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… The government appointed the Eiselen Commission whose terms of reference were to … into and to report on all aspects of native education. The recommendations of this commission formed the basis for the Bantu Education Act No.47 of 1953, which …

… Statement by the African National Congress on negotiations as adopted by the National Executive Committee on 25 November 1992. Covers shifts in the balance of forces, negotiations, phases in the democratic …

… The Bill Ainslie Studios was established in 1964 by Bill … Way, Saxonwold, Johannesburg in a house rented from the Johannesburg City Council at the time. By 1971 the Bill Ainslie Studios had become a …

… On 21 October 1986 Jacob  Thabo Lengane, the father of Jefferson Lengane and  Kabelo Lengane, who were … kidnapped from his Soweto home by a group of armed men the night before his death. The incident occurred two days after the killing of Soweto …

… The Bloemfontein City Hall was built in 1935 and has a … style interior with an attractive sandstone exterior. The Bloemfontein City Hall Is a large stately sandstone building which was designed by the well known, Sir Gordon Leith. The Bloemfontein City Hall …

… The Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Sam Dlamini was hacked to … by a group of youths, and doused in petrol and burned. The riots were in protest against rent increases and poor education facilities. In addition, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of …

… forces in Soweto and other major townships. Called by the National Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR) as a way to foster peace, the National Day of Prayer is observed by thousands in churches across the country. Despite the general peacefulness, there are some …

… The village of Groot Drakenstein was probably established in the late 1850s. Following the acquisition of a number of fruit farms in the valley by …

… The Human Rights Commission (HRC), a statutory body provided for under the Interim Constitution, on its inaugural meeting on 2 … Barney Pityana as its chairman. He maintained that the commission would ensure that the rights of all citizens …

… At a National Party (NP) Congress in Bloemfontein, the South African Prime Minister, P.W. Botha said that the NP has to draw together as many people as possible, … front against Marxism. Subsequently, nine years later the Soviet Union, known by many as one of the strongest …

… Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and … to live there for many years. She went on to become one of the first African female writers and journalists. The Ochre …

… The document is an important one in the history of South Africa for it tells a story that needs to be told. What is commendably new (about the manner of telling the story) is that the method is that …

… in a bomb hidden inside a TV set.  It is believed that the bomb was meant for Jacob Zuma. Zimbabwe was an important area of operation for the ANC. This led to the apartheid government attacking ANC members living in …

… her husband, Benjamin Fredenman, was hung in Pretoria. On the morning of 27 April 1957 Rheeder went to a pharmacy in … to buy a bottle of Antexit ant-killer. Before she left the pharmacy, Rheeder signed the poison register and the owner who served her, Mr A. …

… 10 June 1872 Jan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during the South African War (the Second Anglo-Boer War), Member of Parliament and SA minister of agriculture, was born in the district of Amersfoort, Eastern Transvaal. He was the … Swart: Afrikaanse Kultuuralmanak.). Vaal Triangle History ‘The 1914 Revolt and the Epidemic, [online] Available at: …

… 1946 in Verulam, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. He is the second child of five children of his parents. He … editor, writing in both English and Zulu. Gwala studied at the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal), … journals. He was involved in politics dating back to the 1960s.  He was detained in 1977, the same year as Steve …

… born in Cape Town South Africa, on 2 February 1915. He is the son of Abraham and Alida Sachs-Eban. His parents moved to … Language and Literature. During World War II Eban rose to the rank of major in the British army. In the years prior Israel's independence, …

… In the Rand Supreme Court, Justice Coetzee, refused to lift the banning order on four Black newspapers, the Post Transvaal, Saturday Post, Sunday Post and the …

… General circular from the president of the National Union of South African Students, speculating on the final report of the Schlebusch Commission of Enquiry into …

… Daniel F. Malan, the then minister of the Interior, announced the introduction of the Areas Reservation and Immigration and …

… perpetrated sodomy’ according to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in August 1735. Jacobsz was a sailor from Rotterdam who worked for the Dutch East India Company. He had been accused of sodomy in Batavia in 1713 at the age of eighteen. Due to insufficient evidence he was …

… to stop Italian forces from reaching Tobruk and Benghazi. The operation was mounted during the Second World War which started in the early hours of 1 September 1939 when three German Stuka …

… Gideon Scheepers, Boer scout and commanding officer during the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War) was executed by a firing squad beside an open grave in the veld near Graaff-Reinet. He was captured in October 1901 … of arson, but claimed that he had acted at all times on the orders of his superior officers. He was buried at the …

… Winnie Mandela, wife of the then imprisoned African National Congress leader, Nelson … thirteen years of enforced silence with a strong attack on the country's Terrorism Act. Mandela was twice detained under section 6 of the notorious Terrorism Act, which permitted 90 days …

… In response to a number of media enquiries, the ANC wishes to clarify the following: 1. A person or persons gained access to the ANC`s national headquarters in Johannesburg during the …

… Abiekwakop is a Hillock 50 km North of Brandvlei, in the Kenhardt District. A Khoikhoi name derived for the bushes they used, to make digging apparatus.  Brandvlei is situated 170 km North of Calvinia in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.  Brandvlei lies …

… The Historic Homestead of the Farm Totteridge Park, situate on Portion 55, a portion of Portion 10 of the Farm Zwartkops, River Wagensdrift 567, Municipality of …

… On the outskirts of Uitenhage is Cuyler Manor; a Historical … giant in Nelson Mandela Bay gently tucked away between the Swartkops River and the old road to Port Elizabeth (R367) where a 200-year old …

… Town Clerk. Today there are over 1000 works displayed in the indoor collections, and the outdoor collection consists of many sculptures on … up of melted guns which were confiscated and destroyed at the end of the Makgoba War in 1893, is also on display in the …

… Monument under old NMC legislation on 2 October 1981. The Wynberg Railway Company was established in 1861 to build … to Wynberg, which opened on 19 December 1864. In 1876 the company was taken over by the Cape Government Railways, and the line, which had …