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EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… formed in protest to the Tricameral Parliament. It was one of the most significant anti-apartheid movements, and comprised of 400 church, civic and student…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet Division
… The district of Graaff-Reinet was constituted on 26 August 1785 and its … the 1880's they bore no relationship to the original lines of delimitation. When…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
… Since the rising of the sun of democracy upon the magnificent Drakensberg, none of the other sons of the soil on whom we have bestowed the …
PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
… predominantly neo-Gothic manner. It forms an integral part of the Porter Reformatory, established there in 1880. It was … 1985. Although fortifications were…
Azikhwelwa on Monday. Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council calling for a stay-away from 13 September 1976
… calling for a stay-away from September 13, 1976 The people of South Africa are going into the third phase of their struggle against the oppressors, namely:…
EventSmallpox Epidemic Strikes at the Cape
… havoc amongst the indigenous and colonist population of the Cape Peninsula and adjacent interior. Hardest hit are … suffer huge losses to their numbers. The…
ArchivePhotography pundit David Goldblatt takes ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Matsepo, 2 June 2017
… David Goldblatt (87) has installed photographs of former criminals in prisons in Birmingham and Manchester. The portraits, part of a series called Ex…
PlaceSenegal
… Cape Verde (Cap Vert) Peninsula is the western most point of the African continent. The Gambia consists of a narrow strip of territory that extends from the…
EventEmily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps
… addressed public meetings in Britain about the conditions of the Concentration camps during the South African War. … in the camps and at the same time to…
Albert Luthuli`s message from Oslo to the South African people, 5 December 1961
… My people, my sons and my daughters As I pace the floor of my bedroom in the Grand Hotel, Oslo, putting the final touches on my speech of acceptance of the…
PlaceEmoyeni, Parktown, Johannesburg
… in the Air’ in Nguni, is located on the highest point, of the highest ridge in Parktown, keeping its original name … Henry Hull to host lavish parties for…
EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
… The Nobel Peace Prize is considered by many to be a symbol of international recognition over the prize winners struggle … Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December…
PlacePolokwane
… Is a City of 1 30,000 people counted in the census of 2011 . It now has a Population of about about 640,000 inhabitants. Spoken languages are: … iew-online…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
… now.” – Ray Phiri You can’t relegate the activism of the late Ray Chikapa Phiri to the past; as the quote above … them. That’s the point: much as the present…
PlaceCentral African Republic
… various groups speaking languages related to those of the present day were living in the area. These peoples … and Bandi, all founded in the 19th Century…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
… The last year had brought home to me, more than any of the previous years, that I was restricted. Until that year the trial had gathered us all together in a…
ArchiveZuma rape case judge stands down (BBC News),13 February 2006
… The judge presiding over the rape trial of South Africa's former Deputy President Jacob Zuma has said … Ngoepe might be biased as he issued warrants for a…
PlaceSouth Sudan
… Egypt attempted to colonize the region of Southern Sudan by establishing the Province of Equatoria in the 1870s. Islamic Mahdist revolutionaries … the…
EventUgandan premier Apollo Milton Obote is shot
… invasion by Tanzanian forces and the subsequent deposition of Amin. He was president until 1985, when he was deposed a … State's administration. The British…
PlaceChapman's Peak Drive, Hout Bay to Fish Hoek
… Peak is named after John Chapman , the Captain’s mate of an English ship, the 'Consent'. The Peak which can be seen … mountaineer, but a lowly ship's pilot…
The Wankie Campaign
… The Luthuli Detachment was one [of] those detachments that were well prepared and well … I personally participated in the preparations. A lot of time was…
PlaceKruger National Park
… on 31 May 1926 under the newly formed National Parks Board of Trustees , which became the controlling body of the park, and reported to the Minister of Lands…
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
… a two year old guerilla war against South African control of the region. That struggle was directed by the Southwest … had no jurisdiction to try us. What…
EventForced Removals commence from District Six
… The memory of District Six , also known as Kanaladorp (kanala is a Malay … word meaning ‘help one another’), is marked by the event of 11 February 1966. On…
Letter to Farzanah
… Omar Badsha's first book of photographs, Letter to Farzanah was published in 1979 in commemoration of the United Nations declared International Year of the…
EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were totally destroyed by … used in warfare. The American government justified the use…
EventSADF responds to allegations by FAPLA
… Following a press conference of General Staff Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio dos Santos Franca Ndalu, Chief of ForÁƒÂƒÂ§as Armadas Populares de LibertaÁƒÂƒÂ§ÁƒÂƒ…
EventEbola virus kills 153 people in Zaire
… virus a virus that kills its host by attacking the lining of the cells and coagulating the blood in the human body.. … named after the Ebola River valley…
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… The rapid expansion of Johannesburg after the end of the Second Anglo Boer War increased to over twice it's the … before the war. This increase meant that…
PlaceEnon
… place mentioned in John. It lies 13 kilometres East of Kirkwood and 60 kilometres North-East of Uitenhage,(formerly known as Witterivier). Enon was formed ……