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PlaceYokohama, Muizenburg
… house called “Yokohama”, it was constructed in 1906 out of paper maché, imported from Japan. The house is a historical heritage property of Muizenberg and…
EventLesotho and Swaziland threatened with sanctions
… The government of South Africa threatened Lesotho and Swaziland with … regard meant their citizens were going to suffer, as both of them were dependent on…
EventOne person killed by bomb meant for Chris Hani
… person was killed in a car bomb explosion at the home of Chris Hani, then Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) commander in Lesotho. Eben Frederick Coetzee, a department…
EventPrime Minister Botha visits Soweto
… R9m. would be written off. He told surprised residents of Soweto and of the independent 'homelands', which he also visited in … time, "we are all South…
EventTranskei announces plans to unban ANC and PAC
… During the celebration day of independence not recognised by the international community, the President of the Transkei homeland, Tutor Ndamase, announced…
EventCuban Foreign Minister visits South Africa
… The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Mr Roberto Robaina, visited South Africa at the …
EventFrancis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, is born
… was a lawyerand politician. He became the first president of the Senate of the Union of South Africa. He was very popular and loved for his …
EventA coalmine explosion in Rhodesia kills over four hundred workers
… stunned the whole country and the world. Over a third of those who perished were citizens of Rhodesia’s neighbouring countries of Malawi, Namibia, Mozambique…
10. Seedat writes to his brother in India
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Seedat from Newcastle on 12 November 1901 may be typical of the…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 1 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… in the afternoon. We had an uncle who was the only brother of my mother, and he was so fond of us. In the afternoon after church we used to go and visit ……
ArchiveStudents Representative Council: Press release
… This press release is a statement of rejection, by the Black youth of Azania, of the concept of Bantu homelands …
Decolonising African Museums - What does it mean?
… Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Creative Arts of Africa/Wits Art Museum. For a few decades, the concept of decolonisation has become a clarion…
PlaceKwaMhlanga
… town in Mpumalanga near Pretoria and is the spiritual home of the Ndebele tribe that settled here in the early 18th … the government administration for the…
ArchiveInterview with Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda
… P." Mda (1916-1993) who grew up in the Herschel district of the Transkei. He was prominent among the founders of the ANC Youth League in 1943-44, and served…
PlaceCity Hall, Rissik Street, Johannesburg
… a grandiose Edwardian style heralding the subsequent pomp of the Georgian era. The Duke of Connaught and Strathern, laid the corner stone on 29 … It took…
EventDjibouti, France’s last colony, gains independence
… Djibouti is a very small country located on the horn of Africa. It is so small that it has an estimated population of less than a million, one of the least…
Event12 people are killed after Kenyan jets bombed Somali town
… when two Kenyan jets bombed the southern Somali town of Jilib. This was an attempt by east African nation to rid Somalia of the Islamic al Shabaab rebels. …
EventUN Special Envoy visits SA
… Following the unanimous adoption of resolution 765 by the UN Security Council, Cyrus Vance was dispatched to South Africa as Special Representative of the UN…
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… sentences on fourteen Blacks (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Tshenolo Sethwala, a Black police constable who … his home with stones on 13 November 1985…
EventCelebrated South African photographer, David Goldblatt, receives Hasselblad honours
… David Goldblatt was honoured for his portrayal of social and political life in the country of his birth. David Goldblatt received the 2006 Hasselblad … acute…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… and having obtained an M.A. Degree at the University of South Africa in 1944, he was appointed to the Department of African Languages at Fort Hare. In 1946…
EventCommunity leader James Sofasonke Mpanza is born
… meaning We shall all die), community leader, founder of the Sofasonke Party and a champion for better housing for … Johannesburg's Blacks, was born in…
EventLansana Conte’ leads a coup that deposes Guinea’s interim government
… Lansana Conte’ was the second president of Guinea. On 3 April 1984, a week after the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré, Conte’ who was a Lieutenant … to…
EventZimbabwe is suspended from the commonwealth
… Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations after the country’s 2001 elections were found to … motivated violence. The announcement was made by a…
EventSouth African model, Candice Swanepoel is born in Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal
… 20 October 1988 She grew up on a farm and had aspirations of becoming a ballerina. Swanepoel did not think of herself as beautiful, even though she was thin…
EventSADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo
… later and admitted his role in the raid. This was one of many cross border raids by the SADF in the 1980s. Some of the cross border raids include Matola,…
EventThe ANC unveils its proposed constitutional principles
… a discussion document, which to some extent had the effect of shifting public focus away from the prospect of a total breakdown. Among the things that the…
EventThe second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in the Labour Party holding the majority seats
… anti-apartheid Labour Party (LP). The LP won thirty-one of the fourty elective seats in the Council.. The leader, … as complete economic and political…
ArchiveFifth Annual Symposium on Ethnomusicology
… Cream poster with brown lettering. University of Cape Town Faculty of Music Notice of a Symposium. Artwork of cave men paintings. …
ArchiveWhy vote?
… Black and white background of people. Small blocks of multicoloured artwork of various voting scenes and one of a white dove. …