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EventXhosa hero Maqoma dies on Robben Island
… who ill-treated his wives and was responsible for the death of one of his children, while another tradition …
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
… Selassie had died on 27 August 1975, but the cause of his death remained a mystery. There were rumours of complications …
EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe leads the Congelese Province of Katanga into secession
… Tshombe was taken to Algeria where he remained until his death on 29 June 1969. …
PlaceEmgwenya, formally Waterval Boven
… For those looking to stretch their minds rather than their bodies, the Town is home to a number of National Monuments. …
EventDale Steyn retires from Test cricket
On 5 August 2019, Dale Steyn South African cricketer announced his retirement from the Test format. He made his Test debut against England in December 2004. In…
PlaceSodwana Bay National Park
… is the offspring of a merger between two conservation bodies: the former Natal Parks Board which was formed in 1947 …
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… the country according to rigid definitions of race between 1948-1991. These policies reached their apotheosis in the …
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
… it wasn’t left till late in the day, that a lot of these bodies were established at the initiative of the ANC, there … I think it was a very important life…
Address to the National Assembly of the Republic of Hungary Budapest, 3 May 1999
… all of us depend on our sustaining and strengthening the bodies which we have, as an international community, created …
Address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of Pakistan Islamabad, 4 May 1999
… relations with African countries, and her influence in bodies such as the Non-aligned Movement, the Commonwealth and …
Document 27 - Record of Understanding
… Constitution, i.e. access to information held by private bodies required for the exercise or protection of rights. The …
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
… I thought such things happen to people only after their death. SD: So Gogo, are you telling us that you did not know … IFP area known as Mshayazafe, which…
Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 26 June 1969
… of brutal persecution: Chief Albert Luthuli - his brutal death is still unexplained. Caleb Mayekiso - who killed him … Solwandle, Lenkoe and others - they…
A Call to Action. Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1969
… of brutal persecution: Chief Albert Luthuli - his brutal death is still unexplained. Caleb Mayekiso - who killed him … Solwandle, Lenkoe and others - they…
To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa. Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, 15 October 1976
… is your own son and daughter that we bury every week-end. Death has become a common thing to us all in the townships. … dealers to obey this call. We cannot…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
… into the uncompromising warrior pledge - Victory or Death! Let us cast our minds back to those days, 25 years … of Umkhonto we Sizwe the uncompromising motto…
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
… into the uncompromising warrior pledge - Victory or Death! Let us cast our minds back to those days, 25 … of Umkhonto we Sizwe the uncompromising motto:…
David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa
… photography. Goldblatt began his photographic career in 1948, the year the National Party first took power, and for …
PlaceSouth End Museum, Port Elizabeth
… vibrant, harmonious pirit was all but crushed when, in 1948, the National Party was Elected to Power and the …
PlaceRooigrond
… move Africans from Machaviestad, but this was not done. In 1948 the government issued the first notice of the state’s …
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… to state censure. Now the UDF, unions, churches, sports bodies, civil society groupings, among many others, were able … Oscar Dhlomo met with the ANC in May…
ArchiveWho was Albert Luthuli? The murdered South African leader who put his people above himself
… of KwaZulu-Natal. A government inquest concluded his death was an accident - that he was hit by a train. His … of KwaZulu-Natal. A government inquest…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… die. Miners soon distributed a pamphlet commemorating his death: All civilisation cries Shame! Shame! Shame! On the … would be destroyed. Alarmed by the…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death" Sunday Times Magazine UK Desmond Tutu is ordained the … saying that 'the manner of Nelson Mandela…
ArticleSouth African Film
… and infrastructure to do as well as these countries, and bodies like FRU and the NFVF are certainly addressing the …
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack is assassinated.
… when he was murdered. The escalating violence after the death of Jack developed a suspicion of police involvement and …
EventAmy Johnson, a female aviator, lands in Cape Town in record time
… body was never recovered. The events leading to Johnson's death are still a mystery. There is no doubt, however, of the …
EventForces of the White Rhodesian regime (UDI) attack a nationalist guerrilla base in Mozambique
… out in Mozambique on 18 October 1978, resulting in the death of over 200 people. Soon after this event, however, a …
EventPresident Paul Kruger (78), dies of heart failure in Clarens, Switzerland
… a farm at the foot of the Magaliesberg in 1841. After the death of his first wife and child, he married Gezina du …
Extraordinary Life: Zapiro
… Hindus, Muslims and Jews, and has received law suits and death threats. Columnist and author Helen Walne and Andy …