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EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… the evening of 16 December 1961 five bombs were detonated in Port Elizabeth. The MK High Command selected targets for … buildings. For instance, an…
PlaceSt George’s Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town
… the Martyr stands at the bottom of Parliament Street in Cape Town and was erected to provide a place of worship for English settlers of the Anglican…
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… Cynthia Lindenberg Letty was born in Standerton, in the old Transvaal Province in 1895. She was the eldest of five children. At the outbreak …
PlaceSt Thomas’ Church, Ridge Road, Berea, Durban
… In 1835, Captain Allan Gardiner retired from the navy and … the Zulus as a whole were singularly disinterested in both his and most other Missionary…
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… Sir Patrick Duncan was born on 21 December 1870 in Fortrie, Banffshire, Scotland as the second son of a crofter. He received a Master of Arts in Classics…
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…
“What I Owe To Mahatma Gandhi”: An Article, September 16, 1948
… word among the Indian community. I faintly realised in those early days the powers of the simple man who was to achieve in the fullness of time such miracles…
PlaceHangberg, 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…