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EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… House on 31 August 1988. The building was the headquarters of the South African Council of Churches(SACC) and housed a number of other progressive…
EventTrevor Manuel unveils GEAR
… In a long-anticipated move the recently appointed Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel announced the government's … to tighter fiscal policy and the steady…
EventKenyan mediates in SA election deadlock
… on his subjects to take part in the election. The details of the meeting were not made public. Independent Electoral … broken the election deadlock, side…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa.
… and overcrowded. These factors contributed to the spread of disease. There was a shortage of both medical supplies and medical staff. At least 25 000…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… has documented the everyday, insidious manifestations of apartheid and its aftermath, rather than violent clashes … publications as Life and Look, and he…
PlaceOpera House, Port Elizabeth
… the Doric order, was erected in 1891 under the direction of GW Smith, a prominent Port Elizabeth architect, and was built by the firm of Small & Morgan. It…
PlaceThe Struben Mine Shafts, Kloofendal, Roodepoort
… brothers on 18 September 1884. This sparked off a flood of prospectors to the Witwatersrand, and eventually resulted in the discovery of the Main gold reef…
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… on 20 October 1891 and grew up in Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya. Kenyatta ran away from home to become a pupil at the Church of Scotland Mission, where…
ArchiveInvestigating womens participation in protes
… A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Political Management) at the University of …
EventDadoo and Naicker are charged
… Naicker were charged with contravening Section 20 (r) of Act No. 22 of 1913, the Immigrants Regulations Act. They were accused of wrongfully and unlawfully…
EventZwelakhe Sisulu is arrested
… Zwelakhe Sisulu is arrested Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa (MWASA), and youngest son of Albertina and…
EventThe Bloemfontein Convention is signed
… The Republic of the Orange Free State was established by the signing of the Bloemfontein Convention (also called the Orange River … Clerk (for Britain) and…
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… time I land at Durban Airport, I am haunted by the memory of Fatima Meer – my dearest friend, sister and adviser whom I … eloquent enough to describe her or…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, the Wobblies) was the main influence on … Dunbar (1879-1964) Andrew Dunbar was general-secretary of the IWW in…
ArchiveUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
… In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a painting of Yahya Jammeh, the former president of The Gambia, adorns the ceiling. Jammeh, in…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the ANC’s manifesto launch 24 August 1995
… that I stand before you today. Last year, we, the people of South Africa voted for freedom. We laid a strong … citizens. We turned our backs on the division…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… I am Vino Reddy from the Documentation Centre of the University of Durban-Westville. This morning we are … and he worked at the zoo and…
ArchiveThoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy
… wrote an introduction to the book "Fatima Meer: Memories of Struggle," edited by Fatima's daughter Shamim, published … time I land at Durban Airport, I am…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
… on 8 February 1936.[i] He was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa. Moosa was a former human rights lawyer who … detainees during the Apartheid…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Le Monde, Addis Ababa, 08 June 1983
… [Addis Ababa - "Each time one of us dies, thousands of others say they will have to ensure that the death was not in vain". A few hours after the hanging of…
PlaceOnze Molen, Durbanville
… and continued to function as such until after the turn of the 20th century when its mechanism and top portion were … structure was converted to a horse mill…
The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… patnership with The UCT Drama Department, The UCT College of Music and The Michaelis School of Fine Arts and Jazzart Dance Theatre, will be working with…
PlaceRehoboth
… elevated plateau with several hot springs. Khoikhoi name, of Anis, means 'smoke' from the steam seen, at the hot … mornings. In 1870, the Basters, who had…
PlacePhiladelphia
… Not the Philadelphia one attributes to the Eastern parts of North America, this Philadelphia lies but 20 minutes outside of Cape Town, past Durbanville. …
PlaceQuaqua
… Free State (OFS) that had been granted to the followers of a relative of Moshoeshoe . It was only 655 square kilometres big and … in 1980 and more than a…
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… The Market Square in the heart of the Port Elizabeth town centre is a historical icon that … this Christian king and patriarch. There is also a replica of…
EventAlbertina Sisulu addresses a major anti-apartheid rally in London.
… abroad, Albertina Sisulu was accompanied by her Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) comrades, Sister Bernard … apartheid government. The apartheid…
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… The president of Cuba Fidel Castro decides to send Cuban troops to Angola in response to South Africa's invasion of the country. After attaining its…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… As many as 80,000 protesters gathered outside of Bisho, the capital city of Ciskei, and demanded an end to the military government of Brigadier Joshua Gqozo…
PlacePioneer Museum, Silverton Pretoria
… three hectare area to the Museum gives one a real sense of early farming Culture in South Africa, as one takes a … Wheat Grinding; Muzzle Loading and even…