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PlaceRandjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg
… February 1965. When Johannesburg was proclaimed in 1886 on the triangular site Randjeslaagte, the area of the town was nine square km. Randjeslaagte was a…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… One of South Africa’s oldest Towns and Naval base is Simon's Town … and Historical Town just 35 km outside Cape Town. From the Toy and Navy Museums to the…
40. 1903 reviewed by Indian Opinion
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … that affected their interests, and much else besides. The…
PlaceFlagstaff
… and his partner, a Mr Owen, established a trading store on the site of present-day Flagstaff. The Town owes its name to their practice of running a white ……
ArchiveAppendix 5 Notes on Palestine and Israel by Denis Goldberg
… was unjust We fought it to be free to rebuild our country The world condemned apartheid and international … anti-apartheid campaigning was an important part…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 2) by Thabo Mbeki, 28 March, 2016
… V During the whole period when GEAR has been challenged “from the left”, the assertion was made that GEAR sought to replace … once GEAR was adopted it…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa 1979 - 1996 - by Kumi Naidoo
… Magdalen College, D. Phil., Michaelmas, 1997 Resistance to the apartheid system, led by the African National Congress (ANC) and its allies dominated … deals…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… Port Elizabeth is now known as Gqeberha. The name change was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local…
PlaceEshowe, Northern Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Eshowe, a Town in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Area is set on a Hill, is situated around … indigenous Coastal Forest . Eshowe actually means Ekowe, the place of…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… I AM DIRECTED by the All-In African National Action Council to address your Government in the following terms: The All-In African National Action Council was…
PlaceSierra Leone
… Sierra Leone is found in West Africa, fronting onto the Atlantic Ocean , and flanked by Liberia and Guinea. … - Sierra Leone's first UNESCO World Heritage…
A Farewell To Madiba! National Assembly, Cape Town, March 26,1999.
… Madame Speaker Chairperson of the Council of Provinces Honourable Members Mr President … yomthonyama! Sithwalandwe! You have walked along the road of the…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to Kwazulu-Natal Black Management Forum Gala Dinner in his Honour Inkosi Albert Luthuli, 11 July 2008, International Convention Centre Durban
… Mr Jimmy Manyi, President of the BMF Ms Tembakazi Mnyaka, our host and chair of BMF … never honoured in his hometown; you are therefore defying the odds as…
PlaceUtrecht
… British troops occupied Utrecht during South African War of 1899 - 1902 as their headquarters. The British were wary of having to camp in high altitude area…
PlaceDurban, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Durban is South Africa’s third-largest City and one of the fastest-growing urban Areas in the World. It's Port is the busiest in South Africa and also … …
34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … fresh piece of legislation sought to tighten control over the…
PlaceBenin
… after colonialism was characterized by an early period of multiparty competition that proved unstable, and multiple interventions by the military, until the…
Chronology
… 1935 May , Joint Select Committee of Parliament tables the Representation of Natives Bill and the Native Trust and Land Bill October , Italy attacks …
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad Award, something like a Nobel for…
Address on Freedom Day, 27 April 2003
… Traditional Leaders, Distinguished Guests, People of the North West, Fellow South Africans: Today, we celebrate the 9th anniversary of our freedom, a year…
PlaceDefence Force HQ, Pretoria- Artillery Barracks
… The first annexation of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek by Sir Theophilus Shepstone in 1877 led to the establishment of a military camp on the present…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… and provincial leadership, ANC NEC Members, Leaders of the Tripartite Alliance, The Luthuli Family, I am greatly honoured to deliver this …
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… 1946 8 Dear friend, I am addressing this letter to you in the hope that you would read it with sympathy and … Indians have been in South Africa now for 85…
PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
… Three years after his arrival at the Cape, Superintendent of the London Missionary Society, Dr John Philip, paid a visit …
PlacePaarl
… (prior to 1910) The division of Paarl was originally part of the district of Stellenbosch, and was proclaimed a separate … Just outside Paarl is the…
Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
… In the general election of May 1948, the Nationalist Party polled 400,453 votes and its ally, the Afrikaner Party, 41,885, a total of 442,338 votes. On the…
Links & Partnerships
… All of the below links are to websites that SAHO recommends (and … a joint project between South African History Online and the Dumile Feni Foundation…
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928 British Association/or the Advancement of Science … Secretary C.P.S.A. Dear Douglas, I am at present attending the…
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… World-renowned as the ultimate destination for diving with Great White Sharks and “game-viewing” of the Marine Big 5 from land, sea and air, the greater…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as … Sonderling, N.E. (ed.)…