…
”Report on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee” by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted the following resolution regarding the Pan … In the meantime, Tanzania and Zambia…
ArchiveReport on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted the following resolution regarding the Pan … In the meantime, Tanzania and Zambia…
Chapter X - Final word
… Side by Side by Helen Joseph Right up to the morning of 1 July, I did not know what to expect. Even before the … speak again. I waited that last month,…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
… like to state in my preliminary remarks that the overthrow of the hated and criminal policies that prevails in South Africa requires first that the worst…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
… like to state in my preliminary remarks that the overthrow of the hated and criminal policies that prevails in South Africa requires first that the worst…
PlaceFranschhoek Motor Museum
… a special opportunity to look back at more than 100 years of motoring History with its unique and exciting collection of vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles and…
Place'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay
… Bartholomew Dias and his crew landed with his men on 3rd of February 1488, but Mossel Bay's History can be traced back, with the help of Archaeological…
PlaceClanwilliam, Stellenbosch District
… for its rooibos tea and oranges. Situated at the foot of the Cedarberg Range where the Dissels River flows into the … in September 1964. The District…
ANC AND 1999 ELECTION NOMINATION LIST
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions COSATU has taken a firm stand that the federation will not be drawing up a list of its own people to be given to…
Time for ANC members to speak out when democracy is at stake by Denis Goldberg (Sunday Times), 17 April 2016
… Members of the party can no longer follow party orders to remain … the national executive committee for silence in the ranks of the ANC is precisely the…
Biographical Introduction
… effort to compile a reasonably accurate and complete set of biographies. In the first instance, no detailed biographical survey of this important group has…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… Development of Langa location In the course of the Inter War Years the regulations of the 1902 Location Act were expanded to create a more … 26 September…
PlaceSignal Hill
… The Settlement at the Cape of Good Hope was founded by the Dutch in 1652 and the signal guns were originally part of the regular artillery at the Imhoff…
EventAdriaan Vlok is born
… Former South African minister of law and order, Adriaan Johannes Vlok, was born in … Cape Province. He started his career in the department of justice at the…
EventLiberia is established
… On 26 July 1847 the Liberian Declaration of Independence was signed and Liberia became a sovereign nation. The story of Liberia is different from other…
PlaceCaledon, Cape Overberg
… road in the Overberg region in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, located about 113 Kilometres (70 mi) east of Cape Town next to mineral-rich hot…
PlaceTimour Hall Primary School, Plumstead
… by the owners at Timour Hall Estate for the establishment of a school. The first structure was a wood and iron building consisting of two classrooms. On…
PlaceIrene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
… Camp was built with the intention that it would be one of the camps that would house Boer woman and children, driven … earth" policy. This policy dictated…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches, first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South…
EventSADF officers dismissed
… State President F.W. de Klerk announced that 23 members of the South African Defence Force (SADF), including two … forcibly retired or suspended. This…