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… Station Building of sandstone was completed shortly before the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). It is one, of only a few Station Buildings erected during the Republican period and forms an important link with the Orange Free State Railway System of the nineteenth …

… The monument created by Anton van Wouw , was put up in 1913 in remembrance of the 26 370 Boer women and children who died in prison camps during the South African War . This monument,  is the first in the … https://hunting-safari.co.za/the-national-womens-monument/   …

… were killed after an underground methane gas explosion at the Hlobane coal mine near Vryheid in Kwazulu-Natal . The gas explosion was caused by poor safety standards. A week before the explosion a miner who also died in the explosion … vu ", Weekly Mail , Vol 4 no 36. | ‘Black Unions Take Up the Issue’, in the South Africa Review Service: Reporter, …

… in 1989 to increase awareness of haemophilia and to bring the needs of those affected by the disorder to the attention of the wider public. The day is celebrated by …

… The former leader of the Afrikaner Volksunie (AV) and Freedom Front (FF), General Constant Viljoen, announced his resignation from the Afrikaner National Front-Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF), the …

… they would go back to constitutional negotiations, after the ANC had suspended talks after accusing the government of complicity in the violence sweeping the country. This had been soon after …

… Jawad, announced that his country will not recognise the government of South Africa because of its apartheid policies. The announcement came after the Sharpeville massacre, when 69 people were killed by …

… Natal and proclaimed it a British Colony. A year later the colony was put under the Cape Colony administration. However, it was not until the end of 1845 that an effective administration was …

… Andries Hendrik Potgieter, the leader of a Voortrekker group which he led during the battle of Vegkop when attacked by the Matabele (Ndebele), was born in the Graaff-Reinet …

… The Act was to empower the Governor-General, with a view to the safety of the public or the maintenance of public order, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 Cape Town's New Lecture Theatre Building. The lecture seeks to speak into the conversation of …

… 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 temple and the historic Asiatic bazaar area. Historically Marabastad has always been culturally diverse and the Mariamman Temple is one such example of this. The temple …

… 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 woman laureate in the near-century … nobelprize, Nadine Gordimer's biography from the Nobel Prize's official website [online], available at: …

… armed mob and riot police disrupted a rally organised by the South West African Political Organisation (SWAPO). The meeting was held in Katatura, Windhoek Namibia and it was … attended by nearly 3000 people, including delegates from the United States Embassy in South Africa.   SWAPO, which was …

… Allan Boesak, liberation theologian, chairman of the Western Cape region of the African National Congress (ANC)  and director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, was found guilty of …

… 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 strike and boycotted classes. The student protest by Orlando Junior Secondary was among …

… up to his knees as he beats his sodden shirt against the ground to remove the dirt from it. Near him, a cluster of men cut desolate … of black life under apartheid, opening a window into the oppression and economic inequality endured by his people …

… Barend Erasmus , a noted trade unionist, worked for the Johannesburg Municipal Transport Service (JMTS). While at the JMTS, he became involved with the affairs of the Johannesburg Municipal Transport Workers' …

… 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 is Xhosa and means 'weaned …

… 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 first public building, a slave lodge, today known as the …

… (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, the only defence of the people will be to take …

… government's introduction of Black Township Councils in the late 1980s, which attempted to co-opt Black leaders into the Apartheid system without sharing power, the government introduced elections to give the impression … ", Weekly Mail: Vol 4. (42) p 2.| Johnson, S. (1988). "The gunpoint mandate" Weekly Mail: Vol 1 (42) pp 1-2.   …

… Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela jointly accepted the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. The award was given to them for their brave effort in ending … Unesco," Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress, and Frederik W. De Klerk, …

… The African National Congress (ANC), like the other major political parties, made a submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The submission … ANC, (1996), NP’s submission to the TRC , from African National Congress , 22 August …

… 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 is disappointed at …

… 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 William Charles Baldwin, Selous wanted to explore the continent of Africa. He travelled from the Cape of Good …

… 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 Botshabelo, …