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EventTrevor Manuel, Minister in The Presidency: National Planning Commission, is born
… joined the Labour Party Youth in 1969 at the encouragement of his father. In 1983, he became one of the founding members of the United Democratic Front (UDF)…
PlaceRhodes
… The village of Rhodes lies on the banks of the Bell River at the foot of the Witteberge. It was laid out on the farm Tintern, and …
PlacePageview
… Fietas (as the place was popularly known) is one of the oldest communities in the Western suburbs of Johannesburg, and one of the first 'locations' (multi…
ArchiveThe migrant labour system
… The notion of migrant labour is based from a legal framework system that did not recognize 'homelands' or 'reserves' as part of the Union of South Africa,…
Nqutu, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… The name being of Zulu origin derived from 'insquthu'- meaning a flat-topped vessel, descriptive of a nearby hill from which the village takes its name. It…
ArchiveTerrorist Weapons 2
… A2 Full colour litho, photos of weapons; Text: Terrorist Weapons 2; Public Awareness Chart … groups. Each group usually has one or a combination of the above…
Mayibuye
… for many years as a small, underground newsletter, was one of three African National Congress publications alongside … Sizwe). Circulation was limited and…
EventUN committee is barred to enter SA
… A United Nations (UN) committee consisting of eight, with instructions to investigate conditions in the Mandated Territory of South Africa, was refused…
EventJudgement is handed down in a landmark case
… sought improvements in "influx control" or the freedom of movement of Black South Africans. These cases contributed to the gradual dismantling of apartheid…
EventWalter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba and Ahmed Kathrada address the public after 26 years
… After the release of Walter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba of the African National Congress (ANC) and Ahmed Kathrada of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) on 15…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki sacks Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
… makes the announcement during a special joint sitting of the two houses of parliament, almost two weeks after Zuma was implicated in corruption during the…
EventPioneer tomato farmer Bertie van Zyl is buried in Mooketsi
… Bertie van Zyl (72), founder and owner of ZZ2, the biggest tomato growing operation in the country and one of the biggest in the world, was buried in…
EventEllen Khuzwayo is born
… Dr Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo, ANC member of parliament and noted writer of Call me Woman (winner of CNA Award 1985, translated into six European languages)…
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… and trade unionist James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and president of the South African Coloured People's…
EventGeneral Lord Roberts marches on Pretoria
… In the middle of the South African War II (Anglo-Boer War II), General Lord … The War had started eight months earlier due to a number of interrelated…
PlaceStasiegebou, Sannaspos
… This Railway Station Building of sandstone was completed shortly before the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). It is one, of only a few Station Buildings erected…
Devout domesticity?
… Table of contents Acknowledgements Dedication Abstract … and Organisation in the Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 – 1979 3…
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… afoot in the Eastern Cape in preparation for the funeral of African National Congress (ANC) veteran, Mama Dideka Mhlaba (85) - wife of the late Rivonia…
PlaceNoupoort
… Noupoort is a town in the Eastern Karoo region of South Africa. With the start of the Railways in Noupoort nearly all the personnel were … church was…
Zweli Mkhize slams Zuma in hard-hitting statement, 01 April 2017
… consultations which take place with senior officials of the ANC during such appointments and changes to the composition of the national executive, the…
PlaceLuderitz, Namibia
… art-deco architecture and excursions to the ghost town of Kolmanskop. Luderitz in southern Namibia is isolated on a … Desert and has only one road in, yet,…
PlaceDie Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerkgebou in Du Toit Street, Pretoria
… founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the independent churches started by the ‘Voortrekkers’. … first church building (1857-1882) was…
PlaceOld Post Office, Fleming Street, Port Elizabeth
… as erf 5645, which includes the parking lot at the bottom of Military Road (formerly the Parade ground). It lies … Plans drawn up in 1897 show the original…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… in the legislative capital. Strydom claimed to be the head of a white supremacist group called the ‘Wit Wolwe’ (White … that the organisation did not exist…
EventThe First Gay Pride March is Held in South Africa
… march was organised by the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand (GLOW) and attracted a crowd of about 800 people. Speakers at the event included…
Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
… Fred Ritchin (associate professor of photography and communications at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a new media consultant to news and…
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… One of South Africa’s deadliest terror attacks took place in … in 1983, when Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress,…
PlaceSeal Island
… Hout Bay has now become well known as the port of departure for scenic day trips to Seal island or Duiker Island, home to a colony of thousands of Cape Fur…
PlacePlumstead
… Plumstead was developed on the site of an old VOC Military Camp some 13km South of Cape Town and, by 1823, was already a growing Village. The … a Railway…
Document 44 - Letter from Leon Trotsky to T. W. Thibedi, 4 September 1932
… that the material hindrances would be great in this time of deep crisis, Are many negro comrades unemployed in … not correct. It is true that we are only at…