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EventAdelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
… politically active after her grandfather's arrest at the age of ten. While she attended high school, she started to work as a courier for the African…
EventWorld Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
… these organisations in caring for vulnerable communities. The Red Cross Society was founded in 1863 after Henry Dunant; a Swiss national, who witnessed the…
EventKing Dinuzulu defies British order
… refused British instructions to take up arms against the Boer republics during the Second Anglo-Boer War. Col. H.B. Bottomley of the Imperial White Horse…
New Age
… New Age, newspaper and its' predecessors, The Guardian; Advance were founded by trade unionists, … was known as a leftist publication. New Age was linked to…
Mzimhlophe /Qhudeni
… of Kranskop in central Natal was founded on Trust land in the Nkandla district of KwaZulu as a place of relocation, The name means “white home”, named as it…
EventUp to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland
… members were reported to have been detained in Swaziland. The arrests were confirmed by the Swaziland Police Commissioner and a large cache of arms in the…
EventHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, abolishes slavery.
… From the 16th century right up to the 19th, slaves from Ethiopia were sold across the world. However, the slave trade within Ethiopia was very …
ArchiveAcceptance of Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award, by Nelson Mandela, 1 November 2006
… I am pleased to be here today, to enjoy the warm company of friends like Nadine Gordimer, and to know … honoured by Amnesty International members from around…
PlaceSt Cyprian’s School, Gorge Road, Oranjezicht
… The Gateway and Walls of this property date from the end of the 18th Century and are situated on a portion of the …
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… On the afternoon of 20 May 1983, two African National Congress … in Pretoria and parked their vehicle in close vicinity of the building which housed the…
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… to Saudi Arabia. Amin began his career as a cook in the King's African Rifles and British Colonial Army in Uganda … also one of two 'Black' Ugandan soldiers…
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… Madagascar came under the colonial French Protectorate in 1890. By the late 1940's, the Malagasy had started to demand independence. A national …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… The announcement by President F. W. de Klerk in parliament … Mandela would be released from prison, unconditionally the next day, took many people by…
EventMahatma Gandhi is arrested for refusing to carry Apartheid pass
… On 10 January 1908 Mahatma Gandhi was arrested for the first time in South Africa for refusing to carry an obligatory identity document card commonly known…
EventFrederick Lugard, British colonial administrator, occupies Kano, West Africa
… Frederick Lugard was the British colonial administrator of West Africa from 1895. He was one of the foremost practitioners of the colonial system of indirect…
EventUniversity of Pretoria's 100th anniversary
… On 10 February 1908 a new department of the Transvaal University College (TUC), situated in … Skinner Street, Pretoria . This department, consisting of the…
PlacePrince Alfred's Guard Museum, Port Elizabeth
… The Prince Alfred's Guard Museum, located in Central Port Elizabeth's Prospect Road, was formed through the amalgamation of a Military Museum formerly housed…
PlaceTogo
… Togo is a country of western Africa. Lomé, the capital, is situated in the south-west of the Country and is the largest city and port. Until 1884, …
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… The African National Congress (ANC) National Executive … Committee (NEC) presents five demands to be met during the year in order to facilitate South Africa…
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… Oliver Tambo, former President of the African National Congress (ANC), returns to South Africa … going into exile nearly thirty years ago. Tambo was one of…
EventThree Delmas trialist released
… Three of the 22 Delmas Treason trialists were released after Judge K van Dijkhorst delivered his judgment. The judge released them on the grounds that there…
EventSpringboks beat Scotland at Murrayfield
… South Africa's tour of the British Isles finished on an upbeat note as Jake White's … takes Scotland apart at Murrayfield, winning 10-45. Two of the…
ArchivePolitical Action Committee report
… Report of the Political Action Committee to the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of …
Emissaries from Russia
… 1. I have received the response of Mr F. W de Klerk to a memorandum which I addressed to him on the 26th June 1992. I enclosed the statement of the Emergency…
Where is Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser? by Noni Mokati (IOL News), 7 May 2016, Johannesburg
… Khwezi’s poem, which she performed dressed in a khanga in the Netherlands in 2008, was widely shared on Facebook. It reads: “I am khanga - I wrap myself…
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to Kwa Mashu, a newly established black township on the outskirts, was met…
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… Zimbabwe on 11 February 2009 as part of what was known as The Unity Government, in partnership with Robert Mugabe as … president. This was considered a…
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… A period of hardship set in for the AmaXhosa after their defeat in the Eighth Frontier War (also called Eighth War of … 1856 Nongqawuse, an adolescent girl…
EventKing Moshoeshoe II is reinstated as King of Lesotho
… reign over Lesotho as he was twice dethroned, first in the 1970s when he was exiled from Lesotho and in 1990 when he was stripped of constitutional powers…
PlaceRhodes University, Grahamstown
… Rhodes University, founded in 1904, the University has a well-established reputation for Academic … 8200 students, Rhodes is a small University, which enjoys…