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Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … kingdom, no smoke, no industrial filth scars the…
PlaceHamilton Primary School, Visagie Street, Pretoria
… A beautiful Victorian building tucked into an avenue of majestic Jacaranda trees is the home of Hamilton School. This school in the heart of Pretoria has a…
PlaceRustenburg
… The Magaliesberg range of Mountains dominates the Landscape that is now known as the … History is complex and rich in variety. The known History of…
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… individual, a certain Mr Francois Hugo. He was one of the first winemakers in the Area to market and sell his wines directly to the Public. He made use of…
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… first executive committee elected in 1912, which consisted of the Reverend John Dube as President, Solomon Plaatje as … racism, paternalism, patriarchy,…
22. Natal sirdars regarded in India as pariah
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … By 1911, the public outcry in India against the system of…
ArchiveMalopoets: David Kramer concert
… Black and yellow background; images of map of Africa; with text in white. Notice of a music concert by David Kramer in support of the Leyland …
PlaceKoopmans de Wet House, 35 Strand Street, Cape Town
… The land was granted at the turn of the 18th century by Governor Willem Adriaan van de Ste l … De Wet family in 1809 when it was purchased by the widow of…
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
… Society (ACS) in 1822 and was to serve as the home of freed slaves from the United States. Although Liberia has … managed to maintain its independence…
EventFlorence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, is born
… when she was thirty-one years old. Nightingale led a group of nurses working at a military hospital during the Crimean … and began gathering extensive…
PlaceThe Fourth Raadsaal, Bloemfontein
… is the fourth such to have been Built by the old Republic of the Orange Free State. Following the abolition of the Orange River Sovereignty in 1854, the…
PlacePaternoster, West Coast
… "Think of Fishermen and Fishing Boats, hardy Fynbos growing on whites Dunes, and of Bokkoms (dried Fish), drying in the wind. Paternoster, one of the Oldest…
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
… army spokesman in Pretoria said those killed were members of two families, including a mother and two children. The … Chatsworth game farm, about 19 miles…
EventA bomb blast rocks the ANC London office
… England, was bombed. General Johann Coetzee, former head of the South African security police, and seven other … demoralise the ANC and display South Africa…
EventBrig. Ramushwana in NPKF admission
… In a telephonic interview Brigadier Gabriel Ramushwana of the National Peacekeeping Force (NPKF), says that the way … elections in April. However, he refused…
EventBelgium annexes the Congo Free State
… African region in which the Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) lies has been pervaded by conflict and … with local chiefs, but it was only in 1867…
PlaceThe Free State National Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein
… a Botanical Garden for the cultivation and display of the varied Flora of the Province. Several Sites were investigated in the City Centre, on the Slopes of…
PlaceClearwater, Now Known as Griquastad- in the Northern Cape
… In 1801, William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer , of the London Missionary Society, established a Missionary … little better than their first, and for many…
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… and slave wages. In articles in New Age the brutality of this system was exposed in 1947, nationalising the issue. … took up the story in 1952, after coming…
EventCheryl Carolus is born
… in London, political activist and Chief Executive Officer of Tourism South Africa, Cheryl Carolus, was born in … on the Cape Flats. At school, Carolus was an…
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… Oliver Tambo, former President of the African National Congress (ANC), returns to South … going into exile nearly thirty years ago. Tambo was one of the…
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… was popularly known as the Bambatha rebellion became chief of the AmaZondi people. Bhambatha succeeded to the throne after the death of his father and uncle,…
EventThe world pay tribute to former president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium
… 90 world leaders gathered together at the Memorial service of Nelson Mandela, which was held at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. Thousands of people sang and…
PlaceAlicedale a Village in Albany District
… A Village in the Albany District, some 42 km West of Grahamstown. Named after Alice Slessor, wife of the engineer who constructed the railway. Its Xhosa…
ArchiveCivil Society vs. the State: identity, institutions, and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… A dissertation presented to the Facilty of the Graduate School of Yale University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This dissertation…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.2 Jan-Mar 1961
… Gask. The Same Boat, an anon. correspondent. Diary of a Detainee, ‘Tandi’. The Birth of African Nationalism, Lionel Forman. Four Years of Treason, Freda…
EventSisulu is served with two notifications
… Walter Sisulu, was served with two notifications in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (Act 44 of 1950) . In terms of these notifications Sisulu was ……
EventThe first Boer Trek to Angola that started in 1874 reaches Lake Ngami (Thirstland Trek) in 1875
… The Thirstland Trek is the name given to the exodus of Boer/Afrikaans families, most of them from the districts of Pretoria and Rustenburg, through Northern…
EventThe British government closes its consulate in Angola
… tensions in Angola, with Cuban forces fighting on behalf of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and South African troops for the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu
… These papers are selected from a number of essay and address published from time to time and are here … after the necessary alterations for the convenience…