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… On this date the British Colonial Secretary addressed a dispatch that Queen Victoria has approved a Royal Charter creating the British South Africa Company (BSAC). This was the final step in the process of the formation of Zambesia …

… Africa’s first permanent modern observatory was erected at the Cape of Good Hope (now known as Cape Town) byFearon Fallows, a British astronomer. During the 1830s astronomers at the Observatory were already making significant …

… The rapid expansion of Johannesburg after the end of the Second Anglo Boer War increased to over twice it's the …

… British government policy in South Africa, and visited the country after founding the South African Women and Children Distress Fund to collect money for Boer families. As the secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, … [Accessed: 8 April 2014]|South African History Online, The Plight of Women & Children in White Concentration Camps …

… Introduction The Robben Island prisoners settled down to the mindless timetable of imprisonment, filling hours with … them from dwelling on their plight and aching for the social contact they had lost. At night their bodies …

… The Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement was founded … in Northern KwaZulu. Inkatha emerged, along with the Black Consciousness Movement, to fill the vacuum in Black politics caused by the banning of the …

… anti-apartheid activist, and Director of Publicity of the African National Congress (ANC) External Mission, Marimuthu Pragalathan Naicker (M.P.) died at the age of 56 from a suspected heart failure en route on a flight from London to Berlin. At the time of his death Naicker was also a journalist for the …

… Greymont and Montgomery Park. Established about 1896 on the Farm Waterval, it was named after the Alberts family, who owned it. The Afrikaans term 'kroon', refers to the brow of a Hill. …

… for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops following the Tripartite Invasion (Israel, Britain and France). The invasion of Egypt by the three aforementioned countries began on 28 October 1956, … 25 October 2012)| Becker R. (2006), ‘A turning point in the Middle East balance of forces: The 1956 Suez War’ , from …

… Following the National Party (NP)'s first federal congress since its withdrawal from the Government of National Unity (GNU), its policy plan was … unveiled concentrating on anti-poverty strategies. During the federal congress the possibility of the NP changing its …

… Magistrate Starrenburg arrested Adam Tas because of the role he played in drawing up a petition for the Cape burghers against the incumbent Governor W. A. van der Stel and other farming …

… his fine record as a social science student at what was the University of Natal in Durban in the late 1970s, and then at UCT. A likely career, yes, but … As an eighteen-year-old his political awakening came with the 1976 Soweto uprising – this developing into activism …

… 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 the traditional home of the …

… 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 hunger strike of prisoners held under the emergency …

… Four years after the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of political prisoners, SA held its first multi-racial elections. The elections resulted in the establishment of the new …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Rixaka, the cultural journal of the African National Congress, was launched to establish a platform allowing full expression of the cultural voice in the national liberation movement. All …

… 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 developed into the …

… 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 South Africa. …

… 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 South Africa. The …

… km West of Balfour and 20 km South-East of Heidelberg, in the Gauteng Province of South Africa . The name is of Afrikaans origin and means 'aloe hillock'. Located in the Dipaleseng   Gert Sibande District Municipality, …

… while 18 000 were retained for training purposes. 5 000 of the mines left were live mines and 13 000 were retained to be … to injure personnel or people rather than equipment. In the 1990s South Africa began to revise its policy on the use of landmines. For instance, in 1994 the former South …

… Both his parents were actors. He started his career at the age of eleven working on Fleet Street selling newspapers … at Ludgate Circus.  In 1894 he enrolled as a Private in the Royal West regiment and served in the medical staff corps. While he was doing his service, he …

… like Zimbabwe into police stations guarding its borders, the President of the ANC, Comrade Oliver Tambo, has said. He said it was an … people from coming in and out of South Africa? Is this the business of Zimbabwe?" he questioned. The ANC President …

… Trevor Grundy writes on the life of the historian and political activist At a dinner party in Salisbury (Harare) in the late1950s when white rule in Rhodesia was at its height, …

… The Progressive Reform Party (PRP) was formed in the wake of the merger between the Progressive Party and the Reform … ' Progressive Reform Party (PRP) ', in South Africa: The prospects of peaceful change:An Empirical Enquiry into the Possibility of Democratic Conflict Regulation, pp. 101 & …

… happening at my alma mater and employer for over 40 years, the University of Cape Town (UCT). Part of this endeavour involved exploring the history of student/community organizer/liberation icon Stephen Bantu Biko, founder of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). I do this from the …

… old NMC legislation on 18 February 1977. Believed to be the oldest surviving ‘solid’ temple in Africa and one of the finest examples of temple architecture in South Africa , the ' Ganesha Temple ', was built in 1898 by indentured …

… Mystery and romance surround the original building. In those days it consisted of two stone and clay fisherman's cottages built in 1875 in the vernacular style by Swedish boat builder, John Louis, who later became known as Swede Wessels when he adopted the surname of his sweetheart, Martha Wessels. Theirs was a …