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EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… Zulu father. He studied Zulu Literature at the University of Natal and later won a scholarship to further his studies at the School of Oriental and African…
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meets President Kaizer Matanzima in Tongaat
… Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Kwa Zulu met President Kaizer Matanzima of Transkei in Tongaat, north of Durban, where they declared they were opposed to the ……
EventEthiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels
… Democratic Front (EPRDF) captured the capital of Ethiopia,Addis Ababa. The EPRDF was led by the Meles … rebel leader and probably the only candidate capable…
ArchiveFrank Talk
… first published in March 1984, as the official publication of the Natal Region of AZAPO, the Azanian Peoples Organisation, was later … body corporate, but…
Opening address by President Jacob Zuma to the 2nd Biennial Summit on substance abuse, 15 March 2011, Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, Durban
… The Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Dr Zweli Mkhize, The Minister of Social Development, Ms Bathabile Dlamini, Honourable … Ministers and Deputy Ministers…
PlaceMolenvliet House, Molenvliet Street, Mowbray
… on which this house is situated originally formed part of the farm Coornhoop, which was granted to Thielman Hendricks in 1661. The subdivided piece of land…
Appeal to the British public by Dube
… with the following editorial note: “The Native Land Act of the Union Parliament has created consternation among the Natives”¦ This land is theirs by birth…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education homelands ”” those territories reserved for black people and around which the principle of…
EventThe Defence Special Tribunal Act becomes effective
… The Defence Special Tribunal Act, No 81 of 1998, providing for the expeditious adjudication of disputes concerning military institutions and the…
ArchiveLetter from John Daniel, President, to University Principals and others
… Circular letter from John Daniels, President of NUSAS, reporting on the effect of the Commission of Enquiry into Improper Political Interference and the …
Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… ago on 12 June 1986 I was re-detained for 27 months. 18 of these were in solitary confinement due to my being the … white detainee. I had been released after…
PlaceWoodstock
… The Village of Papendorp lay some 2 km East of Cape Town , on the Main Road to Stellenbosch , later to … in 1781-84 , was registered in 1788 as security for…
PlaceGouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay
… It enters the Indian Ocean on the Southern Coast of Africa and 34 km south-west of Mossel Bay . The exact origin of the name cannot be stated with certainty…
PlaceWonderboom Nature Reserve, Pretoria
… states that the tree grew to its size because the chief of an Indeigneous tribe is buried underneath its roots. The … about 1000 people, or 22 ox wagons with…
EventNapoleon assembles his army near Aboukir, Egypt
… The First Battle of Aboukir was a decisive victory for the French and secured France's occupation of Eqypt. In June 1798 Napoleon's army departed France to…
PlaceThe Durban Centre for Photography
… , at the same time it was also the first public auction of photographic prints ever held in South Africa. This was to … , Rafs Mayet , Moses Khubisa, Jeeva…
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… As a matter of crude shorthand, the South African photographer David … as his country’s Walker Evans. Though Evans was one of Goldblatt’s models when he was…
PlaceMowbray
… The village of Mowbray was established in about 1853 on the farm … an area more commonly known as Drie Koppen. This name was of Dutch origin, and was given…
PlaceThree Anchor Bay
… in Table Bay. Its name was first recorded in Dutch records of 1661, and probably refers to a defensive chain which … Three Anchor Bay, easily overlooked by…
PlaceCote D’Ivoire or Ivory Coast
… African traders who visited south Saharan states in search of gold. The powerful Sudanese empires dominate the history of the Ivory Coast. It was from these…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… richly decorated gable, was completed in 1896 and is one of the last surviving structures of the old Transvaal railway system. It was declared a … began in…
EventGeneral Barry Hertzog, former South African Prime Minister, dies
… in England, as well as degree in law at the University of Amsterdam. He became increasingly disillusioned by the treatment of Afrikaners by the British…
EventAbdul Samad Minty, anti apartheid activist, is born
… Between 1962 and 1995 he was the Honorary Secretary of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. Minty played an … International Olympic Committee in 1963 for the…
EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… The ancient city of Mapungubwe (meaning 'hill of the jackal') is an Iron Age archaeological site in the … years ago, Mapungubwe appears to have been the…
EventSlavery is abolished at the Cape
… in the Colony came a year after the Slavery Abolition Bill of 1833 was passed by the British House of Commons and by the House of Lords. Although the Bill…
EventThe first family at the Cape moves into the fort
… the semi-completed fortress, the Fort de Goede Hoop (Fort of Good Hope). Here their son, Bernert Willemz, was born on 6 … was appointed on a five-year…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… as a lawyer after completing his studies at the University of Stellenbosch. Vorster was instrumental in the founding of the anti-British Ossewa-Brandwag (OB)…
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… in the old Transvaal Province in 1895. She was the eldest of five children. At the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, the family moved to … Estcourt…
PlaceSt Thomas’ Church, Ridge Road, Berea, Durban
… to build a Church and a School on the wooded Hill West of the Bay. He named his Mission, Berea, in honour of St. Paul. The land upon which the Mission…
EventNatal is formally separated from the Cape Colony
… was formally separated from the Cape Colony by means of the Charter of Natal. The Cape Governor still held the position of the High Commissioner, but the…