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ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… the 21st March. March 21, The bloodiest massacre in the history of South Africa takes place at Sharpeville, Transvaal … article in the New Age in London. …
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… of an eternal past and future; at a given moment in their history they all passed through the antechambers of death; in … years. During its first decade in…
PlaceCurries Fountain Sports Development Centre
… the capacity of Sport as a tool to rebuild a better civil society and in so doing rid it of the social evils that …
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… and the operations of the Security Police and the Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB). The De Klerk government …
EventSouth Africa, Cuba and Angola Sign formal peace agreement, allowing Namibian independence from South Africa
… to an end to Soviet and Cuban involvement in the long civil war in neighboring Angola. The agreement paved the way …
PlaceCradock Division
… on 20 May 1831, and in June 1836 a Resident Magistrate and Civil Commissioner was appointed to Cradock. On 10 February …
EventMarcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black nationalist who advocated the departure of African-Americans back to Africa, is born.
… of African descent, with greater participation than the Civil Rights Movement. …
Document 9 - First letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… enjoy universally recognised human rights, freedoms and civil liberties, protected under an entrenched Bill of …
Document 13 - Declaration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ad hoc committee on southern Africa on the question of South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe (The Harare Declaration) Sections 14-24
… enjoy universally recognised human rights, freedoms and civil liberties, protected under an entrenched Bill of …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… Some scholars have argued that de Klerk narrowly avoided a civil war that would have been disasterous to the country and …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.2 1989
… Shadow of Socrates, Kaizer M. Nyatsumba; A Condition of Service, Michael Shackleton. ESSAY: 'Even Under the Rine of …
PlaceBrackenfell, Cape Town
… 15 March 1904 a railway siding was built at Brackenfell to service the Company's transport needs. The Suburb of … 15 March 1904 a railway siding was built at…
PlaceAgate Terrace, Port St. Johns
… see, and the view of the ocean is breathtaking. The ferry service runs from dawn to dusk at a nominal charge (the path …
PlaceGrahamstown, now known as Makhanda
… The Pair - The Grahamstown Gaol by Bernadine Gindra Brief history of Grahamstown: While we know Grahamstown today as … districts of England after a temporary…
Message by Oliver Tambo to the Soweto rally to welcome released leaders, 29 October 1989
… they, too, are part of our heritage. They are part of that history and continuing reality of our country which has meant … long night of apartheid tyranny…
'Opening Address' at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress by Dr. S. M. Molema, 25 January 1952
… remember the salient, the dominant fact of South African history, namely that all the monuments, all the celebrations … in earnest determination to reverse…
ArchiveAppendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg
… had absorbed Sam Goldberg all his life. His knowledge of history was immense. He read and read. All the librarians in … over’. He asked that his father have…
”Opening Address” at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952
… remember the salient, the dominant fact of South African history, namely that all the monuments, all the celebrations … in earnest determination to reverse…
"Opening Address" at Annual Conference of the South Afri­can Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952
… remember the salient, the dominant fact of South African history, namely that all the monuments, all the celebrations … in earnest determination to reverse…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… and died in very large numbers. The interpretation of this history in Australia is disputed and debated in what they call the 'History Wars', with…
PlaceTheewaterskloof Dam, Villiersdorp
… received recognition from the South African Institute of Civil Engineers and is regarded as one of the solutions to …
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… were chosen according to the requirements of colonial civil administration. Experts were called in to help in the …
Address to the Nation by President Thabo Mbeki, 21 September 2008
… the Deputy President and President of South Africa. This service has at all times been based on the vision, the … in the longest sustained period of economic…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… After the introduction of a one year community service for qualified doctors, dentists and other medical … they had no idea that the program even existed?…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… 1989. It was because of her firm leadership and extensive history with the organization that Robb was handed such a … as they had once done the old. After…
PlaceADAMS CALENDAR also known as: 'Blaauwboschkraal Stone Ruins'
Interwoven in the Hills near Machadodorp in South Africa’s: 'Mpumalanga Province'. It is a labyrinth of circular stone walls and linear pathways. Known as the…
PlaceGrassy Park, Cape Town
… concentrations of violence' – to break this vicious cycle. History of Grassy Park Parish The history of Grassy Park Parish goes back to August 1925 when …
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… 9. The right to be appointed to and hold office in the civil service and in all branches of public employment on the same … skilled, semi-skilled occupations…
PlaceNew Somerset Hospital, Beach Road, Green Point
… organisation. They provide a comprehensive health care service which includes HIV, AIDS and TB-related treatment, …
PlaceKitson the Steam Train, Krugersdorp
… and was exported to South Africa soon thereafter for service on the Natal Government Railway. It is the oldest …