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PlaceSophiatown
… people moved to Cities in search for jobs. As the number of Black people increased in the Cities, the Johannesburg … (JCC) passed Slum Clearance programmes…
PlaceGrey Street now Yusuf Dadoo Street, Durban-City Centre
… people are aware that Durban has the largest concentration of Indian people outside of India! Originally brought in during the 1860’s by the … started their…
ArchiveAfrican Communist, 1959 - 1994
… did not publicly announce its existence until the state of emergency was declared by the government after the police massacres of Sharpeville and Langa in…
Pro Veritate
… a Christian monthly journal, reflects a theological point of view towards the ideologies of the ruling National Party. Christian viewpoints on such issues as…
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
… Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 Chapter 10 Problems of imprisonment Chapter 11 The escape Chapter 12 Hangings Chapter 13 A negotiated release Chapter…
PlaceGeorge Division
… The district of George was originally part of the district of Swellendam, and was proclaimed a separate district on 23 …
PlaceOld Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage
… fretted timber details. Built on Market Street in the year of the opening of the railway from Port Elizabeth, it is reputed to be one of the oldest Railway…
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… to have a Union Jack (the British flag) in the centre of the national flag. The controversy followed the introduction of a bill to provide a national flag…
EventWW2: British 8th army marches into Tripoli
… Libyan capital in this World War Two battle. This was part of a series of battles that initially started with the Italian occupation of Ethiopia. This thrust…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… Despite the indications of African unrest at Soweto schools being noticed by … authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the Minister of Bantu Administration…
PlaceCape Maclear, Malawi
… Cape Maclear or Chembe is a town in the Mangochi District of Malawi's Southern Region. The town, situated on the Nankumba Peninsula, is on the southern shore…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE SA FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS Upington, 27 April 1997
… Version . See below for English Translation ) Master of Ceremonies; Premier of the Northern Cape; Minister of Arts &Culture, Science &Technology; Mayor of…
PlaceRavenswood House, Hatfield Street, Gardens
… Ravenswood House is the only known example in Cape Town of the late classical Georgian Architectural Style of the beginning of the 19th Century. This Double…
PlaceCarnarvon District, Karoo
… The district of Carnarvon was proclaimed on 1 January 1880, incorporating within its boundaries portions of the divisions of Fraserburg and Victoria West. It…
EventThe new RSA Constitution Bill is read in parliament
… The Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill received its third reading. Among its provisions were the abolition of the Senate and the creation of a sixty…
ArchiveSATUCCs Social Charter
… Social Charter of Fundamental Rights of Workers in Southern Africa 1992. Outline of origin of Charter. Green, red, black and white poster. …
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the world, including the Security Council of the United Nations, are…
PlaceAlbasini Dam, Limpopo
… Dam at the foot of the Soutpansberg Mountain Range. Named after Joao Albasini … Settler in the Lowveld and he subsequently became head of the Magwamba Tribe,…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town rose to fame in the 1980’s. After the1976 Soweto Uprising, Tutu supported an economic…
EventDaisy de Melker is hung for poisoning her two husbands and her son.
… for financial gain. She married three times and killed two of her husbands and her son. All the men she married were … two that she allegedly poisoned, left…
EventCaptured Gen. Cronje and his wife are shipped to St Helena
… General Pieter Arnoldus (Piet) Cronje, commandant-general of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR, also known as … and his wife Hester, with about 1 000…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… The passing of Nadine Gordimer is a tremendous loss, both to South Africa … was to discover that South Africa was worth writing about. Of course she was by…
PlaceDie Grootkerk in Bosmanstraat
… where the first church was built would become the centre of the newly established town, Pretoria (1855). The … This church has played an enormous part in…
ArchiveChapter 11 The escape by Denis Goldberg
… my stay in the old Pretoria Prison had often thought of escape. In 1964 and 1965 I had been the chairman of our escape committee. At that time we got no…
PlaceAddo Elephant Game Reserve, Port Elizabeth
… This Reserve lies East of the Sunday's River and North of Port Elizabeth . In about 1931, about 680 ha. was enclosed … to form the Addo Elephant National…
PlaceImizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
… The Township of Imizamo Yethu is situated in the picturesque seaside Suburb of Hout Bay in Cape Town . Hout Bay is like a microcosm of South Africa , with a…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… Welgegund was awarded to Swart Martiens Pretorius a nephew of President M.W Pretorius, founder of Pretoria, at the end of the 19th century by the Zuid…
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… Guinea is a West African nation bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon and Gabon . The earliest indigenous population of this country were the…
EventZimbabawean Independence Day
… British, taking the name Zimbabwe. The day marked the end of racial segregation after a protracted war of liberation that claimed many lives. In the ninety…
PlaceMariammen Temple, Pretoria
… is a monumental tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a temple, especially in Southern India. This is a prominent feature of Hindu temple architecture!)…