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EventThe corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid.
… The Union Buildings was commissioned as part of the establishment of the Union of South Africa. Prior to this, …
ArchiveDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
… was a racially segregated sport. So committed were the colonial and apartheid masters to segregation that they would … scored would be a step closer to his…
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… there are also many concrete structures in the Portuguese colonial style. Many people still live in barrack-like accommodations on the plantations. Decades…
Address by President Mandela at the Seoul University Seoul, 6 July 1995
… Institutions of learning became centre to challenge colonial domination and injustice, for this, the thorny gown … in a different setting. Our countries are…
PlaceFort Beaufort/KwaMaqoma- Amatola District, Eastern Cape
… displaying military items and exhibiting a wealth of history. Fort Fordyce Nature Reserve , just 25 kilometers …
PlaceHuguenot Monument, Franschoek
… of the Huguenots who came to the Cape begins with a long History of Religious warfare and persecution in France. …
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… ideology of Black Consciousness manifested itself in the establishment of the BPC, which was founded by leaders of the … E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999)…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… and the virtual end of the era of colonialism in world history. The empires of Britain, France, Portugal, Holland, … of liberation of South Africa was a…
Op-Ed: The Zuma rape trial and its bearing on the post-Zuma era by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick) ,17 August 2016
… values of the ANC, from its original statements at its establishment, aiming to end inter-ethnic antagonisms and … Depelchin has eloquently explained in…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 39 … on which we must have a clear decision…
A common purpose: the Commonwealth’s support for the AAM
… was circulated to all Heads of Government. In 1965, the establishment of the Commonwealth Secretariat helped … That concession was the Eminent Persons Group,…
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
… significance. It changed the course of South African history. This paper is going to argue that the fruits of the … democratic worker participation at…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… had increased to such an extent that that the Natal Colonial Secretary was forced to set up a special Indian …
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… them into less fertile areas of the region. Soon the colonial project was well underway. With the systematic …
TCOE Online Exhibition
… Photo-documentary Exhibition and Land dispossession history The text and gallery of images within this feature …
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… from the book, From Protest to Challenge, A Documentary History of South African Politics. The Launch of MK and the … Morogoro Conference (1969) ushered in a…
The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… each year from an archive of San narratives recorded by colonial linguists Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek in the 1870s. …
Statement "Algeria honours Chief Luthuli" by Oliver Tambo, 30 November 1964
… people everywhere in the world. And having fought colonial domination in Algeria, they know what is involved in …
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… and old farmhouses that smack of the luxuries of a bygone colonial era. During the harvest (April to September), …
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… old coastal town. It is home to the City Hall, which is colonial in style and dates back to the mid-1800’s. Its clock …
EventPope Paul VI proclaims 22 new African saints. The saints, known as the Blessed Martyrs of Uganda, were a group of converts who were persecuted and martyred from 1885
… on 3 June1886. In the last week of May the new King of pre-colonial Buganda, ordered the arrest and detention of a …
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… Hendrik Prinsloo planned an uprising against the British colonial government as they believed that the British favored …
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… of Samuel Maharero started a rebellion against German colonial rule. With good knowledge of the terrain and … at: absoluteastronomy.com [Accessed on 3 August…
EventIan Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia
… For the next decade Rhodesia was subjected to anti colonial struggles led by Zimbabwe African National Union … Boddy-Evans A. ‘This Day in African History:…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… This period marks a turning point in South African history when the discovery of diamonds at Kimberly and of … was written by Honor Lay and forms part of the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
… granted. Many past difficulties are now mere footnotes of history. There can be no equivocation that the majority of … for the needs of the disabled is…
Archive1999 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 5 February 1999 (Before National Elections)
… granted. Many past difficulties are now mere footnotes of history. There can be no equivocation that the majority of … for the needs of the disabled is…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… the 21st March. March 21, The bloodiest massacre in the history of South Africa takes place at Sharpeville, Transvaal … article in the New Age in London. …
INK: Making Access Visible, ASAI Print Workshops
… and established galleries, many of whom have a long history of exclusion - to gain access to professional …
PlaceElandsfontein Phosphate Mine, Hopefield
… deposit, in South Africa. The West Coast region has a History of Phosphate Mining. Development of the Elandsfontein …