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EventMafeking is established
… The Barolong settlement Mahikeng was renamed Mafeking by Sir … Charles Warren , leader of a military expedition, after the annexation of Bechuanaland by the…
EventErmelo is founded
… Ermelo, the educational, industrial and commercial centre of a … in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa was founded by the Reverend Frans Lion Cachet of the…
ArchiveMajority rule: some notes
… a collection of articles which formed part of a series in The Educational Journal. The series of articles has dissected the concept Majority Rule and…
Nelson Mandela Sending Photographs
… photographs and comments on them, and he marvels at the growth of grandchildren. They come with their mothers as … to fetch me before then. 15 April 1976 TO…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.3 and No.4 1988
… Staffrider by Mike Kirkwood. STORIES: My Friend, the Outcast by Mtutuzeli Matshoba; My Other Cousin, Sitha by … Essop; Jazz by Peter Wilhelm; Jobman by…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Roanne Moodley
… Dear Student Movements of 1976, (Dear ex-student behind the movement, who made personal sacrifices that affected your … while June 16 remains a beacon in our…
ArchivePromotion of Bantu Self-governing Act, Act No 46 of 1959
… The Act was to provide for the gradual development of self-governing Bantu national units and for direct consultation between the Government of the Union and…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around birthdays and anniversaries
… Introduction: The Mandela family commemorated birthdays whenever possible, … without exception, in prison during official visits. The occasions were, in…
ArchiveSpeech delivered by Joe Slovo
… Joe Slovo's speech to mark the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the SACP on the 30th July 1981 in Maputo. Reflects on the …
EventAnti-Pass petition sent to President Steyn
… The pass measures were aimed at controlling the mobility of the Black population in White urban areas. Bloemfontein was … and Cross Rivers, Basus'iimbokodo,…
PlaceConcordia
… The village of Concordia was established in 1863 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society. It seems probable that its founding coincided with the…
EventA group of White men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters
… Indian Passive Resisters. This followed a call to the South African government by Mahatma Gandhi made at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, India, the previous…
EventQueen Mother Elizabeth turns 100
… her 100th birthday with thousands of people lining up in the streets of London to cheer her. The Queen Mother is the first member of the Royal Family to…
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… Two days after the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) agreed to participate in … violence had dropped significantly in South Africa. The most remarkable incident of…
PlaceCato Manor Heritage Centre, Durban
… This interactive Museum is a tribute to the spirit of defiance against the Durban System, which led to evictions, riots and dissent in the Cato Manor area…
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a day … are encouraged to celebrate their cultural traditions in the wider…
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… in Luckhardt, K. & Wall, B. (1980). Organize or Starve! The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions , New York: … will make Apartheid workable…
PlacePolokwane Museum
… Housed in the famous, Historical "Irish House", the Museum portrays much of the past History of the region. The Polokwane Museum is a …
EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
… Following major American television's first airing of the famine crisis in Ethiopia, the world celebrated the day as famine anniversary. The day was used to…
EventNotorious ‘SOWETO’ policeman dies
… Brigadier Theuns Swanepoel ("Rooi Rus"), one of the most feared interrogators of the South African Security Police, dies in Roodepoort. Brigadier Swanepoel…
EventTony Johnstone wins Alfred Dunhill PGA golf tournament.
… The Zimbabwean golfer Tony Johnstone ended a six-year drought on the European Tour when he won the £400,000 Alfred Dunhill PGA golf tournament in Houghton, …
EventSouth Africa observes Armistice Day
… Day is observed annually in South Africa to commemorate the sacrifice of veterans and civilians in World War I. The day is observed world-wide, though under…
EventBram Fischer born today
… 1908. This man, from staunch Afrikaans descent (he was the eldest son of Percy Ulrich Fischer, Judge President of the Orange Free State, and a grandson of…
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meets President Kaizer Matanzima in Tongaat
… north of Durban, where they declared they were opposed to the Tricameral Constitutional proposals which exclude blacks. In 1983, the National Party (NP)…
EventThirteen residents are gunned down in Mamelodi by South African police
… down in Mamelodi by South African police. This followed the declaration of a State of emergency on 25 July 1985 by … in 36 of South Africa’s 260 magisterial…
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited
… During the Second Anglo-Boer War, the fourth and last Creusot 'Long Tom' of the state artillery of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek … [Accessed on 19 April…
EventZambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon killing 18 national soccer team players
… Air Force De Havilland Canada DHC-5D Buffalo carrying the Zambian national soccer team crashed in the Atlantic Ocean just 500 meters offshore from Libreville…
EventDr. Neville Alexander and four others are found guilty of sabotage
… of sabotage and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. The judge found that the accused participated in the activities of the National Liberation Front (NLF), …
EventEthiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels
… People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) captured the capital of Ethiopia,Addis Ababa. The EPRDF was led by the Meles Zinawi, a popular rebel leader…
PlaceBoom van Sameswering, Onze Rust, Bloemfontein
… The so-called Tree of Conspiracy stands on the farm Onze Rust, and once belonged to Marthinus Steyn, the last President of the Free State, who bought the…