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PlaceElephant House, Ridge Road, Durban
… House, located on Ridge road on Durban's berea, was built in the early 1850's on the highest natural point on the Berea … Jameson Park and the Indian Ocean,…
PlaceThe Queen’s Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… covering a broad area of land over the Gariep River. In July the British Resident in Bloemfontein, Henry Warden, came under threat of a Dutch … Warden was…
Introduction
… and Bridglal Pachai The anti-trader sentiments evident in the previous section had a natural concomitant in the agitation, set loose by whites first in Natal…
Salim Essop takes centre stage during first day of Ahmed Timol inquest by Amanda Khoza (News24.com), 27 June 2017
… alongside late anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol in 1971, took centre stage at the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday during the first sitting of the ……
PlaceHeritage Route of King Shaka
… 1828. A memorial stone was erected over Shakas grave in 1932 by the Zulu nation and was declared a national … by leaping from the rock into the sea. High…
85. Charter for Change, 1981
… and Bridglal Pachai One hundred and ten organisations met in Durban on 10 and 11 October 1981. Among them were the … and proposed guidelines for a democratic…
Appeal to the British People to Oppose the Visit of P.W. Botha: Open Letter to Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, President of the Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, 21 May 1984
… Thatcher, Chancellor Kohl and other heads of government in Western Europe to invite P.W. Botha to visit a number of … who have responded so promptly by…
PlaceDitsong Museum of Natural History
… used to be the Transvaal Museum of Natural History, which in turn developed from the 1892 Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek’s … history museum, it is one of the…
EventIconic musician, John Lennon, was shot dead outside his New York apartment
… At approximately 11:00 PM, John Lennon was shot 4 times in the back as he entered his luxury apartment building on … up the driveway when the gunman opened…
Constitution of the South African Native National Congress, September, 1919 [Extracts]
… 1. WHEREAS there existed in the Provinces of the Union of South Africa several small … of general interest to and affected the whole Bantu people in South…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… The time comes in the life of all oppressed peoples that some among them … able to speak to us today, observing the world we live in, he would ask to live…
ArchiveAppendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg
… Goldberg is dead. But he lives on. One of the characters in the sell-out play, “Cincinatti”, was based on Sam, who died in Johannesburg this week. Sam was…
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… The Building, originally designed in a Cape Dutch style and is one of the oldest Farmhouses … was built by Cornelis de Waal, who purchases the Property in…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… through non-violent methods was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther shaped and articulated the … rights movement of the 1950s and…
EventJoe Slovo is born
… Congress (ANC) leader and Minister of Housing was born in Lithuania. From 1950s Slovo became a victim of the government repressive legislations. In 1954 he…
Maqubela and Dyandyi are sentenced for necklacing
… Maqubela and Neliswa Nohnuhna Dyantyi Busika, accused in a necklace trial in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape, and found guilty of public violence in July, were…
EventLeendert Janszen, junior merchant of the VOC, recommends settlement at the Cape
… India Company (VOC) was established as a trading company in 1602, with the aim of monopolising trade in East Asia, in particular the spice trade. Company…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… On 30 June 1994, the Minister of Correctional Services in South Africa, Dr Sipho Mzimela, announced that Dimitri … to assassinating Verwoerd, Tsafendas was…
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… Swaziland were not new to conflicting claims about land. In September 1982, the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein ruled that the Presidential Proclamation issued…
PlaceFreshford House Museum, 31 Kellner Street
… middle class of the Edwardian Period that still exists in Bloemfontein. The house was designed and built by the … for himself and his wife, Kate Caroline…
PlaceLinden, Johannesburg
… Nestled in the foothills of Northcliff Hill, Linden is one of the … Linden is named after the Linden farm, which stood in this part of Johannesburg over a…
PlaceSteenberg Farmstead, Tokai Road, Constantia
… known as the Zwaanswyk, was granted to Catherina Ustings in 1688 and was one of the first farms in the Western Cape. Its Cape Dutch homestead was erected in…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… name change was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local … original name for the Baakens River and…
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… of captured cattle with them. The British soon followed in pursuit and on 31 March they crossed over the Keiskamma … signed on 17 September 1835 allowed the…
PlaceDurbanville
… Kraal' . On 2 September 1836 it was renamed; "D'Urban" in honour of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor of the Cape. … facilities for kids and parents alike…
Twentieth Anniversary of the United Nations Sanctions Resolution: Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 05 November 1982, New York
… its domination, an aggressor bent on military conquest in southern Africa. In South Africa, as the regime continues its fight for the … of its repressive…
Pravin Gordhan on a leash by Daniel Silke (Politics Web), 16 May 2016
… Gordhan on a leash In political science, students studying the theory are often … party) linkages into business and crony capitalism combine in a toxic mix…
PlaceRooigrond
… 16km of Mafikeng and 25km South-West of Ottoshoop, in the former fomeland of Bophuthatswana, (now the North West … was primarily occupied by smallholders…
34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
… which are now sought to be imposed by the Bill in question are, in your petitioners' humble opinion, unnecessary. They are: … Officer, or other officers…
ArchiveDirector’s Report on the Activities of the Chris Hani Institute for the period October 2012 to September 2015
… The Chris Hani Institute (CHI) was launched in 2003 to promote the values and principles practised by Chris Hani and others in their struggle to serve the…