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PlaceBerg River
… The Great Berg river used to be navigable for a distance of about 45 km from its mouth and, during the 1880's, it was accessible to a variety of Schooners…
Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa
… back to the year 1986. In this year the Organisation of African Unity, which had accepted that one of its responsibilities, was decolonisation, the end of…
PlaceDoornkop/Doornsluiten
… in 1954. The farm was owned by a White man and comprised of the SADT land and Black freehold farms. The homesteads, of the people of Doornkop, were…
PlaceJunction Avenue Theatre
… 1976, and it was organised and conceptualised by a group of White students from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in a bid to create ……
PlaceIsipingo, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… About 20 km South of Durban City Central, lies Isipingo, an Area blessed with a fascinating mix of Cultures and a unique History. This vibrant Town is ……
PlaceCathcart District, Eastern Cape
… The District of Cathcart was created in January 1877, and it was raised to … base was largely agrarian, but despite the fertile nature of its soil, the…
Speech by President Mandela at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Celebration, 25 April 1998, KwaDukuza
… inhloko yadi' amadoda! His Majesty the King, The Mayor of KwaDukuza, Mr Siyanda Mhlongo, My brother, uMntwana … peace and unity with you, as you pay tribute…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Bridglal Pachai The Asiatic Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill of…
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … who was a Coloured by pushing the same pen into…
ArchiveInterview with Shaeera Kalla, former SRC president at Wits University, interviewed by Kyla Mc Nulty
… we were taught was, this led me to do reading outside of what was prescribed. During my first year at Wits I joined … decision to once more entrench the…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
… When I was freed after 22 years I had spent 45 per cent of my life inside the walls. Now I have been outside the … again longer than I was behind the walls…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… me so long to find the road to what must surely be one of the highest peaks of my whole life. On that day I walked with seven other women at the head of a…
EventEdenburg is founded
… to build a church. The initial application for recognition of Edenburg as a town was rejected by the Volksraad, but … Municipal status was only attained in…
EventSouth Africa readmitted to United Nations
… For South Africa this date signaled the end of decades of international isolation . The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) recalled resolution 48…
EventDRC President Laurent Kabila is assassinated
… On 16 January 2001, Laurent Kabila President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was killed by gunshot. According to reports Kabila was shot by one of…
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Policy of Apartheid of the Government of South Africa (Special Committee Against Apartheid) …
EventDr. Hendrik Verwoerd announces his plan to grant Transkei independence
… proposed for Xhosa people under the apartheid policy of separate development. The Transkei was to have its own … foreign affairs and justice would remain in…
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… Federation of South African Women (FSAW or FEDSAW) President and the … petrol bombed. Her second ban followed the re-emergence of FEDSAW. Through her…
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… French, Dutch, Polish, Hindi and Zulu. The collected works of Jonker, including several short stories and a play, were … published in 1975 and re-issued in…
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… French colonization, Ivory Coast came under the leadership of Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Known as the father of independence, he had formed the first…
EventBambatha Rebellion
… took place near Greytown in KwaZulu-Natal. The first signs of discontent started at the end of 1905, when government introduced a new £1 poll tax on top of…
EventDavid Livingstone “discovers” Lake Nyasa
… Livingston was a renowned explorer, doctor and missionary. Of course, he is most remembered for his exploits as an … consul at Quelimane (now in Mozambique)…
"Form united front now": Interview with Albert Luthuli, 5 May 1962
… to forming a broad united front so as to rouse the whole of South Africa against "the fascist measure." Response "I am … Dennis Hurley, Dr. Alan Paton, Mr. P…
PlaceMorocco
… Mountainous country of western North Africa, Morocco borders Algeria to the east … to extensive migration and has long been the location, of urban…
Artist. Activist. Historian. This man is preserving the past to protect the future (beautifulnews.co.za)
… Art is an act of resistance. It asserts our agency. Omar Badsha has … identified not only as an artist, but an activist for most of his life. Born in 1945,…
PlaceOld House Museum, 31 Diakonia Street, Durban
… 1849 it was purchased by John Goodrick who, with the help of his son, built a two-roomed wattle and daub cottage upon … it to George Robinson in 1858…
PlaceSouth African Library, Cape Town
… The National Library of South Africa, as we know it today, was formed on 1 November 1999 as a result of the amalgamation of the two former National libraries…
EventPeter Mokaba is born
… He was born under the cruel injustices and violence of the Apartheid system. His parents, Albert and Priscilla, … Hwiti High School in Mankweng, he became a…
EventWorld Aids Day is internationally observed for the first time
… Following the January 1988 meeting of Health Ministers in London, a decision was taken that 1 … that, unlike other pandemics such as malaria, the spread of…
EventHajara Ibrahim appears before a Nigerian Islamic court to launch an appeal against her conviction for adultery
… Sharia law refers to a body of Islamic religious laws and deals with aspects of everyday life, such as politics, banking, family, … Since 1999, 12 states…