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PlaceColesberg, Northern Cape
… The Village of Colesberg was founded in 1830 on the site of an abandoned station of the London Missionary Society, and was named in honour of …
EventInaugural Women’s Legacy Dialogue
… was in context with Women’s month. The event consisted of women leaders from government, the corporate sector and … Wendy Luhabe, social entrepreneur, chair,…
EventPresident F. W. de Klerk rings in cabinet changes
… in size and for the first time appointed non-White members of Parliament (MPs) to cabinet posts. Five members retired to … the system. The five among others…
EventClampdown on 'conflict diamonds' begins
… Representatives of the diamond industry and government, from more than thirty countries agree to certify all legitimate shipments of rough diamonds, in an…
EventSABC TV News Editor, Joe Thloloe resigns
… (SABC) was plunged into a crisis when the Editor-in-chief of television news, Joe Thloloe, announced his resignation … just days after the corporation…
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… Johannesburg in 1905. She served as an officer in command of the Women Army Auxiliary Services during the World War II. … among refugees and displaced…
FOREWORD: THEORETICAL DEBATES AND METHODOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES
… to ensure free and fair elections throughout the Republic of South Africa. 3. The undersigned parties agree to recognise and protect the institution, status…
PlaceKuboes, Northern Cape
… Regarded by the local people as the heartland of the Nama Culture , the little Town of Kuboes lies nestled between the Mountains of Ku Boesberg to the North,…
PlaceSammy Mark’s Residence, Zwartkoppies, Pretoria
… The Estate became a Museum in 1986 and the opulent life of the Marks family is remembered today, in this carefully preserved House Museum and it is one of…
ArchivePolitical Action Committee report
… Report of the Political Action Committee to the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, …
Enuga S Reddy: Meeting with SWAPO in Dar Es Salaam -1969
… Africa was making propaganda in the towns and villages of Namibia by pointing out the weaknesses of the UN and telling the people that UN resolutions were ……
EventDulcie September's 's life commemorated at Athlone High School
… September was born on 20 August 1935. From her early years of activism she chose the path of resistance against the apartheid regime. She was a member of the…
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… During the 1980's P. W. Botha, the President of South Africa and leader of the National Party, launched his "Total Strategy" in response to what he saw as…
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… The Rand Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising, also referred to as the Rand Revolt or Red Revolt, which occurred during a period of economic depression…
PlaceCradock Division
… the Eastern Cape Province. It is approximately 240km north of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality. It is one of six municipalities in the district,…
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… South Africa celebrates Freedom Day to mark the liberation of our country and its people from a long period of colonialism and White minority domination …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… Indian Congress (TIC), which was formed at the turn of the twentieth century by Mahatma Gandhi. It was not banned but was severely affected by the harsh…
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
… In May, 1960, the Union of South Africa will be 50 years old. The Government is … hold land in freehold; their school education is now to be of a specific…
David Goldblatt - 'Mostly Unseen' at the Goodman Gallery by Sean O'Toole
… 'Mostly Unseen' presents a selection of photographs taken by David Goldblatt over the past five decades. At times, it is a show of subtle and understated…
PlaceEthiopia
… formerly Abyssinia, is a landlocked country in the East of Africa. It shares one of its borders with Somalia , to the East. Sudan to the West, … Ethiopia is…
ArchiveThe Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé
… in the fight against apartheid, now a thorn in the side of the fat-cat politicians. (This article first appeared in … chairs, cooing sympathetically about…
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… in 1964 by Mr. Stanley Trapido, Lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford. S. Trapido : Mr. Champion, … : We established, branches in every…
PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
… a beautiful, geometrical domed building, was the epitome of high society in Cape Town at the turn of the century when it was built as part of a hotel and…
PlaceWrensch House, 77 Lower Wrench Road, Observatory
… The main building, as well as some of its outbuildings, date from the last quarter of the 18th century, but subsequent additions have given it an overlay of…
EventCurnick Ndlovu, Trade Unionist, is arrested.
… Curnick Ndlovu was the secretary of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a leader…
So truth be in the field
… A study of the history of South Africa, from an anthropologists point. With emphasis on the moral elements of social action including the injustice of racial…
ArchiveSo truth be in the field
… A study of the history of South Africa, from an anthropologists point. With emphasis on the moral elements of social action including the injustice of racial…
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… has sent his condolences to the family and friends of legendary poet and short story writer, Pascal Mafika … away on Sunday. "It is with deep sadness that we…
EventPortuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias erects the first stone cross on the South African coast
… first padrÁƒo, or stone cross, at Kwaaihoek near the mouth of the Bushman's River on the Eastern Cape coast. It is South … African soil was Bartholomew (or…
EventA Dutch ship, the Rosenberg, carrying Huguenots, leaves for the Cape from the Netherlands
… religious persecution brought about by the ascendancy of Catholicism in France. The Edict of Nantes, passed in 1685, inspired a great deal of resentment…