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PlaceOppenheimer Gardens, Kimberley
… The Diggers’ Memorial is one of the monuments that constitute part of this heritage, contributing to it in an important …
PlaceFort Daspoortraand
… manschappen (troops) rooms, while the other forts had only one of each. The ammunition rooms were also underground, and … ruins of the fort can now be seen…
EventButhelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders
… were of the view that Xhosas and Zulus were played against one another by the faceless forces (commonly known as the … Services and the Civil Co-operation…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… , was born in Springs, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng).One of South Africa’s most prolific novelists she has written … was an ardent opponent of apartheid…
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… of purple flowers in October. Located in the Northern part of Gauteng , Pretoria is the Historic centre of … the 'Raadzaal', or Government Buildings , which…
Archive1990 - President De Klerk: State of the Nation Address, 2 February 1990
… to the ability of the leaders to come to terms with one another on a new dispensation. No-one can escape this simple truth. On its part, the Government will…
FW de Klerk’s speech to Parliament, 2 February 1990
… to the ability of the leaders to come to terms with one another on a new dispensation. No-one can escape this simple truth. On its part, the Government will…
Press Conference in Maputo: Comments by Oliver Tambo on South African offer of territory to Swaziland, 5 March 1982
… of the South African regime to denationalise some one million black South Africans and throw them into … agreed to end its support for the liberation…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… to World War II the city’s building industry experienced one of its most productive periods. Development took place in … Planning scheme of 1946 gave…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of commons: Oliver Tambo, 29 October 1985, London
… efforts. We regard them as allies of our struggle, as part of the liberation struggle even though some of them may … our people, whether they are in the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association 24 April 1995
… and sincerely regret the inconvenience - especially when one is dealing with a profession in which timing is as … deepening of democracy, which this…
Document 114 - (National Liberation League?), How To Work Among Urban Africans
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew In this statement an attempt … to better their conditions. To-day…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Joint Houses of Congress of the Republic Of Argentina Buenos Aires, 23 July 1998
… peoples share, and on what we might do together to help one another realise them in a changing world. There is much … For that reason we have seized the…
Statement by the ANC on the Invasion of Angola by South African Troops by O. R. Tambo, 31 October 1975
… military strength of the Vorster fascist regime. For their part, the South African ruling classes have calculated that … imperialist domination in southern…
Introduction - The anti-Apartheid Movements: a 40-year perspective
… liberation struggle in which the AAM played so notable a part. The papers in this report bring together the … and make accessible the records of…
PlaceZambia
… Kaunda as the country’s first president, and proclaimed one-party rule. Their independence came four years after the … In the list of UNESCO World Heritage…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 4 February 1974 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… Africa today realizes this only too well, and that is why one has such a calm and peaceful situation here in South … what their rights in that connection…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… conservative and liberal streams. This is evident when one examines developments before, during and after South … killing of a farmer, Henry Smith, on 17…
ArticleOral history guidelines
… can be used as historical sources and final practical part, doing oral history. …
PlaceRust en Vreugd, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… to be the work of Anton Anreith. Typical of its time one enters the house from the stoep into a voorhuis , with reception rooms on either side. From there…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Narasimha Rao of India New Delhi, 25 January 1995
… which divided South Africa and oppressed the greater part of its people. Now that we are free at last, and with … commission of our two governments which was…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… This period was marked by a systematic attempt on the part of the British to anglicise Cape society. The period … of colonialism proper. Schools played an…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 88th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2000
… The first-ever Pan African Congress was held in London one hundred years ago, in the year 1900. At that historic … us, as during our struggles for liberation…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… heart surgery on Wednesday, was a quiet South African, but one who thought and acted with nobility and courage. This was … posture and philosophy – as his…
Address on the Occasion of the State Banquet, Tripoli, Libya, 12 June 2002
… we are at home. You made us feel aware Brother Leader that one of our Provinces, the Western Cape, shares the same … between the Mountains of the Maghrib…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… The Postal system The act of sending letters from one person to another developed soon after the invention of … creation of a formal postal system developed…
PlaceIsipingo, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… and listen to music,” said Simo. He said the car wash is one of his hangout spots as it becomes vibey on Sundays with … ridge of sand at the mouth of the…
Address at the Commonwealth Business Forum, Johannesburg 9 November 1999
… meeting of the Forum took place in the United Kingdom, one of the developed countries of the North. We meet today in … these challenges. With your permission…
PlaceThe Wits School of Arts and Arts Museum
… The Museum is one of Johannesburg's premier Tourist Attractions, along with the Apartheid Museum and Constitution Hill. It is part of the Wits University…
PlaceCamp’s Bay, Cape Town
… Cape in 1663. Her parents arrived at the Cape in 1658 as part of a group of 220 enslaved people taken from Benin. Her … her father. Later, she learnt how to…