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BiographySimon van der Stel
… four sons initially resided in the old Governor’s house before relocating to their private quarters at the Castle in …
BiographyNongqawuse
… through her. In conclusion, Nongqawuse’s true identity before she saw the two strangers by the Gxarha River remains …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… the regime that unless all the obstacles are removed on or before 30 April 1991, the ANC shall consider the suspension … Nelson Mandela.She challenged her…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
[Dr. Jadwat is from Natal; probably from Isipingo and later Durban. He was a student at Sastri College in Durban. [A.I. Kazi, leader of the Natal Indian…
EventSA poet Sydney Vernon Peterson dies
Sydney Vernon Petersen, one of the prominent South African poets and educationist of the 1940s, died in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… Broederbond . He resigned due to ill health at the end of 1940. Throughout the war support for the HNP increased and …
EventGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, SA minister of education since 2004, is born in Durban
… 1997. Pandor worked as a teacher in London and Botswana before joining the University of Cape Town as a senior … Africa's genocide case against Israel at…
EventStompie Seipei's murderer goes to jail
… The Rand Supreme Court sentences Jerry Richardson to death for the murder … some closure was reached when Winnie Mandela accepted, before the Truth and…
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… disease at Herschel, near Aliwal North in Transkei. Even before the plague struck, Dr Soga was the first amongst his …
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… times, he would be allowed to rehearse his play but just before opening night, the government would issue him with a …
PlaceOld General Post Office, Grand Central, Cape Town
… lofty General Post Office building. It was completed in 1940 on the site of the old Opera House. The exterior …
PlaceCiskei
… or the traditional inkundla (local assemblies) system. Before colonial rule these were autonomous and their … , local assembly authority was subject to the…
PlacePilrig House, 1 Rockridge Road, Parktown, Johannesburg
… way many early Johannesburgers built their houses. Those before them, the Voortrekkers, had built their houses using … wooden slates below the roof. There…
PlaceThe Fourth Raadsaal, Bloemfontein
… these Premises were provisional, it took another 20 years before the Government was able to build its own Building, … Chamber and its suite of rooms were…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… Africa has also cast light on our history as human beings. Before we look at the Hominid discoveries in South Africa and … the point of view of the writer or…
EventThe New English Bible is published.
… to compile the Revised English Version only began in the 1940’s. A team of experts was organized and the process of …
A Political Reflection By John Fikile Block
… Isaka Seme from 1930-1936, ZR Mahabane`s second from 1937-1940, AB Xuma from 1940-1949, James Moroka from 1949-1952, Albert Luthuli from …
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… days of giving evidence to cover all that we wanted to put before the court and it seemed that their lordships became mighty tired … could challenge it. It…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… democratic elections, George Hallett’s work began long before his involvement with the African National Congress … his work in District Six , where he…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… in Magistrates and the police. We may well hope to see before long African Magistrates and Commissioners in the … needed education in the use of the land he…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… that it was already seen as of historic importance before either the COP took place or the Freedom Charter was … he had been mulling over the idea for a few…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… the SA Railway and Harbour Workers Union in the 1930s. In 1940 the Co-ordinating Committee of African Trade Unions was … Moses Mayekiso , who would complete…
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
On 12 May 1968, South African academic, African National Congress (ANC) politician, and Botswana's first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, Zachariah…
EventActivist and Journalist, Robert Resha dies in exile
Robert Resha was an activist, journalist and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). As an activist, he strived for a non-racial, non-sexist, just and…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… 1903 Moving pictures had been showing for several years before the production of dramatic films were undertaken. By … Amateur Rolprent Organisasie, was…
My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016
… The Con, publishes an edited excerpt from Constitutional Court Judge Edwin Cameron’s autobiography, Justice: A … received. I needed it. By now I was a judge…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… as a medical doctor at the Royal College in Edinburgh. Before Dadoo leaves for South Africa, he visits Krishna … He spends a month in Johannesburg and then…
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… November 1962. "I do not believe, Your Worship, that this court, in inflicting penalties on me for the crimes for which … deter my people or the colleagues…
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… Vlakte is shown in the building. Other iniquities occurred before the institution of Apartheid – on 27 June 1940 students from Dagbreek Men’s Residence …
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… judicial system including a powerful Constitutional Court. An entire chapter is devoted to the establishment of … parties that were at war with each other…