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EventGermany invades Poland, starting World War II
… Three years of mounting international tension - encompassing the Spanish Civil War, the Anschluss (union) of Germany and Austria, Hitler's occupation of the…
EventUgandan premier Apollo Milton Obote is shot
… invasion by Tanzanian forces and the subsequent deposition of Amin. He was president until 1985, when he was deposed a … State's administration. The British…
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
… a two year old guerilla war against South African control of the region. That struggle was directed by the Southwest … had no jurisdiction to try us. What…
EventIconic musician, John Lennon, was shot dead outside his New York apartment
… him. After the shooting, Chapman sat and read a copy of Catcher in the Rye as he calmly waited for police to … to kill the world-famous musician. The instant…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Bonner, Philip. African Urbanisation on the Rand … Consciousness. Inaugural address at the…
PlaceVictoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
… a small Jetty, built by Jan van Riebeeck in 1654 as part of his task to establish a Refreshment Station at the Foot of Africa for the Dutch East India…
EventForced Removals commence from District Six
… The memory of District Six , also known as Kanaladorp (kanala is a Malay … word meaning ‘help one another’), is marked by the event of 11 February 1966. On…
Letter to Farzanah
… Omar Badsha's first book of photographs, Letter to Farzanah was published in 1979 in commemoration of the United Nations declared International Year of the…
EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were totally destroyed by … used in warfare. The American government justified the use…
EventSADF responds to allegations by FAPLA
… Following a press conference of General Staff Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio dos Santos Franca Ndalu, Chief of ForÁƒÂƒÂ§as Armadas Populares de LibertaÁƒÂƒÂ§ÁƒÂƒ…
EventEbola virus kills 153 people in Zaire
… virus a virus that kills its host by attacking the lining of the cells and coagulating the blood in the human body.. … named after the Ebola River valley…
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… The rapid expansion of Johannesburg after the end of the Second Anglo Boer War increased to over twice it's the … before the war. This increase meant that…
PlaceEnon
… place mentioned in John. It lies 13 kilometres East of Kirkwood and 60 kilometres North-East of Uitenhage,(formerly known as Witterivier). Enon was formed ……
PlaceVoortrekker Girl
… This charming figure which stands in front of the Oranje Girls High School was sculpted by Laurika Postma. The positive influence of aesthetically pleasing…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… and Pass Laws, and Africans in countryside towns, weary of tightened restrictions and growing unemployment, began … their grievances, the Communist Party…
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… Mitchell, who has died aged 83, was an active opponent of Ian Smith in the 1960s and 70s, and later used her political skills in an equally determined…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Helen Stoilas, 30 May 2017
… photographer David Goldblatt has installed photographs of former criminals in prisons in Birmingham and Manchester. The portraits, part of a series called Ex…
PlaceStellenberg, Stellenberg Avenue, Kenilworth
… and much-loved family Home. Situated at the Crossroads of what were once four oak lined Avenues in Upper Kenilworth … Gardens and mature trees, Stellenberg…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… urban settlement or 'Township' in South Africa, South West of Johannesburg , with a population of approximately 1.3 Million (2008, Joburg archive). Soweto ……
PlaceNelson Mandela Bridge, Johannesburg
… 295 metre span that is lit up in all the colours of the rainbow at night. (It's one of the really striking attractions of Johannesburg!) The Bridge, which…
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
… Cape Town in 1804 he correctly noted the significance of the naming pattern for Cape Slave owners: It may here be … most honourable to those deities at whose…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai On 28 January 1908, Gandhi and two of his…
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
… for Girls was started by Lord Milner in 1902 as part of his efforts to anglicise the Transvaal under British Occupation. And so it was that a group of 106…
52. Gandhi: my experiences, 1914
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … and appeared in Gujarati in the Golden Number of Indian Opinion…
PlaceSteve Biko Bridge, East London
… Bridge across the Second Creek, East London, West of Buffalo Harbour. Named in honour of Balthazar John Vorster, 1915-1983. Former Prime Minister of the…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems by Jan H. Hofmeyr
… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems
… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at…
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… a scientist, physician and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town. Fleming was born on 27 March 1905 in Port … in the Cape…
EventNational Party wins general election
… The National Party under Dr H.F. Verwoerd claimed majority of votes in a parliamentary general election, Verwoerd's last … before his assassination in office…
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… meeting, which was held to inform those residents of Peelton unable to attend a previous meeting, of the incorporation of the whole of Peelton into the…