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EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… discourse that Patrice Lumumba was assassinated with the help of the CIA. Many argue that it was in the interests of the CIA and the American Government that…
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… On 29 July 1999, a team of AngloGold mineworkers at the Mponeng mine in Carletonville accidentally drilled into a pocket of flammable methane gas in the…
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… By the 1920s, the development of heavier than air flight had progressed considerably, partly due to the outbreak of World War One. Britain, having emerged ……
EventANC sacks its chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, after finding him guilty of sexual harassment
… Mbulelo Goniwe had been active in the liberation struggle and with the inception of new democracy, held several positions, the most recent of which was the…
ArchiveSouth African trade unionism in an era of racial exclusion
… Thesis submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject sociology at the University of…
Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
… Passes and measures to control the mobility of the Black population particularly centring on White urban … were being implemented all over South Africa…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems by Jan H. Hofmeyr
… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, … who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems
… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, … who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at…
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… The Building, originally designed in a Cape Dutch style and is one of the oldest Farmhouses surviving along the Liesbeek River . Its original construction…
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… of a Worker Reading History Introduction Part 1 - The Coming of Gold Chapter 1 - South Africa before Industrial Times Chapter 2 - The Gold Rush Chapter 3 -…
PlaceKliptown Museum
… The story the Kliptown Open Air Museum tells of the thousands of people who contributed to the drafting of the Freedom Charter through photographs, news …
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… The Ciskeian police disrupted a residents' meeting, which was … of Peelton unable to attend a previous meeting, of the incorporation of the whole of Peelton…
PlaceRosmead
… and was formally established on about 2 April 1883, when the Railway Line from Cradock was inaugurated. Due to its location at the junction of the Western,…
EventFormer MK members are dismissed from SANDF
… The government discharged 2,221 trainees who had gone absent without leave in October from the newly instituted South African National Defence Force … for…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This election changed…
PlaceTown Hall, 25 Market Street, Uitenhage
… Since the 1820’s there was a strong move locally for the Capital of the Colony to be situated in Uitenhage. When the Town Hall …
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… In the middle of the night, a group of migrant workers aligned with the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) ransacked the Phola Park squatter camp of East Rand…
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… South Africa entered WWI on 8 September 1914, on the side of the Allied Forces. On 15 July 1916, the S.A. Infantry Brigade under Major-General H.T. Lukin was…
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… On 6 September 1960, six of the Treason Trial accused were missing when the trial resumed in Pretoria. The defence team lawyer, Bram Fischer told the court…
ANC statement on Zimbabwe, 26 May 2000
… The African National Congress wishes to reiterate its position on Zimbabwe as per the discussions and decisions of its last National Executive Committee (NEC…
PlaceJoubertina
… Kareedouw, on Route 62 , Joubertina is a little town in the Eastern Cape that, until the establishment of the famous and very long wine route, suffered…
PlaceKamastone and Bulhoek
… The Cape government established the settlement of Kamastone in the Queenstown area, in 1854. In 1874 the government received … The Cape government…
PlaceElim
… The charming little village known as Elim, is dominated by … fishermen’s cottages and fig trees. This town is one of the few surviving South African mission…
PlaceGod’s Window
… A famous vantage point on the Drakensberg escarpment God's Window stands at an altitude of 1,829m/6,000ft extending northward over the Blyde River Canyon,…
Event90-Days Act comences
… The General Laws Amendment Act of 1964 (passed in 1963) or the 90-Day Act, commences on this day. It is dubbed the 90-Day Act as it provides for any person…
EventMother Teresa is buried
… Mother Teresa, the nun who captured the world's attention and accolades with her selfless devotion to the poor, was buried on 13 September 1997 in Culcutta,…
PlaceJosephine Mill, Boundary Road, Newlands
… on 15 December 1978. Newlands in Cape Town is home to the Josephine Mill which was built in 1840. Its machinery … in 1963 and it was decided to renovate and…
PlaceSouth African Library, Cape Town
… The National Library of South Africa, as we know it today, was formed on 1 November 1999 as a result of the amalgamation of the two former National libraries…
PlaceMelrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… George Heys, a young man from Durban, made his fortune in the diamond rush in Kimberley by establishing a successful … British architect WT Vale to design…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… among African American activists. He was a key founder of the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights organization in the United States, and from 1910 to…