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EventSanctions are applied on Libya over Lockerbie bombing
… United Nations (UN) sanctions against Libya because of its alleged involvement in the destruction of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988 and…
EventThe seven day war in Kwazulu-Natal starts
… The first of more than 100 people were killed near Pietermaritzburg. … Political conflict in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa caused the death of…
EventNew SA Constitution takes effect
… On 4 February 1997, the new Constitution of the Republic of South Africa came into force. The country’s Constitution has been hailed as one of the most…
EventIFP commemorates Shell House shootings.
… Thousands of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters marched through the streets of Johannesburg to mark the anniversary of the 1994 Shell House shootings…
EventEducationist Godfrey Nakene is born
… in Ga-Ramokgopa, Pietersburg district. Nakene became one of the first Black student to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of…
EventPolitical violence claims 100 lives in KZN
… About 100 people were declared dead as a result of the political violence that continued in KwaZulu-Natal. The political violence rages on in spite of the…
All Gwede’s horses and all Gwede’s men… can’t put Cosatu together again by Stephen Grootes (The Daily Maverick), 11 November 2014
… is probably no one alive today with the intimate knowledge of all the organisations of the alliance that Gwede Mantashe possesses. He’s been Chair of the…
Nelson Mandela Regrets, Nostalgia and Dreams:
… letters reflect the volumes that remain unsaid because of the censorship rules that prescribe and proscribe the thoughts of a prisoner. The one thing that he…
ArchiveMalopoets: David Kramer concert
… Black and yellow background; images of map of Africa; with text in white. Notice of a music concert by David Kramer in support of the Leyland …
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
… Vasco da Gama's Voyage of "Discovery" The reason for putting "discovery" in inverted … set off from the Tagus River on 8 July 1497 with a crew of 148 men in…
Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … kingdom, no smoke, no industrial filth scars the…
PlaceHamilton Primary School, Visagie Street, Pretoria
… A beautiful Victorian building tucked into an avenue of majestic Jacaranda trees is the home of Hamilton School. This school in the heart of Pretoria has a…
PlaceRustenburg
… The Magaliesberg range of Mountains dominates the Landscape that is now known as the … History is complex and rich in variety. The known History of…
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… and slave wages. In articles in New Age the brutality of this system was exposed in 1947, nationalising the issue. … took up the story in 1952, after coming…
EventCheryl Carolus is born
… in London, political activist and Chief Executive Officer of Tourism South Africa, Cheryl Carolus, was born in … on the Cape Flats. At school, Carolus was an…
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… Oliver Tambo, former President of the African National Congress (ANC), returns to South … going into exile nearly thirty years ago. Tambo was one of the…
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… was popularly known as the Bambatha rebellion became chief of the AmaZondi people. Bhambatha succeeded to the throne after the death of his father and uncle,…
PlacePaternoster, West Coast
… "Think of Fishermen and Fishing Boats, hardy Fynbos growing on whites Dunes, and of Bokkoms (dried Fish), drying in the wind. Paternoster, one of the Oldest…
PlaceKoopmans de Wet House, 35 Strand Street, Cape Town
… The land was granted at the turn of the 18th century by Governor Willem Adriaan van de Ste l … De Wet family in 1809 when it was purchased by the widow of…
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
… Society (ACS) in 1822 and was to serve as the home of freed slaves from the United States. Although Liberia has … managed to maintain its independence…
PlaceThe Fourth Raadsaal, Bloemfontein
… is the fourth such to have been Built by the old Republic of the Orange Free State. Following the abolition of the Orange River Sovereignty in 1854, the…
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… individual, a certain Mr Francois Hugo. He was one of the first winemakers in the Area to market and sell his wines directly to the Public. He made use of…
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… first executive committee elected in 1912, which consisted of the Reverend John Dube as President, Solomon Plaatje as … racism, paternalism, patriarchy,…
EventThe world pay tribute to former president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium
… 90 world leaders gathered together at the Memorial service of Nelson Mandela, which was held at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. Thousands of people sang and…
PlaceAlicedale a Village in Albany District
… A Village in the Albany District, some 42 km West of Grahamstown. Named after Alice Slessor, wife of the engineer who constructed the railway. Its Xhosa…
ArchiveCivil Society vs. the State: identity, institutions, and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… A dissertation presented to the Facilty of the Graduate School of Yale University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This dissertation…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.2 Jan-Mar 1961
… Gask. The Same Boat, an anon. correspondent. Diary of a Detainee, ‘Tandi’. The Birth of African Nationalism, Lionel Forman. Four Years of Treason, Freda…
EventThe first Boer Trek to Angola that started in 1874 reaches Lake Ngami (Thirstland Trek) in 1875
… The Thirstland Trek is the name given to the exodus of Boer/Afrikaans families, most of them from the districts of Pretoria and Rustenburg, through Northern…
EventThe British government closes its consulate in Angola
… tensions in Angola, with Cuban forces fighting on behalf of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and South African troops for the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu
… These papers are selected from a number of essay and address published from time to time and are here … after the necessary alterations for the convenience…