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EventThe Harms Commission officially restricts investigations into South African security force
… The terms of reference of the Harms Commission, which was to inquire into alleged murders and unlawful acts of the security forces, were laid out in a…
Event46664 concert is held in Fancourt
… South African 46664 concert, 46664 being the prison number of South African president Nelson Mandela during the apartheid era, was staged at the exclusive…
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
… The League of Nations, the world body formed after World War 1 in 1919, … (now Namibia). The mandate gave South Africa full power of administration and…
EventWork is stopped at the Kimberley mine
… work was stopped at the Kimberley mine after 43 years of operation. The mine became uneconomical to operate as it reached a depth of 1 083 m without yielding…
Birthday message by Albert Luthuli to Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 2 September 1955
… sincerely wishing you good health, strength and longevity of life, both for your sake and for the sake of the successful prosecution of our struggle for…
EventUnited Nations Charter is adopted
… General Jan Smuts had prepared. Governments and a number of non-government organisations, including the Lions Clubs … received invitations to assist in the…
Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, December 1964
… December 23rd, Mr. Z.B. Molete, Publicity Secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress, is reported to have said that … Telli participating. [1] He further…
PlaceAlfred Nzo District Municipality, Kwa-Zulu Natal/Eastern Cape
… District in the Alfred Nzo Municipality, of which Harding is the principal Town. Encircled by Mount … and Bizana. It was named after Prince Alfred , son of…
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… in the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) at the time of this interview, was born in 1952 and graduated from … School in Soweto in 1971. He studied at the…
PlaceFalse Bay
… If you leave the "Mother City" of South Africa and follow the M3 towards Muizenberg , you will have a great view of the Coasts of False Bay (Afrikaans:…
PlaceGaries
… To describe Garies as in the middle of nowhere does not do any damage to the reputation of the Town (for those who stay here, particularly during the … road…
”The African Mine Workers’ Strike-A National Struggle.”flyer issued by the ANC Youth League, August 1946
… against the most brutal, callous and inhuman exploitation of man by man in the history of mankind. Their struggle is a challenge to the whole economic and…
EventBoutros Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary General, is born
… as a Professor in both these fields at the University of Cairo. With an impressive academic career as his basis, Ghali started his political career as a…
EventWomen protest against passes in the Free State
… The first protest of women against the carrying of passes by women took place in Bloemfontein, Orange Free … (now Free State), where there was a large…
EventUnited Nations lifts arms embargo on South Africa
… Following the election of Nelson Mandela as president of the government of National Unity, the United Nations (UN) Security Council …
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… The 5th of December marks the anniversary of the death of revolutionary anti-Apartheid liberation leader, Nelson …
PlaceThe Queen’s Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… the Orange River Sovereignty, covering a broad area of land over the Gariep River. In July the British Resident in Bloemfontein, Henry Warden, came under…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education 1902 Treaty of Vereeniging 1910 31 May, Adoption of South Africa’s first constitution 8…
Invitation: BikoHausen - Steve Bantu Biko and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Johannesburg, 1971
… Catherine Meyburgh, Jannous Aukema (Editing) At the end of a working lecture tour to South Africa in March 1971, the … activist Steve Biko. There is little…
An open letter from Desmond Tutu to Aung San Su Kyi, 7 September 2017
… but breaking my vow to remain silent on public affairs out of profound sadness about the plight of the Muslim minority in your country, the Rohingya. In my ……
PlaceFranskraal and the Strandveld Museum
… Situated right outside the shark cage diving centre of South Africa (Gansbaai), Franskraal is a quaint seaside village with an awesome array of things to do…
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… company was registered in Kimberley, and was the merger of the De Beers Mining Company and Kimberley mines under the … were discovered in 1860 on De Beer's…
EventSouth African cricket player Aubrey Faulkner, great all-rounder in the early 20th century, is born
… his day a dominating figure in South African cricket, one of the games' finest all around players, and a legendary coach. His pupils included the likes of…
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
… for a stage career. After attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, he joined the Shakespeare Company of Sir Donald Wolfit, one of the last great 'actor…
A tireless campaigner by Jaspreet Kindra, 29 October 2003, South Africa
… a court challenge led to the first government provision of a cheap basic water supply to the destitute. The person … compelled the Durban Metro Council to…
PlaceThe Old Supreme Court Adderley Street, Cape Town
… on 8 September 1967. It all began wth the proper Housing of Slaves in Cape Town presenting the Dutch with a problem, … Building soon fell into disrepair a…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE NATIONAL MEN’S MARCH Pretoria, 22 November 1997
… Master of ceremonies; Men, women and children of South Africa, I am proud to be with you on this historic … message to our fellow men, and to the women and…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by Walter Sisulu
… their poor ”” in those days there were many thousands of unskilled. jobless newcomers from the platteland. Lembede … theory (as opposed to the hamba kahle …
EventNNP federal council decides to disband the party
… At midnight on the evening of the final certification of results of the 2006 local government elections, the federal council …
Action Kommandant film review by Kabelo Kemp (www.kathradafoundation.org)
… a young activist from the dusty and drug ridden streets of Bonteheuwel. Directed by Nadine Cloete under Ma'engere Film Productions, it documents the life of…