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EventVerney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa
… Verney Lovett Cameron entered the British navy in 1857, taking part in the Abyssinian campaign of 1868 and in the suppression of the East African slave trade…
EventUnited Nations lifts arms embargo on South Africa
… (UN) Security Council finally lifted the arms embargo in force against South Africa since 1977, opening the … to double arms exports as a result and to gain…
ArchiveOns praat vir die gemeenskap
… Title in white letters on red background. Red strip at bottom with words in white 'help ons in ons stryd'. Red and white image of fist in centre of …
Action Kommandant film review by Kabelo Kemp (www.kathradafoundation.org)
… Like the ‘76 uprising stories, this is one more chapter in the book of the rainbow nation that sheds light on the … his activism within his community at a…
Where is Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser? by Noni Mokati (IOL News), 7 May 2016, Johannesburg
… Ten years since President Jacob Zuma’s rape trial ended in a controversial “not guilty” verdict, his rape accuser has … On Friday, Khwezi’s poem, which she…
PlaceOld House Museum, 31 Diakonia Street, Durban
… Andrew's Street, and belonged to a man named: 'Ferreira'. In 1849 it was purchased by John Goodrick who, with the help … it. The following year, it was sold…
PlaceKimberley, Northern Cape
… for its quality diamonds , the largest man-made excavation in the World and various other impressive tourists … rainfall of about 450mm. Kimberley is…
EventA bomb blast rocks the ANC London office
… this day the African National Congress (ANC) headquarters in London, England, was bombed. General Johann Coetzee, … with Britain. The decision to bomb the…
EventHajara Ibrahim appears before a Nigerian Islamic court to launch an appeal against her conviction for adultery
… like adultery. One of the first instances when Sharia law in Nigeria was challenged internationally was by 31 year-old … having had a child as a result, was…
EventThe First Draft of the Constitution is published
… In January 1995 an advertising campaign was launched to elicit public views on what should be in the Constitution. On 19 September the first consolidated ……
EventRay Simons dies
… (Ray) Simons, legendary communist and trade unionist born in Latvia in 1914, died in Cape Town at the age of 91. Simons was instrumental in the …
EventANC founder John Dube’s daughter passed away
… National Congress leader John Langalibalele Dube died in Durban at the age of 84 years. Lulu Joan Dube passed away … illness while she was at Inkosi Albert…
ANC Secretary General meeting former political prisoners on the Cuban Five, 21 May 2010
… In a move aimed at strengthening the campaign for the release … five Cubans - who include trade unionists - incarcerated in Miami, United States, in 1998,…
EventClarence Makwetu Passes Away
… At the age of 88, Clarence Makwetu passed away in Queenstown Private Hospital at 13:30 after a long illness. Makwetu was born on the 6th of December 1928 in…
Beyond the barricades: the 1985 schools boycott and the vicissitudes of the Athlone Students Action Committee(ASAC)
… A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of BA Honours in History at the University of Cape Town. This dissertation…
PlaceIbeka, Simonstown
… This land was one of the original erven granted in Simons Town . Built in 1816 by PJ Truter Jnr, Collector of Customs who owned it until 1842. In 1840 it was…
EventAlbert Luthuli delivers his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
… banned after the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. However, in order to accept the award in Oslo, Norway, the South African government issued Luthuli … the ban…
EventManuel Pinto da Costa becomes the president
… Democratic Republic of São Tomé and PrÁncipe. Two islands in the Gulf of Guinea, straddling the Equator, west of Gabon, formed the country. In 1972, the…
EventDr. Albert Hertzog is attacked by Ben Schoeman
… Party (HNP) a far-right political party that emerged in 1969, Dr. Albert Hertzog was scornfully attacked by the Minister of Transport Ben Schoeman in the…
EventDictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending his 22 year rule
… Siad Barre shared the fate of many post liberation leaders in Africa. Having started out as policemen in the Italian governed part of Somalia prior to World…
EventThe League of Nations is established
… founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919-1920, convened and met for the first time in London. The League's goals included disarmament, … and…
EventThe railway line between Durban and Pietermaritzburg is completed
… line linking Durban and Pietermaritzburg was completed in 1880, the twentieth anniversary of railways in South Africa. The line was constructed as result of…
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… Inqaba ya basebenzi, published in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African … wage and exploitation of workers. Trade union action in the…
EventDRC President Laurent Kabila is assassinated
… to reports Kabila was shot by one of his bodyguards in front of army generals, following a dispute in which he had sacked them. It was later confirmed that…
PlaceIndigo Vats, Pinetown
… In 1854 two Dutch Indigo Planters from Java, Mr Theodorus … of Pinetown . Locally grown indigo plants were gathered in bundles by Indonesian workers . Plants…
EventDevastating Floods ravage Southern Africa
… After destructive floods in South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe, a meeting was held in Mbabane, Swaziland. An appeal was made for international…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Pan African Parliament, Gallagher Estate, Midrand, 16 September 2004
… its mandate. This we will do to the best of our ability. In this regard, I would like to take advantage of this … of the peoples of our continent to write a…
PlaceDriekopseiland: Rock engravings
… a rock-engraving site which lies south-west of Kimberley in the Northern Cape. The site is situated on the glaciated … there is a regional pattern of…
Document 39 - Statement by S. P. Bunting, October 1931
… great majority of the comrades and the African comrades in particular, will say they know of no reason why I should … should be, not guilty Similarly with…
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… Apartheid Museum. Image Source The Apartheid Museum opened in 2001 and is acknowledged as the pre-eminent Museum in the World dealing with 20th Century South…