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PlaceTylden, Eastern Cape
… Tylden in the region of Eastern Cape is a town in South Africa. Serving as landing site and home of settlers in the 1820's . The Eastern Cape also remains…
ArchivePenal reform and race relations
… This address delivered by Winifred Hoernle is the fourth in the series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures. This is the first public …
Rixaka
… Rixaka, the cultural journal of the African National Congress, was launched to establish a platform allowing full expression of the cultural voice in the…
EventTutu and Mkhatshwa join solidarity fast
… Bishop Desmond Tutu of the Anglican Church, and Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa of the Catholic Church, held a morning-to-sunset hunger strike to support the…
EventCullinan diamond is cut into two
… The Cullinan diamond was cut into two big stones, The Star of Africa and the Cullinan 2, as well as seven fairly big stones and …
EventSouth Africa’s first multiracial elections start
… Four years after the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of political prisoners, SA held its first multi-racial elections. The elections…
EventMorocco reclaims its long lost region of Sidi Ifni from Spain
… to Morocco was signed between Spain and Morocco. One of the terms of the agreement was the awarding of fishing rights to Spain, off Morocco's …
Banishment
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and … I would be less trouble in a place which I don't know and the people don't know me. So they…
Zweli Mkhize denies Redi Tlhabi’s book allegations, says he hasn’t read it, 18 - September - 2017
… The presidential contender says he saw Jacob Zuma as an older … in which he denied any involvement in trying to make the woman who had accused Jacob Zuma of…
PlaceLuderitz, Namibia
… Luderitz is a quaint harbour town on the Atlantic Coast in Namibia . It boasts German history, art-deco architecture and excursions to the ghost town of…
EventZwelethu Mthethwa found guilty of murder
… South African artist, was found guilty on 16 March 2017 at the Western Cape High Court of murdering Nokuphila Kumalo, a young sex worker, aged 23, on the…
EventAmerican President Ronald Reagan reverses his earlier stance on South Africa and agrees to limited sanctions
… During the late 1970 and early 1980s the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations had tried to … "constructive engagement." In so doing it was hoped that the…
ArchiveBlack consciousness and white liberals in South Africa: paradoxical anti-apartheid politics
… Thesis submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject of History at the University of…
PlaceKwaMhlanga
… KwaMhlanga is a town in Mpumalanga near Pretoria and is the spiritual home of the Ndebele tribe that settled here in the early 18th century. This town…
10th Annual Oral History Conference
… The Department of Arts and Culture in partnership with the Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA) hosts the 10th Oral Annual History conference in…
EventZuma announces freeze on university fees increase
… When the government announced a 10.5% increase in tertiary education fees, due to the high inflation of the South African economy, the news fell on an…
Statement on ANC central number and information line, 10 October 2005
… The African National Congress has launched a telephone information line which provides the public with automated access to ANC offices and important…
EventZuma announces freeze on university fees increase
… When the government announced a 10.5% increase in tertiary education fees, due to the high inflation of the South African economy, the news fell on an…
PlaceFort Wynyard
… of British warships anchored in False Bay. In reaction the commander of the Cape forces ordered that a new battery, Kijk-in-de-pot … what is now Granger Bay…
EventSpringboks beat New Zealand in Rugby Wold Cup final match
… was made at Ellis Park Stadium on 24 June 1995, where the South African Rugby team (famously known as the Springboks) beat New Zealand in a mouth watering…
EventSouth African man walks from England to France through Channel Tunnel
… French police on 09 October 2005 after he walked through the Channel Tunnel between Folkenstone in England and Calaise … flops. Trains travelling at speed of…
EventA South African Defence Force Capt. Wynand du Toit is captured in Angola
… During the raid on the Cabinda oil refinery, Angola, on the 21 May 1985, Capt. Wynand du Toit was taken captive, and … Rhodesia The Battle of Quito Cuanavale…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… Despite the indications of African unrest at Soweto schools being … by government authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the Minister of Bantu…
EventStudents at Durban
… During ongoing unrest at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) owing to political activism and a continuing struggle between the Azanian Students'…
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… On 10 February 1908 a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C.), situated in … Skinner Street, Pretoria . This department, consisting of…
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… On the 300 anniversary of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in Table Bay, the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) at…
23. Durban merchants plead for Sunday trading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Two petitions were submitted to the Durban Corporation, on 9 and…
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… The government proceeded with the introduction of apartheid laws in the 1950s. An example of this was the hated pass law. This …
Statement "Algeria honours Chief Luthuli" by Oliver Tambo, 30 November 1964
… From: South Africa Freedom News, Dar es Salaam The University of Algiers has conferred an honorary Doctorate … of Literature on Chief A.J. Luthuli, President…
PlaceKweneng, District of Botswana
… Kweneng is one of the districts of Botswana and is the recent historical homeland of the Bakwena people, the first group in Botswana converted to …