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ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster prison on 11 February 1960, after 10,053 days of incarceration, people …
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Cape Town Cape Town, 27 November 1997
… towns and cities that all can be proud to live in. The 11 clinics built or upgraded in Cape Town since 1994;the …
Address by President Nelson Mandela North West stadium Welkom, 27 August 1995
1. Introduction - The Launch of the Manifesto 1.1 It is with great pleasure that I stand before you today during this important phase in the democratisation…
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
… Da Gama to return to India as viceroy. He reached Goa on 11 September 1524, but died at Cochin three months later. His …
PlaceTulbagh, Western Cape
… 8,785 residents, of whom 2,290 were literate 1891 census: 11,568 residents, of whom 3,720 were literate 1904 census: …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… arrest at his brother's home in Bloemfontein in April 1975, and died a few weeks later. The prison had Fischer's …
The Bill of Rights
… the right to have their dignity respected and protected. 11. Life Everyone has the right to life. 12. Freedom and … sex, religion or language 10 Human…
Local Government
… could not be allowed to continue as they were, and on 11 October 1889 the Government increased the membership of … service collapsed. The Council’s last…
ArticleTswana
… It is spoken across South Africa and is one of the 11 official languages recognized by the South African …
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… the conservation park eventually named after him. 1899 11 October, The South African War is declared, and fighting …
PlaceDwarskerbos Beach and Pools, West Coast
… a great family holiday! This small fishing hub is just 11 Kilometres North of Laaiplek and about two hours outside …
PlaceBiedow Valley, Western Province
… The Pass descends a total of 345m over a distance of 11,3 km this produces an average gradient of 1:33 with the …
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… they blamed for the economic problems of their country. In 1975, the new Portuguese military government began to …
ArchiveBiography of Buchi Emecheta by Alphonce Baraza
… Onwordi to whom she had been betrothed at the age of 11. Together they had four children. Her husband then went to … 1981. She also wrote plays which include…
PlaceJohannesburg, Gauteng Province
… School of Fine Art, and was introduced to sculpture in 1975 by Cecil Skotnes. * F.W. de Klerk : a former state …
National General Council 2005: Consolidated Report on Sectoral Strategies, 3 July 2005
… issues and make recommendations regarding solutions; 5.11. That the ANC must give full support to the new SA … Development/Social Security Agency and Home…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… of an ideological, political and economic nature (1986: 11; 57). With respect to the economic dimension of the crisis … the survival of everything we hold…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… (S.A.) on the Expulsion of a Conspiratorial Clique, 11/12/75. *Sexwale, M., Legal Deposition Made to South … African Revolutionary (London: Inkululeko…
PlaceKroonstad
… 2001 Census; there was a Population of 23,994 people. In 1975, Winnie Mandela was incarcerated here at the Kroonstad Prison. In February 1975, our founding…
EventOn 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town
… became the rector of the University of the Western Cape in 1975 and wanted the campus to reflect the ideals of the …
EventOliver Kraas, the South African cross country skier is born
… Oliver Martin Kraas was born on 18 April 1975 in Germiston, Gauteng.[i] Oliver is a South African …
ArchiveBlack Art and Artists in South Africa
… Marriage prevents any participation in art 05:18 - 07:21 - 1975 - Recommences woodcarving and starts fabric printing …
PlaceComoros
… in the French National Parliament. On 6th July 1975, the Islands government unilaterally declared … 6 July 1975, Most of the Comoros Islands declare…
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, …
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
… and right of use, the Suez Canal was closed until 1975. Currently, close to 20,000 ships pass through the canal …
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… times over the issues he published in the newspaper. In 1975 Woods met the Minister of Police James "Jimmy" Kruger …
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… by the supply of military and communist aid. In 1975, Fidel Castro deployed troops, as well as economic aid, …
EventThree British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
… Angola. Angola had achieved independence from Portugal in 1975 and at the time was being governed by the Popular …
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… in South Africa, Nyerere expressed his concern. In 1975 the Tanzanian government donated a sisal farm of five …
Document 47. Minutes of the Annual Conference of the ANC, December 15-19, 1949
… like the Dingaans, Ndlambes, Moshoeshoes and Sekukunis. 11. Conference resumes at 2.25.p.m. and the President briefly … J. L. Z. Njongwe. 9. Mr. G. Radebe…