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2004 New Year’s Eve Broadcast, 30 December 2003
… advances towards the achievement of the goal of a better life for all. Nevertheless, as we celebrate the end of a … to work, earn incomes and improve their…
PlaceNaval Hill
… springbok, giraffe and eland as well as abundant bird life. Visitors are welcomed into the Franklin Game Reserve … is right in the middle of a city and its…
EventA painting by SA painter Irma Stern is auctioned for the record price of R1.1 million in Johannesburg
… style. Stern gained master status in her chosen still life and portrait genres. However, her paintings often …
EventMandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
… closed doors. Mandela had recently been sentenced to life imprisonment after the Rivonia trials. The presentation …
EventRivonia trial sentence is delivered
… the Rivonia trial eight of the accused were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The eight …
EventTsafendas, murderer of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies
… 28 years on death row. During the last five years of his life he was kept in a psychiatric ward for infirm men . …
EventAn American Jet is shot down in Ethiopia
… by Ethiopian military forces. The incident claimed the life of the two occupants of the Jet. The plane was en route …
EventWoolf Joel is killed due to his refusal to kidnap President Paul Kruger
… Crafford, F.S. (1943) Jan Smuts, New York: The Country Life Press Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse …
EventDesire Wilson is born
… races at the Good will Revival. A book documenting her life as a racing driver titled 'Driven by desire' has been …
EventSouth African actor, Ken Gampu, dies in Vosloorus
… and a policeman. After he retired, he lived a modest life on the East Rand. He died on 4 November 2003. …
ArchiveThe background of segregation: address delivered to the National Anti-C.A.D. Conference
… are highlighted. Segregation exists in all walks of life, be it work or leisure; and in conclusion, how the …
Address at the Third African Renaissance Festival, Durban, 31 March 2001
… criminal syndicates on the social systems and quality of life of the EU community of nations; and, the growing … that can be found throughout the continent; …
Pedi
… income. Migrant labour was also a prominent feature of life under apartheid, as population increases in homelands or … bohadi payments within the ruling…
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… and the San language. Rather than a record of daily life, the art is essentially religious. Among other aspects, … a positive attitude about the role of…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… In that atmosphere of rising expectation, a new surge of life was rising in the ANC itself. A young generation, deeply … and with deep roots in all the…
Seedtimes Retrospective Omar Badsha
… in terms of the detail that captured the texture of life and the social history of a people.” Time: Thursday, 3 …
ArchiveAddress at 46664 Concert, by Nelson Mandela, 27 June 2008, London United Kingdom
… for all ... We say tonight, after nearly 90 years of life, it is time for new hands to lift the burdens. It is in …
EventAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo died
… of one Miss Schreiner and subsequently dedicated her life to helping the downtrodden and destitute in Cape Town, …
ArchiveThe Higher education of Blacks in the United States
… the race groups as seen as a central issue of American life, and the progress towards full integration, including …
PlaceHouse Preller, Hartebeesport
… including Eugene Marais who spent the last years of his life here. …
EventGeneral Secretary of the ANC, journalist and writer, Solomon Plaatje dies
… Tswana and published the widely acclaimed book, Native life in South Africa documenting the experiences of black …
Zindzi Mandela is born
… to meet with her friends and also interrupted her academic life until she was sent to neighbouring Swaziland to finish …
EventAlan Paton, author of “Cry, the Beloved Country” and founder member of the Liberal Party, dies
… in his calling, and he is quoted as saying "My whole life has been a struggle between the writer and the activist, …
EventDesmond Tutu is elected Archbishop
… - Go to 'Menu: About Desmond Tutu' for information on his life, his Curriculum Vitae, and other biographical …
EventMa Tambo dies in Johannesburg
… By 18, she was a branch chairman of the ANC and spent her life participating in the party's resistance to apartheid. …
EventWilliam J. Burchell (71), botanist and explorer of the South African interior, dies
… and disillusioned. On 23 March 1863, he ended his own life in London. Burchell is remembered through a genus of …
EventNelson Mandela announces his separation from his wife, Winnie Mandela.
… in 1960. In 1962, Mandela was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island. The couple were re-united …
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… two early horn heroes. The first was part-mythical: the life of jazz great Bix Biederbecke filtered through Kirk … shared one important characteristic with…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… two early horn heroes. The first was part-mythical: the life of jazz great Bix Biederbecke filtered through Kirk … shared one important characteristic with…
Place18 Gangster Museum, Khayelitsha
… giving susceptible youths a hands-on look into what that life is like! In the museum a person is exposed to immersive … aim of interacting with the visitors…