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ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… Epistles may be deeply engraved in South African cultural history, and perhaps even celebrated throughout the African … "This story hasn't been told because…
PlaceWindermere
… with the winter rains and which entered their homes. Oral history accounts tell of this flooding as one of the many … showed that 90% were forced to move to…
Speech of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the rally to relaunch the SACP Johannesburg, 29 July 1990
… and friends. This is an important day in the political history of our country. It is a day which should give comfort … wish. To us as a democratic movement,…
Fordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
… The multi-ethnic suburb has a fascinating and turbulent history. “Fordsburg was always a working class suburb,” Rich in History and bearing the scars of its…
PlaceCairo, Capital City of Egypt
… Cities! On the Nile River, Cairo is famous for its own history, preserved in the fabulous medieval Islamic city and … was built on a hill by the caliph- …
EventTseko Simon Nkoli dies
… On this day in history, prominent activist Tseko Simon Nkoli died of an AIDS … |South African History Online, “Biography of Tseko Simon Nkoli”, South African…
`We will come back with Msholozi`- erupts Pondoland, 12 December 2008
… goes to the ANC". "Do not vote for angry people without a history, legacy, policies and a clear programme of action," …
ArchiveStatement Celebrating Ten Years of Democracy, ANC Chief Whip Nkosinathi Nhleko, 10 May 2004, Parliament Cape Town South Africa
… De Klerk. They forever remain bent on misrepresenting our history and our people`s aspirations. People of South Africa …
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
… and has become a place of Poverty. Bertrams has a History of displacement which dates back 80 years." Ismail …
EventSuppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 approved in Parliament
… sources, i.e. it is given as 24 June in Illustrated History of South Africa, but 26 June seems to be the most … Rousseau. Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five…
“No Room for Racialism at Natal University”: Statement, June 1956
… at heart and used to an ideology of tyranny” and that his history under such kings as Shaka AND Dingaan showed this, …
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 32 …
Document 22 - Letter from Douglas Wolton to E. R. Roux, 8 May 1928
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 22 … South Africa's Radical Tradition a…
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
… As one of the longest and deadliest conflicts in history, the loss of lives in World War 1 amounted to over 15 …
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… Location: back to this day in history search archive South Africa received a mandate from …
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
EventNotorious Pirate, Captain William Kidd, is reportedly sighted off the coast of Cape Town
… Perhaps one of the most notorious pirates in history, Captain William Kidd, was thought to have become …
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999) Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
EventThe possessions of Piet Retief are auctioned
… November 2013] Giliomee, H and Mbenga, B (eds) (2007) New History of South Africa (Cape Town), pp. 116-118 …
EventWorld War I begins
… As one of the longest and deadliest conflicts in history, the loss of lives in World War 1 amounted to over 15 …
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… of KwaZulu-Natal, Department of Plastic Surgery, A brief history of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive …
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… The outcome of the Bambatha rebellion has gone down in history as the last of the primary resistance movements that … 2011]|SAHO, Bambatha Rebellion 1906 ,…
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
… Oxwagon Sentinel: radical Afrikaner Nationalism and the history of the Ossewabrandwag, (UNISA Press), p.212 Alan T. …
2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and …
7.Madras merchants protest against an order to uncover and remove their boots in court
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and …
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… people in the world. We were on the wrong side of history. History had placed us on the back of the tiger of white … now expected to withdraw apologetically…
Statement at the Freedom Rally Organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 26 January 1979
… compromise nor peaceful coexistence. The very recent history of Europe herself proves this. This was as much the … to haul down their colonial flags and to…
The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
… Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract The history of the African working class is symbiotic with …
The Student Wages Commissions, the 1973 Durban Strikes, and the Politics of Statistics by Grace Davie
… end of the 1970s. Grace Davie is Associate Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York. She … the author of Poverty Knowledge in…
PlaceMiddleburg, Eastern Cape
… the old section. It dates back to the Anglo-Boer War . The History of Grootfontein dates back to 1781 when a certain … in South Africa, it has a proud…