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EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. It was formed in 1944 by members of the ANC who believed in…
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… security police colonel, who was involved in the murder of several political activists in the Eastern Cape, died in … 1982, two student activists who…
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… INTRODUCTION. Unomsa, by Guybon Sinxo, is a coming of age story about a gothic heroine, Nomsa Ntobeko, who … Cape to work as a teacher in the Karoo. BODY The…
Esau Mokhethi reburial speech by AZAPO President Cde. Koti Dikobo
… Prof. Masango, Rev. Raboroko and Rev. Vilakazi The family of Comrade Esau Tshehlo Mokhethi, Bataung, the Moeketsi family and all relatives. The Leadership of…
Document 16 - Letter from Clements Kadalie to E. R. Roux, 10 October 1928
… 10 October 1928 INDUSTRIAL and COMMERCIAL Workers Union of Africa (I.C.U.) NATIONAL COUNCIL … 53, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Dear Roux Dr. Norman Leys,…
Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… I REFER YOU TO MY LETTER of 20 April 1961, to which you do not have the courtesy to … receipt. In the letter referred to above I informed you of the…
PlaceSouth African State Theatre
… State Theatre was built by Performing Arts department of the Provincial Council of the Transvaal. [i] Botha, Lötter and Partners as well as … to design and…
PlaceRooipoort Nature Reserve, Kimberley
… Situated roughly 70 kilometers West of the town of Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa prime plains for game hunting. Rooipoort is a ……
EventThe burghers were victorious in their struggle against Cape Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel and his officials
… 1707 a young man on horseback raced through the streets of Stellenbosch shouting "Victorie! Victorie!" - a sign that … men were released from their contracts…
Pravin Gordhan vs the Law, as defined by clichés by Mervyn E. Bennun (Politics Web), 08 September 2016
… Myths and Clichés of Prosecution South African political life has become … while simultaneously promoting the desired image of the person using them…
EventWinkie Direko is born
… Isabella Winkie Direko, former teacher, winner of the Bloemfonteiner of the Year Award in 1993 and Premier of the Free State since 17 June 1999, was born in…
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…