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Emissaries from Russia
… 1. I have received the response of Mr F. W de Klerk to a memorandum which I addressed to him on the 26th June 1992. I enclosed the statement of the Emergency…
Treasurer General`s PBF Breakfast and Networking, 24 March 2009
… Durban- the Treasurer General of the ANC, Dr Mathews Phosa was the keynote speaker at a PBF … Treasurer General spoke about the Road Ahead and the plans of…
EventThe Bethal Treason Trial resumes
… The trial of eighteen suspected Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members, … two main charges under the Terrorism Act, and a number of alternative counts under…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… South African author and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer , was born in Springs, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng).One of South…
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… and found guilty by a British military court on charges of murder, arson and demolishing of trains. Scheepers admitted during his trial that he had committed…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… astronomer Frederick William Herschel, the discoverer of the planet Uranus.From 1816 Herschel began a collaboration … many double stars discovered during his…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… the following topics: v Towards the Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and Bio-Diversity based products and … Knowledge Systems Perspective v …
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… Lord Charles Somerset was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape … and to improve conditions for the inhabitants. He was…
PlaceImizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
… The Township of Imizamo Yethu is situated in the picturesque seaside Suburb of Hout Bay in Cape Town . Hout Bay is like a microcosm of South Africa , with a…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… Welgegund was awarded to Swart Martiens Pretorius a nephew of President M.W Pretorius, founder of Pretoria, at the end of the 19th century by the Zuid…
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… Guinea is a West African nation bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon and Gabon . The earliest indigenous population of this country were the…
EventZimbabawean Independence Day
… British, taking the name Zimbabwe. The day marked the end of racial segregation after a protracted war of liberation that claimed many lives. In the ninety…
PlaceMariammen Temple, Pretoria
… is a monumental tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a temple, especially in Southern India. This is a prominent feature of Hindu temple architecture!)…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
… Yusuf Dadoo and Dr. G. M. Naicker, respectively Presidents of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian … all over the Union were now faced with the…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… period in the early 1970s when Durban became the location of processes and events that were to impact significantly on the nature of the liberation struggle…
Milton Obote by Angela Thompsell updated 28 February 2016
… say Milton Apollo Obote) was the 2nd and 4th President of Uganda. He first came to power in 1962 but was ousted by … Idi Amin in the Western media, but Obote…
PlaceDie Grootkerk in Bosmanstraat
… where the first church was built would become the centre of the newly established town, Pretoria (1855). The … This church has played an enormous part in…
ArchiveChapter 11 The escape by Denis Goldberg
… my stay in the old Pretoria Prison had often thought of escape. In 1964 and 1965 I had been the chairman of our escape committee. At that time we got no…
PlaceGanesha Temple, Mt Edgecombe
… be the oldest surviving ‘solid’ temple in Africa and one of the finest examples of temple architecture in South Africa , the ' Ganesha Temple … vault, the…
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… and the well known writer and poet, Sol Plaatje, was one of its founding members. Formed in protest of the treatment of black South Africans, it became known…
EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… power in Libya after a coup d'etat. Gaddafi, the leader of the Free Unionist Officers movement, overthrew the monarchical rule of King Idris, who had ruled…
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… young men, was passed on 9 June 1967 - with the support of the opposition. Conscription was instituted in South Africa in the form of 9 months of service for…
EventDr Robert Broom is born
… Broom was educated as a doctor, specializing in the field of midwifery, he was fascinated by the origin of mammals and used his medical profession to support…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
… confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the world, including the Security Council of the United Nations, are…
ArchiveStudent international
… Paper presented at the 46th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, 16 July 1970. Paper discusses the history of student…
PlaceMarket Theatre
… by Mannie Manim and Barney Simon. Now based in the center of the Newtwon Cultural Precinct, The Market Theatre was … The Market Theatre won the bid for the…
PlaceMatjiesfontein
… fortification during The Anglo-Boer War, as headquarters of the Cape Command, refuge for Jamieson Raid reformers, and the venue of controversial war crimes…
EventA fishing trawler off the South African Coast catches a coelacanth
… two-year-old Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was the curator of a small museum in the port town of East London, northeast of Cape Town, South Africa. She had an…
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ArchiveRobert Shell: A tribute By Martin Plaut, 05 February 2015
… Martin Plaut writes on the passing of the foremost scholar of slavery in the Cape Robert Shell: my friend Today I learnt … the news in an email. All day I…