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EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… About 700 women marched to the Bloemfontein City Council in the Orange Free State to petition the mayor. The Orange Free State was the only province in which…
EventGraça Machel is born
… and wife of former President Nelson Mandela, was born in Gaza, Mozambique. In her quest for peace and reconciliation in her country she became Chairperson of…
PlaceCarlisle Bridge, Eastern Cape
… of Farmsteads and is known as Carlislebrug. It is located in the Cacadu Municipality in the Eastern Cape!. The original bridge was built in 1863 over the…
ArchiveBolt: Magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.1 No.2 1970
… CONTENTS Isotopes. For women in Trouble, Douglas Livingstone. The Problem of Censorship, … Thinking, Rick Turner. Whites Only, Christopher Hope. In a…
Address at the 8th Asean Summit, 5 November 2002
… from the peoples of Africa. It is fortuitous that we meet in Cambodia, whose King and Head of State belongs to a … leaders who came together with their…
References and links: Local History
… Kruger's Pretoria: Buildings and Personalities of the City in the Nineteenth Century (Protea Books) Pretoria Galleries … 2015]. Sheppard, T., (2013) …
14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… Pachai By far the largest number of Indians (152 184 in all by 1911) who came to South Africa were indentured. … There are hundreds of medical and employer…
Address at the Commonwealth Local Government Forum, 4 March 2003
… from the different Commonwealth countries has gathered in our country today. I am told that we have amongst us, … Creative Cities'. Introducing articles on…
14. Suicide among indentured
… By far the largest number of Indians (152 184 in all by 1911) who came to South Africa were indentured. … There are hundreds of medical and employer reports…
Pravin Gordhan vs the Law, as defined by clichés by Mervyn E. Bennun (Politics Web), 08 September 2016
… of course that zero tolerance does not mean that you in particular may ever be faced with the full might of the … trivialises matters) and you’re home and…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the closing session of the 50th National Conference of the ANC Mafikeng, 20 December 1997
… and celebrate the decisions that you have taken to put in place a national leadership collective that will take the … ANC into the new millennium. You…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 4 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Board, from an interview by Cheryl Walker I am still in Pretoria now. But my ban has expired and all that so I have been able to get involved in things again…
PlaceGold Reef City
… was flooded by prospectors after the discovery of gold in 1886. With its Victorian houses and geological displays, it offers many fascinating insights into…
EventRuben Xulu is born
… South African artist Ruben Xulu was born in Hlabisa, Natal. Xulu, born deaf, began carving with … on a life-long career of producing religious sculptures in…
EventSouth African artist Michael Zondi is born
… March 1926, Michael Zondi, a South African artist was born in Msinga in Greytown , Natal. He was trained in woodwork at the Swedish Lutheran Mission Trade…
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratic President
… After South Africa's first national democratic elections in April 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first democratic President at the Union…
Opening Statement at the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, 16 June, 1985
… month the South African racists killed yet another comrade in Gaborone. Today is June 16th, the ninth anniversary of the … deaths must be suppressed. To…
Chapter 6. Conclusion by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… to change our ways. We must shake off the heavy darkness in which we were plunged, and leave it behind. The new day … of the time before life began. Let us…
PlaceAlfred Nzo District Municipality, Kwa-Zulu Natal/Eastern Cape
… District in the Alfred Nzo Municipality, of which Harding is the … of Canterbury, William Howley, at the Private Chapel in Windsor Castle on 6 September…
PlaceRoyal baFokeng Stadium
… the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace, this Stadium is situated in Rustenburg, which is a charming Town at the foot of the Magaliesberg Mountain Range in the…
”The African Mine Workers’ Strike-A National Struggle.”flyer issued by the ANC Youth League, August 1946
… The African Mine Workers have risen in revolt against the most brutal, callous and inhuman exploitation of man by man in the history of mankind. Their…
Document 61 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 25 March (1936) at 8.30 p.m.
… he had spoken on trade unionism. Com Gosani reported that in his weeks organising tour he had visited in turn Benoni Location, West Springs, Daggasfontein,…
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… its inception on 24 October 1945. Political developments in South Africa particularly after the takeover of the government by the National Party (NP) in 1948…
EventThe Angolan-Namibian peace plan is accepted
… The Angolan Civil War began in 1975, with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. This civil … providing SADF troops to fight alongside UNITA. This was in an…
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… Vanessa Brereton worked as a human rights lawyer in South Africa, taking on high profile cases under the … When the African National Congress (ANC) was…
EventThe South African Air Force is established
… was formed as part of the Active Citizen Force (ACF). In April 1914, six pupils (with the probationary ranks of lieutenant in the ACF) were sent to England…
PlaceRiverside
… purchased by James Cole, an eccentric trader who settled in Griqualand East in the 1860s and made his home at Riverside. A notorious … a string of trading…
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… Tutsi, leading to massacres throughout 20th century Rwanda in which both groups were severely affected. The most … Genocide, took place against the backdrop…
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… icon of South Africa’s liberation struggle. Imprisoned in 1964 for his role in the African National Congress’ (ANC) struggle against the … the injustices of…
EventFormer Ivorian president is extradited to the ICC
… by the Office of the Prosecutor for Gbagbo's involvement in the 2010 post-election violence. Gbagbo had refused to relinquish power following his defeat in…