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EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were totally destroyed by the first atomic bombs used in warfare. The American…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… Ottilie Abrahams was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable personalities of contemporary Namibia. … can never beemphasized enough for a new generation…
PlaceLesotho
… Two-thirds of the Country of Lesotho consists of Mountains. The highest Peak, Mount Ntlenyana , is 3,482 Metres above sea level. The Drakensberg range forms…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Introduction Introduction Part 1 - Building The National Movement Document 1 - Harry Snitcher , Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943] Document…
Joint statement by ANC Commission on Religious Affairs and SACC, 18 September 2009
… Leaders representing the Commission for Religious Affairs (CRA) and the South African Council of Churches (SACC) met at Chief Albert Luthuli House in…
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… The farming community of Kirkwood, in the heart of the Sundays River Valley, close to the town of Addo and the …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. It was formed in 1944 by …
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… The Great Trek was a migration that took place between 1838 and the 1840s, and involved the Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the …
PlaceFalse Bay
… If you leave the "Mother City" of South Africa and follow the M3 towards Muizenberg , you will have a great view of the Coasts of False Bay (Afrikaans:…
PlaceTree Garden, President Brand Street, Bloemfontein
… sandstone buildings that surprise with their grandeur - the 3rd Raadsaal (originally Government Building and today the National Afrikaans Literary Museum and…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
… training of its members, its organisational culture, and the conditions that shaped its activities. These issues are considered in relation to two distinct…
ArchiveAppendix 6 Studies in Asia by Denis Goldberg
… written in December 1991 as part of group reports at the end of our studies at Institut Tadbiram Awam Negara (INTAN), the Malaysian Government Civil Service…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Exiles who sought political asylum from the…
PlaceDe Waal Park, Camp Street, Oranjezicht
… The land was originally part of the van 'Breda Estate'' in Oranjezicht, and was purchased by the Town Council of Cape Town in 1877 for the building of the …
PlaceRaadsaal Building, Church Square, Pretoria
… The Raadsaal Building is located on the South-Western corner of Church Square and forms an important part of the Historical Architectural character of early…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 21 August 1990
… POM We're talking with Mr. Gumede on the 21st of August. I recall when we talked the last time you had said that you were going to try to get … has taken…
PlaceIrene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
… Opened on 2 November 1900, the Irene Concentration Camp was built with the intention that it would be one of the camps that would house Boer woman and…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 2 March 1973. The farm, Welgegund was awarded to Swart Martiens Pretorius a … nephew of President M.W Pretorius,…
EventDepartment of Environmental Affairs and Tourism approves ESKOM’s prototype 110MW pebble
… On 25 June 2003, the South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism approved the construction of a prototype pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR)…
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… Kenilworth , East of Bishopscourt and South of Newlands in the Western Cape Province. The name is French for ‘clear mountain’. Claremont was … Lower and…
EventNapoleon assembles his army near Aboukir, Egypt
… The First Battle of Aboukir was a decisive victory for the French and secured France's occupation of Eqypt. In June … army departed France to conquer Egypt,…
PlaceJohannesburg Botanical Garden
… The Johannesburg Botanical Garden is located in the suburb of Emmarentia in Johannesburg . The gardens were established in 1964 as a large rose garden ……
PlaceAliwal South, Alternative Name for Mossel Bay
… The alternative name in 1850, for Mossel Bay . It was the first place that Europeans landed, that was Bartholomew … of Portugal. Without realizing it he had…
PlaceRiverside Mosque and Mausoleum, Umgeni, Durban
… The Mosque was erected by the celebrated Hajee Soofie who immigrated to South Africa in 1895. He was responsible for the construction of 11 other mosques,…
Siyanqoba Bafana-Bafana Siyanqoba!!! Siyavena Bafana Bafana Siyavena!!!, 3 June 2010
… The African National Congress joins all soccer loving … Africans, and South Africans in particular by hosting the ANC 2010 FIFA World Cup Street Bash,…
Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
… Nelson Mandela Dear Friends, I am writing this letter on the instructions of the All-in African National Action Council which was established in terms of a…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The Congress of the People was over. We had come down from the mountain, down …
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… Development of Langa location In the course of the Inter War Years the regulations of the 1902 Location Act were expanded to … V.B., van Heyningen E., Worden…
20. Johannesburg Parsees claim special status
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … Pachai A petition dated 17 September 1906 was sent to the Secretary of State for the…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
… How would you assess the current state of affairs in South Africa? TAMBO: The South African regime has become very desperate. They have … ground. They have…