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… 'Before dawn on 5 December, 1956, the security branch of the police entered the homes of 140 people and arrested 156 individuals, White, Black and Coloured, on a charge of high treason. The next month after that protest of the …

… the South African War (the Second Anglo-Boer War), Member of Parliament and SA minister of agriculture, was born in the district of Amersfoort, Eastern Transvaal. He was the second child of …

… then Nationalist Party Government.. This was done as part of the Government's plan to further its programme of Apartheid by excluding the majority of Black South Africans from South Africa proper. The … Peires J.B   Ciskei in An Illustrated Dictionary of South African History  (1994),  Saunders.C.C,(ed), (Ibis …

… the National Democratic Movement and the Fourth Force of 'Ontevrede Afrikaners' (Dissatisfied Afrikaners) resulted in the formation of the Democratic Party in Johannesburg. The organisation was … The Democratic Alliance still advocates the same policies of non-racialism, and retains the constitution drawn up by …

… was born in Mbulwana, Ladysmith, Natal. Molefe was one of the first black Presbyterian ministers to graduate at Fort … in New York, Molefe accepted an appointment as minister of religion in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth in 1939. As result of his tireless efforts to improve the quality of schooling …

… The document is an important one in the history of South Africa for it tells a story that needs to be told. What is commendably new (about the manner of telling the story) is that the method is that of a community of griots among whose number is, surprisingly, …

… the majority, set out to kill, rape and loot properties of the Tutsis. The genocide followed the day after the death of the Rwandan president, Juvénal Habyarimana. Habyarimana … dominated party Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). By the end of the genocide, it is estimated that between half a million …

… On 7 March 1960, a photograph of a 13 year-old Native boy in a torn vest was published in the front page of the London Labour paper, the Daily Herald, with the … per month. The Daily Herald reported: "This is the sort of thing that could happen only in South Africa." In …

… Magistrate Starrenburg arrested Adam Tas because of the role he played in drawing up a petition for the Cape … was submitted to the Lords Seventeen, the governing body of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), in Amsterdam. Tas and … against the corruption and extravagant lifestyle of Van der Stel and the fact that abuse of power by officials …

… In July 1825, King Shaka , son of Senzangakhona and Nandi, who was the king of the Zulus from 1816, established a royal settlement as a halfway station between the Zulus and the settlers of Port Natal [Durban]. The huge settlement was known as …

… regarding his involvement in the Information Scandal of 1978, if his accusers could prove that either he, or a member of his Cabinet, was aware of activities relating to the Information Scandal. This … Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, …

… White background. Artwork of yellow wheat growing out of a haystack of rifles. Artwork of half the world in blue with Africa and …

… today is not safe tomorrow. Civilian life today is a life of fear, a life of uncertainty, and not knowing exactly what is happening … it, but what is happening in Burundi should be a question of morality for the whole continent of Africa,” she told …

… big is a family and who belongs to it? A family consists of a mother, father and children. A man can have more than … live. The territory to which a person belongs may be that of his father's people or that of his mother's people: whatever territory his family is …

… has documented the everyday, insidious manifestations of apartheid and its aftermath, rather than violent clashes … publications as Life and Look, and he embraced the ethos of the concerned social documentarian. His exhibition last … Museum included silver gelatin and color C-prints, most of it recent work. The current Jewish Museum show consists …

… on 20 October 1891 and grew up in Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya. Kenyatta ran away from home to become a pupil at the Church of Scotland Mission, where he studied English, Mathematics, … 1925, and he joined the Kikuyu Central Association (KCA), of which he later became general secretary. The aim of the …

… brothers on 18 September 1884. This sparked off a flood of prospectors to the Witwatersrand, and eventually resulted in the discovery of the Main gold reef in 1886. The first payable gold on the … brothers on 18 September 1884. This sparked off a flood of prospectors to the Witwatersrand, and eventually resulted …

… the Doric order, was erected in 1891 under the direction of GW Smith, a prominent Port Elizabeth architect, and was built by the firm of Small & Morgan. It was opened on 1 December 1892 by the … in the Eastern Cape and is the only surviving example of a Victorian Theatre in Africa. The Opera House is the …

… began in November 1875 and was completed at the end of 1877. It began its operations early in 1878. For many of us, the first thought that jumps to mind when they hear … The Endless Summer.  Today Bruce's Beauties is only one of the famous surfing spots in St Francis Bay, as Seals is …

… elevated plateau with several hot springs. Khoikhoi name, of Anis, means 'smoke' from the steam seen, at the hot … mornings. In 1870, the Basters, who had migrated out of the Cape Colony in 1868. They were granted permission to settle at Rehoboth by the participants of the 'Peace Conference of Okahanja' on 23 September 1870. …

… patnership with The UCT Drama Department, The UCT College of Music and The Michaelis School of Fine Arts  and Jazzart Dance Theatre, will be working with some 700 learners in the Western Cape town of Clanwilliam to resurrect the Clanwilliam Arts Project/ …

… Not the Philadelphia one attributes to the Eastern parts of North America, this Philadelphia lies but 20 minutes outside of Cape Town, past Durbanville.   Rural Philadelphia is … and, as a result, a local farmer donated a portion of his land to the local brethran to build a Church. This is …

… three hectare area to the Museum gives one a real sense of early farming Culture in South Africa, as one takes a … Wheat Grinding; Muzzle Loading and even the Roasting of Coffee Beans. The hHstoric Farmyard and Farm House were initially the property of David Botha, a Cape farmer, who later sold the Farm to …

… The Market Square in the heart of the Port Elizabeth town centre is a historical icon that … this Christian king and patriarch. There is also a replica of the famous Diaz Cross, which is in honour of Bartholomew Diaz’s arrival in Algoa Bay in 1488. Across …

… Free State (OFS) that had been granted to the followers of a relative of Moshoeshoe . It was only 655 square kilometres big and … in 1980 and more than a million in 1990. The population of the homeland increased as more people were evicted from …

… abroad, Albertina Sisulu was accompanied by her Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) comrades, Sister Bernard … apartheid government. The apartheid government was guilty of human rights abuses and persecution of anti-apartheid activists in the form of assassinations, …

… White and black poster. Artwork of a pyramid of men in command, each layer of men has an opinion. The bottom of the pyramid is a layer …

… This Railway Station Building of sandstone was completed shortly before the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). It is one, of only a few Station Buildings erected during the Republican … important link with the Orange Free State Railway System of the nineteenth Century. During the Battle of Sannaspos on …

… The name being of Zulu origin derived from 'insquthu'- meaning a flat-topped vessel, descriptive of a nearby hill from which the village takes its name. It is 53 km East of Dundee. Most of the population is Black , 97.89% and … New Dictionary of South African Place Names by Peter E. Raper| …

… sought improvements in "influx control" or the freedom of movement of Black South Africans. These cases contributed to the gradual dismantling of apartheid laws regulating movement and torture, and became …