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EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… Emily Hobhouse, renowned for her exposure of conditions in concentration camps for Boer women and children during the … first five months of 1901 she visited…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… Dennis Vincent Brutus was born on 8 November 1924 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) to … His parents moved back to South Africa and…
EventWinnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela is sentenced to six years
… the then-wife of Nelson Mandela was sentenced to six years in jail by a Johannesburg court presided over by Justice Michael Stahl Stegmann for her…
Address on Behalf of the Graduating Class at Fort Hare College, delivered at the “Completers’ Social,” by M. R. Sobukwe, October 21, 1949
… Prof. Dent, Ladies and Gentlemen, I intend to follow in my opening remarks the conventional pattern. And for that … but with policies, and there has been no…
Robert Sobukwe Speech at the University of Fort Hare as President of the Students’ Representative Council, 21 October 1949
… Prof. Dent, Ladies and Gentlemen, I intend to follow in my opening remarks the conventional pattern. And for that … but with policies, and there has been no…
PlaceCaledon, Cape Overberg
… Caledon is situated on the N2 national road in the Overberg region in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, located about … As of 2011 it had a…
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… Court, which endorses the rights of all citizens! Situated in the heart of Johannesburg, Constitution Hill is a living … South Africa’s Constitutional Court,…
PlaceDistrict Six Museum
… The District Six foundation was established in 1989, and in 1994, the District Six Museum came into being. This museum … declared the area a 'Whites only'…
PlacePretoria Correctional Service Museum
… The first prison building in Tshwane, built by Alexander Anderson at the corner of … the State and bargained that should he build the prison in under an…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… inherited the Farm. A portion was expropriated in 1920 for the building of the Hartbeespoort Dam and a Township development. The Township remained in the…
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… 12th and 13th Century a wave of Bantu migration settled in the area. The prominent Bantu societies were the Fang … island of Biko, which was inhabited by the…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1947
… have decided on their part to refrain from taking part in or in any manner assisting in the celebrations in honour of the Royal visit to the Union …
EventSouth Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
… On 25 June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea in an attempt to bring it under communist rule The North … by the Soviet Union, piloted by Soviet and…
EventSADF officers dismissed
… De Klerk and senior members of the government at Tuynhuys in Cape Town. He did not hand the President a report as such … horrifying allegations of the…
EventRaymond Dart completes work on Taung skull
… commonly called the Taung child , was found embedded in rock at a mine near Taung, a village 400 miles southwest … , an anatomy professor at the University…
EventSABC is allowed to broadcast Thatcher Case
… In a precedent-setting judgement, a full bench of the Cape … of Judges Van Zyl, Essa Moosa and Dan Dlodlo, ruled in favour of the request of the South…
EventSouth African cricketer, Hashim Mahomed Amla, is born
… cricket career with the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins in 1999. He had his Test debut in 2004 and his One Day International (ODI) debut in 2008. Amla is ranked…
EventWendy Botha, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… Wendy Botha was born in East London on 28 August 1965.[i] She began surfing at the … the 1985 World Championship Tour as being ranked seventh in the world…
ANC statement on Zimbabwe, 26 May 2000
… (NEC) meeting which took place from the 5 - 7th May 2000 in Johannesburg as follows; The ANC is confident that the route to follow in the Zimbabwean…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… it is noise about nothing. We have thousands of members in the ANC. When any of them offend we do something about it, … I think Chief Gatsha Buthelezi is…
EventDulcie September's 's life commemorated at Athlone High School
… her activism. She later joined the ANC, spending some time in Moscow getting military training. This training was often … conditions of insufficient food,…
PlaceJansenville, Eastern Cape
… Laid out on the Farm, Vergenoegd in 1854, it was proclaimed in 1855 and became a Municipality; the Sarah Baartman District Municipality, in 1881. Said to…
PlaceAlbert Jackson School, Port Elizabeth
… on 4 January 1963. Greenwood Primary School had its origin in the Albert Jackson Primary School which first opened its … Day ceremony is held each year. The…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… building, with its richly decorated gable, was completed in 1896 and is one of the last surviving structures of the … railway system. It was declared a…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… to the dependents of the Port Elizabeth Victims in Native Disturbance, October 23rd, 1920. 4. Wages Board as contemplated to be re-introduced in Parliament…
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… Born in the Ogani District of Nigeria, Ken Saro Wiwa studied … Civil War and wrote a novel based on his experiences. In 1973, after having served as the…
Stay-away!
… Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1950 there was a big protest against this law called the … The next year there was a stay-away…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in August 1735. Jacobsz was a sailor from Rotterdam who … Dutch East India Company. He had been accused of…
Albert Luthuli`s message from Oslo to the South African people, 5 December 1961
… my sons and my daughters As I pace the floor of my bedroom in the Grand Hotel, Oslo, putting the final touches on my … the great Continent of Africa and when…
PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
… The gun was designed in 1865 as a broadside gun for ironclad ships and harbour … defence. A total of 190 were made. The gun was last fired in 1903.. This gun…