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ArchiveOns sluk nie meer vir truk
… White poster with blue border and blue lettering. Title in box in centre. ACAC, SACP and COSAW Logos. Hammer and sickle in top left hand corner. …
ArchiveNew sugar industry negotiating group
… A new negotiating committee has been established in the sugar industry in Natal giving the Sweet Food and Allied Workers Union a firm foot hold in the…
ArchiveDecember 16 : heroes - day
… and white image of soldier shaking hands with two people in centre of poster. Title in red letters at bottom of poster. Wording in black letters. …
Introductory Statement on the Presentation of the Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 79th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1991
… We do so as a legal organisation for the first time in thirty years. We do so inside the country together with … fighters, some of whom have spent almost…
PlaceRichtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape, Northern Cape
… The 1600 square kilometers in area is the Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape. This is a dramatic Mountainous Desert in the Northern Cape of South…
PlaceGordonia Division
… Magisterial district and division in the North-West in the Cape Province. Named after Sir Gordon Sprigg, who was … principal town. It is the largest…
PlaceDolobran, Parktown, Johannesburg
… Dolobran was built in 1906 for Sir Charles Llewellyn Andersson, son of the … and brilliant accountancy. He was a prominent figure in the mining and financial…
EventSouth Africa celebrates the first National Women’s Day
… In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country's history, 20 000 women of all races marched … famously challenged the idea that 'a woman's place…
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… weapons, marched from the Mbekweni location to Paarl in its most determined effort to destabilise South Africa and … and killed a man and a woman before…
EventGeneral Law Amendment Act No 37 is approved
… suspected of a political crime. They could be legally held in solitary confinement for ninety days and denied access to … Since detention without trial was…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… Long before the inception of apartheid "Coloured" people in South Africa occupied this precarious position between … of this was the Separate Representation…
EventWorld Health Day
… Day. This date commemorates the formation of the WHO in 1945. The WHO's Constitution came into effect on 7 April … awareness campaign, the WHO hopes to…
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… This is substantiated by the variety of influences present in Afrikaans. These would include Khoisan, Malaysian, French, … language of a region influencing…
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… Free State attended the Peace Conference, which was held in Vereeniging. The delegates were elected by the commandos … Gen. L. Botha and M.T Steyn held…
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
… Mafeking (now known as Mafikeng) was an important battle in the South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War). The war began in late 1899; President Kruger…
PlaceHout Bay, Atlantic Seaboard- Western Cape
… fishing village of Hout Bay was probably established in about 1867 when a German immigrant , Jacob Trautmann, began to Farm and fish in the Area. Its name…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… Herschel, died. Herschel began to take a serious interest in astronomy from about 1816. Herschel's father was the … used it to construct one of the most…
EventThe Cape Agulhas lighthouse begins operating
… the construction of a lighthouse at Agulhas was requested in March 1837 by the Cape's surveyor-general and civil … 1847. On 8 January 1848, the foundation…
EventAmina Lawal’s sentence upheld
… On 19 August 2002, an Islamic high court in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upheld a sentence of death … filed another appeal to the Upper Sharia court of…
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… Harry Smith’s, Spanish wife' . Ladysmith was established in 1850 and served as a staging-post for fortune hunters on their way to the gold fields in the then…
PlacePolokwane
… Is a City of 1 30,000 people counted in the census of 2011 . It now has a Population of about … or “Place of Safety” is the largest urban centre in the…
Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg
… he was called Abraham, he was fleeing from his master in Batavia, he arrived as stowaway on 2 March 1653, on the … and was a gift to van Riebeeck from the…
`We will come back with Msholozi`- erupts Pondoland, 12 December 2008
… a visit to King Mpondombini Sigcau and traditional leaders in one of ANC`s strongholds in the province - the birthplace of the late ANC leader … should be…
ArchiveStatement Celebrating Ten Years of Democracy, ANC Chief Whip Nkosinathi Nhleko, 10 May 2004, Parliament Cape Town South Africa
… Parliament is today taking part in celebrating the first decade of freedom and democracy in our country. And as we so, we remain cognisant of the … that all…
PlaceOost-Eind Primary School, 70 Meintjes Street, Trevenna, Pretoria
… The school was founded in 1897 and is the oldest surviving school in Pretoria. The original portion of the building was … & Weijers, erected by GJ Dorlas,…
PlaceSAAF Memorial and Museum
… who died during WWII. Initially the project was conceived in 1950 and Architect Mr JA Hoogterp, had offered to carry … but had to later withdraw. Mr RF McGAW…
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… detonator from another bomb exploded at a Buddhist temple in Bronkhorstspruit, about 30 kilometers east of Pretoria, … police commissioner, Jackie Selebi,…
PlaceThe Fountain and Garden of Remembrance, Chatswood-Sydney. Willoughby Park Centre
… the Memory of those Local Volunteers who lost their lives in the service of the Empire, during the South African Boer War of 1899-1901.’ The marble Memorial…
PlaceColesberg, Northern Cape
… The Village of Colesberg was founded in 1830 on the site of an abandoned station of the London Missionary Society, and was named in honour of Sir Galbraith…
ArchiveSicela ussizo iwenu kuvimbela isifo se ugciwane (Aids)
… rows of cartoon characters holding hands. Cartoon family in bottom right hand corner. Little red devil fleeing in bottom left hand corner. Lettering in green…