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Address by President at the official opening of the new bridge over the Limpopo River at Beit Bridge Beit Bridge, 24 November 1995
… share a long history going back centuries and cemented in the struggle to liberate our countries and our continent. Happily, with the attainment of democracy…
EventThe New Zealand Mounted Rifles leave Wellington for the South African War
… 1899. As the war drew became an inevitable reality, in September 1899 New Zealand offered British forces in South Africa a contingent of its mounted rifles…
PlaceCameroon
… groups and spoken languages [i] . To this end Cameroon can in many ways be considered a microcosm of the history of the … been added to the UNESCO World…
Court Verdict Docket, 11 February 1978
… 5.1. INTRODUCTION Madressa education does not exist in isolation but is part of the practice of the religion and … to a better understanding of it. The…
Chapter five: A Historical Overview of Madressa Education
… 5.1. INTRODUCTION Madressa education does not exist in isolation but is part of the practice of the religion and … to a better understanding of it. The…
An historical overview of madressa education - Chapter 5 by A. Akhalwaya, I. Waja, A.H. Gabru, A.K. Dockrat, S. Pandor and E. Garda
… 5.1. INTRODUCTION Madressa education does not exist in isolation but is part of the practice of the religion and … to a better understanding of it. The…
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
… me this unique opportunity to participate so prominently in the remembrance of his memory. Let me at the outset thank … physical handicap - for years he…
Chapter 4 - THE PARTY AND THE “SOLDIERS OF LUTHULI”
… A few months after the first formal ANC-SACP meeting in exile, in June 1970, the Party organised its first augmented CC meeting in Moscow, along the lines…
Extract from a speech at the conclusion of the Republic Festival on 31 May 1971 at Goodwood, Cape
… technological development at the disposal of any country in Africa that requested it in the interests of its own development. The communist threat … the…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1946
… of India has given notice to the Union Government that, in consequence of the refusal to hold a Round Table … off between the two countries. Commenting on…
PlaceDe Waal Park, Camp Street, Oranjezicht
… The land was originally part of the van 'Breda Estate'' in Oranjezicht, and was purchased by the Town Council of Cape Town in 1877 for the building of the…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… presence, Mozambique became an independent state in 1975. A civil war broke out between two factions FRELIMO, … Congress(ANC) was granted access to military…
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… Abe Bailey was born in Cradock, Cape Colony, in 1864. His father, a wagon maker and wool merchant, later … with Dutch friends who lived nearby. He attended…
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, was born into a wealthy family in Cuba. He attended Catholic schools before pursuing a law … of Havanna, where he also began his…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… The first International Women's Day was launched in several European countries in March 1911. It was celebrated on 19 March and over a million men and women…
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… of our country, the man who played a cardinal role in the radicalisation and transformation of the ANC into a … David Wilcox Hlahane Bopape was born on 22…
ADDRESS AT A DINNER HOSTED BY THE FEDERATION OF INDIAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE (FICCI), CONFEDERATION OF INDIAN INDUSTRIES (CII), AND JOINT BUSINESS COUNCILS (JBC) Delhi, 26 January 1995
… stood, over so many decades, with the Government of India in opposition to the injustices of apartheid. By choosing to … last to address the needs of the…
Extract from a speech made at Koffiefontein on 11 August 1967
… Minister's Koffiefontein speech is very well-known and in a certain sense also an interesting speech. Adv. Vorster … this opportunity to reply to numerous…
The Gandhi You May not Know by Rajmohan Gandhi
… In 1942, shortly before Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement, I was present in Sevagram as a six-and-a-half-year-old child. My…
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… The history of broadcasting in South Africa can be traced back to 1923, when the first wireless broadcast was made in Johannesburg. By April 1927, an hour of…
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… tonnes and was manufactured by Emil Kessler of Esslingen in Germany. It was brought from the coast by ox-wagons and was unloaded piece by piece in the open…
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… Penelope Heyns, was born on the 8th of November 1974 in Springs, Transvaal. Her parents later moved to the Natal … Primary and then later Amanzimtoti High…
EventInauguration ceremony of the South African College School (SACS) takes place
… Kerk, giving impetus to the formation of the first school in Cape Town. The idea of establishing SACS was born in 1791 when the Dutch Commissioner-General,…
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… of 100 acres of land and was purchased by Gandhiji in 1904. It was on this Settlement that Gandhi started his … and truth. Gandhi started his first…
PlaceCathcart District, Eastern Cape
… The District of Cathcart was created in January 1877, and it was raised to a fiscal divisional on … livestock normally had to be moved to alternative grazing…
PlaceChapman's Peak Drive, Hout Bay to Fish Hoek
… a governor or brave mountaineer, but a lowly ship's pilot. In 1607 the skipper of the British ship Contest found his vessel becalmed in what is now Hout Bay…
PlaceConstantia
… of a Mansion, 'owned by Deputy Minister- Paul Mashatile , in Constantia. (Link in Further Reading .) The Former estate in the magisterial district of Wynberg…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African Reserve Bank’s 75th anniversary banquet Pretoria, 28 June 1996
… to the financial and other economic developments in our country. As a person at my age should know, a 75th … on the happy and sad moments of life;moments…
EventLord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, and architect of the Union of South Africa dies
… Lord Alfred Milner, a career diplomat in the British Foreign Office in the late 19th century and early 20th century died in Canterbury, England. Milner came…
62. Congress defends its stand on the colonisation scheme
… by the second Round Table Conference, held at Cape Town in January and February 1932. The South African Indian Congress decided to participate in an enquiry…