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EventMedical Association agrees to investigate Biko’s death
… it was found that no particular person could be blamed for the death of Steve Biko . The case was then submitted to the South African Medical and Dental…
PlaceOld Post Office, Rissik Street, Johannesburg
… Johannesburg has many historic landmarks and the Rissik Street Post Office is one of them. Built in 1897, it’s among the city’s oldest surviving buildings…
PlaceLinden, Johannesburg
… Nestled in the foothills of Northcliff Hill, Linden is one of the prettiest and oldest suburbs of Johannesburg, lying to the North-West of the city centre…
PlaceOld Pretoria Iron Mines Ltd Buildings, Iscor, Pretoria
… The simple brick structure and its adjacent chimney contained the boiler and blower house of a blast furnace and formed part of the iron works established by…
PlaceHector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto
… The museum is located on 8288 Khumalo Street, Orlando West ( Soweto ). The museum is named after one of the first casualties. But commerates all of those…
EventWW2: British 8th army marches into Tripoli
… On 23 January 1943 the British 8th army marched into Tripoli, later occupying the Libyan capital in this World War Two battle. This was … part of a series of…
EventBoers occupying Magagabe Hill shell Rhodesian positions at Basuto Kop
… The action that culminated with the Boers shelling Rhodesian positions at Basuto Kop on 16 … 1900 can be traced in part by Rhodesian fears that the Boers…
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 1958
… (Speech at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats in Johannesburg in 1958 to hear the President General of the African…
PlaceAi-Ais, Namibia
… Ai-Ais Hot Springs Resort is at the source of a mineral and sulphur-rich hot Spring, and means 'burning water' in the Local Dialect. One of the eyes of the…
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… discourse that Patrice Lumumba was assassinated with the help of the CIA. Many argue that it was in the interests of the CIA and the American Government that…
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… On 29 July 1999, a team of AngloGold mineworkers at the Mponeng mine in Carletonville accidentally drilled into a pocket of flammable methane gas in the…
EventANC sacks its chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, after finding him guilty of sexual harassment
… Mbulelo Goniwe had been active in the liberation struggle and with the inception of new democracy, held several positions, the most recent of which was the…
ArchiveSouth African trade unionism in an era of racial exclusion
… Thesis submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject sociology at the University of…
Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
… Passes and measures to control the mobility of the Black population particularly centring on White urban … were being implemented all over South Africa…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems by Jan H. Hofmeyr
… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, … who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems
… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, … who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at…
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… of a Worker Reading History Introduction Part 1 - The Coming of Gold Chapter 1 - South Africa before Industrial Times Chapter 2 - The Gold Rush Chapter 3 -…
PlaceKliptown Museum
… The story the Kliptown Open Air Museum tells of the thousands of people who contributed to the drafting of the Freedom Charter through photographs, news …
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… The Ciskeian police disrupted a residents' meeting, which was … of Peelton unable to attend a previous meeting, of the incorporation of the whole of Peelton…
EventFormer MK members are dismissed from SANDF
… The government discharged 2,221 trainees who had gone absent without leave in October from the newly instituted South African National Defence Force … for…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This election changed…
PlaceTown Hall, 25 Market Street, Uitenhage
… Since the 1820’s there was a strong move locally for the Capital of the Colony to be situated in Uitenhage. When the Town Hall …
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… In the middle of the night, a group of migrant workers aligned with the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) ransacked the Phola Park squatter camp of East Rand…
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… South Africa entered WWI on 8 September 1914, on the side of the Allied Forces. On 15 July 1916, the S.A. Infantry Brigade under Major-General H.T. Lukin was…
ANC statement on Zimbabwe, 26 May 2000
… The African National Congress wishes to reiterate its position on Zimbabwe as per the discussions and decisions of its last National Executive Committee (NEC…
PlaceFreedom Park
… The site of Freedom Park was carefully chosen, a 52 hectare undeveloped hill overlooking the city of Pretoria. It was here that the nation’s heroes would be…
PlaceGod’s Window
… A famous vantage point on the Drakensberg escarpment God's Window stands at an altitude of 1,829m/6,000ft extending northward over the Blyde River Canyon,…
Event90-Days Act comences
… The General Laws Amendment Act of 1964 (passed in 1963) or the 90-Day Act, commences on this day. It is dubbed the 90-Day Act as it provides for any person…
EventMother Teresa is buried
… Mother Teresa, the nun who captured the world's attention and accolades with her selfless devotion to the poor, was buried on 13 September 1997 in Culcutta,…
PlaceMelrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… George Heys, a young man from Durban, made his fortune in the diamond rush in Kimberley by establishing a successful … British architect WT Vale to design…