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EventThe governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, opens the Graaff-Reinet-Middelburg railway line
… and colonial Administrator. Milner came to South Africa in May 1897. In South Africa he became governor of the Cape. The cape was … State President Paul…
ArchiveDraft transcripts of United Democratic Front
… the UDF on 20 Auqust 1983 marked a dramatic leap forward in the struqqle for freedom in South Africa . It brouoht over 500 qrassroots orqanisations together…
EventKgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch (Mmalebogo, Lebogo) dies
… Malaboch (Mmalebogo, Lebogo), chief of the Bagananwa in Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) who led his followers in the Boer-Gagananwa war of 1894, dies in…
Cassim Mohammed Bassa dies
… , estate agent, community leader and sport activist, died in his sleep in a hotel in Johannesburg , where he had been attending a meeting of …
ArchiveDurbans bread strike
… Huddled in cardboard boxes to keep out the cold, some 800 workers at the B B Bread Bakery in Durban's Sydney Road kept up their night-long vigil to prevent…
Document 91 - John Gomas, “The Native Representation Bill is Passed: What Must be Done Now?” Umsebenzi, 25 April 1936
… and treated worse than the disease affected foreigners in our own home land. The passing of the Hertzog bill has for … - thus to further stifle progress and …
Banishment
… Barbie Schreiner Just before my five years was finished in 1969, they took me to Pretoria jail. At that time they … thought I was a trouble maker, and I…
ArchiveLetter from the South African Consulate-General, Lorenco Marques, to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Pretoria
… Letter from the South African Consulate-General in Mozambique to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs in South Africa outlining a briefing of the military…
ArchiveNature and extent of the SADFs involvement i
… Press release issued by Defence Headquarters in Pretoria regarding South Africa's involvement in Angola. Included is a statement issued by the Chairman of…
ArchiveInterview with Tsietsi Mashinini
… Transcript from a radio interview, in New York City, with Tsietsi Mashinini, on the aftermath … riots, international relations and the role of the USA in the…
PlaceAdendorp, Eastern Cape
… Village some 8 km South of Graaff-Reinet, in the Sundays River Valley. Named after the former owner of … Farm, NJ Adendorff, who sub-divided it into…
ArchiveNegociations: imposer: CGT
… CGT poster. Light blue background with title in medium blue letters. Artwork of an eaten apple. Initials CGT in red letters on dark blue triangle. Word …
ArchiveStatement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress
… National Executive Committee of the ANC on the situation in South Africa and the conduct of armed struggle in South Africa in the past six months. Concern…
Documents of the National Fundraising Workshop held on 14 - 20 March, 1986, at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, Tanzania
… Report in booklet format of the first African National Congress National Fundraising Workshop held in March 1986, at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in…
Citizenship and Justice: rethinking Political Theory and Political Philosophy
… account of the development of civic democracy in nineteenth century Latin America and a Latin American reading of Tocquevillian democracy in the modern west;…
EventNasty C, the South African hip hop artist and song writer is born
… David Junior Ngcobo, stage name Nasty C was born in Durban[i] on 11 February 1997.[ii] He started rapping at … his first mixtape titled “One Kid a Thousand…
PlaceLions Bridge, Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria
… and the only such structure remaining from the ZAR era in the centre of Pretoria. It The ‘Leeubrug’ was built larger … it possibly came from the amount of…
Document 67 - Letter from the African Metal Trades Union, Johannesburg, to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 21 February 1937
… the Committee of the above Union to urge you to support us in the bitter struggle that now confronts us. Messrs, Scaw … & Aluminium Works. Ltd.,), one of the…
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
… of secret meetings at Camp Devid, the Presidential Retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, about 100 kilometers … The official agreement was signed on…
EventRylands Civic Association collectively rejects the proposed move to remove non
… Civic Association collectively rejected the planned move in the Cape Province to remove non-White voters from the … other ratepayers' organisations jointly…
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… Ivory Coast was one of the most prosperous countries in French West Africa, but by the 1980s was crippled by … external debt rose threefold, crime rose…
EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… utterances verging on libel, due to the position he took in declining to accept a peace prize, named after Turkey's … committed by Turkey against the…
EventUS House of Representatives approve Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
… impose stricter sanctions against South Africa. This was in response to international and local outcry against the … from some quarters that argued that…
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… In 1815, tensions between the British and Dutch were running … suspected the British of resenting their presence in the Cape Colony. Following the…
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… is regarded as one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. The process that led to its approval was not an easy one. It began in 1990 with the…
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… possessed a large store of aircraft and personnel trained in their use and maintenance. At the time the British Empire was the largest in the world, and…
EventBattle of Vaalkrans begins
… attempted to assert their independence as a nation in the face of British Imperialism. This was complicated by the discovery of diamonds in Kimberley and…
PlaceCurry's Post
… Curry’s Post is a beautifully scenic area in the heart of the Midlands Meander that lies between Mooi … here, establishing an overnight wagon and cart stop -…
EventThe Trojan Horse Massacre
… In Athlone, Cape Town , Western Province (now Western Cape), … 11 and injuring several others. An inquest was launched in March 1988 to investigate the…
18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child
… wrote to the Protector on 7 September 1907 asking for help in locating his wife and child. It seems that nobody had told … Archives. I respectfully beg to…