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76. The Indian people are an integral and permanent part of South Africa
… African Institute of Race Relations sponsored a symposium in 1956, the theme of which was 'The Indian as a South … and Dr. A. D. Lazarus. Cross-references…
Hangberg, Hout Bay
… Hangberg is an Area in Hout Bay , Cape Town. It is situated on the Mountain … The Sentinel Peak and many of the residents are employed in the fishing or…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… New Church at Dam Square, the very heart of Amsterdam, in the building where Dutch kings and queens are crowned, … The Hidden Camera, at the final event of…
EventSir Thomas Cullinan, digger and founder of the Premier diamond company, is born
… Sir Thomas Cullinan was born in the The Cape Colony in 1862. He settled in Barberton, before moving to Johannesburg in 1887. He began …
PlaceSuggested Gandhi Trail, Through Durban
… Gandhi arrived in Durban , Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1893 to serve as legal counsel to a merchant Dada Abdulla! In June, Dada Abdulla asked him to…
ArchiveMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
… ideas. "Many years ago, when I was a boy brought up in my village in the Transkei, I listened to the elders of the tribe … without let or hindrance. Then the…
Presidential Address to the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, November 21, 1958
… a time when our people are facing the most critical period in their history. The steps taken to implement the Group Areas Act have caused grave concern in…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… the more enigmatic “Big Men” of the post-independence era in Africa. He was Malawi’s first President and ruled the country for 30 years until he was voted…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… 18:00 on Tuesday, 22 August, at the New Lecture Theatre. In this lecture Professor Mamdani will consider the question: … university, an authorised centre of…
PlaceGrey Street now Yusuf Dadoo Street, Durban-City Centre
… of Indian people outside of India! Originally brought in during the 1860’s by the British as indentured workers for … Some of the oldest remaining Indian…
PlaceCypress Tea Gardens, Hermanus
… Mystery and romance surround the original building. In those days it consisted of two stone and clay fisherman's cottages built in 1875 in the vernacular…
EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah, first prime and later president of Ghana
… In 1949 Kwame Nkrumah formed the Convention People's party … After his 'positive action' campaign created disturbances in 1950, Nkrumah was jailed, but when…
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… Karel Schoeman was born on 26 October 1939 in Trompsburg, Orange Free State. He matriculated from the HoÁƒÂƒÂ«r Jongenskool in Paarl in 1956, obtained a BA…
EventDr Robert Broom is born
… This day in history, Robert Broom, known for having discovered “Mrs Ples”, was born in Paisley, Scotland. Though Broom was educated as a doctor, specializing…
PlaceSouth Sudan
… Southern Sudan by establishing the Province of Equatoria in the 1870s. Islamic Mahdist revolutionaries overran the region in 1885. In 1898, a British force…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church Hall, Uitenhage
… of Uitenhage, the 10th oldest Dutch Reformed congregation in South Africa and the second oldest in the Eastern Cape is the distinction of being the first and…
EventUgandan premier Apollo Milton Obote is shot
… twice. He led Uganda to Independence from Britain in 1962, becoming Prime Minister. Traditionally, the Bugandan … to be only ceremonial. He was deposed by…
Broadcast to South Africa by OR Tambo on the 8th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 16 December 1969
… Comrades-in-arms and fellow fighters in the struggle for freedom: On December 16, 1961, a national … and his allies. Already that army has won historic…
Capture the Citadel. Broadcast to South Africa on the eighth Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1969
… Comrades-in-arms and fellow fighters in the struggle for freedom: On December 16, 1961, a national … and his allies. Already that army has won historic…
ANC ‘Military High Command’ Leader Interviewed
… of urban bombs. There have been about a dozen bomb blasts in South African cities such as Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town - the latest today in Pretoria…
Presidential Address to the Twenty-Third Conference of the South African Indian Congress, Durban, September 3, 1961
… South Africa have completed a hundred years of their stay in this country. It is meeting at a time when we as the smallest minority group in our country are…
Message by Albert Luthuli to the National Conference of the African National Congress Women`s League, 1 August 1959
… Here I am, caged in, in the Lower Tugela District, by the oppressor`s ban on me. … apartheid laws deny us freedom of movement. Feudal days in Europe could…
PlaceNaval Hill
… the Hill. Several types of big and small game can be seen in their natural habitat. Bloemfontein could well be the only City in the World that has a game…
PlaceGazebo, Civic Square
… The elegant gazebo in the Civic Square was built in 1924. It was the home of a coach magnate, Doel … service between Pietersburg (now Polokwane) and…
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… In 1969 Somalian president Abd-i-rashid Ali Shermarke was assassinated in a military Coup. Major General Mohammad Siyad Barre took … strong ties with the…
EventSir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor and founder of tropical medicine is born
… On 3 October 1844, Sir Patrick Manson was born in Oldmeldrum in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He was an important physician at the time, and contributed to…
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… Hansi Pauline Pollak was born in Johannesburg in 1905. She served as an officer in command of the Women Army Auxiliary Services during the …
Closing remarks to the 13th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government, 03 July 2009, Sirte, Libya
… I`m quite certain that I speak on your behalf in expressing our thanks and appreciation to H.E Brother … Your Excellencies, We are gathered here because we…
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In a Notice published in the Staats Courant of 26 April 1899, the Transvaal … with the demarcation of…
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
… nom de guerre, James Stewart, who exposed the atrocities in the ANC’s Quatro prison camp. Martin Soldier of Truth: … Sunday Times, 31 January 2016 HERMANUS…