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ArchiveEnvironments
… Notice of an exhibition of work by architects and designers. Title in purple. Images of purple people on black and white background of images of …
ArchiveAfricans in Cape Town: state policy and popular resistance, 1936-73
… Thesis presented for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History in the University of Cape Town. The study focusses …
EventJakes Gerwel is born
… academic and politician, was born in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Cape. He has occupied various … and served inter alia as rector and vice…
EventThe NCCR is dissolved
… The National Coordinating Committee for the Repatriation of South African Exiles (NCCR) was dissolved due to fraud and corruption amounting to substantial…
EventSanctions are applied on Libya over Lockerbie bombing
… United Nations (UN) sanctions against Libya because of its alleged involvement in the destruction of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988 and…
EventThe seven day war in Kwazulu-Natal starts
… The first of more than 100 people were killed near Pietermaritzburg. … Political conflict in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa caused the death of…
EventNew SA Constitution takes effect
… On 4 February 1997, the new Constitution of the Republic of South Africa came into force. The country’s Constitution has been hailed as one of the most…
EventIFP commemorates Shell House shootings.
… Thousands of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters marched through the streets of Johannesburg to mark the anniversary of the 1994 Shell House shootings…
EventEducationist Godfrey Nakene is born
… in Ga-Ramokgopa, Pietersburg district. Nakene became one of the first Black student to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of…
EventPolitical violence claims 100 lives in KZN
… About 100 people were declared dead as a result of the political violence that continued in KwaZulu-Natal. The political violence rages on in spite of the…
All Gwede’s horses and all Gwede’s men… can’t put Cosatu together again by Stephen Grootes (The Daily Maverick), 11 November 2014
… is probably no one alive today with the intimate knowledge of all the organisations of the alliance that Gwede Mantashe possesses. He’s been Chair of the…
Document 39 - Statement by S. P. Bunting, October 1931
… , October 1931 Private, for circulation among members of the Communist Party only. … October, 1931. DEAR COMRADES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY , No doubt you have…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…