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Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
The day of the Massacre, mourning the dead and getting over the shock of the event © Baileys African History Archive (BAHA) Tom Petrus, author of 'My Life…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… O.R.C): Kimberley; Orange River; Taungs; Dryharts. 1900 21 December, The inaugural meeting of the Burgher Peace …
ICA launches 2017 Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series with Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o
… more information, please contact the ICA offices at: +27 21 650 7156 | [email protected] or Sascha Polkey at Rabbit in a …
ANC Statement on the 40th anniversary of Chief Albert Luthuli`s death, 20 July 2007
… of former ANC President Chief Albert Luthuli tomorrow, 21 July 2007, the ANC is publishing a special edition of the …
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… Territory of British Kaffraria On 21 December 1834 massed Xhosa armies attacked the eastern …
PlaceFaure Marine Drive and Clarens Drive, Gordon's bay
… of the Hottentots Hollands mountains. This drive is over 21 km, hugging the wild turquoise Cape coastline all the way. …
ArchiveHistory for the Future by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… report which ran over several thousand pages. More than 21,000 victims of the conflict sparked and kindled by the …
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
… Africa border... He was sentenced in 1973 to 12 years` imprisonment. His wife was in prison for about 4 …
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
… Africa border... He was sentenced in 1973 to 12 years` imprisonment. His wife was in prison for about 4 …
EventZwelethu Mthethwa found guilty of murder
… (Online), 17 December. ↵https://artthrob.co.za/2016/12/17/a-letter-to-iziko-sang-and-the-new-church-museum/ ↵ …
PlaceThe Owl House
… Blake and the poetry of Omar Khayyam . In a period of 12 Years Martins and Malgas produced the hundreds of … Accessed: 12 July 2017| The Owl House; URL:…
David Goldblatt,The Transported of KwaNdebele by L'oeil De La Photographie, 26 September 2016
For over 60 years, David Goldblatt has documented the social and political developments of his native South Africa with a critical yet compassionate eye. Drawn…
PlaceCampanile, Port Elizabeth
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 12 May 1989. Normal Opening times are between Monday and …
PlaceEllis Park
… team, the Springboks, defeated New Zealand’s All Blacks 15-12 in the Rugby World Cup at this stadium. The event became …
PlacePaardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp
It was declared a National Monument underold legislation on 6 April 1936. The monument was designed by Sytze Wierda who was the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek…
PlaceFlagstaff
In 1877 Zachariah Bowles and his partner, a Mr Owen, established a trading store on the site of present-day Flagstaff. The Town owes its name to their practice…
PlaceAmalienstein, a Mission Station in the Western Cape
… the Church Site. Daniël Hofmeyer sold the Farm on 12 July 1986 to the State, with the lease agreement included, …
PlaceOudtshoorn, Western Cape
… figures are available for the division: 1865 census: 12,077 residents, of whom 3,583 were literate 1875 census: …
EventThembisile Chris Hani is killed
… other daughters, Neo (then 20 years old) and Lindiwe (then 12 years old) were away at the time. Also implicated in the …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 88th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2000
Fellow South Africans: Today we mark the 88th anniversary of the African National Congress. We celebrate our anniversary during a year that is being…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… or not, is not clear. Rioting reached a new peak on 12 August. At Langa and Guguletu attempts were made to stop … moved after the demonstrators retreated. On…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… mass turning-in of passes at police stations, beginning on 21 March, to be supported by a stay-at-home, until the pass … were shot dead at Sharpeville, and 2…
Some of Gandhi’s Early Views on Africans Were Racist. But That Was Before He Became Mahatma by E.S Reddy (The Wire), 18 October 2016
… myself and we had our food in our rooms.” (Harijan, June 12, 1937) Gandhi came to know several educated Africans who … smuggled from prison in 1980, Nelson…
Address of the President of the South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 38th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association - Africa Region Conference (CPA), Cape Town 27 July 2007
… our continent. We are confident that within the next 12 months the capital base of the Pan-African Infrastructure …
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… Vice Chancellor – University of Cape Town Byron White (1938) U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Jay Smith (1947) US …
PlaceSimons Town School, Cape Town
… last three years of secondary schooling (Grades 10 to 12), the Lawhill Maritime Centre at Simon’s Town School has, … last three years of secondary schooling …
EventSouth African man sets record for world's deepest dive
… to descend, but returning to the surface took an agonising 12 hours. The quick descend and slow return to surface is a …
PlaceJohannesburg, Gauteng Province
… generates 16% of South Africa's GDP and employs 12% of the National Workforce. Its infrastructure matches … Nizwa in Oman. Johannesburg is considered to be…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… home, preparation of meals and cultivation of the garden. [12] The structure of the district in which the homestead lay, … society. Resources of productive…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… and by the time the British annexed the Transvaal on 12 April 1877 its government was bankrupt and on the point of … made its home at Odi. Initially this…