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PlaceMossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
… It was named Aguada de Sao Bras, by Vasco de Gama in 1497, when He set off with 170 men on an expedition to find a sea Route to India. This was in order to…
PlaceHamilton Primary School, Visagie Street, Pretoria
… trees is the home of Hamilton School. This school in the heart of Pretoria has a diverse and proud history … Mr W J Berg (Headmaster 1969 – 1975) was…
PlaceZambia
… Northern Rhodesia becoming the Republic of Zambia. Sunset in Zambia In the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Zambia, only one site made the list: Mosi…
Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
… I am writing this letter on the instructions of the All-in African National Action Council which was established in terms of a resolution passed by the All…
PlaceWeskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, Main building, Ketjen Street, Pretoria
… In 1892 the first Psychiatric Institution in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, the Krankzinnige Gesticht, was established in 1892. Later being renamed as the…
EventDr David Webster, a social anthropologist at Wits University and political activist, is shot dead outside his home
… David Joseph Webster was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1945. He became involved in politics while studying at Rhodes University in …
PlaceStellenberg, Stellenberg Avenue, Kenilworth
… at the Crossroads of what were once four oak lined Avenues in Upper Kenilworth and surrounded by enchanting Gardens and … mature trees, Stellenberg is the…
Place(The) Gambia
… River Gambia.’ The Portuguese thus named it ‘The Gambia.’ [In Portuguese). So when Britain took over, they maintained … that name. A year to the attainment…
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
… NEW DELHI: 19 TO 21 APRIL 1985 DRAFT FINAL DOCUMENT IN PURSUANCE of a decision taken by the co-ordinating Bureau … Countries at its meeting of February 22,…
ArchiveSouth Africa wants to make history compulsory at school. But can it? by Linda Chisholm (the Conversation.com), 1 June 2018
… on its main recommendation – to make history compulsory in the final three years of high school from 2023. The … faculties tasked with training teachers. I…
Document 3 - Resolution on ‘the South African question’ adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist International following the sixth Comintern congress
… COSATU is deeply disturbed by the manner in which the Department of Finance is approaching the 1998 budget. Both in discussion in Parliament and at NEDLAC,…
Address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of Pakistan Islamabad, 4 May 1999
… what it is to fight for independence and to face hardship in pursuit of democratic ideals. And we are grateful to have … Pakistan's proud history of…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Cape Town Cape Town, 27 November 1997
… of the decision to offer me this privilege I lost no time in accepting it - I know that councils can sometimes change their minds in these matters. But I was…
Document 22 - CODESA I - Declaration of Intent
… comes at a time when millions of South Africans living in poverty are not covered by a basic social security net, … at over 30% is still rising. Our limited…
Document 27 - Record of Understanding
… for a multi-stakeholder process to analyse which records in the possession of the departments should be routinely made available. As part of this exercise…
EventA German gunboat, the Panther, reaches Morocco, increasing tensions between European powers
… significantly to the tension between the European powers in the period before World War I. In 1911, a rebellion broke out in Morocco against the Sultan,…
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… is best known for its annual display of purple flowers in October. Located in the Northern part of Gauteng , Pretoria is the Historic centre of Government,…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE Pretoria, 4 December 1997
… of solidarity, justice and freedom burning. The temptation in our situation is to speak in muffled tones about an issue such as the right of the … if these…
PlaceCentral African Republic
… Diamond prospectors in the Central African Republic have found polished flint and … languages related to those of the present day were living in the area…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… and Compatriots. When we gathered here on the Grand Parade in February 1990, we knew that our march to freedom was … years later, on 27 April 1994, the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… and Compatriots. When we gathered here on the Grand Parade in February 1990, we knew that our march to freedom was … years later, on 27 April 1994, the…
36. The fault of Indian immigrants is their poverty and their skin
… and Bridglal Pachai Indian Opinion reflected on the way in which the 1903 Immigration Restriction Act operated under Harry Smith, the Immigration Restriction…
Call for the observance of Human Rights Day: Albert Luthuli, 12 December 1959
… was a great achievement. It marked a significant stage in human development when organised world opinion showed an … of treatment." Through the lead of some…
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
… The building is the oldest existing dwelling in the immediate vicinity of Rustenburg. Designed in a neo-classical idiom, it was erected for William … maps,…
EventThe last Apollo Moon mission returns to Earth
… on the Moon since Neil Armstrong stepped out of Apollo 11 in July 1969. While astronaut's Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module …
Address by President Jacob Zuma to The Progressive Professionals Forum on the occasion of their launch, 2 August 2013
… are proud of their country, and proud of their continent. In just a few months we will be marking 20 years of freedom. … and creed. The country has been…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at Waseda University Tokyo, 4 July 1995
… occasion today represents a confirmation of a bond forged in struggle against apartheid;a bond strengthened by the achievement of democracy in South Africa…
Search for a United Front against racism
… 1946 Salvation lies in Non-European Front — M.D. Naidoo The salvation of the Indian people in this country lay in a united front of non-Europeans. They could…
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
… up the beating of the murdered activist Stompie Seipei. In an hour-long exclusive interview with the Mail & Guardian in a Durban prison, Thulani Nicholas…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… On the night of the 19th of November in the South African city of Durban, agents of the Pretoria … just to take away the life of this outstanding patriot. In…