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PlaceOld Post Office, Fleming Street, Port Elizabeth
… was H.S Greaves who completed the Parliament Buildings in Cape Town. The entire complex on erf 3787 was declared a … Police Station (and Police barracks) was…
Address at the Paris City Hall, 18 November 2003
… this magnificent City Hall, the site of many great events in the history of France. These hallowed halls witnessed the … our country too has lived through…
PlaceStendahl Mission
… Mission Society, Gueldenpfennig, acquired the mission land in 1860. By 1924 the land was subdivided and the major share … Zululand. They also established the…
PlaceDurban, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… City and one of the fastest-growing urban Areas in the World. It's Port is the busiest in South Africa and also one of the 10 largest in the World. Durban is…
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
… lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal … and intellectual whose…
EventZola Budd breaks a world record
… In a low key event in Crystal Palace, England, South African born athlete Zola … demonstrators as South Africa was banned from competing in any sporting code…
EventSouth Africa observes Armistice Day
… Armistice Day is observed annually in South Africa to commemorate the sacrifice of veterans and civilians in World War I. The day is observed world-wide,…
EventOmar Bongo, former president of Gabon is born
… making him one of the longest serving non-monarch rulers in the world. In 1990, under intense pressure from its citizens, Gabon … country under a one party…
EventChris Katongo, Zambian football player, is born
… Christopher Katongo was born on 31 August 1982 in Mufulira, Zambia. After playing for a few local teams, he … moved to South Africa and joined Jomo Cosmos…
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… African National Congress (ANC), led the Defiance Campaign in 1952, a non- violent protest against the pass laws. Yet … government hence they gave Luthuli…
EventEmperor Haile Selassie reclaims his Ethiopian throne
… After nearly five years in exile in Britain, Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Ethiopia to … with the help of the British. Selassie lost his throne in 1936…
EventLéopold Sédar Senghor resigns after twenty years as Senegalese president.
… who later became president of Senegal. He was educated in Paris where he got acquainted with Aimé Césaire. After his studies, Senghor remained in Paris and…
PlaceAmersfoort near Ermelo
… , on the banks of the Schulpspruit River. It was founded in 1876 and proclaimed a town in 1890. Named after the city in the Netherlands, by its Founder, F…
ArchiveStatement announcing retirement, Nelson Mandela, 1 June 2004
… old man looks like. Having observed the media speculation in recent weeks about my retirement and pending demise, I am … present today for exactly that…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… started off by having its meetings and services in the old Johannesburg church building on Von Brandis … newsletter, "Irenenuus", was published for the first…
Document 60 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the Communist League of South Africa, 3 March 1936
… owe you an explanation of the changed circumstances which in our opinion require that for the time being the Workers … for the benefit of all; the…
ArchiveBiography of Naphtali Mbuti Nkopane
… was born on the 18th of August 1944 on a farm near Nigel in the Transvaal. In 1949 his family moved to Evaton in the Vaal, in August 1984 Naphtali was active…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign, 11 June 1988, Wembley Stadium, London
… Mandela: Freedom at 70 Campaign!" What exhilaration to see in front of us a hundred thousand people and to sense the … of a great human being who, for…
Statement at the Launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign by O. R. Tambo, Wembley Stadium, London, 11 June 1988
… Mandela: Freedom at 70 Campaign!" What exhilaration to see in front of us a hundred thousand people and to sense the … of a great human being who, for…
Peace Treaty of Vereeniging - transcript
… SOUTH AFRICA General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, Command in Chief AND His Excellency Lord Milner, High Commissioner, … agree on the following Articles. 1…
ArchiveFederation
… SOUTH AFRICA General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, Command in Chief AND His Excellency Lord Milner, High Commissioner, … agree on the following Articles. 1…
Address On World Aids Day, 1 December 1999
… we mark World AIDS Day. As South Africans, we participate in the World AIDS Day events as part of our ongoing support … of the dangers that HIV/AIDS poses to…
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
… In the early hours of 22 September 1979, an American Vela … near the Prince Edward Islands, South African territory in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean, and…
Address to the National Assembly of the Republic of Hungary Budapest, 3 May 1999
… of a people who achieved liberation with your help. In our time of need we were inspired by the international … matter of great pride that the international…
Document 2 - Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
… for Full Democratic Rights [1943] PURPOSE OF THIS PAMPHLET In this pamphlet the "Anti-C.A.D. Committee" is going to tell … people, and so that you will…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… the policy of aggression towards neighbouring states in the 1980s. Known as “destabilisation”, the policy caused … argue before the Truth and Reconciliation…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the first Triennial Conference of the Methodist church of South Africa Durban, 17 July 1998
… Guests; When I met with you at your annual conference in Umtata in 1994, we were all still celebrating the fresh victory of … people. As a nation we had…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
… But it’s sometimes tempting to ask where his successors in that respect are, because we rarely hear or read about … of media creates the illusion we can…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
… contact they had lost. At night their bodies slumped in sleep through sheer exhaustion. The work routine repeated itself in the endless rising and setting of…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations of the PRC
… public opinion of the injustice of colour bar laws in South Africa, particularly the "Ghetto" Act, and to advise … the Joint Council to proceed to the United…