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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
PlaceAir Force Museum, Port Elizabeth
… This museum depicts the history of the South African Air Force and houses a collection of old aircraft, missiles, uniforms, aeronautical displays and…
EventMac Maharaj is born
… (Mac) Maharaj, political activist and first SA Minister of Transport in the democratically elected government in … he formulated a new policy and…
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…
PlaceJoubertina
… town in the Eastern Cape that, until the establishment of the famous and very long wine route, suffered little notoriety and languished as something of a one…
PlaceHugh Eksteen Photographic Museum, Polokwane-Limpopo
… to be 91 years old. This talented photographer was the son of Jacomina Hendrina van der Poel and his physician, … settle down in the Town that was once…
PlaceKamastone and Bulhoek
… The Cape government established the settlement of Kamastone in the Queenstown area, in 1854. In 1874 the … that people who were living there had to be given…
Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay, 12 August 1908
… James Ramsay Macdonald Esq., M.P. House of Parliament, London. Dear Sir, We were surprised & … that nothing seems to have been done in the matter of our…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… Newspaper proprietors and editors of all the main South African newspapers, both English and … operate under state authority and administer a strict code of…