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EventConnie Mulder announces banning off WCC officials from SA
… The Minister of the Interior, Connie Mulder, announces that senior officials of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have been banned from South Africa. Entry…
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… to be freed, as apartheid was dying. Upon his release the government restricted him to the magisterial district of Port Elizabeth until November 1989. In…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… Mageta Island, Lake Victoria in a canoe. This was after the prisoners hacked to death a fisherman, Onimbo Haulu who … use of his canoe for escape. Haulu’s…
Address at 90th brthday celebration, by Nelson Mandela, 25 June 2008, London United Kingdom
… having been able to travel here in our 90th year and be in the presence of so many good friends. Thank you for the continuing support in the fight against…
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… According to Act 8 of 1925, Afrikaans became one of the official languages of South Africa. The development of Afrikaans can be traced to arrival of settlers…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… South African author and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer , was … documentaries, collaborating with her son Hugo Cassirer on…
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… The chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers early in the nineteenth …
ArchiveRegional Conference: Regional Structures Commission
… Discussion Paper by the ANC on Regional Structures prepared on the mandate of the planning committee of the Regional Conference, for …
PlaceRehoboth
… hot springs. Khoikhoi name, of Anis, means 'smoke' from the steam seen, at the hot springs on winter mornings. In 1870, the Basters, who had migrated out of…
PlaceMadikwa Game Reserve, North West
… Many of the Farms described by writer Herman Charles Bosman in his … character Oom Schalk’s day had mostly been shot out by the late 20th Century and it was…
PlaceOnderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute
… The building was designed by the Department of Public Works and was completed in 1908 as the centre for the then bacteriological laboratory on the …
EventSomerset concludes a treaty with Ngqika (aka Gaika)
… Governor Lord Charles Somerset concluded a treaty with the Xhosa chief, Ngqika (who was also known as Gaika). The treaty was concluded after Somerset visited…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… [The following was a reply by Mr. Tambo to a question on Radio Freedom concerning the "noise Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was making about his nephew who is…
EventSouth African athlete, Sergio Motsoeneng, admits to cheating in Comrades Marathon
… In 1999, Sergio Motsoeneng ran the first 45 minutes of the 89km* Comrades Marathon before he exchanged vests and shoes with his twin brother in a mobile…
PlaceLoftus Versveld Stadium, Hatfield
… under old NMC legislation on 21 September 1979. Home to the Sundowns Football Club and the Blue Bulls rugby team, Loftus Versfeld received a welcomed revamp…
PlaceCradock Division
… The Cradock division is known as The Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality or District. It is situated in the Chris Hani District in the Eastern Cape Province…
History of Muslims in South Africa: Introduction by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim … History of Muslims in South Africa: A Chronology, probably the first of its kind to be…
EventTseko Simon Nkoli dies
… Nkoli died of an AIDS related illness. Nkoli was one of the first Black anti-apartheid activists to publicly identify … HIV whilst in prison and went public…
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… Mzwakhe Mbuli became known as the "people's poet" as a result of the style and content of his poetry. He covered issues like drugs and Apartheid and the…
7.Madras merchants protest against an order to uncover and remove their boots in court
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … merchants, residing and trading in Durban, submitted the following petition to the resident…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… The first International Women's Day was launched in several … on 19 March and over a million men and women took to the streets in a series of rallies. In…
Freedom Day Call by Albert Luthuli, 3 June 1956
… calls on all lovers of freedom in our land to commemorate the past deeds for freedom and to rededicate themselves to the cause of freedom. "Let us in all…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thembinkosi Khumalo
… Thembinkosi Khumalo is a student activist at the University of Pretoria. He is an active PASMA member. … like to fully, with no restraint and with no fear…
Document 25 - Letter from E. R. Roux to John Gomas, 23 July 1956
… 23 July 1956 Dear John, It would be peculiar if I had the same point of view to-day as I had in Moscow in 1928. I was a loyal Party member then - I left the…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… Goldblatt that is included in his current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, the South African photographer ponders how it is possible to … witness by taking…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Bonner, Philip. African Urbanisation on…
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… 24 km inland from Durban; it now forms part of eThekwini, the Greater Durban Metropolitan Municipality. Populated … by Zulu-speaking Black Africans, Inanda…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Acknowledgements
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe … assisted by and shared fellowship with many people along the way. A number of people who knew…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education homelands ”” those territories reserved for black people and…
ArchiveAcknowledgements by Howard Barrell
… to Ronnie Kasrils - King Kong, friend, commander and the greatest hairy one of them all - who planted the seed for this study, cleared the way for it and has…