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Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… and resolutions of the All African Convention (AAC) take place. It is agreed that All African inhabitants of the union … The All African Convention (AAC) of…
PlaceSAAF Memorial and Museum
… had to later withdraw. Mr RF McGAW was appointed in his place. The design for the Memorial allowed for a small … of Johannesburg, with McLennan & Zeffert in…
PlaceThe Durban Centre for Photography
… the eThekwini Municipal Region entails photographs of the city in an attempt to understand urbanization patterns and … a collaboration of DCP’s urbanity…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… in the early 1940s to carve out a living in the big city. She was the cousin of African National Congress (ANC) … June 1958. She too came from the country,…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… also in plain clothes, waited before stripping the place of whatever they interpreted “as contraband” in line … affording the police sweeping powers to…
PlaceKyalami Grand Prix Circuit
… Love, having led most of the race, finishing in second place. Jim Clark (Lotus) won his final Grand Prix at the … from Sunset to The Esses was retained and…
Event270 workers charged with Marikana Massacre
… charges were connected with the fateful event that took place on the 16 August 2012,whereby the South African police … they confront or attack the police and…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… The government ignored the request and the strike took place. The National Party government reacted quickly and … MK was formed in 1961, and the first acts…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… had been created by the apartheid system. There was no place for retaliation in the new society that emerged after … Committee, who investigated human rights…
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… which was weaker in Germany than in Italy, lost its place. Hitler's secret police, called the SS (short for … against Jews. Several anti-Semitic policies…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… 1906 11 September, A mass meeting of Indians took place at the Empire Theatre in Johannesburg in connection … to repeal the Act as long as voluntary…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… When they were arrested, other Indians simply took their place. The campaign continued for several months and the … end, a particularly well publicised act…
PlaceCape Town International Convention Centre
… was formed in 1999 through collaboration between the City of Cape Town, the Provincial Government of the Western … its varied purposes. The complex is right…
PlaceKhami Ruins, Zimbabwe
… is located to the west of the Khami River, 22 km from the City of Bulawayo. The property, located on a 1300 m hilltop … (10 km distant), and the polluting…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… winner, securing 66.37% of the votes cast. Voting took place in some parts of Western Cape but not in the … Tutu , begins its first formal hearings in the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo, on behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the closing session of the seventh summit meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African states, 02 December 1988, Arusha
… arrangements provided for our stay and our work. The city of Arusha, surrounded by nature`s beauty, is world … Distinguished Delegates Our meeting is taking…
Statement, on Behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the Closing Session of the Seventh Summit Meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States, Arusha by O. R. Tambo, 1 - 2 December 1988
… arrangements provided for our stay and our work. The city of Arusha, surrounded by nature's beauty, is world … Distinguished Delegates Our meeting is taking…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… of the Boere in the seventeenth century: but also the city that resisted Nazi anti-Semitism and which now stands … where assessment, discussion and forward…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… with the fight for social justice. If he spoke of his place in the struggle, his narrative would have been in the … a stone’s throw from the Johannesburg…
ArticleThe Cabinet Reshuffle of 2017
… their powers and functions, and may dismiss them” [1] City Press’ Rapule Tabane reports that the president of the …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… defied apartheid laws in Johannesburg and other major city centres. The defiers who began the campaign did so with …
EventSouth Africa concludes an agreement with the Marconi Company for a high
… at the Great Empire Exhibition. In 1926, developments took place to build an Imperial Wireless Chain around the world, … Imperial Beam system, and Marconi…
EventThe Nelson Mandela Museum is opened in Mthatha
… The Mvezo visitor’s centre situated at Mandela’s birth place offers visitors a glimpse into his early childhood. The Qunu Youth Centre, situated in the place…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… supposed to be fired. Nevertheless, fierce fighting took place intermittently between March and June. In this period, … dimension to resistance against…
ArchiveGeneral History of Africa Collection
… by Europe and America known as the slave trade was put in place and lasted throughout these three centuries. Volume … Nineteenth Century until the 1880s…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… and Benin. Nok sculpture Louvre Image Source 814 BC The city of Carthage is established by Phoenicians from Tyre. The … Egypt. The Great Lighthouse of…
PlaceFisantekraal, Cape Winelands
… RDP houses to have been built in a partnership between the City of Cape Town and a non-for-profit company called: ' Greenville Garden City '. Some residents…
PlaceVanderbijlpark
… banks of the Vaal River . It is considered an industrial city in the Gauteng province of South Africa, known for its … town was proclaimed in 1949. Despite…
Say It out Loud - The 1939 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 11th April, 1939
… offspring of the union of these two, has usurped its place. True learning is in course of liquidation; frank, … South Africa meet together here today…
Addis Video Art Festival to Cape Town Hosted by ALMA MARTHA
… Ababa, Ethiopia. The festival will screen throughout the city in a variety of locations including street corners, …