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Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… minority regime to the people as a whole. This will usher in a new era characterised by the complete eradication of the … movement faced certain objective…
PlaceFort Klapperkop
… The walls were crenellated to make defense possible in the event of the forts being surrounded. Trenches and … embankment. By May 1986 planning had been…
EventAmerican President Ronald Reagan reverses his earlier stance on South Africa and agrees to limited sanctions
… South African governments by working with them discreetly in a strategy called "constructive engagement." In so doing it was hoped that the US would…
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony. It is published in English in the Graham's Town Journal on 2 February 1937. To … Cape Colony it is important to…
EventBritish Parliament passes the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
… but did not abolish slavery; it only prohibited the trade in human beings. Any British naval captain who was caught … stop to the British slave trade. If…
EventThe first successful non-direct blood transfusion is carried out
… to the receiver before coagulation occurred. However, in the 1910s, it was discovered that adding anticoagulant to … by the 15th-century chronicler Stefano…
PlaceCastle of Good Hope, Castle Street- Cape Town
… van Riebeeck . They erected a Fort built of sods on a site in the Table Valley, near the Beach and East of what is today … was known as: 'the Fort of Good…
From Resistance to Creative Mediation: Writing and Literary Intellectuals’ Influence on the Liberation Struggles and Political Impact on Literary Discourse and Developments
… Literary Discourse and Developments The write associates, in partnership with the University of the Free State, invite … and Diaspora. The commemoration of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Tomichi Murayama Tokyo, 5 July 1995
… Excellencies; Ladies and Gentlemen. Since we arrived in your beautiful country, we have been treated with the kind … Your Excellency; The support which Japan…
PlaceClifton and Camps Bay Beaches, Cape Town
… and water temperatures cold enough, but after 'baking' in the sun this does, qualify a swim! The kids who happily … Games of touch Rugby , Frisbee and Beach…
PlaceBlyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga
… One of the largest green canyons in the world, the Blyde River Canyon is a masterpiece carved … it a striking contrast to the dry canyons found elsewhere in…
EventThe Comoros declared an Independent State
… Diego Ribero first claimed to have discovered The Comoros in 1505, the islands became a French colony in 1843 following a military takeover of the Mayotte…
PlaceBensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg
… to the promotion of the art and science of photography in this country. It was donated to the city in 1968 and forms part of Museum Africa . The collection ……
PlaceRhodes Cottage, Main Road, Muizenberg
… from the deceased estate of JR Reid. Historical events in the rest of South Africa kept Rhodes away from his home, and it was only in 1902 that he finally…
PlaceJonkershoek
… Berg, Lourens and Riviersonderend Rivers all start high in these mountains, although only the Eerste River actually … through the Jonkershoek Valley. The…
PlaceRoodepoort Town School, Rex Street
… The Roodepoort Town School was established in the 1890s and its premises, including a School Building and a Hall, were opened on 8 October 1913. In 1914 the…
PlaceHector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto
… 1976! Which has now become Youth Day, a public holiday in South Africa. The museum is next to the Hector Pietersen … reasons for the protests while…
Document 66 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 21 February 1937
… the letter they have sent you, battles lie ahead of us. In leading the first strike of 1937 the "counter revolutionary" Troskyites are flinging the lie in…
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… recognised as a republic and pursued a political course in which Blacks, Coloureds and Indians were denied the right … territories, and had no political…
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… 300 years, the new maximum-security prison was established in the early 1960s. The living conditions were, particularly in the early years, extremely bad…
EventSoweto agrees to pay rent
… In a meeting between the Soweto People's Delegation (SPD) … boycott by the residents of Soweto. The SPD was engaged in the negotiations to create a just…
EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
… Since its formation in 1985, Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU) was … to physical attacks and arrests by the government agents. In the early…
EventIFP proposes truce with ANC
… Oscar Dhlomo , communicated the peace offer to the ANC in exile. Despite this effort, the IFP still maintained … responsible for the violence between the ANC…
EventSheik Yusuf arrives at the Cape of Good Hope
… with his family and retinue; they were forty-nine people in total. In order to minimise his influence on enslaved people at the … Zandvliet, located outside…
EventCharles Swart, a student ranger from Mangosuthu Technical College, is killed by a leopard
… tour guide and student from Mangosuthu Technical College in Durban, Charles Swart,was attacked bya hungry leopardon … who try to cross the park to find a…
PlaceFort Cunynghame
… together with Komgha and a number of other establishments in the Transkeian Territories, was manned by the Frontier and … Police. It was named after…
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Christoffel Coetzee de Villiers was born on 10 March 1850 in Swellendam, in the Cape Colony (now Western…
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C.), situated in Johannesburg , started its classes in Kya Rosa, a house in Skinner Street, Pretoria . This…
The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga by Ingrid Jonker
… screams Africa screams the smell of freedom and heather in the locations of the heart under siege The child raises his fists against his father in the…
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… to many as Tshonyane (his clan name), was shot and killed in the driveway of his Boksburg home. Soon after, Janus Walus, a Polish immigrant who came to South…