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PlaceAllanridge, Free State Province
… Allanridge is a Gold Mining Town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the Free State province in South Africa, 34 km North of … board. Named after…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… Sugar farming grew rapidly in the late 1800s in Natal as a result of very cheap “indentured labour” sourced from India. The first group of Indian workers…
PlacePublic Library, Port Elizabeth
… The building was designed Henry Cheers, an Architect from Twickenham. The Library was officially opened on 29 July 1902. It was built in the late Victorian…
PlaceCity Hall, Port Elizabeth
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 29 November 1974. The Port Elizabeth City Hall, which is located in Market Square, was built between 1858 and 1862…
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… Maxeke , teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women's League of South Africa, died in Johannesburg at the age of 65. In 1905 she…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther shaped and articulated the message of the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King led blacks in the…
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… On 15 October 1989, five of the eight African National Congress (ANC) long term political … Mhlaba, Endrew Mlangeni and Elias Motsoaledi. Three of the eight…
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
… African National Congress (ANC) members were injured when the truck in which Mwanza was a driver detonated outside an … located in Zimbabwe . Philip Masiza…
EventAt an international summit in SA leaders pledge to push for a new global trade deal that will help poor countries
… On 12 of February 2006, the Progressive Governance Network held a summit in Hammanskraal South Africa. The aim of this gathering was to strategize ways in…
Event14 Year old girl is convicted in Pietermaritzburg High Court
… The South African Broadcasting Cooperation (SABC) reported … that a fourteen year old girl has been found guilty in the Pietermaritzburg High Court of…
EventShaun Pollock makes history in a test match
… The South African all-rounder, Shaun Pollock, became the only player in Test cricket history to have taken 300 … and score 3 000 runs. This milestone was…
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… mother and a Zulu father. He studied Zulu Literature at the University of Natal and later won a scholarship to further his studies at the School of Oriental…
ArchiveWorkers resist controls on our union
… Article about how the government and the bosses tried to prevent the workers from organising and how they tried to weaken any …
EventZambian president Kenneth Kaunda refuses to take part in UK
… Kenneth David Kaunda was considered a key figure in the continuing conflict between Zimbabwean liberation … Zimbabwe African People Union (ZAPU). However,…
Document 72 - Letter from R. T. R. Molefe to London comrades, 21 February 1938
… 21.2.38. Dear Comrades, I am writing to you about the things which is said about com RL [Ralph Lee], which is absolutely lies. Towards the beginning of…
EventPresident Zuma visits Russia
… Zuma arrived in Russia on the 8th, on the 9th he joined a number of world leaders at the Russian capiral Moscow for the 70th anniversary of the …
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
… of this complaint by E. S. Reddy, and how it was taken to the United Nations, read article. For chronological details of the early opposition by India to the…
EventANC promulgates its constitutional proposals
… The African National Congress (ANC) announced its constitutional proposals during the Convention for Democratic South Africa (CODESA) talks. The ANC's…
EventUN Special Committee on Apartheid urges a boycott of all SA racist sporting organizations
… The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid urged a … South African racist sporting organizations and supported the African bloc’s proposal to exclude…
Letter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
… from Neville Curtis, President of NUSAS, reporting on the reason for opposition to the sale of "instruments of violence" to the Nationalist Government and…
PlaceIbeka, Simonstown
… This land was one of the original erven granted in Simons Town . Built in 1816 by … Customs who owned it until 1842. In 1840 it was leased by the government…
EventInternational Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting
… to discuss emergency measures against South Africa and the problems its membership poses, the governing body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)…
EventControversial ‘Black Jesus’ painter, Ronald Harrison, dies
… National Congress (ANC) leader, Albert Luthuli as Jesus. The painting, named Black Christ, depicts Luthuli crucified on the cross next to apartheid…
EventSolly Sachs addresses Garment Worker’s protestors
… Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs addressed 15 000 workers on the steps of the Johannesburg City Hall during a protest meeting organised by the Garment Workers'…
EventHendrik Jacobus Coetsee is born
… Jacobus "Kobie" Coetsee, former minister of justice in the government of F.W De Klerk, was born in Ladybrand, Orange Free State. Both his parents were…
EventNelson Mandela announces intentions on nationalisation policy
… The African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson … to abandon its long-held policy of nationalisation if the business community could provide an…
EventSibusiso Vilane tells about his conquest of Everest
… Mpumalanga game ranger, Sibusiso Vilane, became the first Black South African to reach the top of Mount Everest, an 8 848m Himalayan peak, one of the world's…
EventBlack empowerment makes headway
… Black economic empowerment deal, Anglo American and the National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) signed an agreement … entertainment, media, casino, exhibitions…
EventAlbert Einstein introduces his theory of relativity
… In 1905, Albert Einstein had four papers published in the Annalen der Physik, the leading German physics journal. These are the papers that history has come…
EventWorkers embark on strike action
… Sixty-one Xhosa-speaking workers, under the leadership of their Headman known as One O'clock, went on strike at the Brakpan Electric Works. The workers…