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SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thembinkosi Khumalo
… is a student division of PAC. Khumalo is also involved in community upliftment in his hometown, Madadeni in Newcastle. Dear Students of 1976 I would like to…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… reconsider the period, which is often interpreted as one in which the strength of the apartheid regime was at its … the opposition to it quiescent. We ask…
PlaceBethelsdorp, Algoa Bay -Eastern Cape
… Back in 1802, the establishment of a Missionary Village on a … farm near Algoa Bay, now Port Elizabeth, became a thorn in the side of the colonial…
PlaceRosemount
… been overtaken by suburban residential development, and in about 1909 a portion of the Farm was developed into the … stretch of coast that extends from the…
ANC AND 1999 ELECTION NOMINATION LIST
… at the COSATU Central Executive Committee meeting held in November 1997. The article on the front page of The Star … work hard for it. They should join the…
15. My son Gyapershad was decoyed
… the Protector of Emigrants, Calcutta). He is a student and in the annual examination of U.P. from the middle school … not state that I have already struggled…
ANC Deputy President`s Election Campaign Programme, 6 May 2011
… Kgalema Motlanthe will on Sunday lead a campaign programme in Ekurhuleni as part of the organisation`s election programme to maximise ANC support in the…
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
… Dorkay House, a building at the south end of Eloff Street in downtown Johannesburg, functioned as the headquarters for the Union of South African Artists,…
EventZuma announces freeze on university fees increase
… When the government announced a 10.5% increase in tertiary education fees, due to the high inflation of the … had spread throughout tertiary institutions in…
Letter from Oliver Tambo to Ayatollah Khomeini, 13 February 1979, Iran, Maputo, People`s Republic of Mozambique
… demonstrates the irresistible power of a people united in the pursuit of a just cause. Your historic victory has … dictatorship. The ANC joins all…
Place'Aba Mponjwana', Drakensberg Mountains
… Zulu name for ridge on the Mountains in Drakensberg, including such Peaks as Cathedral Peak, the … to mean 'Ridge of Horns'. One of the largest green canyons…
EventZuma announces freeze on university fees increase
… When the government announced a 10.5% increase in tertiary education fees, due to the high inflation of the … had spread throughout tertiary institutions in…
PlaceOld Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage
… and ornate fretted timber details. Built on Market Street in the year of the opening of the railway from Port … it is reputed to be one of the oldest Railway…
Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic: Answers to Questions by May 1961
… for May 31? Answer: The South African Indian Congress is in full support of all-in national talks, and if talks are not held, we feel that … There are only a…
EventSouth African man walks from England to France through Channel Tunnel
… he walked through the Channel Tunnel between Folkenstone in England and Calaise in France in his flip flops. Trains travelling at speed of 100 mph pass ……
EventJoost Van Der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born
… career during the mid 1990’s and early 2000’s. He played in the 1995, 1999 and 2003 rugby world cups. He retired from … and a woman who claimed to be his on…
EventNon military national service for objectors
… of service included the following: non-combatant service in the South African Defence Force (SADF), for the same time … period as normal military service;…
EventCruel murder of Dora Bloch
… British and Israeli citizenship, was taken to hospital in Uganda after some food got stuck in her throat. She was left behind in Mulago National Hospital…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… Soweto schools to depart from the so-called 50-50 policy in secondary education, which entailed equal use of English and Afrikaans in schooling. At a meeting…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… campaign of 1960 and harshly sentenced to three years in prison. At the end of his sentence, Parliament enacted a … On his release, Sobukwe was allowed to…
EventEquatorial Guinea gains Independence from Spain
… Guinea until 1778, when the territory was ceded to Spain in exchange for land in South America. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1820, rebel forces…
EventThe French Foreign Legion is founded
… an aura of mystery and romance. It was normally stationed in Algeria until 1962, when its headquarters were transferred … regiments were scattered throughout…
EventResearchers proclaim they found a type of SIVcpz that is almost identical to HIV
… identical to HIV-1. This particular strain was identified in a frozen sample taken from a confined member of the … known as Pan Troglodytes, which were once…
EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
… Born in 1869 at Porbandar, Gujarat, India, the internationally … led the 1906 Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign staged in Transvaal (now known as…
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
… In April 1894, Chief Malaboch (Mmaleboho, Mmaleboxo) of the … action through forced removal, which ultimately resulted in the Malaboch war, with the chief…
PlaceVrede
… and the Mpumalanga border of Volksrust . It was named in 1863 after a dispute between its founders. Like most towns … The influence of Dutch Architecture…
PlaceBethulie Bridge across the Gariep River
… Gariep Dam is located in South Africa, near the Town of Norvalspont, bordering the … the Gariep River at Bethulie Drift was opened to traffic in March 1879,…
PlaceMjanyana Hospital
… The village of Emjanyana was probably established in the mid-1970s, in Ngcobo Eastern Cape. In 1894 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel on …
EventLiberia is established
… States (US). The country was one of only two countries in sub-Saharan Africa, along with Ethiopia, without roots in the European Scramble for Africa. Slaves…
EventSouth Africa joins the OAU
… the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) at a summit, held in Tunis, Tunisia. The South Africa delegation was led by the … After joining the OAU, South Africa…