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EventRaymond Dart completes work on Taung skull
… 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…
EventAdriaan Vlok is born
… Former South African minister of law and order, Adriaan Johannes Vlok, was born in … Cape Province. He started his career in the department of justice at the…
PlaceGriquatown
… In 1802 William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer, of the London Missionary Society, established a station among … little better than their first, and for many…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
… For the last few weeks millions of fevered eyes have been fixed on South Africa, host to the … ends next weekend. For half a century the probing gaze of the…
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… Trevor Grundy writes on the life of the historian and political activist At a dinner party in … Ranger, who has died at his home in Oxford at the age of 85,…
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… 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…
EventMedical Association agrees to investigate Biko’s death
… that no particular person could be blamed for the death of Steve Biko . The case was then submitted to the South … (SAMDC) for further investigation. The…
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… 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…
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… on 30 October 2002 eight bomb blasts rocked Soweto. Seven of the blasts occurred on main commuter railway lines running … More than 200,000 commuters could…
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… On 14 October 1999, the first president and father of Tanzanian independence Julius Mwalimu Nyerere died of leukaemia aged 77. Nyerere became a symbol of the…
EventPallo Jordan opens the Mbuzini Samora Machel Public Library
… 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…
PlaceBergtheil House, 16 Queen’s Avenue, Westville
… Bergtheil, this museum is situated in the leafy suburb of Westville, almost midway between Durban and Pinetown. The … floorboards. Park like surroundings…
PlacePhilippolis, Free State
… "The first Historical Settlement North of the Orange River, this Southern Free State Town also belongs to the False Karoo, a Geographical Region of dry scrub…
EventMac Maharaj is born
… (Mac) Maharaj, political activist and first SA Minister of Transport in the democratically elected government in … he formulated a new policy and…
Call for Participants: Academy for African Urban Diversity
… urbanizing. If this point is agreed upon by a wide variety of actors—from media, to governments, UN agencies, … what this process will mean for Africans. The…
PlaceStone House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… Baker in 1902 as his own home, is an important component of Parktown's surviving architectural character. It makes use of natural building materials and its…
Document 2 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton
… COSATU PRESS STATEMENT RE: MINISTER OF LABOUR GREEN PAPER ON POLICY PROPOSALS FOR A NEW … COSATU welcomes the green paper announced by the Minister of Labour…
PlaceJoubertina
… 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…
PlaceHugh Eksteen Photographic Museum, Polokwane-Limpopo
… 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…
PlaceKamastone and Bulhoek
… 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…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… Newspaper proprietors and editors of all the main South African newspapers, both English and … operate under state authority and administer a strict code of…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… 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…
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… On 18 April 2005, Zimbabwe celebrated twenty-five years of independence after the overthrow of white majority rule, under the then Prime Minister Ian … and…
Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014
… Harvard’s museum landscape: the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, which will host rotating exhibitions of American, European, and…
The Hawks letter to Pravin Gordhan by Berning Ntlemeza (Politics Web), 28 February 2016
… Text of the letter from Lt General Berning Ntlemeza, National Head of Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, to Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan, 19…
Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo's Statement In Court In Trial For Passive Resistance, June 1946
… (Dr. Dadoo was sentenced in June 1946, at the beginning of the passive resistance campaign, to three months` … Court as a passive resister in response to the…
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…
ArchiveThe apartheid city and its labouring class: African workers and the independent trade union movement in Durban, 1959-1985
… in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject history at the University of South Africa. This…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 10: So
… Report of the Political Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society. … political position in South Africa; Political aspects of…
ArchiveSelf rule in the Transkei: a monstrous fraud
… about; to which this document ensures continued domination of the Transkei by the Republic of South Africa. The Unity Movement and the freedom fighters' ……