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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…
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…
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…
38. The Natal Franchise Bill, 1894: Do not make our sons pariahs
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Franchise Law Amendment Bill of 1894 sought…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… 1958, we came to trial. The government wanted us out of Johannesburg this time, to avoid huge crowds of Africans thronging the court precincts, as there had…
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…
EventRaymond Dart completes work on Taung skull
… rock at a mine near Taung, a village 400 miles southwest of Johannesburg . When Raymond Dart , an anatomy professor at the University of Witwatersrand in…
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…
PlaceGriquatown
… In 1802 William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer, of the London Missionary Society, established a station among … little better than their first, and for many…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
… For the last few weeks millions of fevered eyes have been fixed on South Africa, host to the … ends next weekend. For half a century the probing gaze of the…
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… Trevor Grundy writes on the life of the historian and political activist At a dinner party in … Ranger, who has died at his home in Oxford at the age of 85,…
ArchivePreface by Denis Goldberg
… interplay determined my life’s trajectory. The trajectory of my life took me through a happy childhood filled with a deep awareness of the inequalities of…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018
… what considerations he had in mind. Despite the plethora of articles and books on Nelson Mandela, little is written on … little writing attempts to unpack…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and the state of emergency , there were more than 100 sabotage attacks … innocent until proved guilty. Henceforth,…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … from the regime's racist policies and its total…
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… into a family that was fully committed to the preservation of Afrikaner nationalism. His father was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and was a…
EventMedical Association agrees to investigate Biko’s death
… that no particular person could be blamed for the death of Steve Biko . The case was then submitted to the South … (SAMDC) for further investigation. The…
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… for the first time as a legal organisation. At the time of the celebrations the ANC was under the leadership of Oliver Reginald Thambo . The government…
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… on 30 October 2002 eight bomb blasts rocked Soweto. Seven of the blasts occurred on main commuter railway lines running … More than 200,000 commuters could…
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… On 14 October 1999, the first president and father of Tanzanian independence Julius Mwalimu Nyerere died of leukaemia aged 77. Nyerere became a symbol of the…
EventPallo Jordan opens the Mbuzini Samora Machel Public Library
… On 6 October 2006, the Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, opened a community library … library was opened to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the…
PlaceBergtheil House, 16 Queen’s Avenue, Westville
… Bergtheil, this museum is situated in the leafy suburb of Westville, almost midway between Durban and Pinetown. The … floorboards. Park like surroundings…
PlacePhilippolis, Free State
… "The first Historical Settlement North of the Orange River, this Southern Free State Town also belongs to the False Karoo, a Geographical Region of dry scrub…
PlaceForts Around Pretoria
… As a direct result of the abortive Jameson Raid of 1896, the Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek realised that they would … were four forts in…
PlaceMozambique
… the past, it was mostly overlooked in the greater scheme of African safaris. The voyage of Vasco da Gama in 1498 marked the arrival of the Portuguese, which…