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EventDepartment of Transport launches Be Legal campaign
… month Be Legal campaign at the Jack Mincer Taxi Rank in Johannesburg, aiming to improve and legalise the taxi … minibus taxi operators to apply for…
EventReginald (Reg) September, prominent trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, is born
… Party and the African National Congress. He was born in Wynberg in Cape Town on the 13th June 1923, the son of Florence, a …
EventFirst aeroplane flight takes place
… of 17 December 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright succeeded in the world's first powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine under complete control of the …
EventThe Transvaal National Union is established
… to campaign for equal franchise rights for all White men in the Transvaal. The union became an instrument of … to bring about the abortive putsch, the…
EventThe Battle of Kambula takes place
… and native levies fighting againist some 20,000 Zulus. In the event, the British were successful in defeating the Zulus, with Wood’s force suffering 83 …
EventKenyan men arrested as part of the continuing crackdown by British authorities
… 2,500 men are arrested in Kenya as part of the continuing crackdown by British … people were killed and scores of others injured at Lari in Kiambu region…
ArchiveAfrican National Congress Consultative Conference: Speeches and Resolutions
… from the African National Congress Consultative Conference in Johannesburg, December 14-16, 1990. Includes speech by … of Action, Statament of Oliver Tambo…
Letter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
… made by NUSAS to the Commonwealth Students Conference held in Kumasi, Ghana, in January 1971, as well as the relationship between NUSAS …
EventBotha announces third naval base
… at Saldana Bay, about 128 kilometres north of Cape Town. In 1958 Botha became Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs … Minister under the ruling National Party …
EventWomen Draw up a Petition against Pass Laws
… Black women in what was then the Orange Free State protested when they were included in Pass legislation previously reserved for African men only. … Bobby…
"Should we get rid of the whites?" - Albert Luthuli answer to a question, 5 March 1959
… to get rid of the white man." I believe that the tendency in the world from way back has been for people to come … the people. But I say, for all that, the…
Remember Khwezi beyond the Zuma rape trial, says Marianne Thamm (Cape Talk) , 10 October 2016
… Thamm. Thamm says the silent anti-rape protest held in August, during President Jacob Zuma’s IEC address, is evidence of this. Kuzwayo accused Zuma of rape…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… record of the second resistance movements waged by Indians in the country; the first was waged by Gandhi at the … beginning of the century. The 1946 Campaign…
PlaceFort Frederick, Port Elizabeth
… is located along Belmont Terrace, is a stone fort built in 1799 by the British Forces to defend the mouth of the Baakens River. Built in 1799 on a natural…
EventSomerset concludes a treaty with Ngqika (aka Gaika)
… help when his uncle, Ndlambe, attacked him at Grahamstown in 1819. Ndlambe, who was defeated, had opposed Gaika's claim … the Xhosa to unite and he and…
EventScientists uncover possible reason for SS Waratah’s disappearance 100 years later
… to Durban, South Africa, on 26 July 1909. The ship, built in Scotland, was meant to serve as a passenger and cargo … the SS Waratah was bound for Durban, and…
PlaceRailway Station and Post Office, Point Road, Durban
… This building was erected in 1900 as part of a general upgrade by the Natal Railways. … the Railway, passengers and freight had to be transported in carts…
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… of the Opposition, House of Assembly, Cape Town. Sir, In one week's time, the Verwoerd government intends to … satisfaction from this developing crisis. We,…
Read SABC CEO Jimi Matthews full resignation letter (Staff Reporter), 27 June 2016
… SABC than outside‚ passing comment from the side-lines. “In the process the prevailing‚ corrosive atmosphere has … negatively on my moral judgment and has…
PlaceRavenswood House, Hatfield Street, Gardens
… Ravenswood House is the only known example in Cape Town of the late classical Georgian Architectural … Welgedaan Property which was granted to G. D. Vreeburg…
PlaceCarnarvon District, Karoo
… divisions of Fraserburg and Victoria West. It is located in the heartland of the Karroo, and because of its semi-arid … 1904 census: 5,792 residents, of whom…
PlaceFeathermarket Hall, Port Elizabeth
… of the original commercial activities once carried out in Market Square. Feather Market Centre, which has played … for over a Century, was proclaimed a…
EventSouth Africa gets a new R5 coin with distinct security features designed to outsmart counterfeiters
… Around 2003/2004, a counterfeit R5 coin was circulating in South Africa. Although not an exact match of the original, … This prompted the Reserve Bank to…
EventLesotho and Swaziland threatened with sanctions
… Congress (ANC) insurgents. Their refusal to co-operate in this regard meant their citizens were going to suffer, as … for economic and international trade…
EventCourt commutes James Mange’s sentence
… Non-Align Movement, and non-governmental organisations in South Africa, the Bloemfontein Appeal Court commuted James … applauded the achievements of this…
EventP.W. Botha offers to resign
… to resign amid speculation regarding his involvement in the Information Scandal of 1978, if his accusers could … Scandal. This followed after a motion was…
EventAfrikaans Writer Breytenbach is sentenced
… Atlas or Okhela, a resistance group fighting apartheid in exile and was intended to be the White wing of the banned … (ANC). He remained a political prisoner…
EventCOSATU delegates are left at Beitbridge
… In spite of being refused to visit, the thirteen delegates of … first hand information regarding the political situation in Zimbabwe prior to parliamentary…
EventSouth Africa wins the 2010 bid to host the Soccer World Cup
… host the 2010 Soccer World Cup. The announcement was made in Zurich, where South Africa was represented by a delegation … had previously lost the bid to…
EventBulelani Vukwani on a shooting spree
… his girlfriend, and wounded five at Mdantsane Suburb in East London. This sad drama unfolded after Vukwani's … cornered him. The wounded people were taken to…