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EventPolitical activist Molly Blackburn is born
… attended by a large group of people, estimated at about 20 000.Click here to read a tribute to Molly Blackburn …
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
… men, Noimbithi Johnson Lubisi 28, Petrus Tsepo Mashigo 20, and Naphtali Manani were found guilty of high treason, …
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… The South African government for the first time allowed 20 local journalists, five correspondents of international …
EventThe cornerstone of Cape Town City Hall is laid
… Cape Towns City Hall's original foundations were laid at the turn of the 20th …
EventSouth African Library Week is held from 22 - 27 March 2010 to make people aware of the value of libraries
… establishment of the National Library of South Africa on 20 March 1818 bearing in mind that 21 March is Human Rights …
EventFormer Springboks player, Naas Botha is born
… he was selected to play for the South African under-20 rugby team. At the age of 22 he played his first …
PlaceState President Swart Park, Bloemfontein
… The largest of Bloemfontein's many Recreational spots, the Park has many sculptured … and Athletics Stadium. It is the largest of Bloemfontein's recreational…
PlaceMooi River, a Town of the Midlands Meander- Natal
… Irish farmer who formalized its settlement during the 1800's. The Village took its enduring name from the Voortrekker … the colonial farm-pioneering boom of…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… and the British. c1880 Makgatho enrols at the Wesleyan Mission Teacher Training Institution of Kilnerton at … English parties and Afrikaner parties over…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… Empire (including the recovery of the USA) was a global mission to be achieved, no matter the price. In his own … He even advocated forming a secret society…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
… 2010 Honorouble Speaker; I stand before you this evening, 20 years since President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela walked out … Inkosi Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who…
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as 'Long Cecil' is test fired for the first time
The 104mm field-gun designed by American George Labram and manufactured in the De Beers workshop in Kimberley, known as 'Long Cecil' after Cecil John Rhodes,…
Call for papers - “Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ "Ukuzika kukaMendi": The Mendi Centenary Conference
… that history? We welcome abstracts (300 words max) for 20 minute papers/ presentations/ performances on any of the … translating and retranslating poetry…
Appeal to the British public by Dube
… of the South African Native National Congress.” – E.S. Reddy] While you are sitting happy and comfortable in your … faithfully paying you rack-rents of £ 10,…
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 reply … African people who constitute four-fifths of the country's…
PlaceCompany Gardens in Cape Town
… Company's Garden is a large Public Park and Botanical Garden, set in … Garden; Fish Pond and Aviary. (Which date back the 1650's). The Company's Garden is…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… Ten Rhyne in Schapera, Early Cape Hottentots , p. 127. See N. Norbert, The civilizing process: the History of Manners … 'amiable' relations with the natives …
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… she left for Johannesburg in January. 1941 Albertina's mother died. The Johannesburg General hospital would not … 9 March, Walter Sisulu was released on R6…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… reported, even to members of the SACP. At the time of MK’s formation, Nelson Mandela was a prominent ANC leader, and … Lobatse, Botswana, confirmed that as…
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… lifted out of the narrow confines of South Africa's internal politics and placed here in the shadow of these … slavery that obtained in Africa up to the 19th…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Pretoria East
… Gauteng, South Africa. The Dutch Reformed Church's history in Southern Africa begins with the arrival of the … for missionary work and education. However,…
Address by President Mandela to the Meeting of Directors-General Establishing a Forum of Directors-General Pretoria, 18 August 1998
… within departmental planning and activities, its mission was achieved. It has been succeeded within the … we have not awaited the outcome of Cabinet's…
Address by President Mandela at the opening of the 36th Annual World Boxing Council Convention Johannesburg, 26 October 1998
… all the discipline of athletes to keep to your principal mission of attending to the business of the WBC! We are … our freedom. It gives us a chance to…
”Some Basic Principles of African Nationalism.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in February 1945
… elements of his nature. History is a record of humanity's strivings for complete self-realisation. b) The Scientific … of mankind. In other words each nation…
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
… Government to support economic sanctions; Write to your mission to the United Nations urging adoption of a resolution … isolation of South Africa; Don't buy…
ArchiveSt James Church Massacre
… On Sunday 25th July 1993 the war zones came to us. Our mission headquarters are a few metres from St. James on the …
PlaceSada
… African Development Trust) from Shiloh, an old Moravian Mission Station. The portion of land bought had been used as Shiloh’s Cattle Post MY HOMETOWN: SADA…
PlaceWaaihoek Farm
… After purchasing the farm, the SADT leased it to Waaihoek’s original occupants. The 47 families were then evicted from … came from Sun Valley Estates which…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… Northern Nguni population. Those who accepted Shaka Zulu’s rule were integrated into his kingdom and became united and … [2] 2.1. Using source B, describe…
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… a dross of African and Asiatic savages and all the world’s rabble of thieves and lumpens.” Weber was referring to the … were also inducted into US forces…