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PlaceVictoria Falls, Zimbabwe and Zambia
Victoria Falls is known locally as 'Mosi-oa-Tunya', which translates to “The Smoke that Thunders”. This nickname is iconic and discribes the sounds of the…
ANC NWC Media Briefing, 21 June 2010
Members of the media are invited to the African National Congress (ANC) National Working Committee (NWC) media briefing, tomorrow, 22 June 2010. The briefing…
ArchiveWomen against apartheid in South Africa
Report on the demonstration that took place in Pretoria, on 9 August 1956 by 20000 women against pass laws, the plight of Black women under apartheid, the…
Condolence book for Comrade Ahmed Kathrada, 28 March 2017
The African National Congress mourns the passing of Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe, Comrade Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada who passed on earlier today, 28 March 2017. …
EventJohn Harris and the Johannesburg station bomb
A time bomb placed in the Johannesburg railway station exploded during the evening rush hours. The explosion resulted in the death of one person and severe…
EventSeparate Representation of Coloured Voters Act is passed
Following years of struggle in courts and abortive parliamentary attempts to pass the Separate Representation of Coloured Voters Bill, the act was passed after…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
ACT IN UNITY! Compatriots, allies and democratic supporters of the heroic struggle of the people of South Africa, Comrades, The names of the founding…
EventViolent clashes about the Transkei territorial authorities continues
Violent clashes continued to take place in Pondoland (Transkei) between supporters and opponents of the African territorial authorities. 29 Africans were…
Indian Community in Lenasia
From the very beginning, settlement in Lenasia was a contentious issue, driven with debates about race, class, collaboration with and resistance to apartheid…
ArchiveMay Day 1986 COSATU rally Tape I
COSATU - a giant has risen - the launch of COSATU after 4 years of talks took place in the first week of December 1985. This movement encouraged workers to…
ArchiveBefore Dawn Culture in Another South Africa (CASA)
CASA TOOK PLACE IN AMSTERDAM IN DECEMEBR 1987 AND WAS ATTENDED BY 300 SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS, OF WHOM 120 CAME DIRECTLY FROM SOUTH AFRICAN AND 180 AS EXILES…
ArchiveSeparate development: the challenge of the Transkei
The nineteenth Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial lectureThe Transkei became a semi-autonomous territory in Decmber 1963 and separate territorial development…
EventSouth African cricket player Jonathan ‘Jonty’ Rhodes is born
South African right handed batsman, Jonathan Neil Rhodes was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province (now known as Kwazulu Natal) on 27 July 1969. Better…
PlaceLuderitz, Namibia
Luderitz is a quaint harbour town on the Atlantic Coast in Namibia. It boasts German history, art-deco architecture and excursions to the ghost town of…
PlaceRobben Island Museum
From the 17th to the 20th centuries, Robben Island served as a place of banishment, isolation and imprisonment. Today it is a World Heritage Site and museum, a…
ArchiveReligion and oppression: the misuse of religion for social, political, and economic subjugation
This is the procedings for the Symposium for General Secretories of National Christian Councils and Church Leaders from Eastern and Southern Africa,which took…
ArchiveChapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg
… was smuggled out and has been copied from it. In various places the text has been completed to make it more …
Address on disturbances in Bloemfontein location, by I. J. Nthatisi, March 4, 1919
At the request of the leaders of the location, the Resident Magistrate, Mr. J. Ashburnham, and the Mayor of Bloemfontein Mr. D. A. Thomson, motored out to…
ArchiveMessage of goodwill and solidarity
Message of goodwill and solidarity from His Excellency Dr Kenneth David Kaunda, President of the Republic of Zambia from the chairman of the preparatory…
PlaceHouse Preller, Hartebeesport
Gustav Preller was a well-known journalist and historian who championed the cause of the Afrikaans language. He occupied this house from 1935 until his death,…
EventWinnie Mandela speaks out against Terrorism Act
Winnie Mandela, wife of the then imprisoned African National Congress leader, Nelson Mandela ends her thirteen years of enforced silence with a strong attack…
EventKing Mswati III buys another luxury car
Mbabane based newspaper, Times, reported that King Mswati III of Swaziland bought himself a luxury Maybach 62 sedan worth $500,000 despite his country's…
EventBritish Airways prohibits smoking on all flights
On 29 March 1998, British Airways (BA) prohibited smoking on all flights. Other countries across the world had begun to impose the first restrictions on…
The ANC Gauteng condemns violent protests and ongoing disruption of schools in Gauteng Province!, 7 September 2011
The PEC held its ordinary meeting on 27th August 2011 to deliberate on various political and organizational matters. The meeting expressed grave concerns on…
PlaceThe Pretoria Synagogue
Click on image to enlarge The Old Synagogue Building in Pretoria. It is now no longer used as a Synagogue but is now a Grade II Provincial Heritage Resource…
Extract from a speech by the Honourable the Prime Minister during the Cape National Party Congress at East London on 3 September 1975
On this occasion the Prime Minister dealt with the policy of separate development in a particularly effective way. Adv. Vorster also referred to a few of the…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
Please note that this information was part of our old 'history classroom content' written in 2003, we have updated is slightly to meet the needs of the new…
Place'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay
Bartholomew Dias and his crew landed with his men on 3rd of February 1488, but Mossel Bay's History can be traced back, with the help of Archaeological…
PlaceGeneral Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
… www.sahra.org.za/download-attachment/1402 https://www.places.co.za/html/smutshouse.html …
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s statement at the dinner hosted by Prime Minister Bildt of Sweden 20 May 1992
Prime Minister Bildt, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, My visit to Sweden, the Venice of the north, has been rewarding indeed. It is truly a…