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EventParliament addresses Soweto Protests
… Following the onset of the Soweto Uprising the previous day, Parliament met in an Extraordinary Session at the request of the leader of opposition, Colin…
EventArmistice negotiations are concluded during the First Anglo-Boer War
… Paving the way for the end of Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence or First Transvaal War), a provisional … armistice was agreed upon by General…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… As a result, craft workers were deskilled and many of their jobs fell away. New workers, black and white, took over more and more of the productive work…
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… The Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Sam Dlamini was hacked to death by a group of youths, and doused in petrol and burned. The riots were in … poor education…
EventNP Natal Congress agrees to multiracial membership
… With the wind of change powerfully blowing in South Africa, the National Party under the leadership of young but politically experienced F.W de Klerk, called…
EventPretoria disputes compensation for Gaborone raid
… The government of South Africa disputed compensation claims from the government of Botswana for damages caused by the July 1985 South African Defence Force…
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
… King Leopold II of Belgium handed over the Congo to the Belgian state on this … undertaken to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa…
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… an invading military force. Consequently, towards the end of the 18th century, the area saw the construction of a number of fortifications, first at the foot…
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… The chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and … beyond the Koedoesberg along the Riet River, southwest of Kimberley,…
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Railway Siding 16 km west of Greytown, on the route to Kranskop. It was named in honour of Wilhelm Ahrens, Principal from 1880 to 1906 of the School at…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… as the subsequent owner) regarding the use, or purchase of the church near Friedebrug. The congregation found … to the congregation's dire financial…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Early Writings
… Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 1. A. M. LEMBEDE, "The Importance of Agriculture," Iso Lomuzi,Vol. IV, no. 1 (October 1934), … is prevalent among my fellow-students…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… reserve squeezed into a valley on the south-eastern border of the Orange Free State with Lesotho. 7 His mother, Linkhapa, was a daughter of Molapo, a son of…
PlaceMontagu Pass
… Pass in South Africa , and links George with the Village of Herold . Until the building of the Outeniqua Pass it was the main route between Cape Town … Pass…
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… The South African Archive is made up of records pertaining mostly to Governance and Laws Enacted, … now been fully refurbished and restored as the…
PlaceGeneral Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
… Smuts for over 40 years, Doornkloof in Irene, Southeast of Pretoria, is a unique museum that reveals much about the life and the spirit of this great…
PlacePaardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp
… by President Paul Kruger on 16 December 1891. On the 12th of April 1877, Sir Shepstone annexed the ZAR (The South … country in Southern Africa during the…
EventThe New Zealand Mounted Rifles leave Wellington for the South African War
… The first contingent of New Zealand Mounted Rifles (NZMR) departed from Wellington … offered British forces in South Africa a contingent of its mounted…
PlaceOudtshoorn, Western Cape
… The division of Oudtshoorn was originally part of the District of George, and was proclaimed a separate division in about … The division of Oudtshoorn was…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
… How would you assess the current state of affairs in South Africa? TAMBO: The South African regime has become very desperate. They have lost a lot of ground…
ArchiveThe world's only privately owned Catholic Church
… KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State border, perched on top of the plateau, is the smallest, most charming-world renowned … church in the world. This tiny church…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… rightly remarked that Miss Hertzog was the "mother" of this Church. This lady, after the death of her parents, decided to honor their memory in an … that was…
PlaceZambia
… came four years after the famous speech “The winds of change” by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The Country’s taste of independence emerged ten…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… 15 km away from Cape Town. The name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for 'Our Pride'. This township … 1960's. The Group Areas Act (1950)…
PlaceWooden Bridge over Lagoon, Milnerton, Cape Town
… Brett Herron said; a tender for the Restoration of the Historic Bridge was expected to be Completed by the Middle of next Year, if there were no unforeseen…
PlaceBezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
… A Suburb of Johannesburg about 5 km East of City Hall, South of Observatory Ridge and North of Kensington Ridge. Takes its … New Dictionary of South African…
A tireless campaigner by Jaspreet Kindra, 29 October 2003, South Africa
… a court challenge led to the first government provision of a cheap basic water supply to the destitute. The person … compelled the Durban Metro Council to…
PlaceThe Old Supreme Court Adderley Street, Cape Town
… on 8 September 1967. It all began wth the proper Housing of Slaves in Cape Town presenting the Dutch with a problem, … Building soon fell into disrepair a…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE NATIONAL MEN’S MARCH Pretoria, 22 November 1997
… Master of ceremonies; Men, women and children of South Africa, I am proud to be with you on this historic … message to our fellow men, and to the women and…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by Walter Sisulu
… their poor ”” in those days there were many thousands of unskilled. jobless newcomers from the platteland. Lembede … theory (as opposed to the hamba kahle …