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Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts 2017
… The Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts run annually from the end of November until the beginning of April. Every Sunday, families and groups of …
Famous Gatsha Buthelezi Editorial in SASM Newsletter, April 1973
… Some of the old timers believe that Chief Gatsha Buthelezi will free the Black People. This famous "daddy" of the "Zulus" with his "tricks" manages to…
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… his father, Kgosi (King) Khama III known as Khama the Good, ruler of the Bangwanto people. Subsequent to his father’s death Khama was considered the rightful…
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… of South African Women (FSAW or FEDSAW) President and the first person to be banned under the 1976 Internal Security Act, Fatima Meer, was banned again ……
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… to this day in history search archive Walvis Bay, from the Dutch for "Whale Bay", is situated in Namibia, along the west coast of southern Africa, formerly…
On Post Colonial African Liberation Movements
… On the 25th of May 2017 the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command will be hosting … Mbuyiseni Ndlozi. This event will take place at the University of…
PlaceMarabastad Market Stalls, Pretoria
… Historic Marabastad is where you’ll experience the colours and hustle and bustle of Africa. This area has a … mix of ‘muti’ shops, spazas, a mosque, a Hindu…
EventSA writer, Nadine Gordimer, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
… South African writer Nadine Gordimer won the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. She was the first woman in 25 years to be awarded the honour and the seventh…
EventA police mob attacks big SWAPO rally
… armed mob and riot police disrupted a rally organised by the South West African Political Organisation (SWAPO). The meeting was held in Katatura, Windhoek…
EventAllan Boesak guilty on charges of fraud
… Allan Boesak, liberation theologian, chairman of the Western Cape region of the African National Congress (ANC) and director of the Foundation for Peace and…
EventProtests against Afrikaans language in Black schools
… deeply unpopular since Afrikaans was regarded by some as the language of the oppressor. It was against this background that on 30 … School in Soweto went on…
ANC-KZN flabbergasted by DA’s denigration of Oliver Tambo, 11 July 2006
… The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is flabbergasted by the announcement made by the Democratic Alliance (DA) denigrating one of the greatest …
PlaceAluin Krantz West, a Farm Near Alexandria
… Located in the Sundays River Valley, in the District of Cacadu District Municipality, Eastern Cape. Aluin Krantz West is a Farm and the estimated terrain…
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan’s Day
… The decision to make December 16 a holiday named Dingaan’s … Voortrekkers viewed as a 'victory' over Zulu warriors near the Ncome River in KwaZulu Natal. On…
“Don’t Support Apartheid Sport”: Appeal By Chief A. J. Luthuli and Dr G. M. Naicker, June 1962
… A. J. Luthuli And Dr G. M. Naicker, June 1962 77 FIFA - the world soccer body has suspended the all-White South African Football Association from…
ArchiveBanned
… Statement calling on the public to support a petition of the Students Representative Council of the University of Cape Town, asking the United Party to …
Banned
… Statement calling on the public to support a petition of the Students Representative Council of the University of Cape Town, asking the United Party to …
EventPiet Retief is baptized in Drakenstein, Western Cape
… Piet Retief was one of the leaders of the Great Trek that introduced Afrikaner settlement to the interior. Prior to their departure from Cape Town he …
ArchiveUnlawful Organizations Act, Act No 34 of 1960
… The Act was to empower the Governor-General, with a view to the safety of the public or the maintenance of public order, …
PlaceAmathola/Amatole District Municipality
… The Amathola Mountain Range which is a subsidiary of the Winterberg Range, 15 km North-East of Alice, extending Westwards to the Great Fish River. The name…
PlaceChurch Square,Spin Street- Cape Town
… Church Square is one of the three early areas of land about which the early town developed and its boundaries probably began to be defined in 1679 when the…
EventWinkie Direko is born
… Isabella Winkie Direko, former teacher, winner of the Bloemfonteiner of the Year Award in 1993 and Premier of the Free State since 17 June 1999, was born in…
EventTrade unionist, Barend Erasmus dies
… Barend Erasmus , a noted trade unionist, worked for the Johannesburg Municipal Transport Service (JMTS). While at the JMTS, he became involved with the…
EventDe Klerk and Mandela receive UNESCO peace prize
… Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela jointly accepted the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. The award was given…
EventMandela threatens armed struggle
… (ANC) deputy president Nelson Mandela warned that if the South African government fail to take effective steps to end the current violence in the country,…
EventLocal elections in Townships
… government's introduction of Black Township Councils in the late 1980s, which attempted to co-opt Black leaders into the Apartheid system without sharing…
Document 25 - Response by Nelson Mandela to De Klerk’s 2 July 1992 memorandum
… COSATU has noted the African National Congress NEC's decisions on the Basic Conditions of Employment as reflected in the statement dated 14 July 1997. COSATU…
EventFrederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist dies in Beho-Beho, Tanganyika. He came to Southern Africa
… Frederick Courtney Selous came to South Africa at the age of nineteen in 1871. Inspired by the writings of explorers such as Dr. David Livingstone and…
Introduction by Oliver Tambo to a message from Nelson Mandela, smuggled out of prison, 10 June 1980
… The African National Congress of South Africa brings you this … Nelson Mandela and hundreds of our comrades have been in the racist regime`s prisons for more…
Introduction to a Message from Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Smuggled Out Of Prison, 10 June 1980
… The African National Congress of South Africa brings you this … Nelson Mandela and hundreds of our comrades have been in the racist regime's prisons for more…