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PlaceReitz
… province, Reitz is 51km from Bethlehem. At an altitude of 1622 metres, Reitz has an annual rainfall of about 686mm. In its earliest recorded history, the…
EventSANDF soldiers strike
… Problems with the integration of " uMkhonto we Sizwe" (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Azanian People's Liberation Army…
EventFirst United Nations General Assembly opens
… The United Nations Organisation (UNO) succeeded The League of Nations which was founded just after the end of World War I. The League of Nations was put in…
PlaceCross erected by Bartholomew Dias
… The original cross is currently housed in the Library of the University of the Witwatersrand, and was declared a National Monument … Site at Kwaaihoek,…
EventHelen Suzman condemns the Immorality Act in Parliament
… On 23 February 1962, a member of Progressive Party Helen Suzman condemned the Immorality … "peeping toms". Suzman made these statements in the House of…
EventMining Magnate Oppenheimer dies
… American Corporation, died in Johannesburg at the age of 77. Oppenheimer was credited with the creation of a cartel that eventually controlled the diamond…
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… first democratic elections. These are the resumption of multilateral talks in the form of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), … a climate…
EventGoldstone Commission confirms SADF complicity in violence
… The Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation (Goldstone Commission), … Richard Goldstone as chairman, released its…
EventThe Ncome Museum is opened
… The premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Mr L. Mtshali, welcomed guests at the opening of Ncome Museum, situated at the Ncome-Blood River Heritage … and Museum Complex…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… in Port Elizabeth. He studied law at both the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Fort Hare. Brutus, who is of African, Italian and French…
EventTrevor Manuel, Minister in The Presidency: National Planning Commission, is born
… joined the Labour Party Youth in 1969 at the encouragement of his father. In 1983, he became one of the founding members of the United Democratic Front (UDF)…
PlaceRhodes
… The village of Rhodes lies on the banks of the Bell River at the foot of the Witteberge. It was laid out on the farm Tintern, and …
ArchiveThe migrant labour system
… The notion of migrant labour is based from a legal framework system that did not recognize 'homelands' or 'reserves' as part of the Union of South Africa,…
ArchiveTerrorist Weapons 2
… A2 Full colour litho, photos of weapons; Text: Terrorist Weapons 2; Public Awareness Chart … groups. Each group usually has one or a combination of the above…
Mayibuye
… for many years as a small, underground newsletter, was one of three African National Congress publications alongside … Sizwe). Circulation was limited and…
EventUN committee is barred to enter SA
… A United Nations (UN) committee consisting of eight, with instructions to investigate conditions in the Mandated Territory of South Africa, was refused…
EventJudgement is handed down in a landmark case
… sought improvements in "influx control" or the freedom of movement of Black South Africans. These cases contributed to the gradual dismantling of apartheid…
EventWalter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba and Ahmed Kathrada address the public after 26 years
… After the release of Walter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba of the African National Congress (ANC) and Ahmed Kathrada of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) on 15…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki sacks Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
… makes the announcement during a special joint sitting of the two houses of parliament, almost two weeks after Zuma was implicated in corruption during the…
EventPioneer tomato farmer Bertie van Zyl is buried in Mooketsi
… Bertie van Zyl (72), founder and owner of ZZ2, the biggest tomato growing operation in the country and one of the biggest in the world, was buried in…
EventEllen Khuzwayo is born
… Dr Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo, ANC member of parliament and noted writer of Call me Woman (winner of CNA Award 1985, translated into six European languages)…
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… and trade unionist James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and president of the South African Coloured People's…
EventGeneral Lord Roberts marches on Pretoria
… In the middle of the South African War II (Anglo-Boer War II), General Lord … The War had started eight months earlier due to a number of interrelated…
PlaceStasiegebou, Sannaspos
… This Railway Station Building of sandstone was completed shortly before the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). It is one, of only a few Station Buildings erected…
Devout domesticity?
… Table of contents Acknowledgements Dedication Abstract … and Organisation in the Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 – 1979 3…
PlacePageview
… Fietas (as the place was popularly known) is one of the oldest communities in the Western suburbs of Johannesburg, and one of the first 'locations' (multi…
Zweli Mkhize slams Zuma in hard-hitting statement, 01 April 2017
… consultations which take place with senior officials of the ANC during such appointments and changes to the composition of the national executive, the…
ArchiveTransformer les epees en charrues
… White background. Artwork of yellow wheat growing out of a haystack of rifles. Artwork of half the world in blue with Africa and …
PlaceLuderitz, Namibia
… art-deco architecture and excursions to the ghost town of Kolmanskop. Luderitz in southern Namibia is isolated on a … Desert and has only one road in, yet,…
ArchiveWe rule you: we condemn you: we exploit you: we judge you: we jail you: we control you: but we carry you
… White and black poster. Artwork of a pyramid of men in command, each layer of men has an opinion. The bottom of the pyramid is a layer …