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… like to state in my preliminary remarks that the overthrow of the hated and criminal policies that prevails in South Africa requires first that the worst victims of that system, the oppressed and the exploited, should … But its overthrow also requires that all the sections of that population including those whom it seeks to serve, …

… for its rooibos tea and oranges.  Situated at the foot of the Cedarberg Range where the Dissels River flows into the … in September 1964. The District originally formed part of the District of Stellenbosch. On 1 Feb. 1808 the Earl of Caledon , … New Dictionary of South African Place Names by Peter E. Raper …

… The Congress of South African Trade Unions COSATU has taken a firm stand that the federation will not be drawing up a list of its own people to be given to the ANC as part of the election nomination list. This decision was taken at …

… a special opportunity to look back at more than 100 years of motoring History with its unique and exciting collection of vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles and memorabilia in the magnificent setting of Franschhoek. The birth of the Museum's Collection took …

… you that I deeply appreciate your decision in terms of which eight fellow-prisoners were freed on 15 October 1989, and for advising me of the fact in advance. The release was clearly a major … draining South Africa's life blood, either in the form of peaceful demonstrations, acts of violence or external …

… by the owners at Timour Hall Estate for the establishment of a school.  The first structure was a wood and iron building consisting of two classrooms.  On April 11 1904, the first pupil was … from 295 in 1916 to 386.  The staff then consisted of three male teachers, inclusive of the Principal and …

… Camp was built with the intention that it would be one of the camps that would house Boer woman and children, driven … earth" policy. This policy dictated the destruction of the farms and lands of Boer soldiers.The conditions in the camp, located on the …

… voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches, first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South Africa, Archbishop Emeritus …

… road in the Overberg region in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, located about 113 Kilometres (70 mi) east of Cape Town next to mineral-rich hot springs. As of 2011 it had a population of 13,020. It is located in, and …

… Originally known as the Valley of the Huguenots , a Community of French Huguenots were granted land in this Valley by the Dutch Government of the Cape , after fleeing their Homeland when Protestantism … https://heritagesa.org/wp/a-different-history-of-franschoek-and-drakenstein/   …

… rock at a mine near Taung, a village 400 miles southwest of Johannesburg . When Raymond Dart , an anatomy professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, chipped away the rock, he exposed nearly the complete skull of a 3-year-old child. The skull was the first early human …

… Bergtheil, this museum is situated in the leafy suburb of Westville, almost midway between Durban and Pinetown.  The … floorboards. Park like surroundings add an atmosphere of tranquility. Exhibits focus on the first German settlers that Jonas Bergtheil brought to Natal as director of the Natal Cotton Company and their associations with the …

… into a family that was fully committed to the preservation of  Afrikaner nationalism. His father was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and was a founding member of the Afrikaner Broederbond, a secret society aimed at …

… for the first time as a legal organisation. At the time of the celebrations the ANC was under the leadership of Oliver Reginald Thambo . The government banned the ANC … and South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1960.  Some of the party's leadership was imprisoned while others skipped …

… On 6 October 2006, the Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, opened a community library … library was opened to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Samora Machel.   On 19 October 1986, an air plane carrying … Anon, (2006) ' Commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Samora Machel Tragedy at …

… inter alia to the UNO and South West Africa; the rumours of an impending split in the National Party, the necessity … told his audience that he was considering the introduction of special legislation aimed at checking irresponsible and … Sunday it will be eleven months since I assumed the task of leading the National Party. 1 In the course of those …

… The first annexation of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek by Sir Theophilus Shepstone in 1877 led to the establishment of a military camp on the present premises of the South African Army Headquarters. This camp housed the …

… A short, well-dressed 44-year-old man of the southern African Barolong tribe stood at the American … It stated the bearer was a British national and a resident of Toronto. In fact, he was Solomon Plaatje, the first secretary-general of what would become the African National Congress — the …

… to be 91 years old. This talented photographer was the son of Jacomina Hendrina van der Poel and his physician, … settle down in the Town that was once called "the bastion of the North" by Paul Kruger- (3rd president of South Africa) and has long been a center of Afrikaans …

… AIDS has dramatically improved the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, however, in the 1980s, relatively little was … men in the United States. The disease seemed to consist of two separate diseases, namely skin cancer and pneumonia … were spreading in the United States due to the death of 75 people who were thought to have been infected. This was …

… town in the Eastern Cape that, until the establishment of the famous and very long wine route, suffered little notoriety and languished as something of a one-horse town in much the same vein as its Neighbour's. … as the 'not yet discovered' Joubertina, and 'the Big Apple of the R62' (this is an allusion to the number of apple crops …

… In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had … However, it was only in the 1980s that the implementation of sanctions would significantly pressurize the apartheid …

… The Cape government established the settlement of Kamastone in the Queenstown area, in 1854. In 1874 the … that people who were living there had to be given titles of ownership to prove that they legitimately owned the land … living on . The area was divided into 8 sub-locations, of which Bulhoek was one. Although the land was still the …

… James Ramsay Macdonald Esq., M.P. House of Parliament, London.   Dear Sir, We were surprised & … that nothing seems to have been done in the matter of our appeal before your Parliament rose. You evidently do … here are being placed in. There seems to be a conspiracy of silence on the part of the press & telegraphic agency, but …

… Potenza An industrial revolution was affecting the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa. By the 1920s, one or more members of nearly every family spent some time every year working as … white-owned farms, on the mines or doing some other form of work in the towns. Behind the scenes of the world of the …

… against apartheid in South Africa, including a reprise of several of his appearances on this program. CHAIRMAN : I call upon … his campaign against apartheid, the white minority rule of South Africa. The decision provoked controversy in South …

… The Settlement at the Cape of Good Hope was founded by the Dutch in 1652 and the signal guns were originally part of the regular artillery at the Imhoff Battery at the Castle … Cape was occupied again by the British after the Battle of Blaauwberg. Thereafter the British controlled the Cape …

… Members of the party can no longer follow party orders to remain … the national executive committee for silence in the ranks of the ANC is precisely the attitude that paved the way for … disrepute. Silence in the ranks might give the appearance of our movement "closing ranks", but it amounts to condoning …

… Development of Langa location In the course of the Inter War Years the regulations of the 1902 Location Act were expanded to create a more … 26 September 2013]| Raper E.P (2004), New Dictionary of South African Place Names, (Jonathan Ball), p.201 …

… effort to compile a reasonably accurate and complete set of biographies. In the first instance, no detailed biographical survey of this important group has been attempted before. Information had to be gathered from a wide range of sources - newspaper clippings, journal articles, …